Is everything being held at the Playground? The Spectrum Playground is only one part of the Festival. It runs from March 11 – 22 and we are welcome to ideas and creative contributions to the Playground. However the Spectrum Now festival is about celebrating everything in this city. We encourage all venues to get involved, and will be celebrating across greater Sydney. As this is our first year we will concentrate our efforts in the city to help define us as an event, and have plans to expand in the future. I have an idea for a show, but do not have any funding for it. Can Fairfax help? Spectrum Now works similar to a Fringe festival, we can support in many ways by providing you your own event page on the website where content can be uploaded (including video), providing exposure in our printed program inserted into Spectrum in The Sydney Morning Herald (which gets into over 200,000 peoples hands) and a PR and marketing campaign for Spectrum Now valued at over $1million dollars.

Unfortunately we are not in a position to fund shows for the festival. We may be able to assist with venue ideas, or accept submissions for ideas to happen at our outdoor event at the Spectrum Playground. Please email us HERE to submit your ideas. We are happy to help out where we can. VENUES and ARTISTS – How do we find each other? If you are a venue looking for an act please email us HERE and let us know what you are looking for. Alternatively if you are an artist looking for a venue please email us HERE and let us know what you are looking for. We are more than happy to connect people and make introductions where suitable. How can it be an arts festival if you are not commissioning any shows for the event? Spectrum Now is a lifestyle and culture festival, celebrating all the things that Spectrum covers. We are not a traditional ‘arts’ festival where works are commissioned. Rather we can provide a platform and a reason to display and celebrate the great talent that resides in this country! We encourage our artistic community to make the most of all the marketing support and events associated with Spectrum Now to produce shows to be part of our festival. If you can not produce a show, perhaps there are other ways to get involved. We are a community, a family and not a dictatorship. We are aiming to bring creative experiences to this city. Can anyone register for Spectrum Now? How are you ensuring quality programming? All events registered for Spectrum Now will go through an approvals process with the Arts and editorial team here at Fairfax. If you are not known to us, or not an established venue or can not prove your experience as a performer or producer we will engage in a conversation with you about whether you are ready for Spectrum Now.

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Is Richard Roxburgh curating the program? We work here together as a team. Working with Richard we (the Arts events team) and editorial will have an approvals process of all events submitted to be part of Spectrum Now. If your event is not in the spirit of Richard’s festival of surprise we may call upon you to have a re-think of the submission and make some changes. Can I register more than one event? Yes we encourage you to register as many events as you would like. Please contact us for possible discount on 3 or more event registrations. Please note multi-date events are registered only once as one event that occurs over several dates. Why do I have to pay an administration fee? What does this cover? The administration fee goes towards covering the hard costs. This includes but is not limited to the printing of more than 200,000 copies of our festival program, other pieces of collateral and building and maintaining a purpose built website to showcase Spectrum Now. Make sure you make the most of this opportunity with a good event idea, great copy, good high res images and video links. Why do we have to give you 4 tickets? We require tickets to host media and VIP guest attendance. We will inform you 72 hours before the show if we need to use the tickets so you have time to sell them on should we not require them. Please contact us directly (spectrumnow@fairfaxmedia.com.au) if you are selling out fast or have sold out, or have any queries about this. What is the Full Spectrum – Can I apply to be part of it? The Full Spectrum will be a series of ticketed talks curated by our Spectrum Editorial team. If you would like to submit yourself as a panellist or moderator please do so by emailing us (spectrumnow@fairfaxmedia.com.au)

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The Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum Now presented by ANZ is managed by Fairfax Events. For all general inquiries and questions relating to Spectrum Now, please contact the team via email at spectrumnow.com.au or call 02 9282 3157 Caroline Kemp, Head of Arts Kristy Austin, Event Manager Cassia Petridis, Event Executive

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