Salisbury International Arts Festival
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The Salisbury International Arts Festival is a festival of performing arts that takes place in the city of Salisbury, England over three weeks at the end of May and in early June. The International Festival invites top class performers of opera, theatre, music (especially classical music) and dance from around the world to perform.
The first festival took place in 1973. The next festival will be held from May 26 to June 11, 2006.
[edit] Artistic Vision
RESONATE: 2005 - 2008
Exploring humankind’s unity through our diversity & universal human responses to art. The Resonate series of festival themes provides keynotes for artists and audiences to focus and contextualise thoughts and experiences in environmental, artistic and cultural terms:
- 2005 - Respect - land - image - China, Tibet, Asia
- 2006 - Relate - atmosphere - storytelling - Indigenous (Aboriginal, Inuit, Native American)
- 2007 - React - water - movement - South American / Latin
- 2008 - Rejoice - vegetation - song - British Isles
The artistic vision is founded on the premise that art is a universal language and humanity's responses to it, can help to create a more unified, more tolerant and understanding global community.
[edit] 2006 Festival
The 2006 Festival programme reflects the theme of Relate: how people connect with one another locally and as a global community. There is a strong artistic emphasis on storytelling and recurring motifs related to the environmental focus, atomosphere, which conjures up images of wings, clouds, birds, fairytales, myths, dreams... the intangible and the unbelievable. These themes are exemplified in the Aboriginal Cultural Showcase, which features a wide-range of indigenous Australian artists, many of whom are visiting the UK for the first time. The multi-artform focus is designed to give visibility of the contemporary culture and current artistic practice of an extraordinarily diverse culture.
