About Us

Brisbane Festival, the Festival Board and the Indigenous Advisory Group continue to build a Festival which expresses its respect for and acknowledgment of the various Traditional Owners and Custodians of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands and waterways. Our respects extend to the Brisbane Traditional Owners of country, along with the neighbouring communities where the works are performed and celebrated across Brisbane areas. 

We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities where programs respectfully reflect and honour the Elders past, present and emerging. 

We recognise the fundamental role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to play in the creative and artistic events and celebrations and importantly the continued engagement with the Indigenous Advisory Group and the communities. We are committed to the development of opportunities for further growing the various cultural performances across the Festival. 

Brisbane Festival and the Indigenous Advisory Group will continue to embrace, engage and collaborate in partnership towards a progressive future. 

Brisbane Festival is unlike anything else you can experience in the world. We redefine what an International Arts Festival looks and feels like, staying ahead of the game and bringing the next generation with us. We are future focussed, and we care about the planet.

We are:

• Working with venues to provide recycling bins
• Reducing single use plastic, including straws, single-use water bottles, plastic bags, balloons and disposable coffee cups
• Encouraging attendees to bring their own water bottles and coffee cups
• Encouraging low emissions transport options, like cycling, scooting, walking, trains, buses and ferries. Or carpooling.
• Providing drinking fountains or water stations for refilling water bottles
• Promoting the use of reusable water bottles over single-use bottles
• Discouraging the use of single use materials, and encouraging recycling of everything
• Talking with staff, volunteers, vendors, venues, partners, audiences, sponsors and donors about greening the planet
• Encouraging caterers to use reusable, compostable or recyclable serve ware
• Considering the full lifecycle impacts of products (economic, environmental and social)
• Avoiding single-use and overly packaged items where possible
• Referring all suppliers to the BCC environmental guidelines
• Developing an environmental impact strategy which will measure usage and reduce emissions