The Informer

6 Dec 2016

The Festival City has a more Serious Side as well

Gadgets, Health, News & Politics, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

Melbourne’s Midsumma Festival turns 30 in 2017 with an exciting program with more than 130 events in over 70 venues. We find out more from Programming Manager Daniel Santangeli.

Dr Clovis Palmer from the Burnet Institute joins us to tell us about some of the latest research projects and his specialty of HIV in an aging population. We also find out on The Informer about some of the projects planned for 2017 and beyond.

And the Gaytimes Festival is getting a lot of attention for the right reasons as Anna Whitelaw (festival director) puts Marysville on our GLBTIQ map of interest.

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