The Commonwealth Games Cultural Arts - Festival Melbourne 2006
While Melbourne will certainly be know as the city of the Commonwealth Games in 2006, the rest of the time it is renown for being the arts and culture centre of Australia. While the masses will be in town for the Games, sports wont be the only entertainment on hand.
For 11 days, Melbourne will be buzzing with world class performing artists from across Australia and the Commonwealth as the largest ever free cultural festival runs simultaneously with the Games.
Federation Square, The Alexandra Gardens, The Sidney Myer Music Bowl, the Arts Precinct, Docklands and right across Melbourne will be full of non-stop music, dance, street theatre and visual arts.
Traditional and contemporary performances will fill the streets, galleries, theatres and community spaces in and around Melbourne. Exhibitions of paintings, arts and crafts, scuplture, photography and multimedia of traditions of Commonwealth nations, indigenous carvings and the world of sports. The contemporary connections of the 53 countries and 18 territories of the Commonwealthwill be presented through dance, music, fashion and performing and visual arts and celebrate the 76 year history of the Games.
Recent Entries
- Thursday, 23 March Schedule
- Scotland Win Gold in Men’s Lawn Bowls Pairs
- Australia wins Gold in Men’s 400m
- Ghana win Gold in Men’s Long Jump
- Canada win’s Gold in Men’s High Jump
- Australia take Gold, Silver in Women’s Synchronised 10m Platform Diving
- New Zealand Win Gold in Women’s Shot Put
- Canada win Gold in Men’s 105kg Weightlifting
- England win Gold in the Women’s Heptathlon
- Canada win Gold in Men’s 1m Springboard