Jonathan Holloway

International Artistic Advisor
Spain

Jonathan started his career as a theatre director, before seven years working at London’s National Theatre with Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner, heading up public events. He was Artistic Director/CEO of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, growing it to be the third largest annual arts festival in the UK.

He has spent the past decade in Australia, first as Artistic Director of the Perth International Arts Festival, then as Artistic Director/Co-CEO of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

His series of Perth Festivals opened with 30,000 people dancing in the streets, as angels and two tonnes of feathers fell from the sky, and concluded with the largest single arts event Australia has ever seen, 1.4 million people walking with giants through the city. In Melbourne he presented Taylor Mac’s epic 24-hour production A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music, one of only two times it will have been seen complete outside the US. All three won the rare and prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Special Event.

He has been artistic advisor to the Mayor of London, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, and the GREC Festival in Barcelona.

Host
Session 4 | Tale of the City: Creative Placemaking
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

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