BRISBANE, Australia — Mitchell Wilson takes the helm on the Australian Festival Association (AFA), following the departure of founding managing director Julia Robinson.
Introduced Wednesday (July 27), Wilson rises to managing director, succeeding Robinson with impact from Aug. 15.
Wilson, who has been working throughout music and stay occasions business since 2016, has been fulfilling a 12-month contract place with the AFA as challenge supervisor, working with members in Victoria for a funded program.
“Mitch brings a wealth of expertise from varied state and federal authorities advisor positions in addition to working at Dwell Nation, Sydney WorldPride 2023 and Mardi Gras,” feedback AFA committee member Di Sneddon. “We’re after all unhappy to see Julia go away, however excited to advertise Mitch into this position.”
Robinson was a key participant at AFA when it was unveiled in December 2018 because the commerce physique for Australia’s then-buzzing festivals house.
On the time, festivals have been going through an business disaster, significantly in NSW the place a brand new licensing regime had change into a problem for promoters and operators.
Now, four-and-a-half-years later, its remit stays the identical – “to make festivals safer for patrons and scale back friction between pageant promoters and regulatory our bodies, by aligning evidence-based practices and a long time of mixed business expertise with the necessities of presidency coverage,” reads an announcement on its official web site.
After creating and launching the group’s strategic plan for 2022-25, Robinson formally arms over on Sept. 2.
AFA’s members embody Falls Competition, Obtain, Competition X, CMC Rocks Qld, and UNIFY Gathering.
