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As winter descends, Melbourne is set to be transformed by RISING, the city's premier festival of new music, art, and performance.

Provocative theatre, a notorious rap group from Western Sydney and an Aboriginal rock ’n’ roll musical are among the highlights of this year’s RISING.

Here is the official announcement of events for RISING 2024 in Victoria.

A Brazilian artist will have her body manipulated while passed out, in a lauded work about sexual violence that headlines Melbourne’s winter festival

The first event for next year’s winter festival RISING will see audiences become the artists in a major participatory experience.

Multi-talented singer Kee’ahn will join the whole Rockwiz team to celebrate NAIDOC Week at the Leaps and Bounds festival.

Arts festival was cancelled in 2020 and 2021, but organisers have high hopes for this year, which will see 801 artists, musicians and theatre companies present 84 projects

This is The Rivers Sing, a commissioned audio work created for Rising festival. It was composed by Yorta Yorta/Yuin opera singer Deborah Cheetham, with artists Thomas Supple and Byron J Scullin, blending echoes of the natural world with myriad human voices. Over the course of two months the work has made its way along the Birrarung and Maribyrnong rivers, the sounds and music evolving and changing across its journey. It started off at Tarrawarra in March, then moved through points including Mou...