Arts Projects Australia is an independent producer and event management organisation, established in 1997, and works collaboratively with a range of festivals, producers and organisations on a diverse range of arts projects and tours.
APA has undertaken roles as Event Manager/Executive Producer for five editions of The Australia Council's Australian Performing Arts Market, WOMADelaide (98-07), international tour coordinator for WOMAD New Zealand, The Adelaide Film Festival, The Australian International Documentary Conference, Festival Melbourne 2006, as performing arts producer of the Cultural Program for Melbourne's Commonwealth Games.
In 2007 APA produced the FINA World Championships Cultural Festival, and is touring The Gotan Project, Asha Bhosle and Kronos Quartet, as well as Peter Brook's production of Sizwe Banzi is Dead to Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. In 2008, APA will present a myriad of internationally acclaimed works including Tim Supple's spectacular Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring an all Indian cast; the South African nail-biting thriller, Township Stories; the beautifully orchestrated Don't Look Back; and in May 2008, The 16th ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival for Young People.
APA has worked in various roles as tour producer and presenter for Les Arts Sauts Ola Kala, Stephen Dillane's Macbeth, Random Dance's Nemesis, and producer of the ‘Compulsory Viewing' season at the Adelaide Fringe at Union Hall featuring Guy Masterson's Under Milk Wood, Fortune Cookie Theatre's The Travellers, Greig Coetzee's White Men With Weapons, Galway Theatre Festival's Trad as well as Andrew Dawson's Absence and Presence featured at the Queens Theatre.
Previous projects have included presentation of seasons of Amajuba - Like Doves We Rise, Diamanda Galás, Stephen Petronio Dance Company, The Abbey Theatre, Cie Philippe Genty, 12 Angry Men, The Imaginary Body's 100, Fabrik Potsdam's Pandora 88, Black Grace Dance Company, Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, Transe Express, Les Arts Sauts Kayassine, Noche Flamenca, Fabrik Potsdam's Hopeless Games, Michael Nyman Band, Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble, Theatre O's 3 Dark Tales, Amoros and Augustin, Philip Glass Ensemble, international tours of Cloudstreet (99 and 01) Cool Heat Urban Beat, Ballet Preljocaj, Batsheva Dance Company, and Rambert Dance Company.