FREE & TICKETED EXPERIENCES Sydney Festival has always balanced free and ticketed programming to maximise the opportunity for residents and visitors to embrace our city in summer. This year we wanted to encourage the broadest possible audience, in the spirit of diversity and inclusion, from populist offerings like The Beach at the Cutaway, Barangaroo Reserve and Ladies in Black to specialist offerings such as Imagined Touch, Anthropologies Imaginaires, The Encounter and Scent of Sydney. The senses was a programming theme that promoted the idea of re-tuning the human body in a digital world. Free talks, language classes, circus workshops and exhibitions helped balance ticketed events. Free performances at Meriton Festival Village and elsewhere around Sydney helped establish Sydney Festival 2017 in the minds and hearts of people.
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