The Enlighten festival website has been launched for the 2012 event.
In stark contrast to last year they’re downplaying the performers and there has been no helicopter arrival by ageing rock stars.
This is probably a good move. One suspects people will come for the lights and some good music as much as to see well past their prime legends of yesteryear.
UPDATE: Andrew Barr is selling it and making clear that they’re integrating Enlighten with the Canberra Festival this year. Minister Barr says the highlights include:
— Late night viewings of Renaissance: 15th and 16th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo at the National Gallery of Australia and Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Treasures from Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin at the National Library of Australia,
— A concert featuring Claire Bowditch and The Clouds at the National Museum of Australia,
— Underground geological tours of Parliament House,
— A bush tucker long table dinner which follows a guided tour with a curator through the indigenous collection at the National Museum of Australia,
— The screening of Lights! Canberra! Action! in the leafy Senate Gardens at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, and
— A night of political comedy at the Museum of Australian Democracy; star gazing at the National Library of Australia and a talk on the science behind beer and wine at Questacon.
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