What this guide covers
Sunraysia sits on the Murray River in Victoria's north-west and takes in Mildura and its neighbouring towns across the border in New South Wales. The Latje Latje and Ngintait peoples are among the region's original inhabitants. The Mildura settlement dates from the irrigation scheme the Chaffey brothers agreed to build in the late 1880s, and the name Sunraysia came later, from a public competition.
Each page here deals with one part of the region's cultural record: a festival, an award, a gallery, a concert. Most of them were associated at some point with Arts Mildura, a community organisation that began in late 1994 with a small weekend of music and writing and grew to run a suite of annual festivals. This guide is a separate, later publication with no connection to that organisation.
How to read it
These are reference pages, written in the past tense wherever an event belongs to the past. Listing an event here does not mean it is still running, and nothing on this site should be read as an announcement of a future date. Anyone planning a visit should go to the current organiser or venue for up-to-date information.
We write only what we can support from published sources, such as arts journalism, book-trade reporting, the Australian Music Centre and the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Where the record is thin or sources disagree, the page says so. Several festivals have conflicting founding dates in print, and we would rather report the disagreement than choose a neat number.