Arts Projects Australia is an independent producer and event management company, established in 1997, that 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 WOMADelaide since 1998 (and international tour coordinator for WOMAD New Zealand since 1999), The Australia Council's Australian Performing Arts Market in Adelaide since 1998, The Adelaide Film Festival, The Australian International Documentary Conference, and was performing arts producer of Festival Melbourne 2006, the Cultural Program for Melbourne's Commonwealth Games.
2010 tours to date include Groupe F's A Little More Light, Ojos de Brujo, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, The Chlomondoleys & The Featherstonehaughs' Dancing On Your Grave, Dean & Britta's 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, Druid Theatres's The Walworth Farce, Theatre Des Bouffes Du Nord's production of Peter Brook's 11 and 12 and Jo Strømgren Kompani's The Society.
In 2009, APA toured Les 7 Doigts de la Main's Traces, Peter Brook's Fragments, Groupe F, Third World Bunfight's House fo the Holy Afro, Sadler's Wells' Havana Rakatan, Michael Nyman Band, Micheline Van Hautem, Natacha Atlas, Barrie Kosky's Poppea, Rokia Traore, Sa Dingding, Ray Lee's Siren, The Abbey Theatre's Terminus and Kronos Quartet.
In 2008, APA presented 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; La Clique, The 16th ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival for Young People and more.
APA has worked in various roles as tour producer and presenter for 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 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 and Ola Kala, Noche Flamenca, Fabrik Potsdam's Hopeless Games, The Gotan Project, 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, Cool Heat Urban Beat, Ballet Preljocaj, Batsheva Dance Company, and Rambert Dance Company.