Following senior appointments with a number of leading cultural organisations, most recently as Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Auckland Arts Festival, David Malacari has returned to Adelaide to fill the position of Manager of Programs at Adelaide Festival Centre.
David will fill the role made vacant by the recent appointment of Adelaide Festival Centre Associate Director and Programming Manager, Karen Bryant, to the position of CEO at Adelaide Festival. David has been appointed in an interim capacity until the position is advertised later in the year.David brings a wealth of experience in the arts, across various roles, to the position. He is highly regarded internationally for having grown Auckland Arts Festival into an event with a reputation for presenting exciting program from Asia and the Pacific Rim and for its role in commissioning new work and spearheading a strategy for the festival to be recognised as a major contributor to Auckland’s reputation as a culturally enriched and dynamic city.He has previously directed festivals of Australian Arts in London and India and is respected in Adelaide for his role as founding General Manager of Windmill Performing Arts and many years as Program Manager at the Adelaide Festival prior to that.Videos