Richard Roxburgh to spearhead new Fairfax Sydney festival

Fairfax will run a new festival in Sydney next March that will celebrate music, film, books, the stage, dance, contemporary art and design, with actor Richard Roxburgh appointed as its creative director.

The event, called Spectrum Now, will run over three weeks from March 11 to 29 and feature 150 exhibitions, gigs, talks, performances and events. It will be sponsored by ANZ with the aim of bringing “Sydney Morning Herald’s Spectrum section to life”.

Last year the company signalled it was pushing harder into the events space, and hired former Tourism Australia boss Andrew McEvoy to spearhead the charge.