The Judith Wright Arts Centre, formerly the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, is a

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and

performing arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...

centre in

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. The venue was renovated and re-opened as an arts centre in October 2001. The Centre is named after

Judith Wright Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 191525 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Wright was born in Armidale, New Sou ...

, who was a celebrated Queensland poet, an advocate for

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, and an environmental activist. Wright was one of two Australian poets considered for the

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. She died on 25 June 2000 in Canberra. The Centre is managed by the

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through Arts Queensland. Affectionately called The Judy, it is located at corner of Berwick Street and 420 Brunswick Street in Fortitude Valley. The venue includes well-equipped performance spaces with three rehearsal studios for dance, theatre and music. The main performance space is a flexible "black box" theatre with plenty of scope for diverse types of performances. The venue encompasses a two-storey and a five-storey buildings. The larger structure was originally a factory for Bushell's Tea. Redevelopment of the site was designed by Cox Architects and built by Multiplex Constructions. The Centre is home to several creative and cultural organisations, including the

Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) is a national Australian institution for the culturally sensitive training of Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people in the performing arts. Founded in 1997, it has been loca ...

, Artour, the Australasian Dance Collective, Blakdance,

Carbon Creative Carbon Creative is an Indigenous-owned creative agency based in Brisbane, Australia. The agency was founded in 2006 and produces creative content "to help close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people" of Australia, shift perception ...

, Circa Contemporary Circus, Creative Partnerships Australia, Flying Arts Alliance,

Institute of Modern Art The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is a public art gallery located in the Judith Wright Arts Centre in the Brisbane inner-city suburb of Fortitude Valley, which features contemporary artworks and showcases emerging artists in a series of group an ...

, and

Musica Viva Musica Viva was founded in 1945 by Romanian-born violinist Richard Goldner, with the aim of bringing chamber music to Australia. The co-founder was a German-born musicologist, Walter Dullo. At its inception, Musica Viva was a string ensemble per ...

. Each year, the venue hosts the

Queensland Poetry Festival Queensland Poetry Festival is the flagship program of Queensland Poetry one of Australia's premier organisations for all things poetry. It exists to support and promote a poetry culture in Queensland and Australia, embracing the wide possibility o ...

. It hosted the contemporary music event, BIGSOUND, from 2002 until 2018.

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