Our Supporters
Melbourne Festival applauds the following individuals and foundations for their generous and loyal support.
PRESENTING PARTNERS
$50,000+
- The Besen Family Foundation
presenting Batsheva Dance Company’s Decadance and Last Work
- Philip and Caroline Cornish
presenting the Headlong production of 1984 by George Orwell
- Playking Foundation
presenting Melbourne Festival’s alliance with China Shanghai International
Arts Festival, and Right&Left, Special Combination and Water Pushes Sand
- Maureen Wheeler AO and Tony Wheeler AO
for support across the program
$25,000+
The Bardas Foundation
presenting TANDERRUM
- The Danielle and Daniel Besen Foundation
presenting Batsheva Dance Company’s Decadance and Last Work
- John and Janet Calvert-Jones & The Brenda Shanahan Charitable Foundation
presenting Haydn for Everyone
- The Dancing Architects
presenting NYX
FOUNDATIONS
PATRONS
$20,000+
- Australia Israel Cultural Exchange
- Jacqui & Richard Scheinberg
- Anonymous (1)
$10,000+
- Katie McLeish & Greg Barrett
- Josephine Ridge
- Kee Wong & Wai Tang
$5,000+
- Donna Aston
- Mark Burlace
- Christine Clough
- The Late Mrs Neilma Gantner
- Margaret Jackson
- Vas Katos
- Paul & Julie Kirk
- Peter Lovell & Michael Jan
- Rebel Penfold-Russell OAM
$2,500+
- Bill Bowness
- Rob Brookman & Verity Laughton
- Min Li Chong
- William J Forrest AM
- Robert Gibbs & Tony Wildman
- Rachel & Alan Goldberg AO, QC
- Linda Herd
- Ian Kennedy AM & Dr Sandra Hacker AO
- Richard Leonard & Gerlinde Scholz
- Louise & Martyn Myer Foundation
- Rae Rothfield
- Tim & Lynne Sherwood
- Dahle Suggett & Peter Cole
- Pinky Watson
- David & Danielle Whittle
- Michael & Lynne Wright
- Vic Zbar & Pamela Macklin
- Anonymous (2)
$1,000+
- Laura Anderson
Yoland Antill & Hamish McGovern
Margaret Astbury
Australia Post
Jim Babbage
Belle Barro
Jane Bourke
The Brasher Family Foundation
Beth Brown & Tom Bruce AM
Sally Browne
Sally & Rob Bruce
David Byrne
Maggie Cash
Sandy Clark
Yvonne Constantine
Mary Davidson
Will Emmett
Jane Evans
Rosemary Forbes
Bob Garlick
The Gill Family Foundation
Colin Golvan QC & Dr Deborah
Golvan
Lesley Griffin
Suzanne Halliday
Alistair Hay
Margaret Heffernan OAM
& John Dunne - Ted Hochschwender
Ian Hocking
Lilian Hou
Professor Emeritus Andrea Hull AO
David & Susi Inglis
Philip & Barbara Jones
Kathryn Kings
Norma Leslie
Elizabeth H Loftus
Anna Lozynski
Jan Maclean
Tony Macvean
John & Dianne Magowan
Andrea L McCall
Lawrence McDonald
Rob McGauran
& Alessandra Giannini
Julia Nelson
Colin & Carol Nettelbeck
Carolyn Phiddian
Elizabeth Proust
Dimity Reed AM & Garry Joslin
Malcolm Robertson
Maria Ryan
Jacky & Rupert Sherwood
Maria Sola
Anthony Strahan
NS & JS Turnbull - Ewen & Aldyth Tyler
Leonard Vary & Matt Collins QC
Leon & Sandra Velik
Kevin & Elizabeth Walsh
Barbara & Ralph Ward-Ambler AM
Ian A Watts
Maria Weight
Janet Whiting AM & Phil Lukies
Price & Christine Williams
Gael Wilson
Dr Terry Wu & Dr Melinda Tee
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