{"id":11799,"date":"2023-10-09T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/sxsw-sydney-explained-how-will-the-austin-festival-work-in-australia-and-who-is-it-for\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:43:50","slug":"sxsw-sydney-explained-how-will-the-austin-festival-work-in-australia-and-who-is-it-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/sxsw-sydney-explained-how-will-the-austin-festival-work-in-australia-and-who-is-it-for\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW Sydney explained: how will the Austin festival work in Australia \u2013 and who is it for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The music, screen and tech worlds will converge for the festival\u2019s first staging outside the US \u2013 but tickets are pricey for an event that\u2019s hard to get a handle on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For 36 years, South by Southwest (SXSW) has been synonymous with one city: Austin, Texas. But this month the annual music, film and tech festival will launch a new event in Sydney \u2013 the first time it\u2019s ever been staged outside the US.<\/p>\n<p>Running 15-22 October, the festival is being billed as \u201cthe official annual Asia-Pacific instalment of SXSW\u201d. It\u2019s a big win for a city that has faced its share of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/aug\/05\/no-life-after-dark-clover-moore-blames-lockout-laws-for-drop-in-visitors-to-sydney\"> nightlife challenges<\/a> in the past decade, especially given the prestige of the brand: the Austin festival is renowned as a breaking ground for new musicians, and a hub for film, tech and TV premieres, and has welcomed high-profile speakers from Prince to the Obamas across its three decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2023\/oct\/10\/sxsw-sydney-what-is-it-events-concerts-films-technology-october-15-22\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/63f15bf357d3b325f0e0a85c803cd4de80e953e2\/0_153_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9de569ba28f2a20144599631aef8cf07\" title=\"SXSW Sydney explained: how will the Austin festival work in Australia \u2013 and who is it for?\" \/>The music, screen and tech worlds will converge for the festival\u2019s first staging outside the US \u2013 but tickets are pricey for an event that\u2019s hard to get a handle on<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nFor 36 years, South by Southwest (SXSW) has been synonymous with one city: Austin, Texas. But this month the annual music, film and tech festival will launch a new event in Sydney \u2013 the first time it\u2019s ever been staged outside the US.<br \/>\nRunning 15-22 October, the festival is being billed as \u201cthe official annual Asia-Pacific instalment of SXSW\u201d. It\u2019s a big win for a city that has faced its share of nightlife challenges in the past decade, especially given the prestige of the brand: the Austin festival is renowned as a breaking ground for new musicians, and a hub for film, tech and TV premieres, and has welcomed high-profile speakers from Prince to the Obamas across its three decades. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music, screen and tech worlds will converge for the festival\u2019s first staging outside the US \u2013 but tickets are pricey for an event that\u2019s hard to get a handle on Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email For 36 years, South by Southwest (SXSW) has been synonymous with one city: Austin, Texas. But this &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/sxsw-sydney-explained-how-will-the-austin-festival-work-in-australia-and-who-is-it-for\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SXSW Sydney explained: how will the Austin festival work in Australia \u2013 and who is it for?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}