When it emerged that a 2022 Sydney Festival dance production was being supported with a $20,000 grant from the Israeli embassy, more than two dozen performers boycotted the festival and demanded it be shut down for “normalising apartheid”.
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The Sydney Festival will produce a charter to guide funding arrangements with potential foreign governments, extraction industries and pharmaceutical companies, following a review of this year’s boycott crisis.
Read MoreSydney Festival suspends overseas government funding after Israel boycott furore
The Sydney Festival board has suspended funding from international governments and their cultural agencies following an independent review conducted in response to a damaging boycott by artists earlier this year.
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