The Village builds inclusive and connected communities. We co-create intimate temporary arts festivals that bring artists and communities together. These utopian playgrounds are places of celebration where curiosity rules and where creativity, beauty and personal connection flourish. The Village is a beautiful, beguiling festival that exists to provide an intimate environment in which professional and non professional artists and audiences can meet each other in bliss. The programming aesthetic is populist, accessible, quirky, and littered with the familiar and the exotic. The Village Festival has delivered 55 festivals and a host of smaller programs across Australia from Tasmania to Tennant Creek. The following values are important guiding forces for The Village Festival. We aim for these values to be evident in every event that we produce. They also inform the way that the organisation works behind the scenes. Creativity: we believe that all people are creative forces and have the right to self-expression Inclusiveness: we strive to engage with, and include, everybody across a diverse range of people Unexpectedness: we believe that creating surprises brings out the best in people, and we value the role of humour in creating the unexpected. Intimacy: we believe that small is beautiful and value intimate contexts for meaningful interpersonal engagement Wholeness: we believe that life is best viewed in a holistic fashion and we eschew dichotomies like mind/body and art/life Non-conformative Integrity: we champion possibilities that are hard to bring to fruition through the dominant paradigm of Western, corporatised living. Collaboration: we are non-competitive, offering trust and the freedom to create, respecting artistic autonomy (the temporary autonomous zone that enables the realisation of personal expression with the support of the team).