e are feeling refreshed and revitalised to be back in circulation – at events, at press showings, at design installations and incredible arts initiatives. Fun is back! And people are far more amusing and witty in real time. Technology is a flimsy replacement for pressing the flesh – forget virtual, give me analogue any day. Over the years, the team has hosted and attended lots of soirees – it is a privilege and a pleasure to bring our readers, industry partners and team together to explore the incredible well of creativity in Australia and abroad. So many ideas and so much energy comes from being with other people and discussing what is driving them. Orchestrating a memorable party is tricky enough when it’s business as usual, but the pandemic has brought lots of unpredictable and complicated logistics into play. And we are not post-pandemic yet. What kind of eccentric mastermind could have imagined the RATs, the QR codes, the masks, the sanitisers?
