Harvest confirms its return in November

Harvest, which debuted in spectacular fashion last year with headline slots from Portishead and The Flaming Lips, have confirmed that they'll be returning in 2012, by posting the following on Facebook:

"Harvest Festival 2012, taking place from 10th-18th November in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, has opened the application process for arts submissions.

Over 400 artists participated in the 2011 Harvest arts programme across the three cities, over four dedicated stages, 50 installations, and 2 virtual experiences. This year, the arts programming team are seeking stage performance, live art happenings, site installations, roaming performance, spoken word, comedy, circus, digital and ecological arts projects – and everything in between.

In its debut year, Harvest scooped up Best Major Festival in the FBi Sydney Music and Arts Awards, was named Best Touring Festival by AU Review, and was voted Number 2 Best Australian Festival of 2011 in the Street Press Australia national survey.

Artists can apply via the online application form. The deadline for all arts submissions is July 1, 2012.

To obtain the application form, head to http://bit.ly/HARV12subs."

Consider us excited.