“After much consultation and risk assessment, was decided to postpone the Antipodes Festival, which was scheduled for 5 and 6 March, to 22 and 23 October 2022,” reads the GOCMV newsletter announcement.
Over the past few months, organisers had been in talks planning with the state and local governments to ensure events would be run in a COVID safe way.
However, the initial dates for March had been announced in early November, before the highly transmissible new variant Omicron brought an exponential surge in cases.
