Esoteric Festival has called time.
After a rollercoaster year for the beloved fest, which was forced to its cancel 2025 edition at the eleventh hour, festival co-founder and direct Sam Goldsmith confirms the worst.
Esoteric Festival Pty Ltd, he explains, has entered voluntary administration with effect from June 11th 2025.
“This is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write,” Goldsmith writes in an open letter.
It’s a sad end for Esoteric Festival, which closed its gates ahead of its March outing when Buloke Shire Council refused to issue the required Place of Public Entertainment Occupancy Permit.
“Without that permit,” Goldsmith writes, “we simply had no legal way forward to deliver the festival…
