Sydney Opera House ditches Dangerous Ideas for festival of progressive activism

New two-day festival Antidote will focus on finding solutions to some of the world's most intractable problems

The Sydney Opera House has announced a new "ideas, art and action" festival will debut this September, replacing the annual Festival of Dangerous Ideas (Fodi) with a program centred on progressive global politics and activism.

Titled Antidote, the two-day festival departs from Fodi in its inclusion of participatory arts programming and in its curatorial independence, with the St James Ethics Centre no longer returning as a presenting partner.