From major to minor: the new resource exchange

From providing temporary office space to enabling new performance contexts, the resources of a major can be a godsend for a small to medium arts organisation.
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Co3’s Reason for Being development at AGWA. Photo by Michael Maclean. 

In the tensions which surrounded the loss of funds from the Australia Council last year, an angry gulf developed between the major performing arts companies, whose budgets were protected, and the small-to-mediums facing devastation. 

But it’s an ill wind which blows no good and almost a year on the tensions between the two parts of the sector have spawned a new acknowledgement of the value each can gain from the other.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts