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What could you do with $1 million?

Arts and the imagination go hand in hand: in the wake of the new Australian Ballet residence we asked other companies what they could achieve with a major one-off grant.

10 Feb 2016

Richard Watts

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Last week ArtsHub reported on the Australian Ballet School opening its first official student residence, Marilyn Rowe House, purchased with the help of a one-off $1 million grant from the Federal Government.

Up to 37 students will be housed at the residence, which is clearly an important, even vital acquisition for the School. Equally, the $1 million grant was a valuable one, and allowed the School to leverage many millions more in private sector support.

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Richard Watts

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