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Who are the new guard?

Among the gloom of last week there’s a bright note: some companies have received multi-year organisational funding for the first time.

17 May 2016

Richard Watts

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Marrugeku’s Cut the Sky; photo by John Green.

The events of Black Friday – a dark day for the Australian arts ecology that saw more than 60 organisations stripped of the operational funding by the Australia Council, largely due to the organisation’s significantly reduced budget following the establishment of the Catalyst program – have shocked the nation.

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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