Madeleine Swain
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Roadmap to Success – Learning Module 1, Essential Elements
The second in a new series of videos offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big Idea…
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Webinar #7 – Working with First Peoples – a creative industries overview
The latest Creative Exchange free webinar is coming up in August.
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Theatre review: A Streetcar Named Desire, Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne
The MTC's take on Williams' 20th century classic impresses, but lacks genuine menace.
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Roadmap to Success – Learning Module 1, How We Developed the Roadmap Canvas
The first in a new series of videos offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big Idea…
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New support for UK/Australian collaborations
The British Council has announced the opening of applications for its Connections Through Culture arts grants, supporting new cultural projects…
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Ability Fest returns and expands to Queensland
The music festival with inclusion baked into its DNA returns this October.
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How 65,000 years of culture can inform contemporary questions of identity
Every year the Cairns Art Gallery hosts exhibitions of Indigenous artists to coincide with CIAF. In 2024, a diversity of…
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments
New appointments this week include incoming CEOs at Hobart's Theatre Royal and Geelong Arts Centre, plus a festival favourite signs…
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Richard Watts receives Medal of the Order of Australia
ArtsHub’s esteemed Performing Arts Editor is recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List for his services to the arts and…
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Book review: Suddenly Single at Sixty, Jo Peck
A splendid and heartfelt response to the oldest cliché in the book – the husband who leaves the writer for…