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Five techniques to build resilience
Arts and wellness educator Molly W. Schenck talks about how to have tough conversations in art without traumatising collaborators.

Walls for Wellness
Coinciding with Mental Health Week, artists take to the street to paint walls for wellness.

Advice for new writers from PM's Literary Award nominees
From taking risks to doing a law degree instead, poets, novelists, historian and non-fiction writers on the shortlist for this…

Clare Watson’s contract extended at Black Swan
The Board of WA’s State Theatre Company has renewed the Artistic Director’s contract for another three years and publicly committed…

Black Is The New White, Southbank Theatre (VIC)
Imagine if Love Actually were actually good, and you might have Nakkiah Lui’s whip-smart, hilarious Christmas comedy.

From the archives: The Octopus in the Bathtub
Cinematographer Meg White has turned her anguish into art. She hopes that talking more openly about mental health in the…

Why arts education is valuable for schools
Sandra Gattenhof makes the case for arts being included as core skills in both public and private schools to create…

Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
Victorian Poetry Slam champion announced, Fauvette Loureiro scholarship announced, plus Artbank's opportunity for emerging curators.

Are video games the new therapy?
While video games are often associated with frivolous entertainment, hospitals around the world have begun using them to help improve…

5 ways acting can help anxiety
Being a performer can teach handy techniques that can help when coping with anxiety.