Australia

Emerging Writers Festival expands to Adelaide
Firmly focused on writers instead of readers, this hands-on festival aims to energise Adelaide’s already active literary culture.

Elementary my dear fox fur
Move over fashion police, the fashion detective has the power to create historical narratives around unattributed garments.

Synaesthesia+
A two-day sensory wonderland overtook MONA during Synaesthesia+.

Australia Council has turned its Grants Program on its head
They said they’d listened; and yesterday they delivered. The AusCo’s restructured Grants Program is less convoluted but lacks detail. How…

Threefold: Webber / Hill / Huang Yi
These dancers and the choreographers are accomplished artists, adept in portraying our deepest and innermost feelings.

M.A.D.E. for the Eureka message
Ballarat will become the centre of attention as the 160th anniversary celebrations of the Eureka Stockade heat up.

From the outside in
As global interest in outsider art rises, Melbourne will host a three-day conference on this once-peripheral artform.

Cabaret Soirée returns to Perth
An eight-week season of intimate performance pays tribute to such performers as Annie Lennox and Dorothy Fields.

Melbourne writer appointed as inaugural Director of UNESCO City of Literature
The new appointee will work with Melbourne's existing literary organisations to strengthen the city's status and activities.

What's it all about, Alphie?
As part of an undersea art exhibition a five-metre-tall, 15-metre-long sea turtle is floating through Cockle Bay.