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Mama Does Derby. Photo: Claudio Raschella.
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Mama Does Derby review: wheeling onto stage with brutal tenderness

Despite the roller derby chaos, the real heart of Mama Does Derby is in how it portrays a complex mother-daughter…

When debate around artists’ rights get heated, we can lose sight of how cultural safety practices act as a positive force to help resolve these situations. The photograph shows seven figures arrayed around a stage, each helping to lift an expansive sheet of red fabric that otherwise covers the stage; red curtains hang behind them, and a spotlight beams down on the central figure. cultural safety
Opinions & Analysis

Cultural safety isn’t a shield, it’s a mirror, and organisations need to look into it

Amid debates about the right to freedom of expression, we are losing our sense of what cultural safety in practice…

Miriam Webster has just published her debut short story collection The Slip. Photo: Bonnie Jarrett Creative.
Opinions & Analysis

Pants down: how it feels to publish your first book

Miriam Webster, whose debut short story collection The Slip was published in July 2025, reflects on the experience of releasing…

Are the state's creative industries still on track, or running off the rails? A photograph of a train track between trees at Mannerim, Victoria, Australia.
Opinions & Analysis

Creative Victoria: backing or backing away?

Creative Victoria’s recently delivered Creative Enterprise Program funding stunned some organisations and alarmed others: are the outcomes a warning sign…

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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Workshops

Tracey Miller Art

Macro Flora Painting Workshop

Create your own beautiful, large-scale flora painting. This workshop suits beginners as well as intermediate level painters. Tracey has many…

Placeholder Residency at Field Rooms, Waterloo. Photo: Joshua Morris.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 18-25 January 2026

A new creative residency in Waterloo, plus development opportunities for dancers, performance artists, and more.

Tomáš Kantor, a curly-haired 20-something person dressed in non-traditionally gendered clothing, in the 2026 Midsumma production Sugar at Arts Centre Melbourne.
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Sugar review: a frothy, fun and fearless Midsumma treat

This whirlwind production works Chappell Roan into Pretty Woman by way of Tomáš Kantor’s commanding queerness.

Midsumma Festival 2026 highlights.
Features

Midsumma Festival 2026: queer culture highlights to pop on your calendar

Melbourne's leading LGBTQIA+ pride festival puts queer art in the spotlight  – here are our top picks

Funding

Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport, Government of Western Australia

Contemporary Music Fund Development Program

The Contemporary Music Fund (CMF) assists homegrown contemporary music artists with projects that enable them to produce and promote their…

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