Australia

Eight new dance commissions compete for $50,000 Keir Award
The biennial Keir Choreographic Award is dedicated to the commissioning of new choreographic work and promoting innovative, experimental and cross-artform…

ICYMI: A wrap of this week’s arts news
From an online disability art portal, to a new ACMI x RMIT partnership, Womadelaide's 2020 program, DESIGN Canberra highlights and…

The sounds and stories of the Gold Coast
Musician Cold Ghost celebrates local culture and story in a new project at HOTA.

The Yin and Yang of Aboriginal Art
What a 60,000 year old concept on kinship is teaching contemporary art.

On the Move: Latest sector appointments and departures
Dancehouse AD to move on in April, NIDA appoints new CEO, latest Board appointments at Diversity Arts Australia, and more.

Keeping fresh and focussed in a long term role (from our archives)
It's the perennial question: how do you stay motivated in a job that you love after years? This classic article…

The Producers, Gungahlin College Theatre (ACT)
Daryl Somers, Jason Bensen and cast show that The Producers is a story meant for the stage.

Act of Grace by Anna Krien
Krien’s debut novel explores trauma, reparations, and atonement, in all its psychological and political dimensions.

Disenchanted, Subiaco Arts Centre (WA)
A little touch of New York City, right here in the little smoke.

Applause: Latest awards and funding announced
Women in Music Awards, winner of Fauvette Loureiro Scholarship, Nonfiction Young Writers shortlisted and more accolades this week.