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NSW Strategy champions Aboriginal arts and cultural leaders
Arts NSW Strategy bolsters career opportunities and better aligns the profile of NSW Aboriginal arts and culture, and the outcomes

9 things Indigenous arts workers wish you knew
Fear of getting it wrong is a key reason producers fail to program Indigenous arts. So we asked those who…

Buried at Sea
'Oh! You beautiful doll, you great big beautiful doll! Let me put my arms about you, I could never live…

Cultural highways lead to Venice for First Nations curators
Senior, mid-career and emerging curators will participate in the First Nations Curator Exchange Program, taking them to the 2017 Venice…

How to increase First Nations performing arts programming
Your assumptions about programming Indigenous works need to be examined, says new research by the Australia Council for the Arts.

David Bowie: Nothing Has Changed
iOATA and Deborah Conway in David Bowie: Nothing Has Changed. Photograph by Robert Catto. Singer Deborah Conway told the audience…

The taste for philanthropy is spreading
'Australians have become addicted to giving, and the taste for philanthropy has become as alluring and natural to them as…

Why the Efficiency Dividend wreaks havoc on cultural organisations
Touring programs have been cut, staff shed, research discontinued and hours contracted. That's not efficiency it's decimation.

Your crash course in Catalyst
The sector became excited this week at reports that the Government would return Catalyst funding to the Australia Council. Is…

Opportunities for musicians in Western Sydney
NSW Government is investing in emerging music talent and live performance embedded in the community.