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ICYMI: the week's top news in the arts
From Melbourne venues reopening to mentorship opportunities, a report on NT women in music, Opera Australia returning to Uluru, and…

Christmas gift ideas that give back to the arts
This year, shopping locally and supporting artists is an essential way to support the arts.

Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
Winner of Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize announced, young Indigenous actor takes out JUTE Theatre scholarship, Artists of Colour Initiative finalists…

Setting the stage for success: Beating COVID in the name of mental health
With unemployment at an all time high curing COVID, these creatives devised new business plans so they could keep arts…

Book Review: State Highway One by Sam Coley
State Highway One is a novel about one man – a young and talented man who drives from the far…

Exhibition Review: 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace
This year's edition of the NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship is a tight and punchy exhibition, with a strong focus…

What role do peak organisations have in the post-COVID environment?
Peak orgs are the glue holding a broken sector together and offer advocacy and initiatives for change as we emerge…

Books that dare to hope in 2020
From climate change to #BLM to COVID-19, we are living in unprecedented times, but two new anthologies offer hope by…

Technology means disability is no longer invisible, but it's not enough
Wongaiibon woman, and wheelchair user Gayle Kennedy used her keynote speech at Artstate Wagga Wagga to say, 'Stop, you are…

On the Move: Latest sector appointments & departures
Fremantle Arts Centre appoints new Director, as does Canberra Museum and Gallery, plus new Board appointments at Biennale of Sydney,…