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Diversity driving revenue from new arts audiences

Without greater diversity, theatre could become a heritage art form with a narrow white middle class audience.

7 Jan 2015

Jasmeet Sahi

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Yasukichi Murakami, Through a Distant LensPhoto via Performance 4a

Multiculturalism used to be seen as worthy but artistically deadly: the province of folk-dancing and home-made crafts.Then the arts woke up to the tremendous power of traditional cultures and rushed to embrace everything from Indigenous painting to Kabuki theatre.

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Jasmeet Sahi

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Jasmeet Sahi is a freelance writer and editor based in Melbourne.

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