Features

Is your organisation past its use-by date?
Closing your doors doesn't equal failure. Some arts organisations have a natural lifespan and permanence just makes the work moribund.…

Design: it is a’changin’
Change is in the air, and some of the world’s leading designers and thinkers are converging to make it happen.

Mother and performer: the ultimate juggling act
Discussion about work-life balance for young parents typically focus on business types battling to get to the childcare centre on…

AUDIO: Oliver Mol's Lion Attack!
Scribe Non-Fiction Prize for Young Writers winner Oliver Mol talks about his debut novel.

AUDIO: A conversation with Jane Clifton
Gibraltar-born Australian actress, author, singer and former "service brat" chats about her life and career.

Milking the festival circuit
With the burgeoning number of Writers' Festivals, becoming a good performer can be a financial boon, providing appearance fees, Festival…

How technology has changed the arts market
Audiences now crowdsource their choices and the line between arts patrons and participant is thinning.

Jazz and opera meet in the middle
He is an operatic baritone. She is a soul diva. Together they will make the lions roar in an example…

Why cultural precinct plans never work
Policy makers love arts precincts but street culture can't be planned from the top down.

Are Nazis ever okay?
A Hitler-themed burlesque performance at the Canberra Fringe may have good intentions but can a Holocaust context ever be funny…