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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

This week's Australian arts sector appointments include Rachel Perkins, who joins Screen Australia as Director of First Nations Strategy, and…

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker at Adelaide Festival 2026. Cocker, a fair-skinned, middle aged man with glasses, raises his right hand high and sings loudly into a microphone. A video screen behind him shows dazzling, colourful images.
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‘All voices should be heard’, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker tells Adelaide Festival crowd

Cocker's pointed reference to an earlier censorship issue was made as Pulp played the opening night of Adelaide Festival 2026.

Applications are now open for the ABC Young Performers Awards. Image: Ayako/Unsplash.
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Best opportunities, grants & awards for creatives: 2–7 March 2026

This week: growth opportunities for emerging classical musicians, dancers, visual artists, and more.

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026: Randa Abdel-Fattah, Evelyn Araluen, Zeno Sworder and Margot McGovern. Photos: James Henry.
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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: the 2026 winners

Evelyn Araluen wins top prize and Randa Abdel-Fattah wins People's Choice as the Wheeler Centre celebrates Victorian literature.

Artist Khaled Sabsabi (right, a middle-aged man wearing all black) and curator Michael Dagostino (left, a middle-aged man with long gray hair wearing all black) for the 2026 Venice Biennale. They are standing at the corner of a graffitied shopfront.
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Khaled Sabsabi: first details of Venice Biennale presentation

Khaled Sabsabi has revealed his work for the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will explore spirituality and migration.

Ali Cobby Eckermann will be reading from her collaboration with First Nations American poet Joy Harjo at Constellations. Image: Giramondo Publishing.
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Constellations: Not Writers’ Week – Adelaide's alternate book festival gets ready

Constellations has been organised in the aftermath of this year's Adelaide Writers Week cancellation.

Liam Fleming with his Loewe Craft Prize finalist work, Patterns of Pressure, 2025. Photo: Grant Hancock.
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What I learnt as an artist judging an international craft prize

In a major coup, two Australians made the cut in the international Loewe Craft Prize. We speak to one of…

A woman kayaking in a fast-flowing, choppy river. arts sector appoinments
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Kala Gare in the MTC production, My Brilliant Career. A young woman in a Victorian-era dresses stands atop a piano, holding one fist up triumphantly; an ornate chandelier hangs above her.
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My Brilliant Career wins Australia’s richest playwriting prize at AWGIE awards

The MTC's musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career has won the $120,000 David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for…

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Best opportunities, grants & awards for creatives: 23 February to 1 March 2026

Opportunities for budding comedy critics, First Nations performers, excellence in humanities, and more.

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