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Quiet Riot's 'Power Move', the Civic Commission at the 2025 Melbourne Fringe. The image shows five young people, blurred my movement as they dance inside a colourful, monolithic art installation at Melbourne Fringe Festival.
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Melburnians urged to become action heroes at the 2025 Melbourne Fringe

Members of the public are encouraged to embrace participatory art experiences and generate change at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival.

A publicity image for 'Influencer'. a Junction Arts Festival dance production about social media. The image shows a group of people half-visible in a cloud of theatrical smoke: a pasted-on photo of a blonde-haired woman obscures one of the faces, which has a male figure in a brown coat and red beanie holding up a ring-light in front of them.
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Junction Arts Festival's 2025 program celebrates Launceston culture

Celebrating Launceston-based companies and artists, Junction also draws in mainland performers and musicians from across Tasmania.

ArtsHub's Creative Journalism Fellowship. Image: Vardan Papikyan on Unsplash.
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ArtsHub announces Creative Journalism Fellowship for NSW emerging writers

ArtsHub is seeking ten emerging arts journalists for a Creative Journalism Fellowship supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

ArtsHub editors Thuy On and Richard Watts presenting the Crafting Insightful Criticism workshop at The Channel, Arts Centre Melbourne. Photo: ArtsHub.
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Why arts marketing is all about being on the inside

Partnering with publishers aligned to the industry is essential for credibility, precision and impact.

Paper notes flying onto a stage with one performer standing in the centre with arms outstretched.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 18-24 August 2025

New nature writing prize, $10,000 for emerging singer-songwriters, mural commission, WA grant funding and more opportunities.

AI and artists. Image: Kyle Head on Unsplash.
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AI and artists: will anyone care when human creativity is usurped?

Perhaps the scariest thing about AI and artists isn’t that it will do creators out of their jobs but that…

The secret diary of an Australian arts freelancer. Image: Onischenko on Unsplash.
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The secret diary of an Australian arts freelancer, aged 46¾

Being an Australian arts freelancer can be lots of fun, right? Well, yes, kind of, but ...

Image: Zoshua Colah on Unsplash. First Nations.
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First Nations intellectual property vs AI: culture, consent and the fight to stop scraping

Artists warn that data‑mining proposals and AI tools risk copying First Nations styles without consent or payment.

man in white t-shirt holding open wallet with no money. Poverty line artists
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‘I’m tired of barely being paid.’ Artists are living below the poverty line

Did artists feel the recent indexed wage increase? No. They largely remain on the poverty line. And this week’s speculated…

Arts Minister Tony Burke.
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Copyright & AI: Arts Minister Tony Burke pledges to protect artists’ rights

In a wide-ranging speech touching on AI and copyright, the Arts Minister Tony Burke reaffirmed his opposition to the Productivity…

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