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Undercover Artist Festival. Image: Morgan Roberts.
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Undercover Artist Festival: meet the stars and crew who bring it to life

In its tenth year, the Undercover Artist Festival continues to showcase performers with a disability – and wow audiences.

arts students: A photo of two young female university students walking while carrying their books in an open walkway on a university campus.
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Australian arts students unable to get US visas for study exchange

Four Bachelor of Arts (Dance) students at WAAPA have had to cancel their U.S. study exchange plans due to the…

Rhoda Roberts accepting the Wendy Blacklock Award at PAC Australia's Impact Awards. The photo shows an older Aboriginal woman with blue-framed glasses, black hair and wearing red lipstick and a dark blue top, speaking on video against a light blue textured background.
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PAC Australia’s IMPACT Awards: 8 winners announced

PAC Australia’s annual performing arts awards recognise national impact, arts leadership and excellence.

Kala Gare in MTC's original stage musical 'My Brilliant Career' which returns for an encore in the company's 2026 season. The photo shows a fair haired and fair skinned young woman in period dress posing dramatically beneath a glittering chandelier. Her head is tiled back and her eyes closed as she sings, her right arm thrusts upward and her left arm swings back behind her.
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My Brilliant Career: MTC announces encore season of original musical in 2026

The critically acclaimed musical theatre adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career returns to the MTC in 2026.

A profile photo of a man with brown hair, a dark suit and blue tie. He is smiling. Michael Sterzinger, CEO of Queensland Symphony Orchestra. QSO
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CEO Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) – so you want my arts job?

Michael Sterzinger explains how he went from life as a tuba player in the Bavarian Youth Orchestra to being CEO…

Three women manipulating two bird puppets in a production of Lost and Finding.
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Lost and Finding review: raw energy at Flight Path Theatre

Lost and Finding is a fantastical comedy with a sense of adventure (and puppets).

ANAM students performing at Abbotsford Convent. The atmospheric photograph, taken in a historic venue with picturesque windows and a stage visible in the background, shows a seated audience listening to a group of six musicians, including strings, woodwind and a piano; one of the students stands behind a computer screen, suggesting the presence of electronics in the score being performed.
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Ghosts of Abbotsford Convent exorcised by poetic and musical collaboration

Poet Nam Le and former ANAM resident artist, pianist Anna Goldsworthy, join ANAM students to explore the Convent’s ‘fraught history’.

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.

Actor Andrew McFarlane in a promotion image for David Williamson's The Social Ladder', which opens Ensemble Theatre's 2026 season. The actor, a dapper, tanned man with grey hair, wears a suit, shirt and cravat, and is posing before an ornate gilded picture frame against a bright red background.
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Ensemble Theatre announces its 2026 season

Ten productions have been programmed for Ensemble Theatres 2026 season, including four new Australian productions, one of them by David…

Detail from Would That I Were A Fortress cover art, by June Jones. Image: Arkie Barton & June Jones.
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Would That It Were a Fortress review: June Jones EP is a chrysalis

June Jones’ music is intensely personal, interrogating gender identity, mental health, disability and what healing might look like.

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