Performing Arts

Moneybag: latest money news
From new grants to prizes and awards, ArtsHub compiles this week's opportunities to get money: ArtStart, SMFACA Ceramic Award, National…

Will the Queensland election matter to the arts?
Labor is promising a review, the LNP cultural infrastructure money. But will the Queensland result make any real difference to…

Frisky and Mannish: #JUSTTOOMUCH
Moving from audience education to celebrity excess, Frisky & Mannish make a welcome return to FringeWorld

AusCo 'flexibility' isn't necessarily a good thing
The Australia Council's dissolution of art form specific boards plays into a homogenisation of creativity that fails the specific needs…

The next 25 years in ethics
What will the ethical dilemmas of the next 25 years look like?

Sustaining an arts career in the regions
From self-defeating fears about the quality of one's work to the joy of working in isolation, regional life is a…

Disturbing, not pleasing, should be art’s role
Many arts organisations have become dinosaurs, failing to evolve to respond to the needs of new work, delegates at the…

We need creative teaching to teach creativity
Whether or not creativity can be taught is still a contested question, though it really shouldn’t be.

Why it’s better to be an artist in Perth than in Melbourne or Sydney
'Pretty flowers grow in shit.' That's the blunt title and essential argument of an essay arguing Western Australia is better…

Frank, the Mind-reading Hotdog
Tricks of the mind, served up with squirts of sauce, mustard and terrible jokes