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Port Fairy Folk Festival to feature Missy Higgins, Troy Cassar-Daley and more this weekend

One of the most long established and beloved music festivals in Australia returns.

Geraldine Quinn's 'Bastard Joy' at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025. A publicity image for the show: Quinn, a fair-skinned woman with swept-back, shoulder-length auburn hair, stares dramatically at the camera. She wears an ornate ruffled dress in hot pink, and large, half-moon pink earings to match.
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2025 summer festival highlights for your arts diary part 3: March

A hand-picked guide to some of the most intriguing cultural events on offer around the country in March 2025.

Sim Chi Yin, a woman crouching over large pieces of paper with photo on them.
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Performance review: Sim Chi Yin, One Day We’ll Understand, Footscray Community Arts, Asia TOPA 

A multimedia performance exploring memory and inheritance.

A dance performance at where dancers wear an exoskeleton of prosthetic limbs. The stage is illuminated in white light and five of the dancers are conjoined, facing a single dancer with their back to the camera. U>N>I>T>E>D
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Dance review: U>N>I>T>E>D, Asia TOPA 2025

A futuristic epic that turned philosophical.

A woman in a blue jumpsuit and yellow beanie facing a video camera. The background is of snowy mountains.
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Performance review: Night Night, State Theatre Centre WA, Perth Festival

A magical-realist show about the origins of life on earth.

Photo of a woman with light brown skin and dark brown hair in side profile, standing to the left of a high countertop and a figurative painting of a suburban house on the wall.
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Opportunities and awards

A $60,000 moving image commission opens, plus the winner of the MECCA x NGV Women in Design and finalists of…

A concert scene with lots of bright lights and backdrop. Four figures in cream can be seen on stage and a back up band behind them.
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Performance review: Björn Again, West Gippsland Arts Centre

The ABBA tribute band are back on a country-wide tour.

Sebastian Geilings, Yilin Kong and Patrick O'Luanaigh from ADT's 'A Quiet Language'.
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Turning 60 in style: Australian Dance Theatre leaps from the stage to the gallery wall

AD Daniel Riley describes the birth of ADT and an accompanying exhibition documenting the company’s six decades of dance-making.

A young man and an older man are staring at blank canvas. Shellshocked.
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Theatre review: Shellshocked, Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide Fringe Festival

The psychological ravages of war laid bare in unexpected ways. 

Women of the Soweto Choir in colourful clothing.
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Performance reviews: Hope and Gluttony, Adelaide Fringe Festival

A choir full of hope and other assorted goodies in this year's Adelaide Fringe.

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