Performing Arts
Shadow Arts Minister loses seat
After a drawn-out vote count, Heidi Victoria this week formally acknowledged her loss in the Victorian seat of Bayswater, leaving…
Peak body for performing arts touring calls it a day
Changes to the sector, coupled with funding strictures and the need to avoid duplicating services, have led to the Performing…
Sydney’s rapidly growing west gains an arts centre to match its ambition
Set to open in 2019, Western Sydney Performing Arts Centre will feature a flexible proscenium arch theatre capable of hosting…
Review: Tutti: Circus Oz with WASO, Perth Concert Hall
A feat of immense physicality, by musicians as well as acrobats, combined with emotive musicality.
New report outlines prohibitive restrictions on use of creative spaces
Sydney Fringe Festival has launched An Anthology of Space 2015-2018, a report that proposes solutions to overcome the onerous red…
The myth of the general audience
In her 2018 Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture, playwright Alana Valentine speaks about the power of the collective experience and those…
Applause: latest funding and awards announced
2018 Ruby Award winners celebrate, Disability Internships announced across key NSW creative institutions, Carclew awards over $200,000 in arts funding,…
Artists with disability the focus of new Sydney Festival initiative
The initiative, presented in partnership with Accessible Arts, aims to increase the number of Deaf artists and artists with disability…
Sector calls for new Artistic Investment Framework to replace MPA Framework
From across the nation, 25 independent, experimental, contemporary and cross-artform organisations have put their name to a joint statement calling…
Not your normal music festival: Mona Foma rejects sexism and homogeneity
Like Launceston’s Cataract Gorge, Mona Foma has broken through cultural fault lines to ensure its first iteration in Tasmania’s north…