In the past year, ArtsHub has conducted interviews with sector workers about the skills shortages and long-term COVID impacts that continue to remind us it’s still not business as usual and there is an urgent need for skills development.
‘Our hope is that we’re going to start to build capacity for people to create new work from their regions. And by the time the Brisbane Olympics comes around in 2032, we will have a program of regional theatre that visitors to Australia can access by going up the Queensland coast. That’s the big vision and a beacon that we can work towards.‘