How skills development in the performing arts can aid long-term recovery

After the initial scramble to put shows back on the stage, it’s time to think about sustainable long-term recovery and how to build back better.

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.‘

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_