As a sector, we came together in 2020 and 2021 with extraordinary responsiveness and resilience, and began this year with the hope 2022 would be better, easier, or at least somehow different. Australia had reopened, interstate and international travel was once again possible, and our organisations equipped with new skills to meet artists’ and audiences’ changing needs.
This is matched by the glaring absence of the lost generation of emerging practitioners unable to join the sector, due to rising education costs and systematic dismantling of industry training streams.
