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Two figures with their backs to the camera looking at a sculpture that appears to be a screaming red slug with a human face.
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Opportunities and awards

Funding available for governance training, plus winners of the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards and Heritage Award finalists, and more!

Kids and families sitting in an audience watching a show.
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Relaxed performances to elevate accessibility

Why is it important to make performances truly accessible to all?

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How many open letters does it take to see top tier leadership change in the arts?

Two months on from much debated Creative Australia Board decision and, in the face of overwhelming criticism, why aren’t the…

Australian music industry: an audio mixing deck/ PA system on the floor of a stage surrounded by cables with a person's foot on one of the PA system's pedals.
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Music and live performance sectors still in pain: what do they want from the next four years of government?

Music and live performance artists and businesses are facing persistent threats to their existence. What do they want from Australia's…

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Exhibition review: Aidan Filshie, Eddy Burger, Sophie Fitsioris and Olga Tsara, Artemisia Gallery and Event Space

Romantic landscapes, surrealist mutants and winter fashion all in one gallery.

Dressed in Victorian era clothes, a woman in bed is surrounded by another women on her left and a man on her right. In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play
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Theatre review: In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), New Theatre, Newtown

This play about female orgasms spans humour and social commentary.

Against a row of pigeonholes you can see silhouettes of two people descending a stairs. In the background is a close up of a woman's face. The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Theatre review: The Dictionary of Lost Words, Playhouse Theatre, Brisbane

The Dictionary of Lost Words is a worthy and thought-provoking play but lacks dramatic excitement. 

Two panels. On the left a Caucasian woman with shoulder length dark hair, drop pearl earrings, red lipstick and a sleeveless black top. On the right a book cover of an abbey interior with a WW1 nurse in the background and a figure in a long green dress, with the whole bathed in yellow light over blue at the bottom of the image. The Surgeon of Royaumont
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Book review: The Surgeon of Royaumont, Susan Neuhaus

Shining a light on Australian female doctors in WWI.

Picture of an artist's palette with paint splotches, and woman looking through hole in it. Arts news watch.
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Arts news watch: this week's trending topics

We report it – you read it. Keep your eye on this week's top arts news stories.

A triptych displaying Japanese women in kimono.
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New kimono exhibition unfurls at NGV International

The iconic Japanese garment will be on display in historical and contemporary guises.

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