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ICYMI: The week's arts news
Latest COVID cancellations, streaming picks this week, live music in Fremantle + more news and reviews.
Live Performance Support Program opens round 2 for VIC artists
Presenters can apply for up to $7,000 for one event, and suppliers (including performers and crew) between $200 – $500.
Visual arts sector overlooked in COVID relief support
The National Collecting Institutions Touring program has received $1M but the visual arts sector trails well behind performing arts and…
Indigenous Arts Criticism: Breaking the silence
A recent panel speaks of soft language choices, fear, mob-led shifts in modalities and the need for greater mentorship opportunities…
Concert review: Symphony Series 4, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
The return of a veteran conductor at the ASO makes it seem almost like the good old days.
Book Review: Roots - Home is who we are, Hardie Grant
A collection of short memoirs chosen from the inaugural SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition.
Creative homeschooling: A go to list when the lesson plans fail
ArtsHub has put together this ‘easy go to emergency kit’ of creative and educational activities that might help alleviate some…
Rebuilding the performing arts: an economist weighs in
One of Australia's best economics brains looks at the good and bad news for the arts as a keynote at…
Numbers worth the risk: Doug and Matisse are on a plane for Sydney
Blockbusters – when the doors are open – are doing fantastic in COVID. We walk through the next two heading…
It’s OK if you have a little cry in lockdown. You’re grieving
Neeraja Sanmuhanathan writes about disenfranchised grief, described as a loss not 'openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly mourned'.