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AMPAG to close after 21 years

The Australian Major Performing Arts Group will wind up in September, making way for new methods of arts advocacy for the not-for-profit performing arts sector.

28 Jul 2020 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

AMPAG represents 28 of Australia’s major performing arts companies, including Opera Australia. Pictured are dancers in Opera Australia’s 2020 production of Faust at the Sydney Opera House. Photo credit: Prudence Upton.

The Australian Major Performing Arts Group (AMPAG), which represents 29 companies including Circus Oz, Queensland Theatre, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Opera Australia and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, is to wind up in late September.

In a statement released on Tuesday (28 July), Chair Mary Jo Capps AM said AMPAG would make way for a new, unified voice representing the not-for-profit performing arts sector more broadly.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts