Changes made to Playing Australia cautiously welcomed

The Australia Council has reintroduced multi-year investments and streamlined the application process for the Regional Performing Arts Touring program.

30 Jul 2021 10:56

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

The changes to Playing Australia have been introduced as a result of reviews associated with 2020’s National Touring Scan. Photo credit: Sarah Walker Photography.

Multi-year investments and a streamlined application process for grants associated with Playing Australia have been introduced by the Australia Council for the Arts.

Also known as the Regional Performing Arts Touring program, Playing Australia funding enables touring productions to reach regional and remote communities across the nation.

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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