Youth arts sector fights for the future

The defunding of Young People and the Arts Australia last year shocked the youth arts sector; now its members are fighting back.

The defunding of peak body Young People and the Arts Australia last year shocked the youth arts sector, but now its members are fighting back.

 

The Australia Council’s decision late last year to defund Young People and the Arts Australia (YPPA), the national peak body for organisations and practitioners engaging children and young people in the arts, startled many in the arts industry.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts