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![Regional Queensland performers in a musical in 2024.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/blah_ed73ce-e1718078598731.jpg?w=310)
A new era for regional Queensland arts
A diverse group of bodies, old and new, are committed to providing opportunities for regional artists over the long-term.
![Woman dressed in black seated on floor playing black guitar.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4471894.jpg?w=310)
The arts are being sidelined in the cost of living crisis
It’s time we stopped framing the arts as a luxury instead of a human right threatened by the cost of living…
![Sprung Ensemble member, Sinead Skorka Brennan in ‘O, How I Dreamt of Things Impossible’, 2020. Photo: Kate Holmes. A performer on a darkened stage with a colourful bodysuit. The performer lowered their body, supported by their arms and legs like a spider pose.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Image-1_Sinead_web-e1717566573207.jpeg?w=310)
What does a disability-led audition process look like?
With an ensemble call-out and funding for new work, Sprung Dance Theatre is building upon existing disability-led frameworks to expand…
![Queensland performers on stage.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Love-and-Information-Ensemble-reseized.webp?w=310)
Are Queensland performers still losing out?
It's been a year since unions and communities began pressuring Queensland companies to hire more locals. Has anything changed?
![The ACMF music program at Cobham Youth Justice Centre NSW. Photo: Supplied. Two people in red polo shirts sitting outside on a bench. One is holding a guitar with the head down while the other appears to be teaching.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_4169-e1716520202249.jpeg?w=310)
How music in youth detention can create new futures
Music allows incarcerated youth with opportunities to redefine themselves from young offenders to young artists, writes Alexis Anja Kallio.
![Two Aboriginal men dance together, both dressed in orange prison overalls. One, fully dressed and with a shaved head, supports the other man, who has curly hair and is shirtless, his overalls tied around his waist.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/PAZ_TASSONE_THE_OTHER_SIDE_OF_ME_DR_Tuesday_08-08-2023-79-of-133.jpg?w=310)
Remounting a Stolen Generations story told through dance
Remounting ‘The Other Side of Me’ has allowed NT choreographer Gary Lang to enrich its beauty and potency, he explains.
![AFCM. Under an outside marquee a white man with glasses and a grey suit plays a violin from behind a music stand. There are microphones on stands. Behind him are seated a female and a male violinist resting.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/AFCM23queens.024_photo-credit-Andrew-Rankin-e1714975922489.jpg?w=310)
Australian Festival of Chamber Music offers an impressive and diverse 2024 program
Jack Liebeck’s third Townsville festival cements his reputation as one of its most exciting artistic directors.
![Phsyical actors like Ell Sachs are saying self-taped auditions are dehumanising for actors.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/The-Travelling-Sisters.jpeg?w=310)
Actors lose out in self-taped auditions
Self-taped auditions have become the norm for screen and theatre in Australia, but actors nation-wide say the practice is unreasonable.
![Matthew Shepherd. Image is a black and white head and shoulders shot of a young blond man wearing a jumper and standing in a room in front of a window. His head is tilted to the left.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Matthew-Shepard-2-1024x682-1.jpg?w=310)
Hate transmuted into theatrical gold in new staged reading of The Laramie Project
A Sydney reading of the verbatim play about Matthew Shepard’s murder will feature Shepard’s father, Dennis, reading his courtroom statement.
![A young white man dressed as Harry Potter branding a wand, crossing that with a star wand brandished by an other young white man wearing devil's horns.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Production-shot-2.jpeg?w=310)
Hairy Potter – selling a show when the author is persona non grata
While the creator of the Potter-verse may no longer be everyone's favourite multimillionaire, there are still plenty in the sector…