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This week's arts news and trending topics
We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
![A performer at Spirit of Welcome Community Festival 2023. Photo: Damon AMB. A woman with long brown hair wearing a white top with floral embroidery singing at the front of a seated crowd.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_4207-e1718256499334.jpeg?w=310)
Empowering refugee artists through music and culture
Refugee artists performing at the Spirit of Welcome Community Festival on 16 June will be renumerated at industry rates.
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Questions raised over ‘Simpler. Fairer. Faster.’ arts funding model
Create NSW has announced a new approach to its arts funding model, but first reactions say it favours competitiveness over…
![Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2024 Icon Award winner, Reuben Kaye in Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre. Photo: Claudio Raschella. Kaye is in a black suit set with a low neckline, wearing heavy makeup and his hair sleeked back. He is sitting down with a big smile and gesturing with his hands.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Reuben-Kaye-Photo-by-Claudio-Raschella-2-e1718070083845.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Entries open for photographic and writer's awards, new commissions, First Nations recording grants, and more!
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Appalling lack of King's Birthday Honours for the arts
Where are the artists? ArtsHub takes a look at this year's King's List Honours to gauge how the arts were…
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Richard Watts receives Medal of the Order of Australia
ArtsHub’s esteemed Performing Arts Editor is recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List for his services to the arts and…
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This week's arts news and trending topics
We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
![National Performing Arts Partnership Framework. Image is three blue blocks of varying heights with a performer dressed in blue trousers and white top seemingly stepping off one into thin air.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/performing-lines-joins-framework-e1717554853550.jpg?w=310)
National Performing Arts Partnership Framework expands again
Brisbane’s La Boite Theatre and national touring and production body Performing Lines join the National Performing Arts Partnership Framework from…
![2024 Generations Western Sydney Music (Early Career) Fellowship recipients (L-R): FRIDAY*, Gemma Navarette and Yellowline. Photo: Create NSW. Recipients standing outside in front of a colourful mural.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/unnamed-12-e1717475959676.png?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Creative Australia calling for peer assessors, plus winners of emerging musicians fellowships and more!
![Deaf Indigenous Dance Group dancers Leslie Footscray, Nathaniel Murray and others rehearsing in Cairns, 2021. Photo: Sean Davey. A black and white photo of First People dancers rehearsing in a room.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_4160-e1716352131413.jpeg?w=310)
Deaf Indigenous Dance Group celebrates 27-year history at State Library
The Far North Queensland Deaf Indigenous Dance Group empowers d/Deaf First Nations artists through Culture and dance.