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A collage of APRA Professional Development Awards finalists, featuring cropped headshots. L to R: BARKAA (an Australian First Nations woman with dark skin, a high tight pony tail and a bold makeup look), Becca Hatch (a woman with light tan skin and curly brown hair, resting her head on her hand), Harvey Sutherland (a man with pale skin, blue eyes and brown short ahir, wearing a white top looking to the side), Gabriel Strum (a man with pale skin, wearing a cap and round glasses, smiling at the camera), Charlie Collins (a black and white photo of a woman with dark skin and dark hair, her hands resting face up and sitting in a cross legged position.
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Opportunities and awards

$130,000 portrait prize open for entries, plus winners of the Sydney Theatre Awards, finalists of the Novel Prize, and more!

Competitions. A digitally rendered 3D competition showing surreal objects that appear to be a tabletop setting.
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Prizes and competitions to enter in 2025

A go-to list of prizes and competitions across the visual arts, performing arts and writing, periodically updated.

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Arts news watch: this week's trending topics

We break it – you read it. Keep you eye on this week's top arts news stories.

A hand poking out from the right hand side holding a fork, about to lift up a sunny side egg with a sparkly gold yolk. There are three rows of sunny side eggs lined up against a yellow background.
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Opportunities and awards

International travel fund open for applications, plus winners of Music Australia's Core Contribution Fund and AWGIE nominations, and more!

AC/DC fans are in uproar after the band's childhood home was demolished.
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AC/DC's childhood home in Sydney mistakenly demolished by developers

The accidental destruction of the childhood home of AC/DC has spawned questions about protecting cultural sites against development.

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Arts news watch: this week's trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.

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Tim Minchin to open Sydney's Foundry Theatre in February 2025

The opening of the new Sydney venue will be followed by a line-up of musicals, comedy and immersive works.

'The Lewis Trilogy' by Griffin Theatre Company, nominated for Best Mainstage Production at the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards. Six performers dressed in colourful, elaborate stage costumes, holding hands that are raised in the air as celebration.
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Opportunities and awards

Opportunities including emerging artist grants and regional arts fellowships, plus opera winners, literary longlists and more!

Celebrated country music legend Chad Morgan passed away on New Year's Day.
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Vale Chad Morgan

The beloved king of the country comedy genre has died at the age of 91.

black and white headshot of young Caucasian man with intense eyes. James Simpson.
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Vale James Simpson

The musical director, arranger and orchestrator was described as 'a remarkable, talented, humble, passionate, kind soul' by Casey Donovan.

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