Covid-19

Arts leaders look back on COVID (and ahead)
15 arts leaders use the lockdown anniversary to reflect on the past year's learnings, and check their stepping moving forward.

The year that was: COVID and the arts a year on from lockdown
From digital pivots, to government funding (or lack there of), to conversations and resilience – we take a look at…

$4M in sustainability funding directed towards four arts organisations
The Sustainability Fund is designed to assist significant Australian Arts organisations deemed as facing a risk to their sustainability over…

Roadies in crisis: industry operating at just 4% pre-COVID levels
Over 20,000 live production crew, aka roadies, found themselves out of work a year ago when mass gatherings were banned.…

Are we ready for cultural climate change?
What should we take with us from COVID? In a year when everything changed, Shantel Wetherall looks at how we…

Live performance sector’s survival depends on JobKeeper extension, peak body warns
Up to 13% of organisations operating in the live performance sector will wind up their business without an extension of…

The future for exhibition openings in a digital post-COVID world
As galleries moved online in the pandemic some found tools that would bring them to new audiences while others missed…

The art of the impossible: International collaboration during COVID
Companies collaborating with Irish and New Zealand colleagues tell us how their productions are forging ahead despite the pandemic. Dogged…

Love and intimacy in COVID times
Three theatre directors, an author and a visual artist speak of love and intimacy in our current pandemic, and how…

How to help artists and cultural industries recover from the COVID-19 disaster
Almost a year into the pandemic's impact on the arts, now is the time to look beyond emergency support programs…