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Man in wetsuit with surfboard on beach with sculpture. SWELL Sculpture Festival
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SWELL Sculpture Festival 2025: the Queensland favourite will shine even brighter this spring

Built on a grassroots ethos to connect through stories, SWELL Sculpture Festival will unveil over 80 artworks that tap zeitgeist…

A woman with grey plaits escaping from under a pink bathing cap stares at the camera. Behind her, sitting on the steps of the Newcastle Ocean Baths or standing nearby, are three other actors dressed for a swim or the beach. The ocean and sky meet behind them, in this publicity photo for 'Meet Me at the Baths' at New Annual Festival.
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New Annual Festival celebrates Newcastle places and stories

New Annual Festival Director Tory Loudon discusses highlights of her 2025 program.

a group of performers including some bare-chested circus performers on stage in a scene from Opera Queensland and Circa's world premiere production of 'Orpheus & Eurydice', 2019. The back white wall has THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE in red scrawled across it.
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Opera Queensland and Circa’s Orpheus & Eurydice set for European premiere at Edinburgh International Festival

The critically acclaimed production, created by Opera Queensland and Circa and presented by Edinburgh International Festival and Opera Australia, unites…

a group of performers including some bare-chested circus performers on stage in a scene from Opera Queensland and Circa's world premiere production of 'Orpheus & Eurydice', 2019. The back white wall has THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE in red scrawled across it.
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Opera Queensland and Circa’s Orpheus & Eurydice set for European premiere at Edinburgh International Festival

The critically acclaimed production, created by Opera Queensland and Circa and presented by Edinburgh International Festival and Opera Australia, unites…

Columbian-Australian violinist Natalya Bing, a Queenstown resident, plays her instrument in front of a seven-metre-diameter reproduction of the moon as part of 'Earthshine' at The Unconformity, 2023.
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The Unconformity returns for 2025

Taking place in Queenstown on palawa Country, on lutruwita/Tasmania’s remote West Coast, The Unconformity has announced its October dates for…

A production photo of dynamic dancers dressed in black suits, forming single file while pulling at each other’s clothes. RISING
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RISING receives lifeline from Creative Australia to deliver 2026 dance biennial

ArtsHub exclusive: RISING will return in 2026 as the national presenter of the Australian Dance Biennial.

group of female Indigenous dancers with one applying face ochre using phone. NAIDOC
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6 things to do this NAIDOC week

6 ways that you can centre and support First Nations artists this NAIDOC Week.

Four dancers stand poised on a gree-lit stage as a DJ plays at stage front. An audience looks on. This is a sequence from 'Cortex' by the Kianí del Valle Performance Group, which has been programmed alongside cutting edge sound works and DJs at Melbourne Town Hall for Now or Never.
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How winter festival Now or Never celebrates technology while remaining carbon-neutral

Artistic Director Elise Peyronnet describes Melbourne’s newest major festival – now in its third edition – as 'a festival like…

A male acrobat performs the splits, his body held aloft by aerial straps, in a scene from 'La Clique' at Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
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Performance review: La Clique, Adelaide Cabaret Festival

Award-winning phenomenon La Clique celebrates its 20th anniversary at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Person with yellow sandshoes holding up a banner with text on it about plants. OpenField
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Festival review: OpenField, Berry

A regional festival that trades on being genuine.

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