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'Pulse' to debut at La Mama HOPE PUNK Climate Festival. Photo: Isabel Knight.
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As Australia's theatre sector battles crisis, La Mama fights back with a 'hope punk' festival

Melbourne's La Mama is turning despair into action with the Hope Punk Climate Festival this September.

Performers from Chilean theatre company Silencio Blanco at the conclusion of Antuco at the 2026 Theater Der Welt festival in Germany, 2026. Photo: Johannes Richter / Theater Der Welt.
Interviews

Theatre of the World interview: the Chilean artists tapping into puppetry's power

Chilean theatre company Silencio Blanco uses puppetry to create powerful, documentary-style theatre works that are now touring the world.

Beach Aurora at Arte Museum, New York. Courtesy: the artists and Arte Museum.
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Explore the future at REMIX Summit Sydney, Australia's largest creative industries conference

Remix Summit Sydney is your field guide to the future.

Photo: Melanie van Leeuwen / Unsplash.
Features

Australian musicians hate AI using their songs, but have little legal protection

When it comes to AI, musicians are likely to find it much harder than authors to prove when a copyright…

Josephine Rowe is shortlisted for the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Little World. Photo: Dom Krapski.
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Miles Franklin Literary Award: the 6 shortlisted books for 2026

The six novels shortlisted for the Miles Franklin include Josephine Rowe's Little World and Randa Abdel-Fattah's Discipline.

Krystalla Pearce. Photo: Supplied.
Interviews

Meet Krystalla Pearce, the new head of Melbourne's Theatre Works

Bringing fresh perspective to Melbourne's Theatre Works, Krystalla Pearce describes herself as an artist with the skills to get things…

Lucy Guerin. The choreographer stands thoughtfully, her hand under her chin, gazing into the distance.
Industry News

Choreographer Lucy Guerin to step down from Lucy Guerin Inc at end of 2026

Twenty-five years after founding her company, which has significantly enriched the Australian dance sector, Guerin is moving on.

Noongar composer Aaron Wyatt in a promotional image for Decolonising the Bells, his collaboration with Speak Percussion, which premieres at Kindred People in September. An Aboriginal man with long hair, a short grey beard and glasses, faces the camera. We wears a kangaroo-skin cloak and holds a handbell in one hand and a painted stick in the other.
News

First Nations festival Kindred People joins Melbourne’s crowded arts calendar

Presented by Monash University, the new festival will run biennially if its first iteration is a success.

The Shepherds. Photo: Tiffany Garvie.
Opinions & Analysis

First Nations dance – who inherits the future?

The recent Australian Dance Biennale has brought out critical questions about authority and leadership, argues Blakdance's Merindah Donnelly.

Angine de Poitrine. Image: Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 4.0/ Wiki Commons.
Features

Cult band Angine de Poitrine and the line between tribute and imitation

In the age of the algorithm, imitation is no longer just a matter of homage.

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