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Who are the new guard?

Among the gloom of last week there’s a bright note: some companies have received multi-year organisational funding for the first time.

17 May 2016 12:00

Richard Watts

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Marrugeku’s Cut the Sky; photo by John Green.

The events of Black Friday – a dark day for the Australian arts ecology that saw more than 60 organisations stripped of the operational funding by the Australia Council, largely due to the organisation’s significantly reduced budget following the establishment of the Catalyst program – have shocked the nation.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts