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Daniel Lamech. Photo: Lyndall Grant.

What I've learned: Daniel Lamech, fight director & stage combat teacher

Daniel Lamech discusses his craft, what he's learned and what advice he'd give to those wanting to develop similar professional…

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.
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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.

Basil Sellers, the man behind the art prize. Photo: Kat Patton.
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The Basil Sellers Art Prize: rethinking what it means to welcome artists

A direct question from one local artist helped reshape the Basil Sellers Art Prize and set a new standard for…

The inaugural UniSQ Biennial Art Award exhibition in 2024. Photo: David Martinelli Photography.
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The new art award making its mark on Australia's contemporary art scene

The UniSQ Biennial Art Award returns for its second iteration in 2026 and entries are now open.

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We need a library in every Australian school

School libraries can do much more than improve literacy.

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Lyric essays are an antitoxin for a poisoned world

With lyric essays, readers must be willing to piece together disparate fragments: ideas, information and idiosyncrasies.

In Absence Mona Yhonnie Scarce: a photo of a large ciccular ashen-coloured wooden tower installed amongst trees on the edge of a river which is Berriedale Bay in Nipaluna/ Hobart.
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Yhonnie Scarce's In Absence now permanently installed at Mona

Visitors to this year's Dark Mofo festival will be among the first to experience the monumental and moving installation in…

A barefoot youth is caught mid-summersault, silhouetted against the setting sun; other people walk past him and behind him. arts sector appointments
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

In this week's arts sector appointments, chairs come and go, and an artistic director's tenure is extended for another year.

Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler: Primary Succession, Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, 2026. Images courtesy of Greater Dandenong City Council. Photo: Lucy Foster.
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Primary Succession: Wona Bae & Charlie Lawler exhibition in Dandenong explores life after ecological rupture

Primary Succession offers visitors the chance to reflect on impermanence, memory and adaptation.

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I've finally read Ulysses and feel bruised... but better than you

This Bloomsday, why not commit to reading James Joyce's 1922 masterpiece Ulysses (if you dare).

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