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Theatre review: Why Not Believe in Everything?, Club Voltaire

Laura Fisher’s first play is poetic, vibrant and very funny. 

A performer on stage who is of Asian descent with a female-appearing body, wearing a nude slip. The performer is sitting on the side, holding a cup on top of the coffee machine and balancing a book on their head.
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Performance review: Girl's Notes, Melbourne Recital Centre

A performance that took inspiration from a book on how women should behave.

The ACT's Shadow Minister for Arts Nicole Lawder, discusses arts policy in the lead-up to the ACT election. Nicole wears a bright pink jacket and has neat brown hair; she stands on a wooden bridge over a misty lake with her right hand on her hip and her left hand on the bridge railing.
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ACT election: Supporting artists, not just creative infrastructure, through real growth in the arts budget

A Canberra Liberals Government will support local artists by offering immediate financial relief through a one-off 10% increase in grants…

A sequence from Rafael Bonachela’s 'Somos', which is featured in Sydney Dance Company's 2025 season. A female dancer, long dark hair cascading towards the floor, holds one leg up in a sharply vertical position as she falls back into a shirtless male dancer's arms.
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Stephen Page and William Barton collaborate for Sydney Dance Company’s 2025 season

The fruits of Sydney Dance Company’s annual New Breed showcase of emerging choreographic talent, as well as new works by…

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$1 million pilot program: the NSW Screen and Digital Games Strategy for 2025 and beyond

NSW launches a million-dollar program, AI working group and more in a strategy to boost the screen industry.

The late Ryuichi Sakamoto will perform in a virtual performance at Asia TOPA 2025. A white-haired Japanese man in dark glasses and a black shirt poses for the camera with his raised hands held to his lips.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto performs from beyond the grave for Asia TOPA 2025

Melbourne’s Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts returns in February 2025, with the first two program highlights revealed today.

A cinema with a screen showing a man, Ben Gillies, formerly of Silverchair, standing with his legs and arms apart at a CLIPPED video session.
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CLIPPED Music Video Festival returns

The country's sole music video festival returns with premiere screenings, conversations and awards.

Multi screen video installation in black and white of woman looking at African objects. Isaac Julien.
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Exhibition review: Isaac Julien, Once Again... (Statues Never Die), MCA

A spectacular exhibition asks the big questions about how museums collect, and show, artworks with Black histories.

Western toad (Anaxyrus boreas) tadpoles among lily pads in a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Taken by Shane Gross, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024 winner.
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Opportunities and awards

Invitations to create a living museum in Sydney, core funding from Music Australia, plus next round of Bundanon residents and…

Artists are frustrated by the arts lack of a meritocracy.
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Outrage and resentment: the arts are not a meritocracy

Some parts of the professional industry operate under a veneer of a meritocracy. But artists aren't buying it.

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