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Festival-goers at Byron Bay Bluesfest. A crowd of people gathering below a stage facing the camera. A figure in the centre of the photo is wrapped up like a mummy with their arms outstretched.
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Bluesfest axed after 2025, ending its 36-year run

News of Bluesfest's closure shocked some while others see it as inevitable due to shift in demand.

A group of young Aboriginal women dressed in black tracksuits bearing traditional designs in white, crouch and stand on stage as they sing.
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First Nations choir Marliya to take ‘Spinifex Gum’ to London

Making their international debut, the Cairns-based choir Marliya will perform the critically acclaimed ‘Spinifex Gum’ at the Barbican in October.

Prime Minister's Literary Awards. The eyes and nose of a boy is seen through the circular fold up pages of a book.
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2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists

Find out the shortlisted titles of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards across six categories.

'Elder percussionist' Duré Dara OAM receives the Luminary Award for Victoria at 2024 Art Music Awards. A woman of Indian descent playing a range of percussion instruments.
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Powerful women creators sweep the 2024 Art Music Awards

This year's Art Music Awards offered a nod towards the lived experience of women creators, celebrating their strength and stewardship…

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Music review: Silence & Rapture, Adelaide Town Hall

A sumptuous exploration of the divine in the human condition explored through a fusion of music from across the centuries…

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Festival review: It's the Economy, Stupid!, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Unpacking capitalism and the economy, thanks, in part, to the use of mould and Monopoly.

‘(SC)OOT(ER)ING around Su san Cohn and Eugenia Raskopoulos’, installation view at TarraWarra Museum of Art. On the left is a red neon installation of cardiograms and to the left is a metal installation of three poles with doughnut bracelets. In the centre are a series of square surfaces lying on the floor.
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Exhibition review: (SC)OOT(ER)ING around, TarraWarra Museum of Art

Matriarchal artists Su san Cohn and Eugenia Raskopoulos join forces in an expertly curated exhibition at TarraWarra.

A brunette man in a white-off-the-shoulder dress is pouring wine into a tiny glass. Ni Ni Madre.
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Festival review: Ni Ni Madre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Arturo Luíz Soria channels his feisty Brazilian mother to explore the complexity of love and trauma.

A brunette man with a light blue shirt, a dark blue jacket is typing on a blue typewriter. Trent Dalton.
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Trent Dalton to be artist-in-residence at the Museum of Brisbane

Best-selling author Trent Dalton will be inviting Brisbanites to share love stories once again in an interactive love letter experience.

Two young female performers, one blonde-haired and playing a tambourine, the other red-haired and playing a ukulele, sing into the same microphone on stage at a music festival.
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Regional and Remote Music Summit headed to NSW in 2025

Following its successful Darwin debut this month, the Summit’s second iteration will be held in regional NSW next year.

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