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Career Advice

Roadmap to Success – Learning Module 1, Finding Your Success

The final video in this first module, offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big Idea in…

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Q&A

So you want my arts job: Wildlife Illustrator

Peter Schouten has been a freelance wildlife illustrator for five decades, with the depiction of prehistoric animals being his speciality.

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Career Advice

5 side hustles for writers

Are you a writer who needs to make some extra income on the side? Here are some ideas that may…

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Opinions & Analysis

Accidental poetry should be all around us

Imagine stumbling into poems in unexpected places as you go about your day.

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Book review: Beam of Light, John Kinsella

John Kinsella creates characters who are intensely, recognisably human in his collection of short stories.

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Book review: Mural, Stephen Downes

A charming psychopath beguiles with his anecdotes.

Dancer/choreographer Luke Murphy, looking sweaty and slightly dishevelled, holds an old-fashioned alarm clock up to one ear, in a scene from the dance-theatre production Volcano. He wears a dark suit jacket over a grey coat, and stands in front of a background of dingy wallpaper to which sheets of blank paper are pinned.
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Festival review: Volcano, Brisbane Powerhouse

On a glassed-in stage, two men reenact their memories in an endless loop – but what if those memories aren’t…

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Opera Australia Artistic Director quits over ‘differences of opinion’

Jo Davies has abruptly left Australia’s national opera company less than a year after commencing her role.

Peering inside the set design for the final Slingsby production, 'A Concise Compendium of Wonder'. In the photo, a man peers through a small doorway into the interior of the model.
News

Slingsby Theatre Company’s 2026 production to be its last

The South Australian company will wind up in its 20th year with a final, ambitious work.

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This week’s arts news and trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week’s top arts news stories.

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