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Art Music Fund 2025 open for applications. Image: Mindy Meng Wang and Monica Lim. Two woman with black hair and pale skin under a white veil against a black background.
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Opportunities and awards

Quilters get ready for $37,000 prize, plus winners of Koorie Art Show 12, SA celebrates Ruby Awards and more!

Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured are the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of Orpheus & Eurydice.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.

Exhibition title and full artist list announced for the TarraWarra Biennial 2025 

All artists have now been announced for next year's TarraWarra Biennial, curated by Kimberley Moulton.

The Wheeler Centre celebrates 15 years with a year of celebratory events

Melbourne's hub for writers remains a unique organisation in the Australian literary landscape.

Asia TOPA's newly announced Nightlife program is a dynamic blend of performance art and club culture. A person wearing a fringed cowboy hat, facemask and fringed and laced-up dress poses dramatically, arms raised, before a culturally diverse crowd of young adults.
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Pop-up clubs and performance art announced for Asia TOPA’s Nightlife program

Returning after a five-year hiatus, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts reflects the many ways people now experience culture, including…

Sculpture by the Sea: a crowded beach at sunset where people are walking around a large metal sculpture in the shape of a giant wine/ goon bag which is installed by the water's edge.
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Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe saved with overnight $1.5 million federal rescue grant

One week after a wave of local outcry about the cancellation of this popular exhibition due to lack of funding,…

Liane Moriarty has dominated Australian audiobooks in 2024.
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The best Australian audiobooks of 2024

More people are listening to audiobooks than ever before and Australian audiobooks are thriving.

Two panels. On the left is of Peter Kirkpatrick, who ha white hair and is wearing a white shirt. On the right is the cover of his book, 'The Wild Reciter' that features a kookaburra in a suit.
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Book review: The Wild Reciter, Peter Kirkpatrick

The shifting historical commingling of poetry and popular culture.

First launched in 2021, Quarantine Art Fairs returns to picturesque Point Nepean in 2025. Small sculptures and paintings of natural landscape inside a well-lit room with cream walls.
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Sick of mega art fairs? 2 alternative models offer a more intimate experience

The return of Quarantine Art Fair and The Other Art Fair offers opportunity for respite and connection.

In the production of 'Ilarun' a black woman in white, with a white turban, is sitting down wit h her arms apart. On the right is a tuft of plants.
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Theatre review: ILARUN: The Cutting Comb, fortyfivedownstairs

A story of decolonised power based on a 18th century Jamaican matriarch.

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