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Opportunities and awards wrap
Call outs for The Phantom of the Opera, Blak Design, and Women’s Writing Award plus winners of the Brisbane Portrait…
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Australia Council campaigns to reopen the arts
#TakeYourSeats is the latest campaign urging people to get vaxxed in order to secure the arts sector's future.
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New partnership streams Syd Fest nationwide
National cinema tour, online streams and performances on demand could see the Festival doubling its audience.
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ICYMI: the week's arts news
The latest arts news.
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Nominate a First Nations arts champion
Nominations are now open for the Australia Council’s 2022 First Nations Arts Awards.
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Opportunities and awards wrap
Applications open for Queensland Music Awards, two Indigenous artwork commissions, and the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship plus winners of the…
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Are the arts too reliant on socials?
As platforms like Facebook and Instagram hit a global 6 hour outage, users were left wondering if they're too reliant…
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How games can become our greatest artform
At his recent keynote at Melbourne International Games Week, Albert Chessa argued that there was a way for games to…
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Phoenix festival rises from the Fringe
Melbourne Fringe’s program has been reinvented, with 55 in-person shows swiftly adapted for digital performance.
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ICYMI: the week's arts news
Opera comes to Cockatoo Island, mental health day streaming, phone art, jazz in WA, plus more arts news.