Performing Arts

Awards in the Arts this week
This week’s awards span across dance, writing, music and festivals.

Sculpture grant brings new work to Heide
Heide Museum of Modern Art has been granted $100,000 for the latest addition to its Sculpture Park.

Brisbane Writers Festival announces 2013 program
This year's festival includes a huge variety of events with an impressive list of speakers from the industry.

New Hamer Hall celebrates successful first year
Arts Centre Melbourne’s New Hamer Hall celebrates its ‘first’ anniversary with 400,000 people attending concerts.

The Flying Dutchman
This concert performance of Wagner’s opera by the Sydney Symphony, conducted by David Robertson, was absolutely thrilling.

Vienna on Fire
The waltzes of Austria have captivated audiences the world over for 200 years and none more so than those of…

Museums Board of Victoria's recent appointments
The announcement includes reappointment of Professor Margaret Gardener as President of the Board.

Other Desert Cities
This amusing, acerbic commentary on family dynamics and contemporary politics is well worth your time.

$1.2m fund for creative entrepreneurs
Creative start-up businesses now have access to a privately-funded Creative Enterprise Fund, the first in Australia.

Desert project redraws boundaries
The winner of this year's Special Publishing Grant focuses on traditional geographical areas not legalistic state boundaries.