This week's arts news and trending topics

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How culture can build a better world

A European trip has revealed how creative industries overseas are offering lessons we can implement in Australia, writes Sydney Opera…

Crisis Relief Grants

National Monoprint Prize 2025

Biennial Australian Monoprint Prize 2025 Firestation Print Studio is again hosting this National Prize $3000 First Prize $500 second prize.…

From rarely seen tragedy to popular history play: Bell Shakespeare launches 2025 season

Rarely staged in Australia, Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’ is one of three major productions presented by Bell Shakespeare in the company’s 35th…

The most pressing question on curators' lips

For this year’s Ask a Curator Day, we have turned the tables, and asked curators what they would most want…

Off-Grid Living Festival

Australia's most creative Sustainability Event, embracing art and music as a way to inspire change for a brighter future.

High Schools - Pedal Power Competition

A competition where Art meets Science and bright ideas come alive! 

Theatre review: Two Strangers Walk into a Bar..., Sydney Fringe Festival

An immersive experience awaits in this participatory production, which invites questions about human connection. 

Like a phoenix – Lismore Regional Gallery rises from tragedy to celebrate its reopening

Celebrations ahead, as Lismore Regional Gallery announces its reopening program, after two years of flood damage restoration.