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In 2026, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music takes place in Cairns. Photo: Supplied.
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These music festivals are thriving – here's what they're doing right

While the big music festivals are struggling, these smaller community events are drawing loyal audiences.

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Krystle Evans, Round 5 Joyce Spencer Textile Award recipient, in her studio in Broken Hill/Wilyakali Country in 2025. Photo: Em Jensen Creative.
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The Joyce Spencer Textile Awards: $4000 fellowship + other prizes

Calling textile artists based in regional NSW! Submissions to the Joyce Spencer Textile Awards are open 27 April to 19…

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Orange Regional Gallery

Kait James: Red Flags

'Kait James: Red Flags' is Wadawurrung artist Kait James’ most ambitious solo exhibition to date.

The late Rhoda Roberts AO. The Bundjalung Widjabul Wiyebal woman is pictured standing in front of a red-painted wall with her arms folded; she wears a black t-shirt, a broad-brimmed hat and dark-framed glasses.
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Vale Indigenous arts leader Rhoda Roberts AO

A champion of First Nations rights and culture, Roberts died on 21 March aged 66.

Rosalie Gascoigne. Installation view, Sky, Earth, Water, Bundanon. Photo: Zan Wimberley.
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Sky, Earth, Water review: a powerful exhibition about the elements that centres Rosalie Gascoigne

Alongside three First Nations artists, Bundanon explores artist Rosalie Gascoigne’s material connection with landscape.

Installation view, Iconic Loved Unexpected, Newcastle Art Gallery. Photo: Matt Carbone, Courtesy: the artists.
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Iconic Loved Unexpected review: Newcastle Art Gallery reopens with scale and sparkle

With a celebratory street party attached, the exhibition Iconic Loved Unexpected is a homerun showcase for the recently refurbished Newcastle…

Kala Gare in the MTC production, My Brilliant Career. A young woman in a Victorian-era dresses stands atop a piano, holding one fist up triumphantly; an ornate chandelier hangs above her.
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My Brilliant Career wins Australia’s richest playwriting prize at AWGIE awards

The MTC's musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career has won the $120,000 David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for…

view of gallery exhibition of fantasy like ceramics in a room painted dark green. Lynda Draper
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Glimmer review: artist Lynda Draper's unrelenting and unique journey in ceramics

Glimmer is an outstanding survey exhibition by ceramic artist Lynda Draper that celebrates individuality and innovation.

A photograph of bustling audiences outside the new, expanded newcastle Art Gallery. Newcastle Art Gallery relaunch
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Inside Newcastle Art Gallery’s major transformation: from regional gem to cultural destination

A $145 million collection finally steps into the spotlight as a new tourism destination emerges – but locals and artists…

Sunny Luwe is one of many artists impacted by cyclone and extreme weather cancellations. Photo: Supplied.
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The show must go on, unless it’s cyclone season

When cyclones and extreme weather cancel the show, artists often pay the price.

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