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MONA FOMA and Brisbane Festival celebrate the hyperlocal at Visions 2020
Brian Ritchie and Louise Bezzina join the Visions 2020 conference to reflect on the hyperlocal experience of two inimitable Australian…
The troubling tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft
A recently unveiled memorial in north London to the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft has been met with much criticism.
New Centre for Truth Telling gives home to Stolen Generations
Curtin University launches campaign to create a Centre for Truth-Telling, and a permanent home for artworks created by Aboriginal children…
Decolonising Feminism: A First Nations perspective
Sending a strong signal, the National Gallery of Australia turned over its annual lecture to a panel of First Nations…
20x20: Facing the truth, ‘We remain a colonised country’
Commemorating 20 years of ArtsHub, we revisit this 2019 keynote speech by Worimi woman, curator Genevieve Grieves, which asks what…
Setting the stage for success: Beating COVID in the name of mental health
With unemployment at an all time high curing COVID, these creatives devised new business plans so they could keep arts…
What role do peak organisations have in the post-COVID environment?
Peak orgs are the glue holding a broken sector together and offer advocacy and initiatives for change as we emerge…
Books that dare to hope in 2020
From climate change to #BLM to COVID-19, we are living in unprecedented times, but two new anthologies offer hope by…
Technology means disability is no longer invisible, but it's not enough
Wongaiibon woman, and wheelchair user Gayle Kennedy used her keynote speech at Artstate Wagga Wagga to say, 'Stop, you are…
Reclaiming Australian history one gay at a time
Bushranger Captain Moonlite once rivalled Ned Kelly for notoriety. Was there an attempt to exclude him from the history books…