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Do you really need to find a niche?
In a post COVID world do writers and creatives need to worry about specialising? Sometimes it’s better to diversify.

Exit interview: Jim Cathcart, Director Fremantle Arts Centre
With 15 years in the job, ArtsHub spoke with Jim Cathcart on shaping an organisation’s unique character, finding financial sustainability,…

NSW and QLD community museums are under enormous threat
Making up 80% of public museums, many not-for-profit volunteer-run spaces won’t survive the pandemic, which will erode cultural life in…

20x20: Diversity is a white word
To celebrate 20 years of ArtsHub we rediscovered this article from 2017 looking at diversity in the arts. Have things…

Why we should free Australia's female novelists from their male pseudonyms
For these authors, using a pseudonym was not just about slipping their work past male publishers who did not think…

State arts service organisations: effective, engaged but endangered
The professional development opportunities offered by the likes of Writing NSW and NAVA increases the visibility, viability and inclusiveness of…

Weathering the storm: Australian theatre for young audiences in the time of Coronavirus
The double blow of COVID and funding cuts have hit the youth arts and theatre for young audiences sectors hard,…

On the precipice: theatre for the isolated audience
Will the wave of accessible works created by livestreaming during the pandemic be a permanent addition to our theatre ecology…

Discovering delight as an antidote to 2020
Delight is that elusive quality that can reboot your mental health, according to The Rumpus' Caitlin Marshall.

Wangaratta Jazz Festival returns to honour the human voice
Defying COVID-19, the chair of Wangaratta Jazz Festival says National Jazz Awards, held as part of the festival, offer a…