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A courtyard of a performing arts space seen through an archway. The Pleasance.
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe: blood, sweat, tears and a truckload of money

Have the costs of taking a show to the biggest Fringe Festival on the planet finally become too much?

Silence & Rapture. A female dancer with slicked back dark hair has one leg bent with her foot touching her other knee and one arm stretching up and the other across to a bald headed man standing and playing a double bass. They are in a wharf building converted to a studio/stage space.
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The rapturous reunion of the Sydney Dance Company and Australian Chamber Orchestra

Sydney Dance Company has teamed up with the Australian Chamber Orchestra once more on a heavenly tour.

L: OzAsia Festival 2024 Artistic Director Joon-Yee Kwok. A portrait photo of a middle-age Chinese Australian woman with chest-length black hair wearing black rimmed glasses and a spotty top. R: OzAsia Festival 2024 cover art by Jessie Hui. An illusrtation featuring cratoon cats and dumplings.
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OzAsia Festival's 2024 Artistic Producer shares career insights and what to look out for in this year's program

What took Joon-Yee Kwok from a young POC actor dreaming of becoming the next Nicole Kidman to producing OzAsia Festival?…

Two aging men in old-fashioned clothes stand in a dimly lit room, evocing a traditional Western movie stand-off but their expressions and positioning hint at queer undercurrents to their relationship.
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Streaming August 2024: new shows to stream on Netflix, Stan, BritBox, ABC iview, Prime, AMC+, SBS On Demand and more…

Your guide to the best new shows and films on major streaming platforms in August 2024.

Girl with blonde hair and black t-shirt sitting in artist studio. Zoe Grey.
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I’m an artist in my twenties, and I don’t want to leave Tasmania

Painter Zoe Grey wins Australia’s richest landscape prize, further cementing her love of Tasmania’s wild country.

Two young boys are looking through a picture book in a field of grass. They are seated. The left one has an orange hat, the right one a blue one.
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Working with illustrators in children's literature

What are some of the processes behind collaborating with illustrators when you are writing a book?

‘Garage Doors’ by Ruth Woodrow, finalist of 2023 Head On Photo Awards, Landscape Category. A collaged photo of different colourful garage doors arranged in a rainbow spectrum.
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Photo competitions: 7 expert tips to stand out

ArtsHub summarises seven tips offered by the Head On Foundation to help photographers stand out in a competition.

A colourful group of Sydney Fringe performers, including a drag queen, a puppet and puppeteer and others, pose with the Sydney CBD skyline in the background.
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Active participation an emerging trend at Sydney Fringe 2024

Why just watch an arts event when you can take part in it?

An explosion in romantasy, led by author Sarah J Maas and the influence of TikTok, is leaving some Aussie authors behind.
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Is romantasy killing Australian literature?

An explosion in the romantasy genre, led by authors such as Sarah J Maas and the influence of TikTok, is…

new theatre audiences: a scene of actors amongst pizza boxes and stuffed animals.
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Tapping in to gaming subcultures to build new theatre audiences

What happens when a game-obsessed playwright meets two puppet artists who want to make a new theatre work? The answer…

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