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Selling brand Australia
Australia has a potent cultural brand trademarked by vitality, confidence and humour but we don’t understand the strength of our…
Shakespeare in Dutch... and English-speakers love it
Adelaide Festival has unveiled an unlikely coup: five hours of Shakespeare in Dutch that was lapped up in London and…
New York, new money
If you can make it there... Australian arts managers take some peelings from the Big Apple and lift their fundraising…
Creative professional development
Creativity is not just a product. It also needs to inform the way you manage resource, especially human resources.
Who suffers when theatres go dark?
Despite the best intentions of producers, and the hopes of cast and crew, sometimes shows close early. As a worker,…
Giving back grant money
When you’ve jumped through a bunch of hoops to get grant funding it's hard to imagine handing the money back.…
Top Ten Myths about Creativity
Solitary geniuses and mad creatives make good fiction but research shows the truth about creativity is more prosaic.
Craft twice as lucrative as fine art
Once the poor relations, craft practitioners now earn more than visual artists and no longer apologise for their medium.
Stephen Nicolazzo
Creating an on-stage world totally unlike the one we live in is the best thing about this theatre director's job.
What are awards worth? Not much.
Unless it’s an Oscar or a Tony, the only gold you’re likely to see from a performing arts award is…