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Aerialist Lauren Watson in a scene from 'NERVE'. Photo: Cinnamon Smith. A performer with her leg and arms raised, balancing on her sitting bones. The background is pitch black with soft lights illuminating her body.
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A matter of perception 

Disabled entrepreneurs who choose the arts to engage with their audiences.

Cessalee Stovall delivers a Stage A Change workshop at Darlinghurst Theatre Company. Photo: Amylia Harris. Stovall stands on the right hand side, speaking to a group of people who are sitting around tables. She is a woman with black curly hair tied up in a bun, brown skin, wearing a pink cardigan.
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Perspectives on the concept, craft and currency of community engagement

Forward-thinking performing arts organisations are embracing community engagement in new and expansive ways.

arts education: A woman writing on a whiteboard filled with brainstormed ideas on art composition techniques.
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4 urgent issues on the minds of arts educators this year

Problems of equity and access continue to weigh on the minds of art teachers at the start of this new…

Work by Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran (Sullivan+Strumpf) at ART SG 2024. Photo: Supplied. A woman at the ART SG art fair taking a photo in front of a mid-sized ceramic sculpture. The Sculpture is colourful and looks like two adjoined elephants standing on their hind legs.
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What ART SG reveals about Singapore’s booming art scene

Drawing a record number of attendees in its second year, ART SG highlights Singapore’s rising status as a key art…

Photo: Eric Nopanen, Unsplash. Woman lying on the ground near grey radio.
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Australian independent music, where is it?

How can we listen to more independent Australian music, and where can artists share their tracks?

New research will source more information on dance injury. Image is two women at the back of a studio in front of the barre, watching a woman in red in mid balletic leap.
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Targeting dance injury at the source

New research will examine the health literacy of the pre-professional dance community.

Kezia Hayter, Unidentified women of the convict ship, HMS Rajah, ‘The Rajah quilt’, 1841. National Gallery of Australia, gift of Les Hollings and the Australian Textiles Fund 1989. Image: Supplied. A patchwork quilt with floral motifs and lettering on the bottom centre.
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Fashion, craft and design calendar 2024

What’s on in fashion, craft and design this year, including exhibitions, fashion festivals, art trails and makers' markets.

NVAEC, Two women in black stand side by side in front of Indigenous wall hanging art. Kelli Cole, Warumungu and Luritja peoples, Curator, Special Projects, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Hetti Perkins, Arrernte and Kalkadoon peoples, co-Curator, in Emily Kam Kngwarray, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2023. Photo: Sam Cooper.
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Repositioning: teaching and learning in the visual arts

The fifth National Visual Art Education Conference (NVAEC) saw teachers, artists and curators gathering to share ideas, inspire each other…

Peter Kift. Image is a head shot of a bald headed man with a white beard and glasses on his head.
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Exit interview: Peter Kift, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company

The company’s long-serving General Manager, who stepped down from his role in mid-December, reflects on the triumphs, challenges and future…

Man with beard and bright patterned jacket giving speech. Craig Donarski. powerhouse
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Q&A: Craig Donarski on transforming powerhouse venues

From one industrial arts site to another, Craig Donarski reflects on his time at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, and his…

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