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2024 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship recipient Leigh Rigozzi in front of 'The Complete Works of Pieter Bruegel 2022-2024'. Rigozzi is a man with fair skin, short cropped brown hair and a graying beard, wearing black rimmed glasses and a speckled shirt, smiling at the camera and standing in front of a series of colourful illustrations.
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Opportunities and awards

Canberra Theatre Centre seeking performance makers, 2024 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards winners and ARA Historical Novel prize shortlist, plus…

A group of people are gathered around a feast of food at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
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Eat your art out at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2024

A food theme adds spice to many of this year’s acts.

Arts sector comings and goings are covered in our On the Move column. Car headlights and tail-lights form lines of light in a long exposure photo of a highway at night.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

A new Artistic Director, a new CEO and a range of Board appointments are included in today’s edition of our…

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Selling Yourself – Learning Module 2, Channels for Promotion

The penultimate of five videos in this second module, offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big…

A man in a brown suit stands on stage with a microphone in front of grey/green curtains. A man and a woman are sitting either side of him. Paul Goldsmith.
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Creative community puts questions to NZ Arts Minister in lively Q&A

Some of the biggest talking points in the creative sector were on the table when Paul Goldsmith fronted an audience…

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This week's arts news and trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.

Artistic rendering of the 2024 Shine on Gimuy Artstory Light Walk, featuring yellow illuminated large-scale dilly bags hanging from tree branches. Below a group of four people are walking on the path.
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Shine on Gimuy returns to illuminate tropical city in 2024

Led by arts festival supremo Rhoda Roberts AO, Shine on Gimuy centres illuminated displays by First Nations creatives.

Participating artists of the King Island Artist Residency Program. Julie Ryder and George Kennedy are captured in an attempted field trip to whale bone beach. Two figures on a rocky beach bracing against grey and gloomy weather.
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Opportunities and awards

Call-out for contemporary textile exhibition and mid-career leadership program, plus winner of 2024 Newcastle Poetry Prize and more!

Accessible Makervan that won at the 2024 Australian Good Design Awards. A photo of a white van with the words STEAM visible on its side and back. The doors are open to show are elements can be pulled out to provide access.
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Mobile makerspace for people with disabilities wins top design accolade

Access meets innovation with a mobile makerspace that delivers STEAM learning to people with disabilities.

Sydney Festival's incoming Festival Director Kris Nelson. Kris sits on a stairwell smiling; he has short-cropped brown hair and a moustache, and wears an olive-coloured shirt.
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Sydney Festival announces Canadian Kris Nelson as 2026-2029 Festival Director

Nelson, previously the AD/CEO of London International Festival of Theatre and Dublin Fringe's Festival Director, will start his tenure with…

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