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A performer at Spirit of Welcome Community Festival 2023. Photo: Damon AMB. A woman with long brown hair wearing a white top with floral embroidery singing at the front of a seated crowd.
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Empowering refugee artists through music and culture

Refugee artists performing at the Spirit of Welcome Community Festival on 16 June will be renumerated at industry rates.

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Music review: The Lost Birds with VOCES8, QPAC

An extraordinary addition to Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s programming, 'The Lost Birds' combined heartfelt music with an emotional choral experience like…

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Music review: Snoh Aalegra, RISING Festival, The Forum

Snoh Aalegra brought all the feels to the Forum Melbourne for RISING.

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Music review: Kirill Gerstein, Melbourne Recital Centre

Kirill Gerstein’s performance showcases a mastery of musical expression made seemingly effortless.

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Performance review: 8/8/8: REST, RISING Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne

An eight-hour performance about rest and sleep performed in ungodly hours but tangled in its own bureaucracy.

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Performance review: POV, Belvoir St Theatre

Two child actors and 36 unrehearsed adult actors participate in an engrossing mash-up of stage and screen techniques. 

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Music review: Fever Ray and Mo'Ju, RISING Festival, Hamer Hall

Cult act Fever Ray returns triumphantly to Australia.

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Questions raised over ‘Simpler. Fairer. Faster.’ arts funding model

Create NSW has announced a new approach to its arts funding model, but first reactions say it favours competitiveness over…

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The Burner effect, part one – Nevada murals

The Nevada Free Range Art Highway, where civic walls are bright with murals and out-door museums are the norm, is…

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Circus artists latest to be caught up in changing insurance market

Rising insurance costs are hitting some parts of the sector hard. Among the worst affected are independent circus artists, whose…

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