Performing Arts
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.
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…
Music review: Snoh Aalegra, RISING Festival, The Forum
Snoh Aalegra brought all the feels to the Forum Melbourne for RISING.
Music review: Kirill Gerstein, Melbourne Recital Centre
Kirill Gerstein’s performance showcases a mastery of musical expression made seemingly effortless.
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.
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.Â
Music review: Fever Ray and Mo'Ju, RISING Festival, Hamer Hall
Cult act Fever Ray returns triumphantly to Australia.
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…
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…
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…