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Harmonisation, complexity and change: exploring the National Performing Arts Touring Scan

Previous reports into the national touring ecology released in 2005 and 2011 effectively came to naught, so what makes the new Touring Scan any different?

21 Apr 2021 12:00

Richard Watts

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The National Performing Arts Touring Scan focuses attention on national and regional touring and the steps required to strengthen this critical part of the Australian arts sector. Image: Shutterstock.

Reshaping and rebuilding touring activity across Australia will be a critical component of repairing the damage to the sector inflicted by COVID-19.

In mid-March, the Australia Council published The National Performing Arts Touring Scan, a wide-ranging and detailed report on the touring arts ecology. It focuses attention on national and regional touring and the steps required to strengthen this critical part of the Australian arts sector.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts