Why we need art to help us remember

Art doesn’t just help us preserve the past; it allows us to breathe life back into history.
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NORPA’s Railway Wonderland; image supplied.

A major international composition, 10 years in the making, will have its Australian premiere at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) next month. The Gallipoli Symphony marks the first time that composers from Australia, Turkey and New Zealand – 11 composers in all – have come together to create a collaborative work honouring the ​loss of countless lives 100 years ago.

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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