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This week's arts news and trending topics

This week's top arts news stories and most read reviews.

Ability Fest. Five men in black T shirts are in front of festival crowd, one on the right is in a wheelchair, smiling and holding a microphone.
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Ability Fest returns and expands to Queensland

The music festival with inclusion baked into its DNA returns this October.

Melt 2024 first program reveal – Club Broadway: A Wicked Halloween Ball. Photo: Supplied. A digitally rendered image featuring a witch in black at the centre, floating into an eerie green background surrounded by bats and phantoms.
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Melt gets heated for Halloween with wicked drag

Brisbane’s 2024 Melt festival is gearing up with further program announcements including a ‘Wicked’-inspired Halloween ball.

A geo-locator for live music gigs. Photo: Tnarg, Pexels. A person wearing headphones walking on the street with his phone out, seemingly in search of something.
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New one-stop platform to help locate live gigs anytime

Live Music Locator is a free to use platform that aims to tackle discoverability issues for small to medium music…

Ben Graetz as Miss Ellaneous. Photo: Mia Mala McDonald for Queering the Collection. A big drag personality with pink curly hair, bold makeup, long black gloves and a collar made out of pearls.
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Queering the Collection through pride and prejudice

A new audio series produced by Arts Centre Melbourne features queer artistic icons alongside archival items significant to the LGBTQIA+…

Mark Valenzuela, recipient of 2025 Porter Street Commission, in his studio. Photo: Rosina Possingham. A middle-aged man of Filipino descent with a shortly trimmed black beard smiling. He is wearing a brown cap with a green jacket and hands in his pockets. In the background is a studio setting with an array of objects on shelves.
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Opportunities and awards

Music Victoria Awards open for nominations, ATYP casting, plus winners of ceramic prize, and more!

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This week's arts news and trending topics

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

Noel McKenna, ‘William Nuttall with horses in field’, 2023 (detail). Image: Supplied. Painting with soft blues and greens depicting a serene landscape of a couple of horses with one human figure petting the head of a horse.
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Opportunities and awards

Call for artworks from refugee artists, plus winners at National Portrait Gallery, recipients of the Regional Arts Fund and more!

Standing at a podium, his eyes closed in concentration, a bald-headed white man wearing a black suit and white shirt conducts an orchestra.
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Singapore Symphony Orchestra set for 2025 Australian debut

Praised as one of the best orchestras in the world, the SSO performs in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in February…

Asian woman on lounge reading from laptop computer and wearing light blue sweater. Arts news.
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This week's arts news and trending topics

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

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