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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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Ability-Fest_463-e1720066886832.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/club-broadway-e1719987368287.webp?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/pexels-tnarg-4206427-e1719978680741.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Ben_Graetz_as_Miss_Ellaneous_image_by_Mia_Mala_McDonald-e1719970795549.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Mark-Valenzuela-Photography-Rosina-Possingham-e1719893500972.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Music Victoria Awards open for nominations, ATYP casting, plus winners of ceramic prize, and more!
![Side view of a microphone with colourful painting in the background.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/michal-czyz-ALM7RNZuDH8-unsplash.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/r106-s191-0218744jpg-e1719276443498.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Hans-Graf_ph087_220728-c-Jack-Yam.jpg?w=310)
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…
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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.