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Film reviews: Flora on the Sand (1964) and Juvenile Jungle (1956), Japanese Film Festival

The feature of a retrospective at the 2023 Japanese Film Festival, Kō Nakahira was a filmmaker who interrogated themes of…

People gathering at Artlands 2023, hosted by Regional Arts Australia. Image is diverse people sitting around a dinner table with a white cloth. One of them is holding up a phone taking a selfie.
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Diversity and the regional arts sector

Key administrators of arts in regional Australia speak about diversity in the regional arts sector and reflect on why we…

Mob Image: Shutterstock. Illustration of two black side profiles against a green background. One figure has its eyes covered and another has its mouth covered.
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Are you an imposter?

Mob are allowed to ask respectful questions about where you come from and who your people are. This is so…

The Dark Current’. Image is a woman in a tight pink dress, and pink headdress lying back in pink liquid, with her arms up and elbows bent.
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Video work review: Angela Tiatia: The Dark Current, ACMI

Something is amiss in paradise.

The Coconuts. Image is two women with brown skin wearing the same big brown jumper and holding a guitar.
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Performance reviews: The Coconuts – Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside and Breaking, Melbourne Fringe Festival

A punchy satirical musical comedy about being Brown in Australia and a compelling look into our relationship with the modern…

India Mark, ‘Studio self-portrait’, 2023. Winner of the Ashurt Emerging Artist Prize. In the portrait, Mark looks candidly at the viewer. Wearing a collared black shirt, she appears to be painting her own portrait. She stands in front of a neon green canvas which contrasts her figure.
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The power of portraiture and human connection

The Lester Prize encourages submissions to explore the depths and reaches of identity expressed through portraiture.

Myth, Propaganda and Disaster and the Heirs of America. Image is a woman standing in front of a blackboard writing, the blackboard has NEW YORK 2003 in large letters.
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Prophecy comes full circle in Heirs of America

Dr Robert Reid’s sequel to Stephen Sewell’s post 9/11 classic comes at a time when so much of what the…

Melanie Hava. Image is a long painting stretching round three black walls. Painting is of colourful tropical Far North Queensland rainforest.
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Exhibition review: Melanie Hava: Bugan Mungan, Cairns Art Gallery

A must-see nine-metre long painting by one of Tropical North Queensland’s celebrated artists.

Shower Thots’. Figure in a green/blue dressing gown crouches over in a huddle on the tiles beside a pool, while holding a toothbrush between their toes.
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Dance review: Shower Thots, Melbourne City Baths, Melbourne Fringe Festival

Dance at the pool offers amphibious playfulness and chlorinated whimsy.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Image is of ballet dancers against a black backdrop, fairies all reaching up with one arm and the other reaching down, behind two principals - a male in black and a female in traditional white tutu - in the same pose.
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Ballet review: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Canberra Theatre Centre

A charming and exquisite production, Queensland Ballet’s interpretation of the Shakespeare classic is likely to bring a little bit of…

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