The Amplify Collective
Are we missing an opportunity when we say ‘arts jobs are real jobs’?
Who are we leaving behind when we justify artist work on the system's terms? Are we missing an opportunity for…
Dance review: The Other Side of Me, Darwin Festival
The NT Dance Company's world premiere is truth-telling powerfully expressed by two dancers representing one First Nations man.
Queer and present danger: Part 1
The first of a three-part series exploring Australian drag queens and their part in the activism and history of the…
Iconoclastic and empowered: the new wave of Middle Eastern Australian women writers
MENA women writers are gaining momentum in major literary prizes and across the nation’s bookstores, but is this movement iconoclastic?
Theatre review: Telethon Kid, Malthouse Theatre
The moral of ‘Telethon Kid’ hangs on a precarious through line that is tarnished in this make-believe world.
Q&A: Meet the creatives behind Tae Tae in the Land of Yaaas!
Glass slippers and pumpkins aside, Tae’s wheels of steel are roaring into this year’s Brisbane Festival with her Fairy Godmother…
Theatre review: I Said This To the Bird, La Mama Courthouse
Performed entirely in Farsi, Dr Mammad Aidani’s bold provocation to the establishment struggles to affect.
The "helping" hand of allyship: Indigenous art, authenticity and politics
A look at the fraught disparity between non-Indigenous arts workers and the Cultural obligations of their Indigenous counterparts, as well…
Theatre review: Fade, Riverside Theatres
A profound critique of affirmative action and show business culture.
Artists highlight the heightening issue of homelessness among women
Artists bring home the plight of older Australian women amid the housing crisis.