Friday, June 12, 2020
Australia's first composition competition for queer composers, applications are now open for 2nd annual Homophonic! Pride Prize! Created with the support of philanthropist Andrew Boyle, the …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 06:12AM[SHARE]Who is Dr Lou Bennett AM? My name is Dr Lou Bennett AM. I am Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung. I am an artist and academic. I am a language activist. What would you do differently from what you d…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 05:36AM[SHARE]The 2021 Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund annual grants round is now open for applications. Grants of up to $5,000 are available to all Australian artists, as well as South Australian producers a…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:30AM[SHARE]In unveiling its 2020 program of events that will utilise an innovative, online format, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair has invited the world to attend its annual showcase of Queensland's Aborigi…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 02:54AM[SHARE]Australia's most exciting theatre project is now complete with the new-look Her Majesty's Theatre unveiled at last and an exciting opportunity for the public to experience the new venue, ann…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 12:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2020
The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) has announced Maton: Australia's Guitar " an exhibition of the largest retrospective of Australia's leading guitar manufacturer Maton, will ope…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 04:39AM[SHARE]Open House Melbourne will present the largest collection of virtual tours in Australia by allowing visitors to tour over fifty buildings across Melbourne from the comfort of their own home. …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:08AM[SHARE]The Adelaide Fringe Poster Design competition is officially open for the 2021 edition. Artists, creatives, illustrators and designers from Australia and across the globe have until 12 July t…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 02:15AM[SHARE]Riverside Theatres Digital will present Everybody Roar! (The Best of Justine Clarke) in a very special one-show only concert digitally streamed direct from Riverside Theatres, Parramatta to …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 01:53AM[SHARE]More than 30 of the state's finest established and emerging artists will collaborate and present a series of isolation-inspired stories in an exciting new online project, Decameron 2.0, from…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 12:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Who is Gusta Mara? I'm Gusta Mara, an Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Samoan man from Far North Queensland. This is my second year dancing with Bangarra Dance Theatre. What would you …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 04:53AM[SHARE]One of Australia's leading entertainers Debra Byrne, and her musical collaborator of close to 20 years singer and guitarist Dion Hirini, perform their intimate and up-close performance of th…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 04:28AM[SHARE]Bloomsday In Melbourne has announced an innovative way to celebrate James Joyce's famous novel Ulysses this year, with the release of 18 short films on Tuesday 16 June 2020. "We've taken COV…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 02:39AM[SHARE]We have seen many changes in Australian's consumption of media during isolation. There has been an increase in television viewing; cinemas were forced to close (although some have crafted a …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 01:58AM[SHARE]Belvoir is thrilled to announce a new grant and residency opportunity for independent artists at Belvoir St Theatre. The company has opened their doors for submissions, calling for expressio…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 01:29AM[SHARE]The Australia Council for the Arts has announced a new fund of approximately $500,000 to support and invest in First Nations arts and cultural groups experiencing disruption due to the COVID…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 12:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2020
The Sydney Opera House is bringing its popular backstage tour to homes around the world with the release of its first ever online guided tour. Last year, more than 560,000 people took a guid…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 05:01AM[SHARE]In line with current government advice to prevent the spread of COVID-19, performances of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Melbourne's Princess Theatre will be suspended for a further si…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:20AM[SHARE]What keeps democracies together? As America burns, Brazilians die and Europe braces for another wave of the coronavirus, the question assumes an alarming immediacy. If the answer is complica…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:02AM[SHARE]Bell Shakespeare has announced that it will stream the award-winning documentary Kings of Baxter, followed by an exclusive live Q&A with the film's director and stars, on Thursday 11 Jun…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 01:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2020
One of the surprising outcomes of Covid-19 has been the rush by performing artists and creatives to embrace possibilities offered by new technology to retain audiences locked out of their th…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 07:58PM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2020
Who is Robynne Murphy? I'm supposed to be a retired steelworker, gone bush to fish and garden. But not only am I a volunteer firefighter who got thrown into the thick of horrendous fires 6 m…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 05:10AM[SHARE]Cabaret stars from across Australia and around the world will mark Adelaide Cabaret Festival's 20th anniversary with online celebrations starting tonight until 20 June 2020. Adelaide Cabaret…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 01:49AM[SHARE]Over successive Sunday nights, the ABC has premiered two important television programs recounting the history of nuclear testing in Australia " the documentary Maralinga Tjuratja and a six-d…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 12:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2020
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the latest recipients of residencies offered through the UKARIA Cultural Centre in the Adelaide Hills. Australian clarinettist Aviva Endean w…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 11:41PM[SHARE]Who is Rafael May? Â I am the composer for the films Hearts and Bones (released only a few weeks ago), I Am Woman (coming out later this year when cinemas open) and documentaries such as …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 05:18AM[SHARE]Play It Forward, together with Artistic Director, Dr Jonathon Welch AM, is inviting you to join, Permission to Shine " a new online singing competition with a difference. It doesn't matter w…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:59AM[SHARE]For the first time, a national survey of book clubs around Australia is being conducted as part of a wider campaign to celebrate and recognise their value, reach and combined brainpower. The…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 02:16AM[SHARE]The board of The Blue Room Theatre has appointed Katt Osborne as permanent Executive Director. She has been acting in this position since April. "We are delighted that Katt will lead The Blu…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 01:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2020
There's a long-running adage about working for free in the performing arts. "The problem with working for exposure," it goes, "is you can die from exposure". Only partly a joke, the saying i…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 11:28PM[SHARE]Live Performance Australia has developed a $345 million plan to help the live performance industry restart, rebuild and reopen for audiences following the shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pan…
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