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Anglicare’s artsandminds.org.au in Brisbane has produced a web-series and a billboard campaign across the city to tell of artists and their commitment to increasing awareness of mental health. The church organisation has paired five emerging artists affected by mental health issues with five established artists to create artworks that will be auctioned at an event on May 31. The five
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The 21st Annual Comedy Festival Awards were held in Melbourne last night with the 2018 Barry Award Winner for the Most Outstanding Festival Show going to Sam Campbell (pictured above) for his show The Trough. Campbell has previously won the 2016 Director’s Choice Award and was also the nominee for the 2015 Best Newcomer Award. He also appeared in Anne
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Breath is based on Tim Winton’s award-winning novel of the same name and is actor Simon Baker’s feature film directorial debut. It follows two teenage boys, Pikelet (Samson Coulter) and Loonie (Ben Spence), growing up in a remote corner of the Western Australian coast. Hungry for discovery, the pair form an unlikely friendship with Sando (Simon Baker),
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Judith Van Heeren’s new exhibition of natural history paintings, Sea Garden, is at Murray White Room in Melbourne’s CBD until May 5 . Sea Garden was partly inspired by the 1769 painting Sea Plumes, Lithophytes and Shells by Anne Vallayer-Coster in the Louvre. “The painting is just so exquisitely painted and full of mystery and intrigue. At that time I imagined the oceans
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Billy Elliot the Musical will return to Australia in 2019 for its “10th anniversary tour”. The first time around the UK stage musical only played Sydney and Melbourne, but the new tour will include those cities as well as Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide. It will open at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre in October 2019 and then will be followed
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Nick Mitzevich, the current director of the the Art Galllery of South Australia and a former director of the University of Queensland Art Museum and Newcastle Region Art Gallery will lead Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia (NGA) from July 2. Mitzevich takes over from Gerard Vaughan, who will retire after he was appointed in 2014 and championed by the gallery’s chairman Allan Myers who
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The annual Green Room awards for performance were announced in Melbourne last night with mulitple awards going to Opera Australia’s production of King Roger and its Julie Andrews directed musical My Fair Lady co-produced with John Frost. The Disney musical Aladdin was also a multi winner. In a strong year for Malthouse, the play Away, co-produced with Sydney Theatre Company, won
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This vision of the future is set out in ELEVATION, a new documentary created by the online UK architecture magazine Dezeen. “Aerial highways” will relieve pressure on roads as deliveries and human transportation take to the skies in unmanned electric vehicles. Architecture will change dramatically as the ground floor entrance is replaced by rooftop landing,
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Louise Herron, CEO of the Sydney Opera House since 2012, is still listed as its chief on the arts centre’s website and gave a speech as leader at an Opera House event last Thursday night, but an ad appeared for her job at the weekend on the NSW government’s job website. The ad reads: “The Chief
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By Professor Julian Meyrick, Professor Robert Phiddian and Dr. Tully Barnett Flinders University *** On March 2, Laboratory Adelaide, a Flinders University-based research team investigating the problem of demonstrating value in arts and culture, convened a Symposium “When did value become a number?” It brought together scientists, philosophers, political analysts, economists, artists, managers, statisticians, and
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