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The launch season has begun this month for the country’s performing arts companies as they reveal their 2019 programs. The first theatre company out of the gate is Queensland Theatre in Brisbane, helmed by artistic director Sam Strong, formerly an associate AD at Melbourne Theatre Company. His 2019 season (marking the company’s 49th year) raises the bar for
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Antidote returns to the Sydney Opera House, September 1-2 . It’s billed as “a weekend of ideas, action and change, with a potentially life-changing lineup of remarkable speakers, thinkers and creators”. It’s curated by Edwina Throsby, formerly the TEDx Sydney head of curation and founding producer of ABC TV’s Big Ideas. One of Antidote’s speakers, South African storyteller Sisonke Msimang
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LISTEN to Aretha Franklin sing You Grow Closer at 15 years old at her father’s New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit.
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Last week, artist David Pledger applied for the position of CEO of funding body, the Australia Council for the Arts, by publishing his application for how to take the organisation into the 21st Century on Daily Review. Pledger wrote a long and thorough brief of his vision to the new chair of the Australia Council, Sam Walsh, the
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In today’s arts news, there is not much new. Here is a release from the Victorian government: NEW CHAIR FOR MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Leading strategist and corporate consultant Tim Orton will take on the role of Chair of the Melbourne International Arts Festival Board, which will celebrate its 32nd year in October. Minister
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Former SBS newsreader Lee Lin Chin is still lighting up social media with her legion of fans lamenting her departure last week after 30 years with the network. Despite Lee Lin Chin, a prolific tweeter, advising them she has not retired, reasons for her leaving the newsreading role have not been clear, though she has been adamant that she
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The second annual Walkley Arts Journalism Award was announced in Sydney last night with Melbourne arts journalist Gabriella Coslovich winning for her investigative book Whiteley on Trial (MUP). READ OUR Q AND A WITH GABRIELLA COSLOVICH ABOUT RESEARCHING AND WRITING WHITELEY ON TRIAL The Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism, inaugurated in 1988 as the Pascall Prize, was won by Sydney writer Delia Falconer for her Sydney
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The musical import Beautiful edged out the home grown musical Muriel’s Wedding The Musical at the annual Helpmann Awards held in Sydney on Monday and (in a new award system) Sunday nights. Beautiful won six awards in the musicals category over both nights to Muriel’s’ five. At last night’s awards at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney for the ‘big’ awards, Beautiful won best
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Sam Walsh took on the reins as chairman of the Australia Council on July 1, the same week that his former employee, Stern Hu, was released from a Chinese jail after serving nine years for stealing commercial secrets and receiving bribes when he was a chief iron ore negotiator based in Shanghai for Rio Tinto during the mining boom. Stern
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Geoffrey Rush, currently pursuing a defamation action against News Limited’s The Daily Telegraph for its reporting of a complaint of alleged “inappropriate behaviour” by a fellow cast member during a Sydney Theatre Company show in 2015, has withdrawn from Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Twelfth Night due to open on November 12. In a statement (reproduced below), Rush said the reason was due to medical
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