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When Australia’s arts and culture ministers met in Adelaide last Friday, they agreed to overhaul major performing arts sector funding. …

Taikoz’s Ian Cleworth on the artist lifecycle, collaboration and new show ‘Seven Flowers’

The flower is the mind and the seed is the technique. So said 15th century Japanese playwright, actor and theoretician …

Updated Thursday October 10 at 4.22pm More than 700 independent artists have signed an open letter urging state arts ministers …

Sydney’s pitch to host World Pride in 2023 — the first Southern Hemisphere edition of the global event — will …

The Czech and Slovak Film Festival kicks off in Melbourne on Thursday. Anders Furze spoke with artistic director Eleanor Colla about its …

The creation of co-directors Jemma Cole, Sam Whiteside and Thorsten Hertog, Soft Centre is an experimental electronic music and multidisciplinary …

Artistic Director Joseph Mitchell talks about this year’s OzAsia line-up with Murray Bramwell. * Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival has come a …

Mid-summer, one of the searing images burnt into our collective memory was the millions of dead fish floating in the …

2019 is the 50th anniversary of the three-day music festival held near Woodstock, 90 minutes outside New York City. That year, the gay patrons …

What is it about our funding bodies and media that they ignore the role of theatre and playwrights? Every other culturally expressive …