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Doncha just wish your granny was a Ghostbuster? (Hunter, Hunter, Ghost Hunter!!) I mean, wow!!! That’s how it is for 12 years old Celeste (‘half Chinese, half French but All Australian’), who travels to China to return her mother’s ashes to the place of her birth. There she meets her grandmother, Por Por, and Ting Ting,
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Former opera singer, publisher and long time CEO of Opera Australia, Adrian Collette, has been announced the new CEO of the Australia Council, the nation’s peak arts funding body, by the federal Arts Minister Senator Mitch Fifield. Collette replaces current CEO Mr Tony Grybowski whose term winds up on October 23. For about the last five years, Collette has been
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When Nicholas Dattner closed his furniture business ten years ago, he admitted he had been “some kind of evangelist” for the quality of Australian hardwoods. The fine tables he was known for were emblems of not just the majesty of trees but also to an aspiration for the good life, where elegance lasts and where
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What are the most pressing issues facing the cultural sector in Victoria today – and as the state heads towards election day on 24 November? It’s a timely question as the state’s three major parties gather at the National Gallery of Victoria this afternoon for a forum where they’ll be challenged by industry leaders to
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Daily Review presents actor Neil Pigot’s series of 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. In Episode Seven of Making Art he talks to academic and theatre director Julian Meyrick (co-author of the new book What Matters – Talking Value in Australian Culture) and Mark Williams (author of Falling Through
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Internationally renowned conductor Douglas Boyd (Artistic Director of Garsington Opera and Music Director of the Paris Chamber Orchestra) will lead a performance of Mozart’s last three symphonies at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday, September 28 at 7.30pm. We chat to Boyd about collaborating with Australian’s next generation of leading musicians, and his love of
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The moment when Julie Collins realised a disused bacon factory on Eureka Street in Ballarat was going to be available for the inaugural Biennale of Australian Art must have been sensational. It must have felt very exciting and then very daunting. And it must also have given Collins the sense that this Biennale was meant
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In a secondhand bookshop, a remarkable discovery has been made. An exercise book, yellow-paged and time-worn, would seem to be an alternative, and abandoned, version of the classic novel Lord of the Flies. This one, say those who have read extracts, appears to be set in the early 21st century. Adults have replaced the boys,
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Since Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Australia’s representation on the most influential of Western literary prizes has been zilch. Not one Australian novel has made the longlist, let alone the shortlist. Certainly, the competition has increased, since the prize opened to the United
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A park bench. It is spring, the earth is returning to life, a faint warmth can be felt in the air. Two friends are discussing their finances. Rosencrantz: We need a plan no one has thought of. We need a plan to make money that is so original it is startling in its simplicity. We
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