Australia Council announces funding for tours
Australia Council for the Arts pledges support for touring artists reaching out to regional and remote communities.
Australia Council for the Arts pledges support for touring artists reaching out to regional and remote communities.
Each receives $50,000 to study abroad or interstate, fund studies and explore future career paths.
Older audiences are proving resilient to cost-of-living shocks but families and under 35s are feeling increasingly priced out of the performing arts.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
The Labor government's much-anticipated National Cultural Policy introduces a raft of sweeping organisational changes and new funding initiatives.
From purchasing a few bars of music to making a multi-million-dollar donation, we explore the different ways that philanthropy can help transform our cultural life.
New research finds a 27% gender pay gap in the arts, almost double the current national average, while women artists from non-English speaking backgrounds are further disadvantaged.
In the wake of a disappointing federal budget, Ben Eltham examines the challenges for a cultural sector still emerging from its deepest downturn.
The study reveals that audience attendance has yet to fully recover from the pandemic and points to the rising cost of living as the new primary barrier.
The modest, restrained budget has few initiatives for the arts and entertainment industry, though this was foreshadowed, with future arts funding to be laid out in the forthcoming Cultural Policy.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
Inspired by an icy trek through Europe's largest glacier, composer Morgan Hickinbotham will transform an existing experimental soundscape into a performance for a vocal ensemble during his residency.
As the Jobs and Skills Summit gets underway today, Adrian Collette, CEO of the Australia Council, discusses how the arts contribute to economic growth and recovery.