New cultural sector support from the City of Sydney and City of Melbourne
The City of Sydney endorses a $3.5M package, the City of Melbourne offers $2M in grants, and Tasmania delivers $1.5M in funding and operational measures worth $2M.
Jo Litson is the Editor of Limelight Magazine. She took up the position in late 2018 having joined the magazine as Deputy Editor in 2016. During a 35-year career as an arts journalist she has been a contributor to numerous publications including Limelight, The Australian, The Bulletin, and the Qantas magazine. She was the arts writer and theatre reviewer for The Sunday Telegraph for 12 years until 2018, and has written the labels for the Archibald Prize for the Art Gallery of New South Wales for over 20 years.
The City of Sydney endorses a $3.5M package, the City of Melbourne offers $2M in grants, and Tasmania delivers $1.5M in funding and operational measures worth $2M.
Queensland Ballet has launched a Keep the Magic Alive campaign to share stories and raise funds, and is doing all it can to retain staff and keep its dancers fit and healthy.
The new fund will operate across three streams: Survive, Adapt, Create. The suspended Arts and Disability Mentorships have been reopened.
From our House to Yours will offer full-length performances and talks, footage, podcasts, articles and behind-the-scenes content.
Things are impermanent, life is impermanent, but music and the arts are lasting joys.
Three productions from Griffin and STC, filmed in front of a live audience, will be available for free on Facebook.
US composer Nico Muhly and 21 Australians will each write a piece on the theme of Far and Near, which TAV plans to record and eventually perform live.
The leading musical director has had to retire from her busy career in musical theatre due to a rare, neurodegenerative condition.
Staff who have been stood down by OA from March 30 until the end of May will be able to access up to 80 percent of their regular salary.
Over 100 academics have sent an open letter to the Federal Government saying that Australia's cultural future is at stake and calling for urgent support.
The opera star has tested positive to coronavirus. He has also resigned from the American Guild of Musical Artists after it found allegations of sexual misconduct against him credible.
The new Rage Against the V(irus) Fund will offer $1000 to Gold Coast-based artists to produce a digital work.
Queensland Arts Minister Leeanne Enoch has announced $8 million of funding relief to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on small to medium arts companies.