The Australian Major Performing Arts Group, or AMPAG, is the umbrella group for Australia's major performing arts companies who inspire millions through theatre, circus, contemporary dance, classical ballet, classical music, opera, musicals and comedy.
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is touring to Indonesia across July and August, becoming the first western orchestra to perform a unique outdoor concert at the Prambanan Hindu Temple, a renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Some of Australia’s finest composers and performers in contemporary, classical, jazz and experimental music have today been named as finalists for the 2017 Art Music Awards.
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August will see some of Australia’s top talent making a splash overseas as Circus Oz breaks new ground in China and Malthouse Theatre takes two dazzlingly successful productions to Edinburgh.
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The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is collaborating with staff, volunteers and inmates from Risdon Prison on a unique creative writing and performance project, Convict Monologues.
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AMPAG congratulates all the shortlisted nominees for the 2017 Australian Dance Awards.
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The Australia Council for the Arts has released the results of the National Arts Participation Survey, their third report in a series that measures Australians’ engagement with the arts.
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The Creative Partnerships Awards 2017 are all about celebrating outstanding contributions to Australia’s cultural life.
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Malthouse Theatre is pleased to welcome Fiona McGauchie as Chair of the Board.
Fiona assumed this key leadership position following our 2017 Annual General Meeting in May.
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AMPAG’s submission to the House of Representatives Inquiry into the Australian film and television industry highlights the valuable interconnectedness of stage and screen.
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The Australian Major Performing Arts Group* (AMPAG) welcomes news that the Minister for the Arts, Senator Mitch Fifield, has decided to return the majority of Catalyst funds to the Australia Council.
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The Australian Government is developing a foreign policy white paper — the first since 2003. AMPAG is advocating that setting cultural diplomacy as a key pillar of an updated foreign policy would advance Australia’s security interests, business and cultural prosperity in a rapidly changing world.
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This case study explores the benefits of long-term dance engagement with St Kilda Primary, an inner city multicultural school in Melbourne who have been working with The Australian Ballet Education over 10 years.
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101 submissions to the House of Representatives Committee for Innovation and Creativity -workforce for the new economy includes a number of evidence-based submissions highlighting the importance of arts and humanities and the danger in siloing the creatives out of a creative innovation agenda.
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Anke Timm’s, recipient of the Lloyd Martin Travelling Scholarship shares her insights towards realising the potential of Human-Centred Design in the Arts and Cultures
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The VET Legislation has passed but the regulations are still to be finalised with art sector concerns flagged but yet to be addressed
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In the sixth of our series of collaboration case studies, we look at Black Swan State Theatre Company’s production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle produced in association with The National Theatre of China.
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Queensland Symphony Orchestra will perform with two young soloists in its Secondary Showcase education concert—It’s a Riot!
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This year over 45,000 children in greater Sydney and regional NSW will experience the timeless comedy of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville—and for many it will be their first encounter with opera.
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Many of Australia’s major performing arts companies will travel to Asia this year and next, collaborating with companies, schools and academies in China, South Korea and New Zealand.
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Queensland Ballet wowed UK audiences last week at the Coliseum Theatre with its production of La Sylphide.
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The 2015 Queens’ honour roll includes the names of many who have contributed significantly to the performing arts.
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Actor and writer Katie Beckett (Kill the Messenger, Coranderrk) has been announced as the winner of The Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright’s Award 2015
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Sydney Theatre Company has worked consistently year on year to increase its environmental sustainability.
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Many performing arts companies and individual artists are doing their bit to ensure that we have a 'greener' environment. They see this as essential in creating a better future for all Australia and they believe in leading by example.
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