22 Oct, 2019

The 2019 Patrick White Playwrights Award & Fellowship

21 Oct, 2019

Gross earnings from sponsorship, donations and fundraising events rose 13.5 per cent on 2017 earnings while costs rose 14.4 per cent. This resulted in $101.7 million in total net earnings which represented 13.2 per cent growth on 2017 results.

18 Oct, 2019

His Excellency Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, visited the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s headquarters for a special cross-cultural concert featuring MSO musicians and Indonesian dancers and renowned Indonesian choreographer, Didik Nini Thowok.

18 Oct, 2019

The WASO Song Book, a commissioning program founded in 2010 by Janet Holmes à Court AC, provides opportunities to nurture musical careers and create new musical works with the ambition they may become the classics of tomorrow.

18 Oct, 2019

WASO is hitting the road this month with a touring party of over 70 musicians to share a complete live symphony orchestra experience in Esperance and Albany.

18 Oct, 2019

Queensland Ballet Academy this month announced a new partnership with the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland in the lead up to its new, purpose-built facilities opening in 2020 at Kelvin Grove State College.

14 Oct, 2019

The meeting of Cultural Ministers has agreed on a new National Performing Arts Partnership Framework to replace the Performing Arts (MPA) Framework.

11 Oct, 2019

We are at a very serious crossroads in the sector- and respect and share the real anguish that exists across the arts ecology. While everyone in the Major Performing Arts companies agrees that the situation for the small to medium arts is of grave concern, it needs to be considered within an overall context of declining government support and strategic development for the arts across this country. It is the overall situation that needs to be addressed with increased support across the board – not by destroying one part of the sector in a bid to help the other survive. AMPAG and its members have and continue to actively advocate for increased Australia Council funding. The arts in Australia is a broad ecology, with outstanding work happening at all levels.

09 Oct, 2019

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has been nominated in 2019 Melbourne Awards, presented by the City of Melbourne, for its annual Sidney Myer Free Concerts presented in association with the University of Melbourne.