01 Jul, 2020

Luminaries from across Australia’s entertainment industry have announced that they will create and launch Play It On, a unique online concert in support of Australian artists who have lost income as a result of the nationwide shutdown of the live entertainment industry.

01 Jul, 2020

We’ve been significantly impacted by coronavirus and the future is still uncertain. That’s why we won’t be returning to our core operations until next year.

01 Jul, 2020

Black Swan State Theatre Company is launching its new digital platform “Black Swan Home Theatre”, a company first initiative that will allow us to connect with our audience in new and exciting ways.

25 Jun, 2020

The Australian Major Performing Arts Group (AMPAG) warmly welcomes the Prime Minister’s $250 million arts package announcement to help rebuild the sector over the next 12 months.

24 Jun, 2020

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has partnered with the Australian Football League (AFL) in a unique musical tribute, the ‘AFL Club Anthem Project’ to celebrate the return of the 2020 Toyota AFL Premiership Season.

24 Jun, 2020

Much has been written about the challenges facing artists and arts companies as a result of the COVID-19 close down. Behind the scenes, artistic planners and the teams around them have had to reinvent the way they work and create new ideas about presentation and content.

17 Jun, 2020

Work on the world-class New Museum for Western Australia has surged ahead during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing local jobs for people in creative and construction industries during tough economic times.

17 Jun, 2020

Victorian musicians, game developers, filmmakers, writers, galleries and fashion labels are among the first tranche of beneficiaries from the Victorian Government’s Sustaining Creative Workers initiative.

17 Jun, 2020

The Palaszczuk Government announced, as part of their plan for Queensland’s recovery, they are supporting the arts sector with an additional $22.5 million.

11 Jun, 2020

Victorian communities affected by the summer bushfires will be given a boost through Creative Recovery grants as part of the Victorian and Commonwealth Governments’ Community Recovery Package.

10 Jun, 2020

More than 30 of the state’s finest established and emerging artists will collaborate and present a series of isolation-inspired stories in an exciting new online project from State Theatre Company South Australia and ActNow Theatre.

10 Jun, 2020

Musica Viva Australia announce violinist Harry Ward and chamber music ensemble Partridge String Quartet as the third iteration of its acclaimed leadership initiative, FutureMakers.

05 Jun, 2020

Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Dance Company have achieved an Australian first by collaborating to create a unique online series, featuring four of Australia’s celebrated musicians and four of Australia’s leading dancers.

04 Jun, 2020

Bell Shakespeare has announced that it will stream the award-winning documentary Kings of Baxter, followed by an exclusive live Q&A with the film's director and stars, on Thursday 11 June.

03 Jun, 2020

Over the past three months, West Australian Ballet and the Company’s established COVID-19 Response Team have been monitoring and reacting to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

02 Jun, 2020

The foreshadowing of a package for the arts and entertainment industry by the PM is welcome, but the devil will be in the detail, the Greens say.

28 May, 2020

New research from The Australia Institute has found that more than one in two Australians agree that the Government should double funding for the Australia Council for the Arts to help support the arts during COVID-19, and the majority of Australians (62%) agree that online streaming services should be subject to similar Australian content obligations as televisions stations are.

28 May, 2020

The recipients of the 2020 First Nations Arts Awards have been announced during an live streamed ceremony.

27 May, 2020

Queensland Theatre is not receiving JobKeeper benefits: as a statutory body it is not eligible. However, seeing the benefit of JobKeeper for sustaining businesses, imagine what the scheme could do if it was extended to include the individual artists who work under casual contracts? This is the call of Queensland Theatre’s Artistic Director Lee Lewis, as a message to the Federal Government.