Tag: arts funding
A long way to the top: Australian musicians balance multiple roles to make their careers work
Picture: Danny Howe/Unsplash
Over the past three years, our Making Music Work project has mapped the creative, social, cultural, and economic realities of a music career in...
Sunday essay: the politics of dancing and thinking about cultural values beyond dollars
A ghost light shines at the Theatre Royal in Sydney.
AAP/Joel Carrett
What keeps democracies together? As America burns, Brazilians die and Europe braces for...
Giving it away for free – why the performing arts risks making the same mistake newspapers did
Sydney Chamber Opera’s Breaking Glass online performance
from Carriageworks. Daniel Boud
There’s a long-running adage about working for free in the performing arts. “The problem with...
The problem with arts funding in Australia goes right back to its inception
The Bell Shakespeare Company – established with
support from the Trust – had to end its touring season of Hamlet
early due to coronavirus. Brett...
Coronavirus: 3 in 4 Australians employed in the creative and performing arts could lose their jobs
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
This past week the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed arts and recreation is the hardest hit of all the sectors most affected...
Artists shouldn’t have to endlessly demonstrate their value. Coalition leaders used to know it
Bell Shakespeare’s recent Hamlet tour was
cut short by COVID-19. Photo: Brett Boardman
For more than 190,000 Australians employed in the cultural sector, the last month brought...