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6 days ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
Although it doesn’t officially begin until Wednesday, this year’s RISING festival kicked off last night not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but with a definite… mood, as Beth Gibbons took to the stage at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall to deliver her Lives Outgrown show, from her debut solo album of the same name, released last year. For the uninitiated, Gibbons is the owner of that ethereal set of pipes that gave Portishead its unique sound throughout the 90s and beyond.
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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
A 40,000-year-old collection of rock engravings is under threat of destruction from acid rain, caused by fossil fuel extraction. A campaign to save the Murujuga Rock Art is now underway, with a petition attracting a number of high-profile Australian artists including Jimmy Barnes, Tim Winton, Paul Kelly, Patricia Piccinini, Tracey Moffatt, Kate Grenville, Fiona Hall and Thomas Keneally.
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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
Kerri Glasscock has been announced as the new Executive Director of Create NSW.
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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
After six festivals in which she delivered more programs than any of her predecessors in Brisbane Festival history, the popular Artistic Director has announced today (24 April) that she will be stepping down from the role at the end of the 2025 Festival. “Leading Brisbane Festival has been one of the great honours of my career – a place where bold ideas, community and creativity come together in the most powerful ways.
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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
In a neat little nod to the often disparaging way older people are referenced (‘OK Boomer’, eye roll emoji), in Bloomer: Embracing a Late-Life Flourishing, Carol Lefevre adds that all-important ‘L’ to not only investigate how our 70s and beyond can be a time of growth rather than stagnation or wilting, but also, unsurprisingly, how the process can be viewed through the lens of extended gardening metaphors.
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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
As part of ArtsHub‘s partnership with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF 2025) this year, we will again be sharing round-ups of some of the best reviews from the 2025 Funny Tonners. As we did in 2024, this year the ArtsHub team will be judging the very best of all those reviews, as well as publishing selected entries here.
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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
This is the fourth year in a row that Brown Women Comedy has put together a show for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Hosted and curated by the dynamo that is Daizy Maan, it’s a concept that grew out of the Australian South Asian Centre, a community-based initiative with a mission to “amplify and empower South Asian women making a difference”. This year’s approach is noticeably different to last year’s, which had a revolving line-up of performers that could number up to half a dozen.
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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
Aston Villa got knocked out of the UEFA Champions League this morning, going down 4-5 on aggregate to Paris Saint Germain. Wait, what? Why are you reading about a football score when this should be a review of Reuben Kaye’s latest one-man spectacular, The Party’s Over? Well, simply, Villa came into the second leg match 1-3 down and PSG quickly scored two further goals.
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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
As part of ArtsHub‘s partnership with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF 2025) this year, we will again be sharing round-ups of some of the best reviews from the 2025 Funny Tonners. As we did in 2024, this year the ArtsHub team will be judging the very best of all those reviews, as well as publishing selected entries here.
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1 month ago | 
artshub.com.au | Madeleine Swain
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that the following review contains the names of deceased persons. Some exhibitions are pretty much review proof, and Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience is certainly a case in point. Curated by Kent Morris, Barkindji artist, curator and Creative Director of The Torch, the exhibition is the very definition of small but mighty.
