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Next week would have marked the start of this year’s Sydney Eisteddfod Festival which has been inspiring and engaging with Australia’s young performers with its annual Festival for over 86 years.
Cancelled this year due to the coronavirus crisis, this not-for-profit organisation has rolled up its sleeves to ensure they continue to provide opportunities to the great array of talent across dance, drama, poetry, classical & contemporary music. Keeping on all their staff, albeit from home, the Sydney Eisteddfod Team have launched two campaigns to re-engage and stay connected with their community during this time.

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State Theatre Company South Australia is pleased to announce an expansion of its core artistic team to include Anthony Nicola, Alexis West, and Sasha Zahra.

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Every Thursday from 3:00pm, The Boite hosts a hangout for musicians to share ideas, solutions and possibilities. In these times of change and challenges, the event offers discussions on how musicians are coping with the sudden changes and what they are doing to stay productive. Each session includes a specialist guest offering valuable advice on a relevant topic. Previous sessions have covered topics such as government relief packages, home recording, online teaching.

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The Boite's 2020 Matsudo Week concert focuses on Okinawa, the southernmost island of Japan, somewhat isolated from the mainland. Okinawan music uses a different scale, the folk music is upbeat and catchy. Featuring Brandon Lee on koto and Mion Kamei (Sanshin - Okinawan Shamisen). The concert will introduce the audience to the various styles of Okinawa music, while also presenting music from mainland Japan.

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Bangarra Dance Theatre is thrilled to announce the launch of a new digital offering, Nandhu, a series of curated programs, headlined by a selection of the company’s works, available for audiences to watch from their own homes.

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PBS Radio Festival 2020: You Can’t Stop The Music
Monday May 18 – Sunday May 31
#PBSRadioFestival #YouCantStopTheMusic

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Local label Tremorverse Records, in collaboration with Melbourne’s Box Hill Institute, is thrilled to present a new compilation album featuring original songs from isolated music students the world over, with submissions now open. Songs From Home is set to once again obliterate genre boundaries and navigate the multimodal soundscapes that music students have to offer.

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After the successful launch of the first Kids Couch Concert in March, children’s entertainer Emily McKnight (Jay’s Jungle, Gravity Guts) is back as her preschool alter ego Emily Who to host an all-new concert that will premiere with facebook watch party on Friday, 1st May 2020.

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A unique and contemporary reflection of country is the focus of an Aboriginal art exhibition showing from at Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane from April 29th @mitchellfineartgallery

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The art of living smashes into an artistic melting pot.

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Please join the ArtSHINE community as we celebrate the online exhibition 'Awesome World', a joint exhibition by Wendy Leung & Girija Kulkarni. This exhibition features photographer Wendy Leung, and watercolourist Girija Kulkarni; two artists working in different mediums seeking to accomplish the same end.

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ArtSHINE invites you to 'Beyond the Screen', an ONLINE solo exhibition by artist and printmaker Valerie Khoo. This exhibition runs from the 1st till the 30th of April 2020 at an ArtSHINE galleries space at the Darling Square Community Branch located at Shop NE12 11 Little Pier Street Haymarket NSW 2009.

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ArtSHINE would like to exclusively invite you to view the artworks by Arvee Gibon in thePrivate Gallery. HIGHLIGHT WESTERN ZODIAC COLLECTION. BY ARVEE GIBSON. Online Exhibition Private viewing runs: 1 April -30 June 2020.

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ArtSHINE would like to exclusively invite you to view the artworks by Cihan Bektas in the Private Gallery.

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Head On(line) Photo Festival is coming soon! Head On online for a free program of exhibitions, artist talks, workshops and panel discussions.

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300 works from 286 Indigenous artists presented in the major event of The Torch’s Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program. In the past I was a crook, you know a jail bird, but now I am an artist. My daughter, she is so proud of that. I never used to think of myself that way. Chris Austin. The program helped me and it will help others just like me. You can’t underestimate the change that comes when you take part in the program. It changes you once you get to interact with cultural knowledge and start to paint your own stories.

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A coalition of vertical (tall-screen) film festivals has launched a crowdsourced initiative for filmmaker-creators living around the globe under social distancing. We’re asking them to submit ONE VERTICAL SHOT encapsulating their lived experiences or hopes for the future on a single (extra)ordinary day in human history during Covid-19: May Day, 1 May 2020. They should be portrait-orientation vertical videos of up to 15 seconds, and the best will be curated into a single Creative Commons vertical short film called Onwards, Upwards.

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Boundary pushing artist ORCHA is thrilled to reveal a new slice of psychedelic dream-pop mastery on his latest track ‘ATLAS’. Following from the act’s first two singles; ‘Reverie’ released in May 2019 and ‘Depths’ released in September 2019, ‘ATLAS’ presents the third sonic imagining under this moniker from seasoned Melbourne performer Matt Sheers.

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Delia Celina/ functional showcases a myriad of #ceramic #necklaces with alluring delicate petal-like and vibrant gleaming beads gracefully reflecting #nature and #life – #universal and #timeless themes which have been driving Delia’s artistry spanning fifty years.

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Works in stock from the "When Words Fail" exhibition currently showing at Gallery Elysium ( March 14-September 2020 ) Elio Sanciolo, Director of Gallery Elysium, talks about exhibiting during the Covid 19 crisis and does a quick walk through of the last exhibition at Gallery Elysium before the lockdown and social distancing measures.

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