23rd July 2021 - Queensland Government to deliver new four-year fund for First Nations Artistic Pathways
23rd July 2021 - Opera Australia cancels Sydney winter season and postpones Phantom of the Opera to 2022
22nd July 2021 - Queensland Symphony Orchestra returns to Gladstone for Symphony Under the Stars
20th July 2021 - Victorian performing arts community launches advertisement backing COVID-19 vaccinations
19th July 2021 - 2021 Australian Festival of Chamber Music cancelled due to COVID
14th July 2021 - NSW Government to offer Coronavirus support to the arts and employees
2nd July 2021 - Advertising executive appointed new Chair for the Australia Council for the Arts
1st June 2021 - Year of cancelled performances sees Opera Australia post $7.1 million loss
28th May 2021 - NIDA to host Australian Performing Arts Exchange in September
20th May 2021 - Federal Government allocates new emergency funding to leading arts organisations
26th March 2021 - Just 26% of Federal Government’s June 2020 arts rescue package has been spent
25th March 2021 - Live performance and entertainment bodies welcome Federal Government’s funding extension
23rd March 2021 - Entertainment and Live Performance sector representatives takes argument for industry support to Canberra
19th March 2021 - Live Performance Australia calls for 100% capacity in all live entertainment venues
22nd February 2021 - Live Performance Australia calls for targeted JobSaver action to prevent further collapse of the arts and entertainment industry
3rd February 2021 - Opera Australia leads performing arts industry in COVIDSafe performance practices
6th January 2021 - Parliamentary Committee advised to back creative arts to improve regional Australia
16th December 2020 - New advisory group aims to strengthen performing arts touring network
14th December 2020 - Sydney’s redeveloped Walsh Bay Arts Precinct welcomes back performing arts companies
11th November 2020 - Art experience promoter slams Governments for not releasing committed arts funding
30th October 2020 - More than 80% of Federal arts rescue package remains unallocated
13th October 2020 - Research shows impact of COVID-19 on arts and creative sector workers’ mental health
3rd August 2020 - Australian Major Performing Arts Group to make way for new unified advocacy body
24th June 2020 - Australian Government announces $250 million Coronavirus rescue package for the arts
4th May 2020 - Theatre impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh says West End and Broadway shows will be ‘last to go back’
16th April 2020 - ABS survey shows ‘arts and recreation’ businesses as being hardest hit by Coronavirus pandemic
4th April 2020 - LPA believes funding still not enough to prevent decimation of live performance industry
19th March 2020 - PAC Australia highlight Coronavirus threat to ongoing viability of performing arts centres
9th June 2016 - ABS Economic Activity Survey shows over 200,000 employed in ‘arts and recreation services’
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