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• Artist-run initiatives, spaces, community and student galleries in Australia 12 October 2009

  A listing of artist-run initiatives, spaces, and community and student galleries in Australia compiled by the visual arts board.

  Subject: Visual Arts & Craft
  
• Music theatre consultancy 24 September 2009

  The Music and Theatre Boards have jointly invested in a three-year initiative to stimulate the creation and development of engaging music theatre works in Australia.

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• Australian arts organisations directory 31 August 2009

  A comprehensive 26-page directory containing contact details for nearly 200 Australian arts organisations.

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• More jobs for the women as university intervenes in theatre row Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:11:14 +0000

  Robin Usher reports that the Melbourne Theatre Company has been forced to reverse its position on the limited number of women it employs in creative roles, especially directing, after criticism that it had created a boys’ club environment. The Company’s board is expected to appoint an equal opportunity officer and an equal opportunity committee to ensure [...]

• What do rivalry and excludability mean in the arts? Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:43:31 +0000

  Cultural economists often use the terms non-excludable and non-rival when talking about the arts. But what do these terms mean? A recent blogpost provides links to some simple explanations with examples from the world of music. The examples are easier to understand than the usual definitions, and they highlight how rivalry and excludability relate to copyright [...]

• National cultural canons as cultural policy Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:43:35 +0000

  There has been a resurgence in Europe for cultural policies focussing on national identity. This is most starkly evident in national cultural canons recently developed in Denmark, The Netherlands and Latvia. Danish expert Peter Duelund suggests that national identity is on the rise in British and French cultural policy as well, only in more subtly. Duelund considers interconnections [...]

• Arts card rated a success Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:43:24 +0000

  The Dutch Ministry of Culture is heralding the success of the first year of its Culture Card, a card distributed to secondary school students for spending on cultural activities. The cards, which were given to around 940,000 students for the 2008-2009 school year, came with a value of 15 euro, with an additional 10 euro available through a [...]