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That's A Wrap!

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Smart Arts 20th Anniversary Special

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Marina Prior on Follies, Midsumma Festival 2025, Red Stitch 2025, TarraWarra's Intimate Imaginaries & ACCA’s new CEO and Artistic Director Myles Russell Cook

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Stuart Braithwaite, Women's Circus annual showcase, art & music therapy and the NDIS, My Brilliant Career, Skating in the Clouds

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ANAM's Sounds of Australia, La Mama & St Martins Youth Theatre fundraising, Adelaide Festival 2025 & PIECES

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Final days of MQFF, Parched, Waves and Bubbles, Big Music, and a Dancehouse double feature

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Asia Topa, Geelong Gallery, Benjamin Rivers, Glen Downey and Close Company

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The Poltergeist at La Mama, Gertrude Studios' 2024 exhibition, The Tina Turner Musical, Perth Festival 2025 & Your Name Means Dream at Red Stitch

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MQFF, Dominic Kavanagh, Rhinoceros & Sydney Festival 2025

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An Evening with Stephen Fry! Irish Film Festival, Adam Elliot, Victorian Opera 2025, The Rabble’s Wake AND Golden Blood

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Malthouse 2025, Amanda Haskard on ACMI, plus MELBOURNE FRINGE MINI SPECIAL: Alix Kuijpers' Grim Grinning Ghosts, Mitch Jones' Apocrypha and choreographer Oli Mathiesen

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Dredge, Radiant Pavillion 2024, Rick Prackoff's Verdi's Requiem and Michael Fikaris

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Poster Protest Art, The Cost of Living & Mother

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Disability advocacy in the arts, MAGMA exhibitions, PURE oil paintings, You're the Man and Around the World in 80 Days.

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And This Time the Well Is Alive, Secret Mall Apartment, Frankenstein, Stephen Cummins Retrospective and the Clyde Chabot Trilogy

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Drawn Out Comics, Fox Galleries, the heart whispers and whirls, Asia TOPA, MIFF and AG Founder Andrew Gyopar

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Irish rappers KNEECAP, Circus Arts, SCI-FI Exhibitions & National Poetry Month

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Scandinavian Film Festival, How do we remain; at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Ānanda: Dance of Joy and Two Remain.

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Midsumma needs a new home, Tristan Meecham's Queering the Collection, Melbourne Art Fair's New Director, Romeo & Julie plus movie turned opera, Breaking the Waves

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Redeveloping the Melbourne Arts Precinct, reviving Three Magpies in A Tree, Artist Kate Wallace, La Belle Epoque and Reclaim the Crone

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A Streetcar Named Desire, art partners, Jon & Jero and Abby Howells

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Thirty Years of APHIDS, Young Broadway Actors Chat Shrek & Opening Up Melbourne

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A scent-sual play, a sensual play, a sense-ual play and 50 years of Art Access Victoria

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Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion, Lucy Guerin Inc and run away to the NICA Circus

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MIFF 2024, CLIPPEDKilda and Blackout Songs

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The Shannon Michael Cane celebration, Michelle Hamer's 'I'm A Believer' and Arkadia, a dance opera

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The Odd Couple, Beings, Cutting through Time, and Comedy In The West

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Hold Me Closer Tony Danza, The Huxleys, Arts Wellbeing Collective's Navigate Well Resources

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Pia Johnson’s Re-Orient, Possum Magic and a couple of funny guys

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Arts Project Australia, State of Australian Regions Report, Akaraka and Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons!

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Palestinian Film Festival 2024, The Mary Wallopers, Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary, PHOTO 2024, and theatre theatre theatre!

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Yentl, Counting and Cracking, When We Were Young, Back to Back and Not Natural!

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Rock Musicals, Northern Irish Chavs, and 7 Hours of Theatre

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Celebrating local artists, program releases, cabaret, and a Broadcast Birthday!

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Marshmallow Lasers, Robot Painting Dogs & the 2024 Sydney Festival

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Exploring “Place”: 56 Printmakers Connect with Country & the Friendships Built Liberating Homelands

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Triennials, the Legacy of Blade Runner, the Resilience of Women and the Art of Waacking

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Performance Art Mania & Remembering Ukraine

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Dumplings, Dodgeball and Dancing 'In the Club'

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Sci-Fi Superheros Fighting Diabetes & Lighting up Laneways with Glowing Comics

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Insomniac Mixtapes, Art Fairs and Photography at the NGV

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Festival Frenzy: Irish Films, Fringe and Melbourne Jazz

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Queer Bushrangers and the Brand New Merribek Festival

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The Art Inspired by Being Struck by Lightning, and the 41st Melbourne Fringe Festival

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Radiothon 2023

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Breaking the Conventions of Theatre with Pony Cam

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Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism

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Road-tripping with two queer alien Elvises & ‘The Fence’

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Gail Mabo’s ‘Current’ & Swinburne Circus Art students face uncertainty

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The Impacts of the US writers and actors strike on Australian Art & a fresh take on Romeo and Juliet

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Brisbane Fest, a streetwide projection arts takeover and Joseph Nolan on Melbourne's Grand Organ

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Australian circus art under threat, and NAIDOC Week kicks off with ‘Dig Deeper’

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Puppets, NAVA, and Atmosphere

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A Climate for Art, Underneath Ms Archer and Nightshifts

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Shhhh, Oh Deer!, and Unison

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Circus art, Chagall and Darwin Festival 2023

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Saying no to coal in the arts, Local Laughs and Sonic Eclipse

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Ten Pound Poms, Tracker and Glass Design

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An adaptation of the world's oldest song, Tarrawarra Biennial and Dry My Tears

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Judith Lucy conquers theatre, MOTH & Eleventh Hour's 'Cavalcade'

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The commercial art world, Loaded and Lé Nør

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Selling Kabul, Oslo Davis on designing April Amnesty & Barry Humphries’ controversial legacy

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Archiving the Ephemeral & Baba: A love letter to Josh Ladgrove's grandmother

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The Briefing, Okkoota and Brown Women Comedy

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Adrienne Truscott and Le Gateau Chocolat, on walking the fine line that delineates marginalised perspectives

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Nothing deep, Mystery in a blimp and self-portraits by VCA staff

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Bernhardt/Hamlet, Desire Lines and WAY

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Women on comics, growing up on a dairy farm and two comedy shows at once

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Grief Trilogy, Sh*t and Frame

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Art Attack, Not All Dictators and The Crocodile

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Drawn Out, Romancing the Streetscape and Revive

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Midsumma, Queen of Heaven and Icebergs to Iguanas

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The year in theatre, Linden Postcard Show and Adelaide Festival 2023

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Peter Booth, Staging a Revolution and The General Public

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Snuff Puppets, Barbara Hepworth and The Waste Land

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Sydney Festival, Drawn Out and Red Stitch

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Fragile Skin, Next Wave’s All School and NGV: Melbourne Now

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Malthouse 2023, Thanks For Having Me and GODZ

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Australian Ballet, Melbourne Fringe and the Nicholas Building’s new vision

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Irish Film Festival, Where Lakes Once Had Water and Shelley Lasica

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Melbourne on Film at MIFF, Faint Echoes and Medea

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Rebel, Homophonic! and Light Works

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Drawn Out, Still Life and Australianness on Screen

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Dorian Gray, Conjurer At The Card Table and Rawcus

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Replay Festival, Common Thread and Illuminate Adelaide

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Picasso, Passing Strange and The Keir Choreographic Award

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Mother Courage, Under The Surface and Set Piece

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Mette Ingvartsen, Rewards for The Tribe and Triceratops

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Myanmar, To Schapelle and Back and Hercules

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The Return, Light & Shade and The View From Up Here

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Floating Gallery, Meatus and ANAM Set Festival

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RISING, Venice Biennale for New Zealand, Photo 2022 and Southside Festival

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On Golden Days, Hamlet and The Heartbreak Choir

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Platform Papers, Can’t Complain and Double Feature

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Art Attack, Bunny and Bigger and Blacker

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Theatre Reviews, Comedy fest with Amanda Jane Pritchard and Circa's ON

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The Rabble, Distant Things Appear Suddenly Near and Apparitions

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Theatre Reviews, Happy End and Hamilton

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Reigen, Flux Job and Queer Stories at The NGV

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Rider Spoke, Chronic Cabaret and Creative Start-Up