With our sector’s wellbeing firmly on TNN’s agenda, Jane Kreis took the opportunity to get all the details on Arts Centre Melbourne’s ‘Arts Wellbeing Collective’ last week so that NSW might be able to develop its own platform. Tracy Margieson, Arts Wellbeing Collective’s Project Coordinator with Arts Centre Melbourne, met with Jane to explain how it … Read More
Support
A big blog of February grant & fellowships
Charles Perkins Centre Writer in Residence Fellowship The Charles Perkins Centre Writer in Residence Fellowship will recognise an Australian writer working in a creative genre (including fiction, poetry, performance, creative non-fiction, digital media, screen) who has published a major work, or has had it performed/produced professionally within the past five years. The Charles Perkins Centre … Read More
Your wellbeing on the agenda for 2017
Earlier this year Entertainment Assist released some critical research findings on individual wellbeing and mental heath in the Australian arts and entertainment industry which TNN reported on in July [How Are You?]. Although shocking and saddening, this research is also extremely valuable and useful because it provides us all with a better awareness of the … Read More
Invitation to join UTP for Mental Health Training
Do you need a mental health day? This coming Monday, 24th of October Urban Theatre Projects has a great event focussing on mental health. As a brief background, UTP has invited Director of Shoalhaven Arts and Health, Annette Tesoriero (an accomplished mezzo soprano, founding member of The opera Project, and an accredited instructor in both … Read More
‘How Are You’? Checking in on facts and feelings in our industry
Industry Mental Health & ADSA 2016 At the recent Australian Drama Studies Association (ADSA) TNN was stunned by Entertain Assist’s recent Research Report: Mental Health in Australian Entertainment Industry. Please share these findings with your friends, family and colleagues and watch out for further updates in our e-news and services. This is going to take whole … Read More
Arts Audiences doing it for themselves
with over 13,500 voters asking their MPs to
‘Stand with The Arts’
[embedyt]https://youtu.be/lj-Cz5H5974[/embedyt] Curtain calls and events across NSW since Friday 17 June have seen over 3500 audience members write directly to their Federal MPs asking for stronger, more sustainable support and recognition for the Australian arts industry. 10,000 more have made this request via the istandwiththearts.com website. Wesley Enoch, Sydney Festival Director, stands with the arts … Read More
Raising the curtain on campaign to audiences
Starting this Friday 17 June and continuing until the federal election, every theatre company in NSW and many of the state’s major venues will campaign directly to audiences to get government funding cuts restored to the Australia Council for the Arts, as part of a national campaign aimed at reversing cuts.Companies campaigning directly to audiences … Read More
The Sydney Senate Beat
Senate Inquiry Meetings If you submitted to the inquiry and have been invited to present to either of these hearings we invite you to one of two meetings on Tuesday, 3rd of November. These meetings have been developed by TNN, Feral Arts, Paul Abood, and ArtsPeak to help you prepare and meet with others who … Read More
About last night – a united sector responds to the national funding vacuum
Our Future in Their Hands – with thanks to Feral Arts for the live stream and Australian Theatre for Young People for the venue and all who attended! The consensus last night was that WE (individually and as a united ecology of micro, small, medium, independent, major, key, regional, metropolitan, western, culturally and creatively diverse … Read More
National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA) Guidelines released – inquiry submission and NPEA feedback information & support
Dear Associates and Peers, If you can’t attend tonight’s Free the Arts forum (scroll down for agenda) at ATYP in Sydney it will be streamed from 6.00pm EST. You can access the stream on the Free the Arts Facebook page: Free The Arts Facebook or via the LiveStream event page Free the Arts Livestream On twitter please … Read More