Our industry truly works above and beyond the limits. A beautiful and fragile thing to behold. In the lead up to TNN’s major event for 2016 ‘Beyond The Limits‘ we’ve been talking with our panellists and participants about their w ork at Artlands as well as their work, careers, and communities within the national context. The … Read More
Advocacy
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
Your voice counts
After meetings last week with Senator Mark Dreyfus, Tanya Plibersek MP, and Clare Jason MP plus additional requests for a Sydney public hearing, it seems that the NSW arts sector is being listened to. Add your voice to our latest ‘Five On Friday’ survey TNN Survey. This survey asks 5 very quick questions about the … Read More
So what do you really think?
This final survey report includes comments and reactions to the NPEA and the survey itself. With 59 respondents over a 5 and a half days survey period, the report gives a good indication of the feeling in our community about the impact of the budget announcements on our arts industry, our daily lives, and our … 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
Announcement of June 18 and July 2 #freethearts delegations
On Thursday June 18, fifty arts sector delegates from across Australia will gather in Canberra at Parliament house to participate in meetings, facilitated by Anne Dunn, with Senators Mark Dreyfus, Richard Di Natale, and (TBC) George Brandis. If you are one of the NSW delegates attending you will already have received this information but if, like many … Read More