AMPAG - Australian Major Performing Arts Group

08/07/2020

Industry forced into worst-case scenario planning as plans to reopen crushed for another four months

02/07/2020

Luke McGregor looks at the economic impact of the arts on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.

Charlie looks at the latest from Australia's COVID capital Sicktoria, we meet the 'Matiddlers', the Government tries to weather the bellwether, Luke McGregor gives the latest support package a kick up the Arts.

26/06/2020

Accessible Arts is seeking donations in support of Accessible Arts’ Bundanon Residency Fundraiser which will help send 5 amazing artists with disability to the prestigious Bundanon Trust for a career changing creative experience.

Accessible Arts is NSW’s peak arts and disability organisation. Because of the COVID impact, they need to raise $10,000 to deliver this program. All donations over $2 are tax deductible and you’ll get to engage personally with all the participating artists via online channels.

Lucas Wright (pictured) was one of the resident artists last year and his residency enabled him to create four new works for an exhibition at the Lismore Regional Gallery..

Please help Accessible Arts give artists with disability the chance to take their art and career to the next level. https://www.givenow.com.au/bundanonresidencyfundraiser

24/06/2020

"Money for art’s sake: creative workers ‘in dire need of support’ - Australia will lose “a generation of creative professionals” if Scott Morrison doesn’t move swiftly to support workers in the devastated arts and entertainment industries, a Senate committee into the COVID-19 response has heard."

Australia will lose a generation of creative professionals if Scott Morrison doesnt move swiftly to support workers in the devastated arts and entertainment industries, a Senate committee into the COVID-19 response has heard.

18/06/2020

La Boite Theatre Company is offering new opportunities through their pioneering HWY program to support local theatre-makers and boost artist employment in the state. The new HWY offering will provide six paid opportunities, including a 12-month commission for a local playwright or group of writers, a 6-month opportunity for interstate collaborators to develop a new work or an existing idea, and four 3-month development opportunities for artists or companies to seed new work for any one of La Boite’s spaces.

Applications will be open from now until Monday, 13 July 2020, with the application requirements and process differing per opportunity.

Six brand-new paid opportunities available with HWY Program.

17/06/2020

"Audiences may be rejoicing at the news, but the bums-on-seats business model the industry relies on makes social distancing rules unsustainable. Given that the arts industry was the first to shut down, and will be one of the last to re-open, its future is looking increasingly imperilled."

Audiences may be rejoicing at the news, but the bums-on-seats business model the industry relies on makes social distancing rules unsustainable. Given that the arts industry was the first to shut down, and will be one of the last to re-open, its future is looking increasingly imperilled.

10/06/2020

CINARS invites you to an international webinar led by 19 professional speakers from Europe, Asia, Oceania and America who will be sharing various initiatives aiming at maintaining the vitality of the performing arts, and of its encounter with the public, in these times of confinement and deconfinement. They will also discuss the changes imposed by the situation on the concepts of territories and touring. This meeting will give us a broad overview of a multitude of ideas and initiatives taken, as well as the problems encountered by many performing arts professionals around the world.

CINARS invites you to an international webinar led by 19 professional speakers from Europe, Asia, Oceania and America who will be sharing various initiatives aiming at maintaining the vitality of the performing arts, and of its encounter with the public, in these times of confinement and deconfineme...

10/06/2020

More than 30 of the state’s finest established and emerging artists will collaborate and present a series of isolation-inspired stories in an exciting new online project from State Theatre Company South Australia and ActNow Theatre.

https://www.ampag.com.au/article/stcsa-and-actnow-collaborate-on-new-online-project-decameron-2-0

10/06/2020

This excellent graphic by Origin8 Design Limited is an excellent demonstration of the complex network of relationships that make up the theatre industry. It's important to remember that the theatre industry is much bigger than that which an audience sees on the stage. For every show a theatre produces, an economy is created involving full time staff, casuals, freelancers, contractors, related industries such as hospitality and travel, and more.

Everyone in this chain benefits from the income derived from a show, giving an indication of the theatre economy's reach.

08/06/2020

Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, Moogahlin Performing Arts, and BlakDance are seeking feedback from First Peoples Independent Performing Arts sector to ensure your needs are being heard for sustaining your arts practice during and post-COVID-19 restrictions.

We ask all Independent First Peoples Performing Artists and and Arts Workers to please fill out this short survey. In it we ask about financial impacts, community impacts, and creative practice impacts.