Opinion
New five-year arts plans by the Australia Council and South Australia acknowledge challenges facing the sector, but fail to provide vital funding and structural support for a diverse arts culture, writes Jo Caust.
InReview
Federal funding cuts have forced the planned merger of two Adelaide independent visual arts organisations that have operated in the city for a combined total of more than 100 years.
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Federal funding cuts could spell the end of Meanjin, a 75-year-old Australian literary magazine which has published writers such as Patrick White, Helen Garner, Peter Carey, Judith Wright, JM Coetzee and Dorothy Porter.
A number of South Australian performing and visual arts organisations face a shaky future after missing out on federal funding in cuts that are expected to have a dramatic and lasting impact on the sector.
South Australia’s small to medium arts sector is going through “very dark days” as organisations learn this week if they will receive ongoing federal funding, says Arts Industry Council of SA chair Gail Kovatseff.
The show may not go on for around a third of SA’s arts companies facing government funding cuts, State Theatre Company executive director Rob Brookman told a rally in Adelaide.
