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InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: Tutti Arts founder receives national award, writers’ residency opportunity in the Blue Mountains, canine casting call for Adelaide Uni musical, meet the ACE studio artists, ASO on tour, and an artist’s remote adventure.
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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.
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Sadness, fear and anger are just some of the emotions felt by the founders of Slingsby when they learned their federal funding had been axed. But the Adelaide theatre company will fight to survive, writes artistic director Andy Packer.
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.
