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Five things about solitude: Reflections on self-isolating alone
While writing her book She I Dare Not Name: A Spinsters Meditation on Life, Donna Ward thought a lot about…
Arts: Healing balms for a sick world
Professor Peter O’Connor has long been an advocate of art's importance in healing after trauma. Here, he gives his views…
Book review: The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
The Animals in That Country is an eerily prescient story of a novel virus which leaves those affected with the…
5 tips for wellbeing in lockdown
Psychologist and soprano Greta Bradman, a member of the Arts Wellbeing Collective Advisory Group, offers up some simple advice about…
Why marketing is important now, more than ever
With COVID-19 closures, visibility for arts organisations is more important than ever to maintain audiences, and grow new support.
COVID-19 has been a boon for crafts
Who’d have thought a pandemic would trigger a global renaissance for the craft sector, as a balm for both the…
Book review: Almost a Mirror by Kirsten Krauth
A novel of reminiscence for a different time: 1980s Australia and its rumbustious music scene.
Reimagining the dinosaur: opera after COVID-19
In a post-coronavirus world, opera has a unique opportunity to redress and re-birth for lasting change.
Book review: Fighting for our Lives by Nick Cook
In the early 1980s, a then unknown virus, later identified as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), began to infect people…
8 ideas for artists homeschooling kids
If you are a parent with children, chances are you are a homeschooler now. Writer Elissa Blake has been homeschooling…