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53 document(s) in Culture.

Talk about changing the world, here's to great ideas
What if Sydney is not all harbourside and hedonistic airheads but instead a hotbed of intellectual curiosity?
Sydney Morning Herald 04/05/2013     no charge     440 words

A red dawn hovers over the West's privilege of cultural supremacy
Turns out Robert Downey jnr is a Sinophile. "I live a very Chinese life in America," he recently declared. I don't know what that means, either. But I'm pretty sure it has a lot to do with money. He was speaking at the international promotional launch of Iron Man 3, which took place not in Los Angeles, New York or London, but in Beijing. Behind the gates of the Forbidden City, no less.
Sydney Morning Herald 03/05/2013     no charge     966 words

New generation gets a taste
Families passed down secrets at a cook-off, writes KATE WALSH.
Illawarra Mercury 26/04/2013     no charge     614 words

Speaking of respect
ACKNOWLEDGING the original owners of our land is one of those interesting and sometimes contentious flourishes that have become common at public ceremonies.
Newcastle Herald 09/04/2013     no charge     586 words

Taskforce will consider a live music precinct
A COMMUNITY-LED taskforce being set up to create a live music policy for Wollongong will consider a 'precinct' model that is gaining momentum in Leichhardt.
Illawarra Mercury 30/03/2013     no charge     325 words

The cultural policy we had to have
The federal government's new cultural policy, Creative Australia, has had a delayed entrance, but has been worth waiting for. The $235 million policy was conceived at the Australia 2020 summit in Canberra in April 2008 - it is one of the few ideas from that mass gabfest to come to fruition - and finally made its public debut on Wednesday at the National Press Club, with Arts Minister Simon Crean doing the honours. Compared with the spectacular launch of the policy's predecessor, Creative Nation, ...
The Age 16/03/2013     no charge     597 words

Giving thanks to creative notions
Some time ago, when I briefly abandoned daily journalism to work for the Australian Ballet (not as a dancer), the company's then general manager, Ian McRae, told me: "The Australian Ballet is what you see on stage: everything else, although important, is secondary."
The Age 16/03/2013     no charge     791 words

Chairman delighted at $75m boost
It's hard to bite the hand that feeds you a $75.3 million increase in funding. The Australia Council is "delighted" about the announcements in the federal government's cultural policy, according to its chairman, Rupert Myer. "The Australia Council is delighted that Creative Australia positions our organisation as a pivotal driver of the nation's cultural future," he said. Myer (pictured) particularly welcomed the funding boost announced by Arts Minister Simon Crean. The funding increase over four ...
Sydney Morning Herald 14/03/2013     no charge     219 words

It's not (just) about the money
Speaking at a Currency House breakfast in Sydney on Wednesday, Wharf Revue co-creator and satirist Jonathan Biggins, said the goal of artists should be to "make the ordinary extraordinary" and aim for excellence. "And the best way government - and business - can assist us in doing that is not, funnily enough, by handing out money," he said. "It's by placing this cultural continuum firmly on the national agenda, by giving it relevance and respect in the social conversation. Talking it up, in other ...
Sydney Morning Herald 14/03/2013     no charge     186 words

Hardly a mention but funds welcomed
Authors got scant mention in the new cultural policy, but executive director of the Australian Society of Authors Angelo Loukakis said on a first pass the policy "looked good" and welcomed the focus on the needs of artists. He also said authors would appreciate the attention to the Australia Council and that added funds would go directly to artists. "The ASA argued to the Australia Council for a boost in direct investment in authors because of the decline in real value of grants and fellowships ...
Sydney Morning Herald 14/03/2013     no charge     235 words