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Arts funding lost in translation

31 May 2023

With peak bodies hit hard in the State Government’s latest funding round, Victoria Laurie looks at the cost for the arts and some of its biggest advocates.

Leah Shelton performing in her work ‘Bitch on Heat’ at The Blue Room Theatre during Fringe World 2019. Photo: FenLan Chuang. A woman (Leah Shelton) wearing a reg wig and a nude bodysuit, stabbing something covered by a while sheet with a knife. More pain as funding suspended

Features

More pain as funding suspended

8 May 2020

Rosalind Appleby investigates the reasoning behind the cancellation of key State Government arts funding, and how it impacts the local arts sector.

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Seesaw Magazine acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work and live, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region. Continue

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Arts funding lost in translation

More pain as funding suspended

Seesaw Magazine acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work and live, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.
Continue