NIDA gets second act after emergency funding
Jan 21, 2021 – 11.34am
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NIDA chief executive Liz Hughes in the props workshop of the performing arts school. NIDA is one of four major arts organisations to share $9 million in emergency government funding.
Louise Kennerley
The acting school that produced Cate Blanchett and Mel Gibson is among four major arts companies facing ruin which will share in $9 million of emergency funding from the federal government.
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) joins the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney s Museum of Contemporary Art and the Melbourne Art Foundation as the first beneficiaries of a $35 million sustainability fund , announced as part of the Morrison government s $250 million arts rescue package last June.