New Zealanders forced to say goodbye to loved ones via Zoom
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French horn player Michael Dixon is one of the New Zealanders living in Australia who have missed the funerals of their parents and other family events because of travel restrictions between the countries.
French horn player Michael Dixon at the City Recital Hall in Sydney.
Credit:Milen Boubbov
Dr Dixon was disappointed he could not attend his father’s funeral on January 2 and his mother’s funeral on January 13.
New Zealand makes all travellers, including those from Australia, undertake two weeks’ mandatory quarantine. Special travel arrangements allowing people from New Zealand to travel to Australia without quarantine have been suspended for three more days from Thursday after three cases of a highly contagious strain of COVID-19 were detected in Auckland.
COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund secures the future of Melbourne Art Fair
Ronnie van Hout, Surrender, 2018 (Commission by Bendigo Art Gallery in partnership with the Melbourne Art Foundation and supported by Artwork Transport) Installation view, Melbourne Art Fair 2018.
MELBOURNE
.-Melbourne Art Foundation today announced it is a recipient of the Australian Governments COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund, which is designed to assist systemically significant Australian arts organisations that face a risk to their sustainability due to the impact of COVID-19.
The Australian Government has recognised the Melbourne Art Foundation, alongside The National Institute of Dramatic Art, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Museum of Contemporary Art, as a leading arts organisation with good prospects of maintaining its viability.
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.
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Melbourne Symphony rocks Wyndham
Wyndham City is in discussions with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for its return to Wyndham Park following the success of last Friday’s Summer Series event.
More than 900 people attended the sold-out event and a further 2000 people viewed the event via live stream.
The Summer Series event was the first of the MSO’s free outdoor concert series.
Spectators were enthralled by the MSO’s world-class musicians who performed excerpts and short works from much-loved music, including renowned pieces by Mozart and Beethoven, plus contemporary classics.
Children were entertained earlier in the day with a music workshop which included a 30-minute performance with music from the Nutcracker.
Ben Folds will take to the stage alongside the MSO across two nights in January and February. Beloved musician and master of many genres, Ben Folds, is set to join forces with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for two special performances on Sunday January 31 and Monday February 1 at Melbourne’s Plenary. The performances were originally […]