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An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Program Magnum photographer and one of the most important colour photographers of the last 40 years, Alex Webb (USA), is best known for his vibrant and complex colour work, particularly from Latin...

A fresh and less-nostalgic photographic exposé of Sydney’s disappearing industrial heritage, by emerging photographer Reiner Spliedt.

The striking steel-blues and deep black hues of Reiner’s dramatic...

Appiness is for people who love to make something new. We invite designers, engineers and entrepreneurs to gather for two and a half days of relentless creativity to build brand new apps that truly help people.

The competition...

The Future of Arts Publishing, Journalism and Criticism

Declining print space, new digital platforms, ebooks, emags, longform, self-publishing, Twitter and old school, real life collectives - this panel looks at the rapidly...

An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Program

Renowned photojournalist and co-founder of NOOR picture agency Francesco Zizola (Italy), together with digital imaging expert Claudio Palmisano (Italy), founded what is...

Actually, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is not one play but two. Millennium Approaches and Perestroika were the closing statements of last century - an epic double-comedy of love and hate, heaven and earth, past and future....

Various forces have gathered in New York: the ex-boyfriend and his Mormon squeeze, the squeeze's pill-popping wife and Mormon mother, a rabid Republican lawyer, a black nurse and the Angel of America. And Prior Walter has the future of the world...

An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Program

Renowned photojournalist and co-founder of NOOR Agency and 10B Photography, Francesco Zizola (Italy) has photographed some of the world's major conflicts and hidden...

Adena Jacobs' staging of Ingmar Bergman's film packed out houses at Melbourne's Theatre Works in 2012. It was one of the finest pieces of theatre in the country all year.

Elizabeth is an actress. One night, in the...

Yarrie Bangura grew up in a camp in Guinea. She is doing her HSC. Aminata Doumbia is from Sierra Leone. She is an ambassador for the UNHCR. Big Mama Rosemary Kariuki is from Kenya. She is a community leader and she knows how to live. Yordy...

Julie is still in her teens. She is rich because her father is rich. Jean is not rich, but he would quite like to be. They have this much in common: they would both like to rule their own lives, they both think they can get that from each other, and...

Orestes has come back to bury his father. He has been away a long time. His mother is hardened, his sister is strangely ill. He will see them, he will bury his father and then, in all likelihood, he will drift away again. But in a bar one night,...

Every generation feels the irresistible compulsion to attempt to stage this, the greatest play by the greatest playwright. Then, they are haunted by the ghosts of past Hamlets: Olivier, Gielgud... Roxburgh. It takes the perfect combination of...

Back in the early 1970s a group of pioneering Indigenous theatremakers occupied a dilapidated terrace in Redfern and started the National Black Theatre. The first full-length play they staged was Robert J. Merritt's The Cake Man. A droll...

At a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, the people of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve went head-to-head with the Aboriginal Protection Board. Their goal was both simple and revolutionary: to be allowed to continue the brilliant experiment in...