It's the career boost many young playwrights dream of - winning a major drama award. Read full story >

Talented young musician Michael Gavriel is one step closer to becoming a professional artist after winning the inaugural Billy Thorpe Scholarship. Read full story >

More than 200 writers from around the globe will take centre stage at Brisbane Writers Festival, 17-21 September. Read full story >

Music experts from across the world will descend on Brisbane next week for the seventh annual BIG SOUND Music Industry Summit and Showcase. Read full story >

A play published by Queensland script and playwright development agency, Playlab, has won the prestigious Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE). Read full story >

Australia Council for the Arts Chair James Strong launched BoardConnect to an audience of arts workers and businesspeople at the State Library of Queensland on Friday 29 september. Read full story >

Arts Queensland has received a number of responses to the Creative Production Hubs Scoping Study Discussion Paper, addressing the full spectrum of ideas, opportunities and issues that the initiative explores. Read full story >

A giant mosaic made by communities across Queensland to celebrate the state's 150th birthday will be permanently displayed at the RNA Showgrounds in time for EKKA 2009. Read full story >

The Stylin'UP Regional Big Trip recently provided young people from Indigenous communities the chance to travel to Brisbane for five days to rehearse a creative performance with SpeakOut's arts workers. Read full story >

Brisbane's thriving arts scene was in the spotlight at the recent Brisbane Artist Run Initiative Festival. Read full story >

Queensland author David Malouf travels to Scotland this month as the Scottish Arts Council's second Muriel Spark International Fellow. Read full story >

The winners of Arts Queensland's Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and Val Vallis Award were announced at a gala event celebrating the opening of the 2008 Queensland Poetry Festival. Read full story >

Townsville's Tropic Sun theatre company has just returned to Australia after performing two sold-out shows at South Korea's International Theatre Festival. Read full story >

Award-winning artists Dennis Nona and Alick Tipoti have their bags packed for a series of overseas exhibitions that will take their work to the UK and the United States. Read full story >

The Ideas Festival is a marketplace of ideas. We bring together thinkers, creators, makers and doers from diverse fields of endeavour to present their breakthrough thinking and cutting-edge work. Read full story >

The nine artists short-listed for the inaugural $75 000 Premier of Queensland's National Art Award in New Media have been announced. Read full story >

The Queensland Museum at South Bank and Workshops Rail Museum at Ipswich will deliver an exciting program of interactive activities and workshops for children these school holidays. Read full story >

The largest exhibition of contemporary architecture in an Australian art museum and a display of failures in modern art, architecture and design are current features at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). Read full story >

Visitors to the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) this month will be able to view artists' books at Freestyle Books and explore Queensland country life as it was in the 1800s. Read full story >

The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts (JWCOCA) welcomed new resident poet Michael Hofmann to the fold last month when he began his three-month residency. Read full story >

The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts (JWCOCA) has been busy putting the final touches on their new performance space, Shopfront. Read full story >

JUTE Theatre has taken the classic seven sins and added a modern and distinctly Australian twist to their new production, 7 Deadly Australian Sins. Read full story >

The $50 000 Red Ochre Award pays tribute to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist who, throughout their lifetime, has made outstanding contributions to the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts at both national and international levels. Read full story >

A half-day workshop demonstrating how to identify good-fit foundations and uncover 'hidden' foundations, as well as how an organisation can attract grants, structure and formulate an effective submission, and examine strategies for building and managing productive relationships. Read full story >

Applications are being invited from Australian artists working across disciplines, cultures, and mediums to participate in the 6th Time_Place_Space laboratory, a national initiative that aims to challenge, invigorate and strengthen the areas of hybrid arts practice in Australia, with an emphasis on performance. Read full story >

Public sector employees with responsibilities for grants and funding; finance and reporting; program and contracts management, and community development projects are invited to attend the Grants and Funding Agreements in the Public Sector Conference, 24-25 September. Read full story >

The Australian Government is calling for a service provider to design and implement a comprehensive and exciting cultural program for the Australian Pavilion's cultural program at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Read full story >

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The Australia Council for the Arts and Ausdance have launched Dance Plan 2012 - a four-year action plan for the Australian dance sector. Read full story >

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The Australia Council for the Arts Track Record program provides support for career music managers interested in developing international markets for Australian musicians. Read full story >

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During september to November 2008, Arts Queensland is undertaking an evaluation of the Queensland Arts Industry Sector Development Plan. Read full story >

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Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett has tabled the Australian Government's response to the 29 broad recommendations outlined in the Senate Inquiry Report Indigenous Art: Securing the future. Full details are available at the website.

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Kultour presents an annual touring program of professional contemporary multicultural arts around Australia. Kultour provides opportunities for artists to reach new audiences in new areas and offers these audiences insight into multicultural issues and arts. Read full story >

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The new Bachelor of Creative Arts (Media and Performance) will be offered at the Cairns campus of James Cook University, commencing in 2009. Read full story >

We welcome feedback and contributions to Arts Update. Please contact the editor, Colleen Turner on (07) 3225 8841 or email artsupdate@arts.qld.gov.au