Day: August 24, 2020

Recipients Announced For Play Local Funding For Music and Arts Venues – Broadway World

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Funding of $812, 635 will fund 52 live music and performing arts venues throughout Queensland.

Outcomes for Play Local were announced on the 20 August 2020. Play Local funding of $812, 635 will fund 52 live music and performing arts venues throughout the state to host performances by Queensland acts and artists.

These include:

Artemus Events $19,930 – ARTEMUS and Dust Temple will resume with the concert program, plus the Saturday Morning Sounds Singer-songwriter sessions.…

Hungry Ghosts on SBS: Groundbreaking Australian series examines our shared cultural heritage – The Cairns Post

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The bamboo steamers were a dead giveaway.

Shawn Seet, the director of miniseries Hungry Ghosts, which started last night on SBS and goes for another three nights, knew as soon as he walked onto the set that the presence of bamboo steamers was wrong.

“I said, ‘no Asian family would have bamboo steamers there, they’d all be stainless steel!’,” Seet told news.com.au.

It’s a small detail but what viewers now see on screen is more …