Australian circus art under threat, and NAIDOC Week kicks off with ‘Dig Deeper’

Richard Hull, CEO of Flying Fruit Fly Circus explains the devastating impacts Swinburne University’s decision to freeze the National Institute for Circus Arts' student intake in 2024, may have on circus in Australia; Artist Ben McKeown on ‘Dig Deeper’, a portrait of four different Indigenous and First Nations artists, premiering at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival; Director Steven Mitchell Wright & Actor Justin Hosking on revisiting the canonised Australian theatre production, ‘Away’; Opera director Lindy Hume on the new production of ‘Idomeneo,’ by the Victorian Opera and Opera Australia.