‘The end game is this work becomes irrelevant’: play tackles Indigenous youth suicide with acrobatics
The Man with the Iron Neck examines Indigenous suicide with sensitivity, warmth and a dose of hyperreal....
22 January, 2019
‘Ruthless’: David Williamson’s new play puts showbiz under the microscope
If playwright David Williamson wasn't in show business, he says he would be an experimental social psychologist....
21 January, 2019
Media Files: Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian’s Kath Viner on the big media stories of 201
Today we’re taking a look back at some of the biggest issues of 2018 with special guest Kath Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian....
06 December, 2018
A journey into intimacy: Exploring the art of Joy Hester and Patricia Piccinini
"Most people look at my pieces and find them repulsive,"...
03 December, 2018
New Breed review: Always worth seeing, this year filled with surprises
Two intriguing surprises lift this year’s New Breed – emerging choreographers working with members of the Sydney Dance Company – from its customary worth-seeing category into the unexpected: a world of the imagination....
02 December, 2018
Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester united by love
The word "love" covers a multitude of feelings that span everything from sexual desire to a connection with the environment....
24 November, 2018
Walkley Awards 2018: Guardian Australia’s Deaths inside project recognised
Guardian Australia’s Deaths inside project, which tracked Indigenous deaths in custody since 2008, has won the innovation award at the 63rd Walkley awards for excellence in journalism....
23 November, 2018
Meet Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed of choreographers
These four women are showing new work in the company's annual showcase of emerging choreographers. ...
22 November, 2018
Australian First: Wearable Device to improve youth mental health
In an Australian first, an innovative new program will be piloted in Western Sydney to test how wearable e-health devices can improve the lives of young people with severe mental illness....
02 November, 2018
Man With the Iron Neck is gripping, confronting physical theatre
In the foyer of the Brisbane Powerhouse, the audience is greeted by a statement from co-creators Ursula Yovich and Josh Bond: “This story. Not black but white as well. To open up a conversation and come out the other side together.”...
03 October, 2018
And that’s a wrap: Fifty years of public art on show
One of Australia's best known and most infamous public art projects, the 1969 wrapping in fabric of a 2.5km stretch of the coastline at Little Bay, all began with a stale sandwich in a warehouse squat in New York's SoHo....
24 September, 2018
Silence is golden but not when it’s permanent
Everyone likes their quiet time. As the saying goes, silence is golden. But you want silence only on your terms, a temporary reprieve, not to be denied the ability to hear the world in all its chaotic glory. ...
14 September, 2018
Future secured for Art Gallery of South Australia’s dynamic teen program with renewed investment from The Balnaves Foundation
The Art Gallery of South Australia has announced renewed support for Neo from Program Partner, The Balnaves Foundation. Securing the program’s future until 2021, the recent funding has placed The Balnaves Foundation’s total investment in the Gallery at over $2 million....
03 September, 2018
Love and intimacy explored through the eyes of Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester in major new exhibition
Love and intimacy will be the focus of a major new exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art that pairs the work of globally renowned artist Patricia Piccinini with that of important Australian modernist Joy Hester....
30 August, 2018
TELLING NEW INDIGENOUS STORIES – BELVOIR AWARDS BALNAVES FOUNDATION ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER FELLOWSHIP
Belvoir has announced Kodie Bedford as the recipient of the Balnaves Foundation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship, an evolution of the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright Award....
29 August, 2018
Investing in Territory Kids and Generational Change – Hearing for Learning
A public private partnership between the Northern Territory Government, Australian Government and the Balnaves Foundation is addressing chronic hearing problems in Territory children....
14 August, 2018
New Breed 2018 – Meet the New Breed of Australian Choreographers
Sydney Dance Company and Carriageworks, in conjunction with The Balnaves Foundation, announce four Australian choreographers commissioned to create works for the acclaimed New Breed initiative that supports Australia’s next generation of dance-makers. ...
07 August, 2018
Breathless: the death of David Dungay Jr – a new podcast series
A podcast series launched today by Guardian Australia and 2SER tells the story of David Dungay Jr, a young Indigenous man who died in Long Bay jail in 2015 after a disagreement about a packet of biscuits....
13 July, 2018
$25,000 LAUNCH PAD FOR NEW TALENT AT BELVOIR
Belvoir is now accepting entries for the 2018 Balnaves Foundation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship, an evolution of The Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright Award and an outstanding launching pad for new talent with a $25,000 paid residency at Belvoir....
10 July, 2018
Dark Emu comes to the community
Inspired by Bruce Pascoe's award-winning book of the same name, Bangarra Dance Theatre's Dark Emu explores the vital life force of flora and fauna and challenges the 'hunter-gatherer' myth of pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians....
30 May, 2018
Hanging art and VR come to unexpected spaces in the national gallery
The National Gallery of Australia teamed up with Sydney philanthrophic organisation The Balnaves Foundation to commission an annual series of intervention art by Australian contemporary artists....
08 May, 2018
Philanthropy’s Increasing Role in Australian Civil Society
Philanthropy is playing an increasing role in supporting civil society in Australia, according to key stakeholders of a new philanthropic fund to support public interest journalism....
05 April, 2018
Adelaide Biennial of Australian art – a contemporary snapshot tackling big social issues
Divided Worlds straddles ideological and geographical gulfs with its collection of sculpture, photography, installation, video and painting....
07 March, 2018
Philanthropy supports journalism initiative with Indigenous affairs at its heart
Guardian Australia announces the agreement of a $300,000 philanthropic grant from The Balnaves Foundation to the Guardian Civic Journalism Trust to help deliver in-depth coverage of Indigenous affairs....
05 March, 2018
Thyestes
I think it was Peter Brook who said the longest that a staging of a play could remain vital was five years. ...
01 March, 2018
My Name is Jimi: Family keeps fire of culture burning in Torres
This is an exhilarating and affecting show, simply told with great humour, a splendid sense of mischief and a brilliant feeling for story and theatre....
11 January, 2018
Giving circle and new corporate donors help Adelaide Biennial raise $1.2 million
South Australia’s flagship contemporary art exhibition secures 37% increase in donations over 2016, thanks to continued support from The Balnaves Foundation, the generosity of new business donors and an expansion of its giving circle program....
10 January, 2018
Barbara and the Camp Dogs at the Belvoir enriches the heart
Barbara is a glorious figure — a wild, angry, foul-mouthed, rebellious singer who travels back to Darwin, then Katherine, with her sister Rene and her band, the Camp Dogs. They are visiting the mother who brought them up and who is now dying. ...
08 December, 2017
Rosemary Laing’s Buddens photographs force us to think
Rosemary Laing’s photographs of place may appear at first glance to be empty. In the contemplation of them, however, it becomes clear that although they are not full of the figures of people, they are replete with the echoes of passage and inhabitation....
29 November, 2017
Community Night for Bennelong at the Sydney Opera House
Bangarra's Community Nights are dedicated performances for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and tickets are just $15....
01 August, 2017