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$8m boost expands QPAC’s programming

In some funding good news, QPAC's First Nations programming encourages the creation of more Indigenous productions and storytelling.

16 Aug 2019

Alison Croggon

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Clancestry returns to QPAC in November this year. Image Clancestry

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has expanded its First Nations programming after an $8m funding boost. Queensland Minister for the Arts Leeanne Enoch said the Queensland Government was providing $2 million a year to support QPAC to grow its programming and engagement across Queensland, including the telling of more First Nations stories.

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Alison Croggon

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Alison Croggon is an award-winning novelist, poet, theatre writer and critic. She has 30 years experience reviewing performance for outlets such as The Australian, the ABC and The Monthly and generated an international reputation as a performance critic with her influential blog Theatre Notes. In 2009 she was the first online critic to win the prestigious Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year Award. Twitter: @alisoncroggon