Sharing the joy – my unexpected year of music
BY PAT JAFFE We would like to give a warm welcome to Pat in his first story as a CutCommon contributor. As the end of […]
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Staying connected as an independent artist during COVID-19
BY SIMEON WALKER We would like to give a warm welcome to Simeon in his first blog with CutCommon. It’s fair to say 2020 has […]
How I coped running a studio while pregnant during COVID-19
BY WENDY ZHANG Running a private music studio and keeping it afloat during the pandemic year is challenging enough. But finding out you are pregnant […]
Monash University plans to cut its musicology subjects. Why does this matter?
BY PETER TREGEAR, PRINCIPAL FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE This article was first published in The Conversation. We’re sharing it with you because we think this […]
Motivation in the time of corona
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER (NSW) On the whole, humans operate marvellously well under small amounts of stress. In fact, it’s sort of why stress […]
Jenny Eriksson: “We make art, even in a crisis”
BY JENNY ERIKSSON, FOUNDER OF ELYSIAN FIELDS My Swedish grandfather, a working-class merchant seaman from Stockholm, stepped off a ship in Melbourne in the 1920s. […]
Why I will always believe in opera’s future
BY STELLA JOSEPH-JARECKI We would like to welcome Stella in her first blog published with CutCommon! Many people believe opera is a ‘dead’ artform – […]
Pandemic diary #8: The road to freedom
BY JO ST LEON “I think [the earth is] sending us a message: ‘You are not necessary. The air, earth, water and sky without you […]
During COVID-19, the community is adopting its own creative voice – and it’s loud
BY CHANTAL NGUYEN The first thing to go was the sound of planes. My suburb, an unassuming huddle of Victorian workers’ cottages, lay ordinarily under […]
Composing lullabies for our most vulnerable moments
BY NAT BARTSCH The Australian summer was one to remember: eerie orange skies; the smell of smoke in your house from fires 200km away; trips […]