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Lowdown is Australia’s national youth performing arts magazine. Published every two months, Lowdown covers the astonishingly diverse range of youth arts experiences that are on offer throughout Australia.

June/July issue of Lowdown Magazine is out now!

Find out what’s in store around the country in theatre, music, dance, puppetry, circus and more in Lowdown Magazine!

In the wake of changes in Arts NSW funding arrangements for 2009, Lowdown sets out to investigate the decisions affecting NSW companies. On Jigsaw Theatre Company’s 35th birthday, former artistic director Peter Wilkins gives us a brief history and shares his thoughts about its continued survival and success. Nina Levy reports on the 2009 Australian Youth Dance Festival, hosted by Ausdance WA and held in Wandurah, WA. Daniel Evans explores how Backbone Youth Arts and Opera Queensland are taking the opera to an entirely new audience with their new work dirty_@apple.

In every issue Lowdown provides informed and intelligent reviews of shows from every state and territory. In this issue we review Maxine Mellor’s Mystery Project by Queensland Theatre Company and the State Library of Queensland. Susanne Kennedy reviews two very different shows presented in Tasmania's Ten Days on the Island Festival; local community art project This is Living by Big hART and Martha by Scotland's Catherine Wheels Theatre Company. Anna Held reviews new work Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd by Victoria’s Arena Theatre Company.

Lowdown keeps you up to date with the latest youth performing arts news and opportunities as well as letting you know about workshops, shows, festivals and events happening in your local area. It provides a forum for practitioners in the youth performing arts sector, profiles major events and outstanding work, and reports on innovation and emerging artists. Would you dare miss it?

To read about the latest news and opportunities in youth performing arts, subscribe to Lowdown now by visiting their website at www.carclew.org.au/lowdown, call the Lowdown office on (08) 8267 5111 or email lowdown@carclew.org.au.

Don’t forget our STUDENT SUBSCRIPTION RATE of only $49.50 for six issues!

June 09 feature-NSW arts funding

June 09 feature review-Maxine Mellor's Mystery Project

Lowdown is Australia's only youth performing arts magazine. For more information about us please read our latest issue's editorial.

The magazine has a fresh new design and was re-launched and celebrated during the ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival in Adelaide in May. Contact us to get your copy of the Lowdown Guide: Youth Performing Arts in Australia, which was produced collaboratively by Lowdown magazine and the Australia Council to showcase export-ready Australian work for young audiences. Our latest 08/09 edition of Directions, the National Guide to Performing Arts in Australia is out, order your copy now!

Jane Gronow - Editor

Sam Ryan - Assistant Editor

The June/July issue of Lowdown is out now!

The 09/10 edition of Directions, the National Guide to Tertiary Education in the Arts is being put together now! It will be out in late June. To pre-order your copy for $12.50, download the order form here.

Don't miss out on our NEW student subscription rate!! Only $49.50 gets you six copies of Lowdown a year plus a FREE copy of Directions the National Guide to Tertiary Education in the Performing Arts!

The Lowdown Guide: Australian Performance for Young Audiences is also available by contacting us directly.

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