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Funding for sixty eight new arts projects in regional and remote Australia

1-Jul-2010

Thursday, 01 July 2010

Funding for sixty eight new arts projects in regional and remote Australia

Communities across regional and remote Australia will share in $666,927 worth of funding with support from the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund.  Sixty eight projects have been funded across the Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania.

President of Regional Arts Australia, Julie Boyd said, “the Regional Arts Fund supports communities and artists right across the country to share their stories in new and compelling ways. I look forward to seeing the outcomes of the many projects supported in the current round.”

In this round, over 31% of the funding has been allocated to projects where Indigenous people are a target beneficiary, 25.1% has been allocated to projects assisting young people and 25.7% supports the general population. Projects receiving funding cover the full range of artforms, including theatre, dance, music, literature, new media and visual arts.

In very remote East Arnhem Land (NT) a professional mould maker will work with experienced wood sculptors to prepare moulds for bronze casting.  In Darwin (NT), four young adults and one teenager with a disability will join other young adults to workshop, develop and stage performances for the Darwin Festival and Disability Awareness Week.

In Toowomba (QLD), Umber Productions will develop a play script as a comic exploration of the community in drought.  In the very remote town of Normanton (QLD), a community arts program will bring together elders and young people to make a video of an Indigenous story.

In Narine in the Adelaide Hills (SA), an intergenerational puppet theatre project will celebrate the elderly.  In the central Flinders Ranges (SA), a collaborative film project will explore traditions, subcultures and stories of life that revolve around food and flavours.  

The Tasmanian Ballet Company will present a community outreach program to regional primary and district high schools in October.  Second Storey Youth Theatre will develop a new work as part of a global project associated with the Ten Days on the Island Festival, which will ultimately result in the uniquely Tasmanian youth production being performed in Newfoundland, Canada.

The Indigenous community in Swan Hill (VIC) will be involved in “The Creation Story, Pondi 2”, a multi-artform project to be performed at the opening of the Go North Arts Festival.  A youth theatre company will be established in the Wellington region (VIC) for local young people to develop theatre skills.

In very remote Halls Creek (WA), a series of community workshops will conducted as a prelude to the production of a professionally directed play, “Amy”, an epic saga of a woman who had 12 children and experienced the effects of World Wars 1 and 2 and Vietnam. 

The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government program that aims to achieve sustainable cultural development in communities across regional, remote and very remote Australia by facilitating cultural partnerships and networks, supporting the professional development and employment of regional artists, and by funding community arts projects. The Regional Arts Fund is a devolved program, delivered on behalf of the Australian Government by the Regional Arts Organisations in each state and Arts Ministries in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. .  See full list of funded projects in the attached.

Further information: Kylie Kerrigan 0401 999 633

Regional Arts Australia promotes the development of the arts for the one-in-three Australians that live in regional, rural and remote parts of the country. It gives country Australians access to outstanding cultural experiences that are home grown or tour from other towns and cities. In this way Regional Arts Australia gives a voice to artists and puts culture at the heart of community life across country Australia

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