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This month, in addition to the latest in news, funding opportunities and more across the State, we're also bringing you information and resources to cope with the impact and scope surrounding the Coronavirus on the arts industry and community.
Be sure to read this month's trending stories and more including the launch of Arts Queensland's new funding program and the creative ways artists are responding to creation in lockdown - along with many more stories and features from around Queensland and the RASN regions!
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Together We Stand - 8 July
Join the artists and Blaklash Creative as part of a facilitated artist talk to share their reflections on the project as part of NAIDOC Week.
Together We Stand' is a collaborative cross regional art project developed by 10 First Nations creatives to keep connected and creating during COVID.
Printmaker Cholena Drew Hughes will create a large cyanotype 'background' which is divided into pieces and posted to 9 other artists across the SEQN region. Each artist then responds by adding their own artwork / creative contributions to the piece. The individual pieces are then returned to Cholena to become part of one large collaborative work and Uncle Kev Starkey is writing a music piece in response to conversations with each of the artists and the works they are creating.
This project is an initiative of SEQN First Nations Artist Collective supported by Creative Arts Alliance as part of our RASN delivery and with funding from Access Arts and Moreton Bay Regional Council. |
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Want to see updates from the artists on their progress, or know more
about the project or First Nations Collective?
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Answer the Call
PLUG IN – EMERGING MUSICIANS
PLUG IN provides emerging musicians (up to 25 years) from South East Queensland North (SEQN) creative and industry development mentorship facilitated by leading music professionals, venues, festivals and organisations. Participants will take part in a series of one-on-one and small group workshops tailored to their music style, areas of interest and experience.
Build new skills, learn industry knowledge and progress your music practice to the next level! Young Musicians must reside in one of the SEQN regions (Gympie, Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay, Somerset or Redlands).
PLUG IN MENTORS
Are you a professional musician / music industry worker that lives in SEQN? Do you have an interest in joining our Mentor for our Plug In program? We are looking for industry leaders to work with young and emerging musicians through online one on one and small group workshops in Songwriting, Vocal Coaching, Instrumental lessons (all type of instruments), Stage Presence or Industry Development.
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Stay Calm and Keep Creative
Moreton Bay children and young people are invited to Keep Creative during this holiday period through a number of arts workshops and activities that will be happening online and at your place. Keep Creative Moreton Bay is an initiative of Creative Arts Alliance, supported by Moreton Bay Regional Council and delivered as part of RASN.
- Join us for this fun hands-on workshop and make your very own zine using tools found around the house. Before you could self-publish on the internet or word-processing there were zines – small, boutique, hand-made and photocopied publications. Learn more about this craft with artist and trouble maker Jeremy Staples.
- The Zine Workshop will teach participants how to make their own zine using DIY materials found around the home and a variety of analogue creative tools. Each participant will walk away with your very own zine, backed up with an understanding of what a zine is and how to distribute and publish them.
- Exploring your inner hero - We are looking for Moreton Bay children who have a hero inside of them just waiting to come out!
- As part of an online workshop you will be guided to talk about heroes - those from your favourite movies and stories but also everyday heros too. Why do we admire them? What makes a hero super? What do you have in common with your hero? What awesome qualities and strengths do you have inside yourself that you can call on when times are tough for you or others. It's a great chance to connect to other young heroes too.
- The fun part - making your super hero badge - Through the online workshop you will be guided to design your own hero logo which reflects your unique powers. Then using the materials provided in your workshop kit, as well as your colouring pens, you will make your own Hero Badge.
- Do you have someone you miss or haven't been able to see lately? Why don't you "send them a little happiness" by creating a beautiful hand made card?
- As part of this activity our little participants will be posted a card making kit containing fun die-cut shapes, coloured backgrounds and hand stamped messages to inspire them to collage, draw, paint and create your own colourful greeting card. (All you need is your own pencils and pens.)
- Join our Workshop Artist and other young participants online to make your cards together. When you're finished take a photo of your creation for our online gallery and then post your completed card to your loved one.
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Young Voices Rise Up - 21 June
Young musicians, singers, bands, rappers and beat makers share you lyrics, songs, voices and music live and from your place.
Creative Alliance are excited to bring our popular open mic events (normally held at Caboolture Hub) to young people aged 12-25 years from across the SEQN region (Gympie, Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay, Somerset, Redlands) or beyond as part of this new online format. Join us online as part of this special event held in conjunction with International Make Music Day.
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Join the Club
Club Create will offer Moreton Bay young people with a passion or interest in the visual arts an opportunity to take part in an 8-week intensive from July – September 2020.
Up to 15 young artists (aged 14 -19 year) will take part in a series of online creative and career development workshops and mentoring sessions which will support:
- Learning of new creative skills through engaging in art making projects and activities
- Creation of new artworks which will form the basis of a group online exhibition
- Increased industry connections and knowledge through participating in a series of artist talks led by leading local practitioners and industry representatives
- Mapping of possible career and study pathways in visual arts relevant to their skills and interest areas
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A Brand New Start
This month, as the delivery partners begin their roll-out of the new stART Grant Program funding, NQ RASN has seen a number of artists take part in the media referrals including musicians, dancers, photographers and artsworkers based in their region.
In tandem with this, host organisation Umbrella Studio of Contemporary Arts re-opened to the public. Two of Umbrella's online programs have been funded by NQ RASN including the online Colour-In Book (with the competition winner being judged by Minister Enoch!) and the Online Artist in Residence and forum program.
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NQ Write Sparks
This online writing program is for aspiring theatre playwrights, ages 14-17 years.
Presented by Full Throttle Theatre Company, JUTE Theatre and NQ RASN.
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Fresh on the Page
In addition to the many projects NQ RASN has been running this month, NQ RASN continues NQ Young Write Sparks 101 in partnership with Full Throttle Theatre Company and JUTE Theatre.
Ten young writers from aged 13-16 have spent the last two months with dramaturge Kathryn Ash, developing short works and learning the skill of play writing. This month concludes their last weekend of workshops and we look forward to hearing their plays being read.
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The Show Must Go On
Theatre iNQ has been working on some script development for their 2021 production of their Shakespeare Trilogy Blood of Kings.
NQ RASN has been able to contribute funds to the actors and dramaturge on this program.
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A ten-part cultural docuseries by BEMAC
First five episodes streaming now on Youtube!
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Step Outside
Be moved by the journeys of ten artists from Logan, Ipswich and Brisbane in this compelling docuseries by BEMAC. With many of our artists in isolation, the BEMAC team set out to find a way to capture the rich cultural stories of our diverse arts community in South-East QLD, and bring them to life for all to experience.
With each episode documenting the individual journeys of ten diverse artists, each week BEMAC will bring you stories that sees those artists invite you into their homes and isolated spaces to share their personal and cultural attachment to their art, their identity, their tradition and their expression.
Grace Edward and Simon Mula are the Creative force behind the docuseries. Read about Grace’s role producing this 10-part series and why she feels it's important to tell stories like these.
#ourstories #ourart #ourway
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Much Needed Boost
Over the past few months, BEMAC have funded and supported over $25,000 worth of artistic projects throughout Logan and Ipswich, as part of their RASN delivery.
Thanks to the help of local creative facilitators Ali Strachan and Alyssa Bebbington in Logan, and EJ Garrett and Nina Weaver in Ipswich, so many artists were able to keep creative during isolation.
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Some Boosted Artists Include
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Kate Douglas - Ipswich
Kate Douglas has always been interested in the evolving natural landscape around her and the human connection to it, and is currently creating a painting from a piece of Ipswich history; the heritage ‘Ipswich Hospital for the Insane’.
“This building has always interested and disturbed me with its imposing architecture and ominous feel. It sits abandoned and boarded up, adding to the eeriness.” Says Kate.
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Therese Flynn-Clarke - Logan
Artist and Primary Arts Specialist Educator Therese Flynn-Clarke adapted her usual primary school classroom to a new virtual arts platform with online content for her students while they were home-schooling.
This new way of teaching art opened up new possibilities of online learning for her, leading to an idea of creating an online art workshop! Check out her new free lesson 'How to make wearable art' (filmed and edited by Kerry Warnholtz). |
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Muddy Bong Tree - Ipswich
Muddy Bong Tree got busy writing, composing, performing and recording some original new tunes using the equipment they have at home. Here’s a track they while in iso, with a video clip too full of whimsy and imagination.
Members of the group - Andrew Ring and Kenneth Weaver - drew inspiration for the band name 'Muddy Bong Tree', from a line of one of their favourite Lear poems, 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.
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Chloe Wigg - Logan
Logan artist Chloe Wigg from Colours by Chloe completed a beautiful mural, painted on the front of her home. Chloe wanted a way to bring art to those in her local area during this time of isolation, but also to a new online community for all to enjoy.
Watch her time lapse video here!
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Eva Fritz - Ipswich
Visual artist Eva Fritz has worked on large scale murals all around the world, but this time she’s created a beautiful outdoor mosaic mural in her hometown of Ipswich during this time of isolation.
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Nat Hamon – Logan
Check out the Tonic Pop Podcast by Logan artist, Nate Hamon!
We love the fact that Nate is using his podcast platform to interview other artists and promote local art. Listen to the Tonic Pop podcast on Spotify.
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Linda Shapcott – Ipswich
‘Doodle Foot’ is the latest project from Ipswich artist, Linda Shapcott, and it’s all about creating affordable art for the feet!
Linda’s using colour fast ink in order to bring life to loads of different shoes, giving people something truly unique and delightful to wear.
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Try a Little Tough n' Tenderness
CQ RASN is excited to welcome eight artists to our ‘At Home’ Artist residency for the month of June!
These artists come from across the CQ Region and work in a variety of media! Throughout the month, these artists will share their residencies with CQ RASN through regular blog posts outlining their progress with their creative projects.
Read More Here!
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For more information contact
the CYTSI Regional Arts Officer mail@cook.qld.gov.au or phone 4082 0500
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Journey from Home
17 year old Cooktown School student Ella Hartwig painted her journey through seven weeks of COVID-19 isolation.
In seven works, the viewer is taken on a journey of mood and emotion, each work reflecting a week of Ella’s isolation journey, each eye reflecting a mobile phone, a comment on an obsession with social media, as a way of keeping in touch with friends and the world, but also frustration at misinformation and never quite knowing what to believe.
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Your Own Backyard
Toowoomba Regional Council and Youth Connect have partnered with SWQ Regional Arts and local artists to create The Home Project – a free online arts program to help young people and their families get creating and making at home.
The first workshop, Backyard Patterns is now available online! Join wonderful local artist Alex Stalling to create a mini-masterpiece from objects found in your backyard.
When you’re finished, we’d love to see your artworks! You can share your creations using the hashtag #homeprojectTR
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Within Striking Distance
The Empire Strikes Back series of performances is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Empire Theatres Foundation.
July's program of shows include:
Tickets to all four shows will go on sale this week - audiences at this time are capped at 100 with social distancing measures in place.
The Empire can't wait to see you return at the theatre this July!
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Impactful Investment
After months of uncertainty, plans for the Empire Theatres Youth Ensemble program IMPACT Senior, can now go ahead thanks to a grant awarded to the Empire Theatres Projects Company.
The $14,000 grant, received from the Australia Council for the Arts Resilience Fund, will offset the costs of running the 2020 Senior IMPACT Ensemble program and includes the appointment of a guest artist to the creative team to operate as a mentor to the Ensemble and assist in the creation of their performance piece.
The 2020 Resilience Fund grants were designed to provide emergency relief to support the livelihoods, practice and operations of Australian artists, groups and organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Senior Ensemble production has gone in a different direction to their traditional model of a live production in response to the ongoing pandemic restrictions, by working towards the creation of a digital delivery of the performance.
Using gothic horror classic Frankenstein by Mary Shelley as inspiration, the production will be named Who's the Monster?
Empire Theatres Projects Manager, Jeanette Wedmaier said the funding was welcome news after the hardship already experienced this year.
"The IMPACT program is in it's 10th year and we had some very exciting plans at the start of the year, but unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic government restrictions, our Junior Ensemble, which was originally slated to perform their finished production from June 6-7, had to be cancelled," she said.
"This year's Senior IMPACT would not have been possible without the support of this grant given the closure of the theatre and the financial impact of the pandemic on the arts sector."
With the easing of restrictions, once selected, the Ensemble will be meeting in person and working towards the completion of a filmed final production.
Audition applications for the 2020 Senior IMPACT Ensemble Who's the Monster? are now open. Auditions will be held from June 19-22 with rehearsals to start in July and the finished product completed in October.
For more information contact youtharts@empiretheatre.com.au
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Design Your Evening
A renowned landscape architect who has been part of the revitalisation of Scenic Rim communities through the transformation of public spaces will join the panel at this month's Arts Dinner online!
The third event in the Arts Dinner Home Delivered series will explore the theme of Placemaking and Fabrication, with landscape architect John Mongard, whose designs feature in landmark projects including the Tamborine Mountain Village Greens precinct.
A feature of the cultural calendar for the past 13 years, Scenic Rim Regional Council’s Arts Dinners are currently being enjoyed as online get-togethers, while social distancing measures continue in response to COVID-19, thanks to a partnership with The South West Queensland Regional Arts Service Network and Arts Front.
Arts Dinners are as much about providing food for thought for the creative community as an opportunity to gather over dinner and the entrée to the 30 June event will be a live cooking demonstration by a local chef, using local produce, followed by entertainment by Josh Arnold and Phoebe Page. Creatives Daniel Flood, Jen Mallinson, David Shaw and Ben Tupas will join the panel discussion with John Mongard, who has received national urban design awards for his projects and whose Brisbane practice is focused on collaborative placemaking.
Anyone with a love of the arts or good food is welcome to register.
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Support, Create, Recover
A new $22.5 million Arts and Cultural Recovery Package will focus on stabilising local arts companies and securing jobs for artists and arts workers, as an important part of the Palaszczuk Government’s COVID-19 recovery plan.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the funding – included in the second stage of the Unite and Recover for Queensland Jobs plan - will be a significant investment in the future of Queensland’s arts sector and the renewed cultural and economic development of the state, including support for COVID safe cultural experiences for Queensland audiences.
“This latest recovery package includes a raft of initiatives to strengthen the sector’s foundations for the future, to drive new creative work, employ artists and arts workers, retain our skilled and talented creatives." Ms Palaszczuk said.
Minister for the Arts Leeanne Enoch said the Palaszczuk Government had already been the first in Australia to respond, with measures to help sustain the sector through the immediate impacts of COVID-19.
“This newest recovery package will enable the sector to continue to stabilise, innovate and adapt, and to explore alternative venues, online delivery, and a digital marketplace,” Minister Enoch said.
“It will provide enhanced support for arts companies and festivals to maintain connections with audiences, keep artists and arts workers employed, and provide audiences the opportunity to reconnect with shared arts experiences. Funding will also support the ethical distribution of First Nations arts product through a digital marketplace, expanded sale channels and investing in the growth of the Indigenous Arts Centre (IAC) network.” |
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Congratulations Eunice Day Graham!
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Clear as Day Winner!
An Indigenous author from Blackwater has picked up a prestigious literary award.
The State Library of Queensland's Black&Write fellowship rewards aspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers with the opportunity to develop and publish their work.
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Wellbeing Survey
Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, Moogahlin Performing Arts, and BlakDance are seeking feedback from First Peoples Independent Performing Arts sector to ensure your needs are being heard for sustaining your arts practice during and post-COVID-19 restrictions.
All Independent First Peoples Performing Artists and Arts Workers are asked to please fill out this short survey. In it we ask about financial impacts, community impacts, and creative practice impacts. This survey can be anonymous or identified, and should take under 15 minutes to complete. Please, help us ensure that FIRST PEOPLES FIRST remains at the heart every level of consultation and conversation around how our sector reimagines its future!
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Making Art, Making Work, Making Artwork
To play its part in rejuvenating the Queensland art community in the wake of Covid-19, the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) in Brisbane has looked to the annals of history in a uniquely innovative and constructive way.
The gallery’s Making Art Work initiative is a new commissioning program designed to support Queensland artists during the pandemic-induced economic upheaval. More than 40 artists will present new works online through the Making Art Work website, a print publication and, as restrictions ease, in the IMA gallery space itself.
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WOW Online
As WOW marks its 10th anniversary of celebrating women and girl's achievements, and examining and highlighting the problems they face, the world is facing a new threat to women's rights. The effects of the pandemic pose a profound risk of reversing progress made towards achieving gender equality; a risk the world must not ignore.
Now more than ever we need to find community; to connect women, civil society and governments and make women’s stories central to future planning across the globe. This is an opportunity to join hands, listen and ask ‘what do we need to change, and how’?
The focus of the festival will move as the world turns. Anyone can tune into one of two channels - The Global Channel and The Local Channel - streaming live and simultaneously over the 24 hours. The programme is designed so that when you’re watching during daylight hours, the multitude of events will be generated from your area.
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WORKSHOPS | TRAINING | FORUMS
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Lights, Camera, Capricorn!
Are you a Photographer or Videographer, a Director or a Student, Emerging or Mid Level? Learn more in this two day online course from the Capricorn Film Festival.
Gladstone Regional Council & Regional Arts Development Fund in partnership with Capricorn Film Festival present The Cinematographers Workshop with industry professionals, Peter Szilveszter and Shing Fung Cheung.The workshop is a fully immersive program that provides attendees with the knowledge, tools, and experience, essential to move towards a working professional in the film industry.
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Good Form - 26 June 2020
Future Form is an opportunity for small to medium arts organisations to transform and innovate their core business model and provides time and space for participants to reimagine and respond to the future.
In a supported environment, led by industry experts, up to 24 participants from 12 organisations will be guided through a four-phase process to discover, ideate, experiment and evolve.
The program includes a range of activities including online learning sessions, intensive residential labs, individual coaching sessions and peer support.
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Position: Retail Manager
Organisation: HOTA
Location: Gold Coast
Closes: 26 June 2020
More information: HOTA
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Position: Production Coordinator
Organisation: Ark Media
Location: Gold Coast
Closes: 2 July 2020
More information: artshub.com.au
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Calling all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists!
Would you like to take part in the NAIDOC Week Art Exhibition (1-31 July 2020) at Queensland’s largest hospital?
The annual exhibition at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital is extremely popular with patients, staff and the wider community providing you with the opportunity to showcase your culture and talents.
If you would like to take part, contact the hospital events team on 3646 1525 or email metronorth-events@health.qld.gov.au
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FUNDING | GRANTS | AWARDS | RESIDENCIES
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Art as an Act of Optimism
Closes: 25 June 2020
Exclusively for Bundaberg based artists, Bundaberg Regional Council has developed a plan to activate the arts sector and to assist its recovery after the pandemic restrictions through a project called Art as an Act of Optimism.
More information: artsbundaberg.com.au
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Dreams for a Better World
Closes: 26 June 2020
Sunsuper’s Dreams for a Better World program is all about partnering with those who dream big and do good to improve the lives of other Australians and their community, and they have $150,000 in grants to help make it happen.
More information: dreamsforabetterworld.com.au
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Ozhearts Song Contest
Closes: 26 June 2020
Created to to raise awareness of the important role research is playing to help make heart disease history, submit your song today to showcase the hope that research can offer in providing solutions.
More information: ozheart.org
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The Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund
Closes: 28 June 2020
Grants of up to $5000 are available to all Australian artists, as well as South Australian producers and venue operators, to assist them to create and present new works at Adelaide Fringe 2021.
More information: adelaidefringe.com.au
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Townsville RADF
Closes: 28 June 2020
A new round of RADF grants is now open through the new Townsville City Grants and Partnerships.
More information: townsville.qld.gov.au
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2020 JADA
Closes: 30 June 2020
Grafton Regional Gallery is pleased to announce that entries are now open for the 2020 JADA to artists residing in Australia aged over 16 years. Artists are invited to enter up to two drawings with a Gallery appointed panel to shortlist a selection of finalists for exhibition from 2 October to 22 November 2020.
More information: graftongallery.nsw.gov.au
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The Ideas Program
Closes: 30 June 2020
This program applies to stories at the concept or later stage development. Projects can receive support more than once through this program with a maximum of $100,000 over the lifetime of the project.
More information: screenqueensland.com.au
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The Easternwell Community Grants
Closes: 30 June 2020
The program was established in 2011 to provide financial and social assistance in regions where they have key operations including the Pilbara, Surat Basin and Toowoomba.
More information: easternwell.com.au
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Sunshine Coast RADF
Closes: 1 July 2020
In response to the unique situation COVID19 has placed us, council is adapting its approach to grants and funding to meet changing needs with new categories.
More information: sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au
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APPLY NOW
The Recovery Boost is a $10 million targeted measure announced by the Australian Government in 2020 as part of the Relief and Recovery Fund.
It responds to the difficulties experienced by regional artists, arts organisations and communities who have been heavily impacted by COVID-19 and natural disasters. The Recovery Boost is one-off funding and will be delivered through RAF and seeks to offer short (Relief), medium (Recovery) and long-term (Renewal) support.
Round One Opens 1 July 2020
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Levis Music Relief Fund
Closes: 5 July 2020
Redesigned, the fund assists 10 artists, distributing between them $45,000 in cash. Each individual will also receive an online mental health support package from The Indigo Project and a customised digital upskilling course from ‘Blocks’ by Bolster.
More information: bigsound.org.au
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The Bowness Photography Prize
Closes: 8 July 2020
An important survey of contemporary photographic practice and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country, providing Australian artists with the opportunity to exhibit at one of Australia's leading public galleries.
More information: mga.org.au
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The Richell Prize
Closes: 10 July 2020
Open to unpublished writers of fiction or non-fiction, the winner will receive $10,000 and a year’s mentorship with one of Hachette Australia Books publishers.
More information: emergingwritersfestival.org.au
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World Poetry Day Competition
Closes: 10 July 2020
Opened to coincide with World Poetry Day, this year, entrants are asked to write a poem of 20 lines or less about an object. The competition is designed to inspire students to explore how language holds the power to turn ordinary objects into poetry.
More information: readingaustralia.com.au
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Somerset Council RADF
Closes: 10 July 2020
Somerset Regional Council RADF supports creative projects that respond to local priorities including young people, tourism, vibrant towns and villages, Artists-in-Residence and professional development.
More information: somerset.qld.gov.au
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Sunshine Coast Art Prize
Closes: 14 July 2020
The Sunshine Coast Art Prize is one of the most prestigious visual arts awards in Australia. The diverse range of 40 works by established and emerging artists from across the country will be showcased in an exhibition at Caloundra Regional Gallery from 16 October to 6 December 2020.
More information: gallery.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au
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CQU Creates 2020 Online Art Awards
Closes: 17 July 2020
The competition is open to 2D and 3D artists who are current or past students and staff of CQUniversity and its antecedents, including the former CQ TAFE, who are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion in the September 2020 online group exhibition. There is no entry fee.
More information: cqu.edu.au
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Community Radio Awards
Closes: 17 July 2020
The CBAA Awards includes categories for stations; radio programs and initiatives and awards for individuals or teams, spread across 30 categories.
More information: cbaa.org.au
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Queensland Mental Health Week Grants
Closes: 24 July 2020
If you have an idea that can that can increase community awareness of mental health, engagement in wellbeing, promote understanding of mental illness and foster inclusion this one is for you.
More information: qldmentalhealthweek.org.au
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Queensland Regional Art Awards 2020
Closes: 27 July 2020
The QRAA is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. The program aims to provide a platform for further professional development.
More information: flyingarts.org.au
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ACMF National Songwriting Competition
Closes: 3 Aug 2020
The Australian Children's Music Foundation - ACMF National Songwriting Competition is now open! Free Entry for students and schools in Grades 1-12 and over $10,000 in prizes to be won.
More information: acmf.com.au
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The QUT Real World Studio Competition
Closes: 28 Aug 2020
This competition allows high-school students to produce a creative entry responding to the theme of 'the environment'.
More information: qut.edu.au
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The KSP Writers' Centre Short Fiction Competition
Closes: 25 Sep 2020
This annual short fiction competition for Australian writers is FREE for youth to enter. Judges will be looking for good quality original, unpublished writing with engaging characters and a compelling narrative. All fiction styles and themes are acceptable.
More information: kspwriterscentre.com
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Support Act Crisis Relief Grants
Open year-round
With funding support from the Australian Government, Support Act has expanded its services to offer Crisis Relief to music industry professionals impacted by COVID-19.
More information: supportact.org.au
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Nomad Two Worlds Foundation Indigenous Arts Scholarship
Open year-round
Offers $20,000 scholarships to emerging Indigenous Australian or Torres Strait Islander and Native American, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian Artists to pursue artistic development in each other's countries respectively.
More information: americanaustralian.org
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Google Ad Grants
Open year-round
To empower non-profit organisations through $10,000 per month of in-kind AdWords advertising to promote their missions and initiatives on Google.
More information: google.com.au
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Red Box Pop-Up Gallery: 2020 EOIs open
No Date Listed
Expressions of interest are open for Redland Art Gallery's travelling gallery, available to individual artists and groups to display artworks.
More information: artgallery.redland.qld.gov.au
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UMI Arts Exhibitions - EOIs open
No Date Listed
Curated “Exhibition Ready” and “You and Me” – expressions of interest are open now for February to April 2020 exhibitions.
More information: umiarts.com.au
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The Queensland Arts Showcase Program provides funding to support individuals, organisations or collectives to deliver vibrant and accessible arts and cultural experiences for Queensland.
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Crows Nest Residency 2020 EOI
No Date Listed
Situated on beautiful Chambers Island, the Crows Nest is a small, private studio space with views out across Maroochy River. This creative studio space would suit writers, digital and fine artists and creatives wishing to create in a natural habitat.
More information: sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au
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The Queensland Arts Showcase Program (QASP)
Rolling Fund
The Program invests in funding to support individuals, organisations or collectives to deliver vibrant and accessible arts and cultural experiences for Queensland and is administered across three funding streams.
More information: qld.gov.au
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The Arts Business Innovation Fund
Rolling Fund
This fund addresses the need to support innovation to strengthen income generating and entrepreneurial capacity in Queensland-based not-for-profit arts and cultural businesses. The ABIF provides a $1 million investment for not-for-profit arts and cultural organisations.
More information: qld.gov.au
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The 2020 Resilience Fund is designed to provide emergency relief to support the livelihoods, practice and operations of Australian artists, groups and organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This funding can be combined with relief offered by other arts funding agencies, government departments, support services and philanthropy.
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Interesting Picture
The national results from the Audience Outlook Monitor by Patternmakers have been released.
You can now access Snapshot Reports for key States/Territories, thanks to support from State arts agencies, including Creative Victoria, Create NSW, Arts Queensland, Department of the Premier and Cabinet (Arts SA) and Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (WA). These reports represent the first phase of a three-phase study that will track how audiences feel about returning to events in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Do you have a regional arts event, organisation or practice you would like to promote on a state-wide platform? Leave your details HERE to contribute content to Regional Arts Services Network communications.
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