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$139,995 of new regional arts funding provided to South Australian communities
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$139,995 of new regional arts funding provided to South Australian communities
27th November 2009
All Regions
Chair of Country Arts SA, Mr Steve Grieve today announced that regional South Australian communities have been provided with $139,995 to support arts initiatives thanks to the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund.
“In total 18 projects involving South Australian communities will be supported after the Minister for the Arts, Peter Garrett, announced the latest round from the Regional Arts Fund” he said.
“Through the Regional Arts Fund, communities are supported in their creative endeavours in a very real way” said Mr Grieve.
“The current round of funding was particularly competitive, showing that communities are becoming incredibly innovative in their approaches to projects, and exploring how the arts can make an impact on the well-being of their towns”.
Initiatives supported in the new round of funding include:
- The Inaugural Alexandrina Farm Gate Festival - This project encourages collaborations between professional Artists and Farmers to create public art on farm gates in the rural heartland in Alexandrina. The festival aims to increase cultural activity in the region.
- Lake Bonney Men's Art Project -Workshops for local men with artist Gerry McMahon to create art works for Lake Bonney foreshore in Barmera. Gerry will work with local men to develop concepts for a sculptural work that will be the first of a series of works for the foreshore area.
The Regional Arts Fund assists community-based cultural development in regional, remote and isolated areas in Australia. The Fund aims to achieve sustainable cultural development by facilitating partnerships and networks, assisting the professional development and employment of regional artists, and by funding community projects.
Country Arts SA manages the Regional Arts Fund in South Australia on behalf of the Australian Government. Assistance is available across all art forms for projects that encourage community participation in regional arts development.
The next funding round closes 15 March 2010, for projects which commence from 1 July 2010. More information about the Regional Arts Fund is available from Country Arts SA on 8444 0400.
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Media Enquiries: Simone Hawkins, Country Arts SA, 8444 0400 or 0423 828 035
REGIONAL ARTS FUND – South Australia August Round 2009
Yorke and Lower North Health $3,000
Eat My Shorts
Eat My Shorts is a short film festival for youth aged between 12 - 25 years held in the Lower North Region. The program involves students from senior schools involved in the program as an extra curricular activity, as well as individuals and groups outside of the school system who wish to be involved in film making. Participants will learn skills around story boards, camera angles and techniques, editing software and various IT programs and copyright issues of music in film.
Frances Folk Gathering $5,832
Folk Fundamentals
Folk Fundamentals will celebrate the music of the land and promote interest in the diversity of culture through the fundamental elements of life. Folk Fundamentals is the theme for the 2010 Frances Folk Gathering. Performers Jeanette Wormald, The Lazy Farmer's Sons and Cloudstreet will embrace story telling through words, music, dance and art. Folk Fundamentals will celebrate the four elements of water, air, fire and earth and our relationship to them.
Dudley Writers Group $6,240
Performance of Original Writing
The Dudley Writers Group wish to engage Stephen House to mentor one person in directing including mentoring writers in editing and assist them to produce a performance of their own writing in January 2010.
Port Augusta Youth Focus $7,320
Muso Magic
An intensive two day music workshop which will successfully engage youth to develop life skills an improve self esteem through song writing and live performances. Adam Thompson (lead vocalist of Chocolate Starfish, ARIA award winner, 200,000 albums sold world wide) will guide young people through the process of writing and recording their own original track, develop a film clip and putting on a live performance.
2010 Beachport Festival $14,720
Sea-Fari Community Arts Workshops
A series of community workshops (to include students, youth and adults) aiming to educate and inform the Beachport community about the natural environment of the region. Sea- Fari Community Art Workshops will be a part of the biennial Beachport Festival by the Sea artistic and cultural celebration for 2010.
The Farm Gaters $14,980
The Inaugural Alexandrina Farm Gate Festival
This project encourages collaborations between professional Artists and Farmers to create public art on farm gates in the rural heartland in Alexandrina. The festival aims to increase cultural activity in the region. Project includes artists John Bradford, Liz Yelland, Barbary O'Brien, Rob Hylton, Helen Stacey, Leigh Marshall, Audrey Kooynam, Michael Tye and Ngarrindjeri artist Edie Carter.
Cobdogla Primary School $1,000
Memorial Garden Mural and Community Garden Aesthetics
For a local artist Shane Karpany to work with the community and students to design and create a Community Memorial Garden Mural. The painting of a culturally significant mural on the side wall of a school building which is highly visible to the community and all people who enter the Riverland region.
Riverland Youth Theatre Inc $10,000
BigSmoke
BigSmoke brings together children aged 5 to 10 years, Riverland Youth Theatre members, youth aged 16 to 26 years and professional artists for consultation, creative development, production and touring of a new work for young children.
Barmera District War Memorial Community Centre $11,200
Lake Bonney Men's Art Project
Workshops for local men with artist Gerry McMahon to create art works for Lake Bonney foreshore in Barmera. Gerry will work with local men to develop concepts for a sculptural work that will be the first of a series of works for the foreshore area.
Communities of Ceduna Wudinna and Streaky Bay $7,920
Get Down (Get Dance Out West Now)
A twelve month program of dance workshops and skills development in the Far and Mid West regions of Ceduna, Wudinna and Streaky Bay beginning in February 2010. Get Down will engage 14 professional dance practitioners to deliver hip hop, breakdance, contemporary dance, belly dance, line dance, tango and salsa programs.
Ninkowar Incorporated $10,800
Ngarrindjeri Miminar Kykulan Project
Ngarrindjeri women across the Mallee, Coorong and Southern Fleurieu Region (Meningie, Raukkan, Tailem Bend, Victor Harbor and Murray Bridge) would like to advance their choral skills and have a choral trainer come into the community to work with them over a period of 6 months to create more challenging compositions and build their confidence to write their own songs.
Kelly Wegener $4,593
Dance Mentorship
Kelly Wegener, an emerging dance artist in the Riverland, will undertake professional development activities to develop her skills as a dancer, choreographer and educator. Mentored by three Adelaide based dance artists and choreographers - Peta Johnston, Katrina Lazaroff and Jade Earlandsen.
The Artists Voice $3,950
CONTRAPPUNTO
Curatorial Mentorship, professional and skill development for Hills artists in a region of escalating population growth. Fulvia Mantelli has agreed to mentor members of the Artists Voice, Monika Morgernstern and Kathleen Munn, and work with the group towards achieving their aim of exhibiting at New Land Gallery in 2010 and ultimately be accepted into the touring program to gain a wider audience for their works.
Michelle Murray $7,000
The Book of Feathers
Playwrite Michelle Murray to produce an original professional theatre production, The Book of Feathers, in partnership with the Alexandrina Council in order to help create and foster a vibrant original professional theatre culture in the community. A Book of Feathers will be produced, directed and performed in Goolwa for the 2010 Adelaide Fringe Festival with local artist Sharon Lambers, Deborah Tapfield, The Goolwa Performing Youth Arts Group, Wet Paint Productions and Willunga Dance Troup.
Lennard Smith $3,000
The Line of Friendship
Nineteen year old Lennard Smith to direct and shoot 'The Line of Friendship', a 30 min short film in Naracoorte, South Australia with members of the local community.
Cindi Drennan $6,400
Interactive Textiles Workshops
A series of workshops involving regional textile artists to develop skills and knowledge in innovation textile art forms, leading to a creation of new tourable work. This project proposal involves 'Interactive Textiles' workshops organised and convened by Cindi Drennan and held in three regional centers in South Australia (Flinders Ranges, Murray Bridge and Mount Gambier).
Carclew Youth Arts Centre Inc. $12,000
The Swap 2010
The Swap 2010 supports Murray Bridge bands for performances and industry development opportunities in Murray Bridge and Adelaide as a part of the 2010 Regional Centre of Culture.
Oak Vally Inc $10,000
Desert Oak Project.... the beginning
The Oak Valley community is seeking to engage two experienced professional artists over a fifteen month period to work with Indigenous artists and community members in the Far West for two series of intra regional skills development workshops in painting.
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