Project Skills and Development Grants Round 2, 2011
$102,745 ANNOUCED FOR REGIONAL ARTISTS AND COMMUNITIES IN VICTORIA
The Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development, Local Government and the Arts, the Hon Simon Crean MP has announced a total of $102,745 of funding for regional and rural communities across Victoria. Ten projects have been funded through the highly competitive Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government program delivered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.
The Chair of Regional Arts Victoria, Dennis Goldner, spoke with enthusiasm about the cultural and social benefits this funding will bring to regional Victoria: “The wide variety of projects and events this funding is supporting will provide opportunities for every member of each participating community to become involved. Creative expression is such a vital ingredient in our regional areas because it has the potential to enrich lives and enhance the development of community life. We certainly appreciate and thank the federal government for their role in assisting community wellbeing through the provision of this funding.”
Successful applicants in Round 2, 2011 include:
- We’re Still Here – an exciting contemporary photographic exploration of the small regional town of Tongala. From photographer Shaun C. Mackrell.
- A large scale live theatre event called STEAM! To be presented at the Goldsmith Steam Rally 2012 featuring pouring molten metal, grand and powerful steam traction engines and surreal steampunk performers.
- A film-making project called Pacific Stories – Stories of The Murray in Robinvale where 12 local community members from Pacific Islander and ATSI backgrounds will be supported to develop and produce a series of short-films exploring cultural identity, connection and story-telling.
- (f)route CARTography – a unique arts initiative being developed in Gippsland bringing artists and fruitists together to explore the art of cultural MAPPING through the knowledge of fruit and life!
A complete list of the funded projects is attached and available from here
Project Skills and Development Grants Round 1, 2011 104,855 ANNOUNCED FOR REGIONAL ARTISTS AND COMMUNITIES IN VICTORIA
The Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development, Local Government and the Arts, the Hon Simon Crean MP has announced a total of $104,855 of funding for regional and rural communities across Victoria. Ten projects have been funded through the highly competitive Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government program delivered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.
The Chair of Regional Arts Victoria, Dennis Goldner, spoke about the opportunities that will be provided to the community through this round of funding. “It is a wonderful result to have 50% of the funded projects involving young people across the state, participating in a broad range of artistic disciplines and ideas. Art is a vital element in regional communities and enriches the lives of young people. This result shows that the federal government appreciates their regional constituents and recognizes the role young people and the arts play in community wellbeing.” said Goldner.
Successful applicants in Round 1, 2011 include:
- ‘52 Flash Mobs in 52 Weeks’ - a concept from Viral Arts Lab that will engage a social media artist to mentor the St Andrews Youth (SAY) in St Andrews. Coordinated by the Arts and Culture Division of Nillumbik Shire Council, the group will embark on an ambitious 52 Flash Mobs in 52 Weeks project aiming to teach young people about the creation of strong community outcomes through social media
- In Bairnsdale, East Gippsland Art Gallery will engage local primary school students to work with the Water Watch organisation and local artists on a project entitled H20 Squared. They will create a touring exhibition about regional water catchments while strengthening East Gippsland Art Gallery’s ongoing engagement with isolated communities.
- An exciting collaboration between the City of Ballarat, Platform Youth Theatre and young people in Ballarat, GRIT is a theatre residency project that works with young single mums from the Link-Up program & Ballarat's ‘Mayte’ youth theatre to create a new piece of theatre.
- In Portland, artist Catherine Bailey will create a large sea hammock on the foreshore that reflects the experience of being under the sea on the dry land, as part of the Upwelling Festival.
A complete list of the funded projects is attached and available to download here.
The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government initiative that provides all Australians in regional and remote areas better access to opportunities to practice and experience the arts. The Regional Arts Fund also aims to increase opportunities for isolated Indigenous and/or smaller regional communities. The Regional Arts Fund supports sustainable cultural development in communities across regional, remote and very remote Australia by facilitating cultural partnerships and networks, assisting the professional development and employment of regional artists, and by funding community arts projects.
Project Skills and Development Grants Round 2, 2010
10 Projects totalling $102,200
The Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development, Local Government and Minister for the Arts, the Hon Simon Crean MP, has announced a total of $102,200 of funding will go to regional and rural communities across Victoria. The ten projects have been funded through the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government program delivered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.
The Chair of Regional Arts Victoria, Dennis Goldner, commented on the exciting partnerships and collaborative projects in the second and final round of funding for 2010. “A very positive mix of established artists, emerging artists, community organisations and local councils will be working together on various projects. The ten successful applications selected by the panel in a highly competitive round will surely have a resounding impact in towns and communities across Victoria,” says Goldner.
The successful applicants for Round 2 2010 are:
- Castlemaine Created, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine/Bendigo - $15,000
- Creating with Fire, Clayspace (Daylesford Regional Ceramics Cooperative Ltd), Daylesford/Ballarat - $5,000
- The FLOTILLA, Friends of Learmonth, Learmonth/Corrangamite - $15,000
- Landscape to Artscape, Fusion Fibre Arts Network Inc, Bairnsdale/Gippsland - $12,000
- On the Map- Mentor Program, Golden Plains Shire Council, Golden Plains Shire/Corrangamite - $9680
- The Cow Cantata- Jeanette Hajncl, Warrnambool/Wannon - $6600
- The Peoples Puppet Project, Mildura Rural City Council, Mildura/Mallee - $15,000
- The Talking Stick, Rae Howell, Ballarat/Ballarat - $8640
- Tallarook Stacks, Tallarook Mechanics Institute, Tallarook/Bendigo - $10280
- ‘Uppi-Tee’, The F Project, Warnambool/Wannon - $5000
For more information on the funded projects click here to download a summary.
Project Skills and Development Grants Round 1, 2010
9 Projects totalling $88,500
The Minister for the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett AM, has announced that funding for will go to regional and rural communities across Victoria through the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government program delivered on behalf of the Australian Government in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.
Chair of Regional Arts Victoria, Dennis Goldner, commented on the increase in grant applicants with innovative art outcomes for regional Victoria.
“There were some very dynamic art project applications submitted in this round, with nine very exciting collaborations recommended by the panel,” says Goldner. “The ‘Toe in the Water’ Category has enabled funding for projects for the very first time which will engage many different groups in the community. We are also delighted that funding will be going to projects that celebrate local identity and diverse cultures in communities across Victoria.”
Successful applicants in Round 1, 2010 include:
- Norm and Elsie’s Art Safari, Phil Cousins and Heather Richardson, Portland/Wannon - $5,000
- The Zingaro Music Festival, The Zingaro Festival Group, Malmsbury/Ballarat - $4,800
- Groundwork Youth Theatre, Groundwork Youth Theatre, Stratford/Gippsland $5,000
- 'Married to a Blockie' A history of the women of Robinvale, Kerryn Finch, Kerang/Mallee $5,000
- campFIRE-WATERhole, Gippsland Lakes Community Health, Lakes Entrance/Gippsland - $9,900
- Creation Project (Pondi 2), Swan Hill Aboriginal Health Services, Swan Hill/Mallee - $15,000
- Foothills Family Music Camp, Foothills Music Inc, Briagolong/Gippsland - $14,700
- Resourcing regional and remote communities, YMCA Bass Coast Youth Services, Cowes/Flinders - $15,000
- ‘inSpire’ Southern Grampians & Glenelg Primary Care Partnership, Hamilton/Wannon -$15,000
For more information on the funded projects click here to download a summary. (PDF)
Quick Response Grants 2009
48 projects totalling $58,940
In 2009, a total of 48 projects were funded through the Quick Response Grants program to a total of $58,940. The Quick Response Grant Program is a category of the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government program administered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.
To download a full list of projects funded in 2009, please click here (PDF 120k).
To view case studies of successful Quick Response Grant projects, please click on the relevant links to the right.
For more information on how to the apply to the Regional Arts Fund Quick Response Grant program, including Guidelines and Application forms, please click here.
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 2, 2009
8 projects totalling $68,900
The Minister for the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett AM, has announced that funding for 8 projects totalling $69,800 will go to regional, rural and remote communities across Victoria through the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government program administered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.
Chair of Regional Arts Victoria Dennis Goldner noted that the funded projects came from all over Victoria, including the North-East, Gippsland and South-East Victoria. “The board of Regional Arts Victoria was pleased to see a range of art forms represented this round, including music, photography, film and dance. We are also particularly pleased to see funding going to projects involving Indigenous artists, as well as a project which involves artists with a disability.”
Projects funded include:
- dis/assemble Murray Arts, Wodonga (co-funded with Regional Arts Fund NSW) - $7,500
- "We Met at a Dance at the Worker's Hall" Take pART Inc. Community Alliance for Participatory Arts, Maryborough - $5,000
- Chamber Music Project Resonance String Orchestra, Woodend - $5,000
- Kaiela Artists Retreat and Workshop Gallery Kaiela, Kialla - $10,000
- Stomp 'n Stamp Evansford Community Centre, Evansford - $5,000
- Life's Cycle Pilkinton Productions, Snake Valley - $14,750
- Community Music Project Briagolong Community House, Briagolong - $12,050
- Brolga Dreaming Lake Bolac Eel Festival, Lake Bolac - $10,500
For more information on the funded projects, please click here to download a summary (PDF 90k)
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 1, 2009
8 projects totaling $73,805
The Minister for the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett AM, has announced that funding for 8 projects totalling $73,805 will go to regional, rural and remote communities across Victoria through the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government program administered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria.
"This round was very competitive," newly-appointed Chair of Regional Arts Victoria Dennis Goldner said. "It is great to see a number of first time applicants applying to the Regional Arts Fund through the new ‘Toe in the Water' category. We are also pleased to see such a diverse range of projects including sculpture, theatre and dance."
Projects funded include:
- Green Living Arts Workshops and Exhibition Joanne Diver, Wahgunyah - $4,905
- Sea Days Sand Sculpting Welshpool & District Advisory Group, Port Welshpool - $3,900
- Embedded Lives Rsoalind Lawson, Clunes - $5,000
- On the Same Path State Coal <ome - Rescue Station Arts Inc., Wonthaggi - $3,000
- Devil's Hole [in-one] Nowa Nowa Arts Melange Inc., Nowa Nowa - $15,000
- Moving One - Dance and Digital-Media Collaboration CreateAbility Events Network, Bendigo - $12,000
- Whirlygigs and Other Objects Art Is... Festival, Horsham - $15,000
- The Storm Glass Play at Being, Horsham - $15,000
For more information on the funded projects, click here to download a summary (PDF 93k).
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 2 2008
5 projects totaling $68,290
- Turn the Page Berry Street Victoria, Shepparton - $13,290
- Rhyme of the Ancient Merino Arapiles Community Theatre, Natimuk - $15,000
- Couch Barking Owl Theatre, Castlemaine - $10,000
- Storming Shire of Yarra Ranges, Warburton - $15,000
- Mercy Will Carry My Feet Gorgeous Voices Festival, Bendigo - $15,000
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 1 2008
9 projects totaling $102,880
- Other Smells Roundangle, Morwell - $14,000
- High Country Huts Ceramic Murals Project Arts Council of Mansfield, Mansfield - $6,080
- Sweet Region Back Home Next Wave Festival, Bendigo, Mildura, Warrnambool - $15,000
- Proud Past Vibrant Future Stawell Regional Arts, Stawell - $11,500
- Eastern Long Neck Turtle by Glenn Romanis Golden Plains Shire, Teesdale - $10,000
- Tatungalung Gathering Gippsland Lakes Community Health, Lakes Entrance - $10,000
- My Homeland The Old Van, Mildura - $15,000
- Dust Arts Academy, University of Ballarat, Ballarat - $15,000
- Imagine Alice; Place and Identity - Residency Vicki Couzens, Port Fairy - $6,300
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 2 2007
15 projects totalling $183,910
- Fibre as Artform Mandy Gunn and Meg Viney, Meemiyan - $5,050
- Chorale Expansions 2008 Musical Season Bendigo Chorale Inc, Bendigo- $10,300
- Art Stop Golden Plains Shire Council, Bannockburn - $15,000
- Youth Arts Access Project Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton - $7,600
- Suzanne Project - Stage 2 Dawn Whitehead, Warrnambool - $9,460
- How to do Words with Things Patrick Jones and Peter O'Mara, Daylesford - $15,000
- Tidelik Joyce Nowrungsah, Paynesville - $6,500
- Parkside Estate Community Art Project Goulburn Valley Community Health Service, Shepparton- $15,000
- Collaborating with Chaos Prom Coast Arts Council Inc, Foster - $15,000
- Todos Arte City of Wodonga, Wodonga - $15,000
- Interior Complexities Brophy Family Youth Services, Warrnambool - $15,000
- Lit from Within Greg Pritchard, Natimuk - $10,000
- The Seal Wife (Mildura) The Old Van Ltd, Mildura - $15,000
- Elements Kim Chalmers, Mildura - $15,000
- Bell Chance Horsham Rural City Council, Horsham - $15,000
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 1 2007
11 Projects, totalling $136,082
- Morphed South West Healthcare, Warrnambool - $10,000
- Autumn Harvest Moon Festival; 'Tales of the Moon' Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo- $10,000
- Feature Sculpture for Infant Memorial Garden Horsham Rotary Club, Horsham - $15,000
- Maar Meerreny Karweeyn (People of the land who dance) Tarerer Gunditj Project Accociation, Port Fairy - $15,000
- Spanners - Welding our Community Boort Regional Arts Group, Boort - $14,872
- Turtle Meeting Place Teesdale Community, Teesdale - $9,550
- Crossenvale Community Digital Stories Shire of Campaspe, Echuca - $15,000
- Open for Inspection Nowa Nowa Community Development Group, Nowa Nowa - $15,000
- Valley of Coal Susan Purdy, Stony Creek - $10,000
- Orchestras for Everyone Orchestras for Everyone, Warrnambool - $7,260
- Brass Form Gippsland Regional Arts Sale, Sale - $14,000
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 2 2006
12 Projects, totalling $144,700
- Varuna Longlines Program Robbi Neal - $5,000
- Dreamtime Cemetary Area Mirrimbeena Aboriginal Education Group, Echuca- $15,000
- Fire Up Prom Coast Seachange Festival Committee, Foster - $15,000
- A-Lure Visionary Images, Shepparton- $15,000
- Wimmera's New Settlers Brigitte Muir, Wimmera - $9,000
- TY Space 'Clown' Y Space, Natimuk - $15,000
- The Crossing Jill Orr, Mildura - $15,000
- What Remains? Friends of the Grampians, Grampians National Park - $10,000
- Creative Environment West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority - $12,500
- Music at Mt Egerton Aphids, My Egerton - $12,500
- Come and Have a Look at Yourself Swan Hill Aboriginal Health Service, Swan Hill - $8,500
- Long Necked Turtle Barmah Kindergarten, Barmah - $12,200
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 1 2006
10 Projects, totalling $121,477
- Grampians Gariwerd Songs Project Halls Gap Community Association, Halls Gap - $7,500
- ArtSplash @ awakenings.wimmer.fun! Wimmera Uniting Care, Horsham - $8,462
- Singing in Quirky Places Gorgeous Vocies Festival, Bendigo - $14,300
- The Rainmaker Arthouse Gippsland, Stratford - $15,000
- 56 Faces Sandy Watson, Ballarat - $8,915
- Snow Circus at Possum Flat Community Centre Swifts Creek,Mt Hotham - $15,000
- The Starving Artist Steve & Melissa Proposch, Daylesford - $10,000
- Plugged In, Turned On - Benalla St Lawrence Community Services, Benalla - $15,000
- Hitting the Streets Michelle Ripper, Sale - $12,300
- The Life and Deaths of Don Coyote The Old Van Ltd, Bendigo - $10,000
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 2 2005
13 projects totalling $121,477
- Shack Punctum, Castlemaine - $15,000
- Latrobe Space and Place Latrobe City, Morwell- $15,000
- The Biting Dog Theatre Festival Hothouse Theatre, Wodonga - $15,000
- Bitscape NextWave Festival, Moe - $6,000
- Holding your Ground, Sharing your Ground Art Is... Festival, Horsham - $15,000
- Collecting Memories Deans Marsh Community Cottage Inc, Deans Marsh - $15,000
- Pepper Green Farm Celebrations Bendigo Access Employment Inc, Bendigo - $8,000
- Running with Pigs Tracey Bourne, Ballarat- $5,500
- Bark Canoe Project Sandy Atkinson/Koorie Heritage Trust, Statewide - $10,000
- Where we Keep our Dreams Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Wodonga - $15,000
- Stirring the Pot Bruthen Arts & Events Council, Bruthen - $11,564.50
- Tongala Radio Play and Live Performance Partnership Tongala Community Activities Centre Inc, Tongala - $4,220
- The First Step on a Tram is Hell Sue Ingleton, Castlemaine - $9,700
Project & Skills Development Grants Round 1 2005
8 projects totaling $78,000
- Nati Frinj 2005 Arapiles Community Theatre, Natimuk- $10,000
- Night and Day Anthony Pelchen, Natimuk - $2,000
- Alohim: Investigations of the Luminary Gretchen Hillhouse, Castlemaine - $10,000
- Through the Mist Hepburn Health Service - Trentham Campus, Hepburn - $12,000
- Traditional Campsite Project Verna Eade, Swan Hill - $10,000
- Owning our Lot Macedon Ranges Shire Council, Kyneton - $10,000
- Stories of the Upper Murray Murray Arts, Wodonga - $10,000
- Bogong Moth Dreaming Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Corporation, Wodonga - $14,000
