Exciting funding announcement! 🎉
Introducing Next Gen Arts! Receive up to $3,000 to employ regional artists in delivering arts activities for regional youths aged 12-18.
🎨 The Next Gen Arts Grant aims to inspire creativity by contributing to quality opportunities for regional kids to explore the arts!
Plus, it's a chance to boost employment for local artists and foster connections across regional WA.
Round 1 applications close on May 24th. Don't miss out! 🌟
https://regionalartswa.org.au/funding/nextgengrant/
Join the Regional Arts WA Board! Nominations are now open✨
Are you passionate about creativity, equity, and driving positive change? Regional Arts WA is seeking nominations from individuals who share our vision.
Whether you're deeply rooted in the arts scene, a tech or corporate professional with a love for creativity, or a young trailblazer eager to make your mark - we would love to hear from you.
Each member of the Regional Arts WA Board brings a diversity of skills, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds that enable us to govern to fulfill our vision of connected and creative regional communities.
Find out more and apply here: https://regionalartswa.org.au/2024-board-nominations/
✨ RASI Video Series: Budgeting & Finance Docs✨
Hear advice from RAWA's General Manager, Catherine, on budgets and financial documentation required as part of your application.
First time applicants - don't forget to submit your application draft by 22 Feb!
Let us know if you have any questions, we are here to support your application process.
📆Submissions close 7 March. ✅
For more information visit:
https://regionalartswa.org.au/programs/regional-arts-sector-investment/
✨ RASI Video Series: Support Letters ✨
Hear advice from RAWA's Investment Coordinator, Hannah, about how to provide support letters to strengthen your RASI application.
Did you know? RAWA is offering one-on-one meetings to give advice and enhance your application. A live video from our recent RASI workshop will be restreamed soon too! Watch this space.
Submissions close 7 March. ✅
For more information visit:
https://regionalartswa.org.au/programs/regional-arts-sector-investment/
Next up in our RASI Video Series is ✨ Selection Criteria ✨
Our Network Coordinator Gemma discusses how applicants will be assessed, provide advice on strategic plans, and go through the selection criteria for applications.
Plus, don't miss our Hot Date with RASI on 14 Feb at 11am! 🔥 This Group Workshop is where we'll answer your questions about applications and discuss any concerns you may have. 😀
Register here: http://tinyurl.com/4axu9d2f
For more information get in contact or visit our RASI page.
https://regionalartswa.org.au/programs/regional-arts-sector-investment/
Our RASI Funding (Regional Arts Sector Investment 2024 - 2027) is currently open! 🥳
Check out the next video in the RASI series with our Project Officer, Carla, as she discusses the important dates and timelines for RASI applications. We are also offering one-on-one meetings with our Project Officers to enhance your application before submitting, or you can register for a group workshop to discuss your project. Get in touch today! 🤩
📆RASI Group Workshop: 14 February, 5pm
REGISTER HERE: http://tinyurl.com/4axu9d2f
📆Book a one-on-one meeting: [email protected]/bookings/" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/[email protected]/bookings/
📆RASI Submissions close: 7 March, 5pm ✅
https://regionalartswa.org.au/programs/regional-arts-sector-investment/
The Regional Arts Sector Investment (RASI) funding round for 2024-2027 is now open! This program supports the core operational costs of regionally-based arts organisations. ✨
We have created a series of short videos to support organisations through the application process so you can apply with confidence! These are accessible on our website here: http://tinyurl.com/yc4krzeu
Check out our first video of the RASI series below and hear our CEO, Dr Pilar Kasat, provide an overview of the RASI funding program, including how much you can apply for and program objectives.
See the RASI funding page on our website for full details.
Applications are due by 5pm, 7 March ✅
Last month RAWA brought together the Regional Arts Network for a two-day collaboration, connection, and advocacy planning. It was a significant gathering as it was the first time every Hub from the Network had the opportunity to travel and meet face-to-face.
Read more: https://regionalartswa.org.au/news/a-significant-regional-arts-hub-gathering-in-boorloo/
📷: Representatives from Regional Arts Hubs including Goolarri Media Enterprises The Junction Co. Creality Arts Gardiner Street Arts Collective Artgold inc. Arts Margaret River Southern Forest Arts and Regional Arts WA * missing representatives from North Midlands Project
Art in the Garden 2023
Art in the Garden 2023 is shaping up to be a magical time, with creativity blooming from every corner of Stirling Street Arts Centre and new paid opportunities for creatives that are open to individuals, groups, pairs - anyone and everyone.
Projects on offer are:
🌸 Large Scale Installation | Budget $8k: we're looking to see an artistic centrepiece created, a statement artwork to sit at the heart of the event and be enjoyed!
🌸 Interactive Installation Project | Budget $3k: we're wanting to give everyone the chance to try their hand at a simple creative task and watch their contribution add to a work that grows throughout the day.
🌸 Under 12's Creative Workshop | Budget $1k: we're seeking a great workshop to engage young people in art that reuses, recycles and repurposes everyday items into something creative!
More information about these opportunities and all the Art in the Garden goodness can be found at https://stirlingstreetarts.com.au/art-in-the-garden-2023
EOIs Closing: midnight on Sunday 30 July 2023
CineFest OZ Albany 2022 Trailer
Looking for something to do this weekend? Why not head down to CinefestOZ Albany! 📣🎬🎥
There are so many amazing films to check out over the next three days, you'll be spoilt for choice. If you aren't near Albany and still want to get in on the action - check out the free online community screenings!
Tickets >> https://tix.cinefestoz.com/Events
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The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government Program that supports sustainable cultural development in regional and remote communities in Australia. It meets the strategic priorities of supporting participation in, and access to, the arts; and encouraging greater private sector support for the arts.
What has our Artist of the Month @elishamcguckinartist been up to? 👇👇
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Posted @withregram • @elishamcguckinartist Its April and I have the pleasure of being selected as "Artist Of The Month" as part of @regionalartswa program.
Throughout the month, I am so excited to have this oppurtunity to share with you some behind the scenes glimpes into the final preparations towards my upcoming exhibition.
It has been a wild hectic week in my household, with my children-just being the wierd and wonderful little humans they are, renovations to our bathroom and my partner being in and out of hospital in an ambulance.
But....
In between all of this I am still busily finishing paintings and, for some crazy reason began this one at the beginning of last week.
It is coming along well and I am loving the vibrant colours.
Today I am packaging some works and watching the children.
But Stay tuned over the next few weeks as I countdown to my first solo exhibtion "Argh! What A Mess" to be held @collieartgallery
Stronger Together | Deepening community relationships
Curious about what it means to be a Hub in the Regional Arts Network?
Well, it means to enact change from the ground up! The Hubs work to strengthen relationships with local governments, and seek opportunities for artists and arts workers within their communities.
Then they connect back with their peers in the Regional Arts Network to share their knowledge and experience.
We caught up with some of our Hub representatives (past and present) to find out how they deepen community relationships in their region.
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The Regional Arts Network is:
Artgold inc. | Creative Corner | Denmark Arts | Gardiner Street Arts Collective | Creality (formerly Gascoyne in May) | Goolarri Media Enterprises | The Junction Co. | North Midlands Project | Southern Forest Arts | Regional Arts WA
The Regional Arts Network is proudly supported by Minderoo Foundation and The Ian Potter Foundation, and with funding from the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund.
Stronger Together | Building a Statewide Network
Looking to change the way the regional arts sector talks to each other, Regional Arts WA formed the Regional Arts Network.
In just two years, this Network has grown from five to ten organisations, who are working together to make a lasting impact both locally and collectively across this wonderful State.
Find out more from some of the Hub Coordinators and artists who have been a part of this initiative.
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The Regional Arts Network is:
Artgold inc. | Creative Corner | Denmark Arts | Gardiner Street Arts Collective | Creality (formerly Gascoyne in May) | Goolarri Media Enterprises | The Junction Co. | North Midlands Project | Southern Forest Arts | Regional Arts WA
The Regional Arts Network is proudly supported by Minderoo Foundation and The Ian Potter Foundation, and with funding from the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund.
Geraldton Historical Ghost Walks
👻 Did you get a chance to see the Geraldton Historical Ghost Walks?
The project was a collaboration between On The Write Path - Sarah-Jayne Eeles and Euphorium who worked with multiple community organisations and locals to research and gather stories to highlight the darker side of Geraldton's history.
Through a series of sold-out shows, audiences were immersed in the stories of convicts, mutineers and community leaders of Geraldton past, told in their very own words... Spooky! 🦇💀
Geraldton Historical Ghost Walks was supported by a Regional Arts Fund Project Grant, which are open again for 2022. Find out more: https://regionalartswa.org.au/funding/raf-project-grants/
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The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government Program that supports sustainable cultural development in regional and remote communities in Australia. It meets the strategic priorities of supporting participation in, and access to, the arts; and encouraging greater private sector support for the arts.
The Calling Over Nagula - Shinju Short Film
The Calling Over Nagula was a collaborative project during Shinju Matsuri Festival 2021 including three Broome-based artists - Vanessa Margetts, Michael Jalaru Torres, and Jacky Cheng.
Learn more about the concept and ideas behind the work and take a glimpse behind the scenes of how this incredible collaborative effort came to life in this video sent to us by the artists involved. We love it!
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Sponsored by: Shinju Matsuri, Tourism Council Western Australia and Shire of Broome
Artists: Vanessa Margetts, Michael Jalaru Torres and Jacky Cheng Visual Artist
In collaboration with: Broome Builders and KSCE Engineers
Film Credits
Filming, script and production by Sophia O'Rourke
Additional Camera: Dylan Alcott
Editors: Pia Boyer and Tom Forrest The Kununurra Kid
Jury Art Prize 2022 - Open for Submissions
📣 THE JURY ART PRIZE’S SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN 📣
Our friends at The Courthouse Gallery are seeking submissions for The Jury Art Prize 2022.
The Jury Art Prize is WA’s most innovative regional art prize. Providing a platform for regional artists to tell their stories. The Prize offers a range of opportunity and career acknowledgement. Utilising unique ways to connect audiences with the finalist artworks, geography knows no bounds in providing accessible ways audiences can connect and engage with the very best artworks from regional WA.
The art prize is open to regional WA artists, working in all artistic mediums, including painting, mixed media, photography, sculpture, and digital art.
There is no set theme for The Jury Art Prize, however, inspiration can be drawn from The Junction Co. and Courthouse Gallery+Studio’s 2022 program theme: New World.
📆 Entries close on Monday 4 April 2022.
Finalists to be exhibited at the Courthouse Gallery + Studio, 21 May – 05 August 2022.
➤ APPLY HERE: https://thejunctionco.com.au/2022/04/04/the-jury-art-prize-2022/
Stronger Together | Developing and nurturing local leaders
Through the Regional Arts Network, over 150 regional community members have now completed the first phase of the Creative Leadership Program. Find out more about this innovative program developed by Shona Erskine, consultant psychologist, and the impact it has had on its participants.
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The Regional Arts Network is proudly supported by Minderoo Foundation and The Ian Potter Foundation, and with funding from the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund.
Episode 4: How to be the Best Workshop Facilitator
Are you an artist interested in running your own workshops? In this episode of the Workshop Series, Jacky Cheng shares how to be the best workshop facilitator - how to model behaviours, how to give constructive guidance and the importance of reading the room.
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Presenter - Jacky Cheng Visual Artist
Producer - Rose Barton, The Junction Co.
Videographer and Editor - Amelia Blanco, AB Videography
This series was produced through the Regional Arts Network; a Regional Arts WA initiative, proudly supported by Minderoo Foundation and The Ian Potter Foundation, with funding from the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund.
For more information on the Regional Arts Network, please visit https://regionalartswa.org.au
Cultural Tourism Accelerator Introduction
Applications are now open to the Regional Arts Fund Cultural Tourism Accelerator Program. Apply now for up to $15,000 to support your upcoming event, or boost visitation to an existing program.
Find out more and apply at https://regionalartswa.org.au/funding
