Dear Colleague
In May in this year the Minister for the Arts, the Hon Simon Crean, announced the Creative Australia Artists
Grants program, a new initiative to support artists to create and present new Australian work across all artforms. This five-year, $10 million program provides funding for artists, including young and emerging artists, and will support more than 150
additional artistic works, presentations and fellowships for outstanding artists working across all artforms.
Creative Australia Fellowship applications now open
The Australia Council is now inviting professional artists from around Australia to
apply for Creative Australia Fellowships.
The fellowships will:
- further the
creative or professional development of outstanding artists by supporting a program of creative work or professional development
- assist the development of innovative practices when
creating new work, particularly interdisciplinary approaches.
In particular we are targeting young and emerging and established artists who:
- are living and working in regional and remote communities
- are Aboriginal or Torres Strait
Islanders
- are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- are living with a
disability.
The Creative Australia Fellowships funding rounds will be competitive, but they do present a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for artists to gain funding to spend time
undertaking professional development and creating new work.
How can you help?
Your organisation and network will be critical in making sure we reach as many artists as possible. We seek your help in
promoting this opportunity to artists from the target groups mentioned above and would be grateful if you could include information about fellowships in any upcoming communications you have planned.
Key information
- One-year Creative Australia Fellowship for an established artist: $100,000 grant
- Two-year Creative Australia Fellowship for a young and emerging artist: $60,000 grant
- A total of 10 established fellowships and 13 early career
fellowships will be offered over five years
- Two fellowships for established artists
and three for young and emerging artists will be offered in 2012
- Open to artists
from all artforms: visual arts, music, dance, theatre, literature, interdisciplinary arts
- First closing date 31 January 2012
- Fellowships announced in April 2012
- Fellowship activities can start in May 2012.
For
advice on submitting an application, ring the Australia Council on 02 9215 9000 and ask to speak to the relevant section: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts, Community Partnerships, Dance, Inter-Arts, Literature, Music, Theatre or Visual
Arts.
Many thanks for your support.
Libby Christie
Executive Director, Arts Funding
Australia Council for
the Arts
National Cultural Policy
We draw attention to a speech delivered by the Federal Minister for the Arts, the Hon Simon Crean MP in Parliament House this week.
In it Mr Crean sets the tone for the first National Cultural Policy in Australia in some years He also communicates an understanding of the need for arts in education and excellent arts training across the nation.
http://www.minister.regional.gov.au/sc/speeches/2011/CS05.aspx
Digitisation
Recently Senator Kate Lundy gave a speech on behalf of Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean at the "HASS on the Hill" conference as part of a session on Accessing Australia: the challenges of digitisation.
HASS on the Hill is an event coordinated by the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) for the humanities, arts and social sciences sector to communicate with government and policy makers.
The speech is one of the most comprehensive overviews of government thinking to date in this area as it affects the arts and creative communities.
http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/03/23/accessing-australia-the-challenges-of-digitisation
There must be something in the water because, coincidentally, the excellent and tireless Currency House has just released its Platform Paper No 27:"Hello World! Promoting the Arts on the Web" by Robert Reid. While it probably doesn’t tell most arts workers anything they didn’t already know or intuit, it is good to have the key issues drawn together in one snappy volume.
www.currencyhouse.org.au
Anzarts Round Up
It's hard to believe that Anzarts is over three years old and in that time has established itself as a significant player in the Australian and New Zealand arts scene as both consultant and think tank.
As a matter of principle, Anzarts Institute does not seek grants from public funding agencies. It refrains from doing so both in order to retain its independence and because it does not believe it should be in competition with artists and arts organisations.
In its first three years, the Institute has undertaken the following projects:
2008
City of Sydney/NEPA - feasibility study for Sydney Fringe Festival.
Result: the Fringe had its first very successful outing in September 2010
Arts NT - Review of Theatre Sector.
Result: many recommendations Implemented
Ord Muster WA - new corporate plan.
Result: implemented
Australia Council: Community Partnerships - Multicultural Options
Result: ongoing
Australian Youth Orchestra - corporate planning
Result: implemented
Century Venues - heritage impact statement
Result: in use by the company
Australia Council: International Market Development - North American Strategy
Result: implemented
Black Swan/PTC - merger options.
Result: change of government. No action
2009
Australia Council - Music Board – Review of Music Theatre
Result: Implemented
Australia Council: International Market Development - Latin America Strategy
Result: implemented
Jan Chapman Films - Enterprise plan.
Result: secured Screen Australia triennial funding
Edge Productions for Short+Sweet - corporate plan
Result: implemented
Gadigal Koori Radio – new corporate plan
Result: obtained triennial funding as Australia Council key org.
Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music – new Business Plan.
Result: adopted
2010
Symphony Services Australia/now Symphony Services International - review of corporate plan and membership options.
Result: implemented
Arts Tasmania - Review of Theatre Sector
Result: ongoing
Kultour - operational review
Result: ongoing
Creative New Zealand - export planning and advice.
Result: ongoing
Edge Productions for Short+Sweet- corporate planning
Result: ongoing
Australia Council: International Market Development - APAM Scoping Study.
Result: In train
The report itself may be found at:
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/99266/APAM_scoping_study_FINAL.pdf
Arts NSW - Review of Cafe Carnivale
Result: pending
Blackfella Films - Enterprise plan.
Result: secured Screen Australia triennial funding
Gondwanda Choirs - corporate planning
Result: implemented
Australia Council: Major Performing Arts. Board - sector advice.
Result: ongoing
These tasks have involved consultancies for national bodies covering all of Australia and specific work in NSW, Victoria, NT, Tasmania and WA as well as in New Zealand. They have ranged from government agencies to private organisations, from the non-profit to the commercial. This range has been particularly satisfying.
All of the work has been secured as a result of approaches made to Anzarts by the client either with a direct offer (70%) or by limited tender (30%). None has been openly solicited. Beyond the information contained in this website, Anzarts does not advertise its services.
In 2011 the beachhead established in New Zealand is expected to grow. Meanwhile, the Institute has two Australian current projects overlapping into 2011; two multiyear commitments and at least three new projects pending for the first half of the year.
In the Absence of Criticism
Presented by Justin Macdonnell at the Apple University Consortium’s
Create World Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane on December 1, 2009
Click here for the full speech
This is an interview given by Executive Director, Justin Macdonnell following his address at the Create World conference at Griffith University, Brisbane, December 2009: http://audioboo.fm/boos/79831-from-custodian-to-curator
Unconditional Love:
Industry that pays and Art that doesn't
29 September 2008
Investing in the Future - The Arts and Innovation
A speech by Anzarts Executive Director, Justin Macdonnell
Presented for Currency House at the Sydney Opera House
April 4, 2008
Click here for the full speech
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