Media Release
25 June 2008
Ten new Quicks in April to
June quarter
Regional Arts NSW is pleased to announce ten new projects funded in the April to June 2008 quarter of the Quick Response grant program.
Grants approved this quarter extended to projects over six different regional areas and across seven different artforms. Once again, 'Quicks’ offered excellent opportunities for the professional development of artists as well as groups in communities who were able to take advantage of the expertise of renowned artists visiting their area.
The Quick Response Grants program provides assistance for regional NSW artists, arts organisations and communities to take advantage of professional and project development opportunities that present themselves at short notice. The funds are provided through the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund which is administered by Regional Arts NSW in New South Wales.
‘Quicks’ grants approved for the April to June quarter were:
- $840 to Suvira McDonald (Northern Rivers) to attend the Sturt Woodfire Conference in Mittagong held every 3 years and including presentations from international and renowned national woodfire practitioners.
- $730 to Nicola Bowery (Southern Tablelands) to attend the ‘Harmonic Threads Australian Regional Poetry Festival in Victoria, the first major poetry festival in a rural centre featuring workshops and presentations by international, national and regional poets.
- $1,500 to Jane Bradford (South West) to attend the Sarah Hornik Workshops in Brisbane. Sarah Hornik is an international glass artist and, for the first time in Australia, is teaching lampworking, a unique and sophisticated glass bead artform.
- $1,500 to Outback Theatre for Young People (South West) for newly appointed Balranald-based Artistic Director Rebecca Cooen to attend the ASSITEJ 'The International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People', World Congress and Performing Arts Festival for Young People to be in held in Adelaide, offering an opportunity to exchange ideas with artists, academics, theatre companies, circus performers, musicians and arts organisations from over 80 countries.
- $1,500 to Peter Shepherd (Northern Rivers) to attend a 3 week professional development opportunity in the US, firstly at the 'Wildbranch Nature Writing Workshops', in Vermont with renowned international presenters, followed by the Environmental Writers' Conference in New England.
- $903 to the Nambucca Valley Writers Group (Mid North Coast) to conduct the Alice Pung Writers Workshop for Young People during her visit to the mid north coast region. Alice is a young writer of Chinese Cambodian heritage who specialises in memoir writing.
- $604 to emerging Indigenous artist Kitty J Martin (Mid North Coast) to be mentored in stage management in the "Blak Dramatics" theatre section of the annual The Dreaming Indigenous Arts Festival in Woodford Queensland.
- $900 to Sean O’Keeffe (Central West) for Site Specific Artwork Training, an opportunity to be mentored by Clare Lewis and Sarah Rawlings in management of a site-specific artwork at "Revolutions - Forms that Turn", the fringe event to the 2008 Sydney Biennale.
- $1,480 to Murray Arts (Albury Wodonga) for Public Art Professional Development Workshops with Pamille Berg during her visit to Albury as guest speaker at a public forum. The workshop will include artsworkers, urban designers and planners from across the region and focus on the role of public art in enhancing and engaging communities in public space.
- $400 to Gallery on Bant / Bathurst Arts Council (Central West) for eight young Aboriginal girls to attend a Wiradjuri Natural Fibre Basketry Workshop with artist Bev Coe. The workshop will cover traditional styles and techniques involved in the making of woven artefacts particular to Indigenous culture, as well as giving an understanding of the importance of fibre-art to the Wiradjuri people with its strong connection to the land.
Congratulations to all the recipients.
Applications are currently open for the July to September quarter of the Quicks program.
More information on 'Quicks' is provided in the Grants section of our website here
