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Country Arts Support Program 2006
3 April 2006 The Regional Arts NSW Country Arts Support Program will this year provide grants for 133 new arts projects in communities across regional and rural New South Wales. CASP is a key regional arts funding program in New South Wales, providing support to employ artists on a diverse range of locally initiated arts and cultural projects. The aims of the program are to foster cultural diversity, to provide access to arts activities for small communities, to encourage communities to work together on cultural projects and to ensure that regional and rural areas have an artistic voice. Grants of between $300 and $3,000 are provided form a total pool of $200,000 which is devolved to Regional Arts NSW from the State Government. Recommendations on funding are made locally, by regional CASP assessment panels coordinated by the Regional Arts Development Offices (RADOs). Applications from local government areas not serviced by a Regional Arts Board (RAB) are assessed by the State CASP assessment panel which meets in Sydney to approve the final allocations. This year there were 211 applications for funding received from all areas of the State, with a total request of some $395,000. A hundred and thirty three grants have been approved. A large proportion of applications was for skills development and festivals, and there was a high number of proposals for projects involving young people. There was also a significant proportion of high quality proposals for Indigenous arts and cultural projects. CASP funding is sometimes the only support for cultural projects in remote areas. In other instances, the funding provides an essential component of a budget provided in partnership with other organisations including local government and other community service organisations. Artforms and events included in the 2006 list are: festivals, public art works, tours of plays, exhibitions and music recitals. CASP funding will also offer skills development in a diverse range of artforms including visual arts, theatre, dance, choral works, literature, drummingl photography, circus skills, sculpture, mosaics, textiles and mixed media. Look out for a CASP project coming up near you!
Enquiries The Regional Arts NSW Country Arts Support Program is made possible with funding devolved from the NSW Ministry for the Arts.
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