Dec 2007 #2

Highlights
- Robyn Sweaney, Emoh Ruo, Sydney
- Winning sky photos: the David Malin Awards, Wagga Wagga
- Float: Watercraft in Art, Port Macquarie
- Nolan at Bundanon, Nowra
- 23rd Illawarra Folk Festival, Bulli

Regional Arts NSW news
- ArtReach Summer 07|08: The Music Issue - out now
- Quick reponse for nine new projects
- Feedback fro Regional Arts NSW grant applicants
- Seasons Greetings from Regional Arts NSW

Other news
- Frances Parker wins ABC North Coast ArtsNest 2007 Award
- Lee Kernaghan nominated for six County Music Awards
- $110,000 for 110 youth music events in 2008
- $800,000 for screen culture development in NSW
- ABC TV & AFC offer more funding for young doco makers
- Everyone can vote online at Local Government Cultural Awards
- $50,000 for Bega Valley arts and disability program
- Accessible Arts' Regional Arts & Disability Strategy
- Jacque Schultze leaves Cowra Art Gallery
- Byron Bay artist wins Gold Coast art prize
- Casino student wins Shakespear interpretation prize
- PM's new Literary Prizes among world's richest
- Sydney artist wins National Photographic Portrait Prize
- OzCo cuts youth program
- OzCo Music Board launches in MySpace

Projects
- Out of Your Shell - ArtStart in the Central West
- Deniliquin Ute Muster exhibition tent
- IDPWD grants for Expanding Universe

Grants, prizes & other event deadlines until
4 April 2008

Dec 2007

Highlights
- Gr8 Par-T! R U Coming?, Tweed Heads & Lismore
- Les Blakebrough, Murwillumbah
- ArtStart 2007 Festival, online
- The Reindeer Monologues, Wagga Wagga
- Countryscapes 2008, Sydney

Regional Arts NSW news
- Art At The Heart: 2008 RAA Conference: new website
- Country Arts Support Program now open for applications
- Creative Volunteering a winner with community groups
- ArtReach Summe 2007 sneak preview

Other news
- Peter Garrett new Federal Arts Minister
- Arts under a new government
- NAVA welcomes new Labor government's arts plans
- Clubs gaming revenue now to support the arts in SW
- New categories, online voting in Local Govt cultural awards
- Kim Walker leaves Flying Fruit Fly Circus for NAISDA
- New commissions, inaugural tour for Merringong Theatre Co
- Experimenta to train regional new media curators
- 'Bell Ringer' the people's choice at In SITE Out
- Northern Rivers artist on a roll
- New arts council for Hill End
- Community rallies to save Uralla foundry
- Hunter promoted as film location
- Indigenous dancer named NSW Australian of the Year
- New foundation for documentary film
- SBS, FTO launch new drama development fund

Projects
- Breaking New Ground, Griffith
- Writing the Waves virtual gallery
- ArtStart in the Central West
- Our Town document film in the Clarence River region
- The Great Yackandandah Jame Project & Strum Club, Albury

Grants, prizes & other event deadlines until
13 April 2008

Nov 2007

Highlights
- Patricia Piccinni: Double Love Knot, Lismore
- The Flying Fruit Fly Circus: Scissors, Paper, Rock
- Freshly Plucked, Orange
- WYK - Our Faces, Our Places, Sydney
- River Dreaming Festival - Biladyi Garygu, Bathurst
- 25 X 25: Celebrating 25 Years of Megalo Access Arts, Broken Hill

Regional Arts NSW news
- RANSW Foundation sponsors Youth Encouragement Award at Country Energy Art Prize
- $38,000 for 25 new art projects in NSW under RAF
- ARC funds Regional Arts NSW & partners' arts & culture study
- Alices Springs arts leaders takes helm at RAA's 2008 conference

Other news
- Opening of the Northern Rivers Community Gallery
- Tim Winters wins $35,000 Country Energy Art Prize
- Milton Budget wins 2007 Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize
- Dubbo artist wins Most Promising Talent at 2007 Deadlys
- Festivals Australia funding for regional NSW
- Howard/Costello People's Choice at Bald Archies
- Newcastle playwright wins 2007 New Dramatists award
- $412,000 for Regional Flagship Events
- 'Art As An Industry' forums in the North West
- New director for Newcastle Region Art Gallery
- Singleton & Wagga to get digital ballet
- Councils urge delay on cuts to developer contributions
- 2007 NSW Premier's History Awards announced
- National community arts response to Labor arts policy
- New CEO for AbaF
- Ongoing support for Art Indemnity Australia
- Small to medium arts companies funding announced
- Funding upgrade for Australia's major orchestras
- National circus arts training funding to be ongoing

Projects
- Not Another Landscape, Moruya
- Turning The Pages, Upper Hunter
- Flights of Fancy - Creative Bird Sculpture, Baradine
- St Joey's Cultural Program, Gilgandra

Grants, prizes and other event deadlines to
25 April 2008

Oct 2007

Highlights
- fLiNg Physical Theatre - 'Who will come to the rescue?', Parramatta & Wollongong
- Wollumbin Dreaming Festival
- Aquasculpture, Port Macquarie-Hastings
- Spirit of the Land, Lockhart
- Big hART's GOLD in Griffith
- Flametree Festival in Bundanon

Regional Arts NSW news
- RANSW and partners win ARC funding for regional arts & culture study
- Country Energy and Regional Arts NSW present new award for young artists
- 'Quick' funding for ten new regional arts projects
- New staff to update Cultural Director for Orana
- Arts Northern Rivers appoints Museums Development Officer
- Creative Volunteering is back for 2007/08
- Regional Arts NSW e-Bulletin survey

Other News
- Federal Labor Arts Policy support for regional arts
- NSW Cultural Grants Program under review
- Crowd at opening of major new arts centre in Cootamundra
- Camden Haven Music Festival wins Classical Music Award
- BHP Billiton & Musica Viva win AbaF NSW Regional Award
- Regional NSW artists win 2007 AWGIE Awards
- Dungog is first AFC-supported rural film festival
- Regional NSW artists representing Australia in China
- Anthony Duval's landslide win in Grafton
- End of an era at Thursday Plantation Sculpture Show
- Bea Ballangarry wins Grace Roberts Award
- The Wilcannia renaissance continues
- Indent Partnership Grants for 2008 now open
- Tamworth Festival tickets on sale, online, early
- Comments sought for Regional Communities Consultative Council
- Australia's first Second Life artists residency recipients
- Seven new national tours under Contemporary Music Touring Program
- Playing Australia supports another 25 national tours
- Cultural funding by government up: ABS
- Film laws introduce new era for Australian film
- Australian censorship laws tightened

Project Reports
- ArtStart showcased at Catapult Festival, Bathurst, September 2007
- Macquarie Philharmonic Orchestra in Dubbo, September 2007

Grants, prizes & other event deadlines to
June 2008

Sept 2007

Highlights
- Circus Monoxide: Crash'n'Burn, Bathurst
- Catapult Festival, Bathurst
- Antarctica, Angus McDonald, Frank Hurley, Lismore
- The Moorambilla Festival of New Australian Music, Coonamble
- Bellingen Global Carnival: world music, art and dance
- The Deni Play on the Plains Festival & World Record Ute Muster

Regional Arts NSW News
- New Board members for Regional Arts NSW
- ArtReach Spring 2007 - Out Now
- New youth arts projects in the Northern Rivers

Other news
- A Nest for Artists on the Northern Rivers
- Eden photographer wins City of Hobart Art Prize
- Wagga artists win 2007 ArtLab funding
- Clarence Valley Council launches cultural plan
- Councils recognised for commitment to NSW communities at Local Government Awards
- Dangar Island resident wins Dobell Prize
- Finalists for the 2007 Deadlys announced
- Dubbo musician Sharon Lane up for Deadly
- New Bush Laureat Award for children's poetry
- Sam Smith wins Helen Lemprier Scholarship
- 2007 Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholars announced
- AbaF, NAVA join forces to equip artists for business
- New permit system a threat to Aboriginal art: NAVA

Project Reports
- The Civic Band in Gloucester, May 2007
- In Site Out in Orange, October/November 2007
- Journey of a Generation, Shoalhaven, 2006-07
- Bangers & Mash in Mendooran, October 2007

Grants, prizes and other event deadlines to
4 December 2007

Aug 2007

Highlights
- Big Feet Little Feet: A Perpetual Muse, Lismore
- The 2007 Archibald Prize, Grafton
- The Bellingen Jazz & Blues Festival
- The Jacaranda Drawing Prize exhibition, Sydney
- The Song Company: The Seasons, Bathurst, Katoomba, Wollongong & Newcastle
- Armidale International Film Festival

Regional Arts NSW News
- New regional arts show on pay TV this week
- More funds for Quick Response Grants
- Staff changes at Orana Arts
- New acting RADO at South West Arts

Other news
- Rural and regional taskforce kicks off
- Funding boost for Armidale International Film Festival
- ABC TV Sunday Arts in Broken Hill
- Filming in the Northern Rivers: East of Everything
- Nine new ArtStart projects in the Murray
- Indent: Save the Scene Workshop Tour this month
- Newcastle Gallery Director leaves for Queensland
- New museum & gallery direcotr at Hawkesbury
- Books Alive 2007 to promote reading in the millions
- International music expo planned for Sydney

Project Reports
- The Lismore Lantern Parade 2007: Re-enchanting the dream
- Tamworth Orchestral Festival
- Dramaturg Two, Lieder Theatre, Goulburn

Grants, prizes & other event deadlines to
5 November 2007

July 2007

Highlights
- Circadian Lace - Emma, Bathurst
- Write around the Murray story festival, Albury
- From All Four Corners: Stories of Migration to Wagga Wagga
- Byron Bay Writers Festival: the festival for thinkers
- Hats Off to Country Festival, Tamworth
- Not Like Beckett, Lismore

Regional Arts NSW news
- Four more Quicks
- ArtReach readership survey

Other news
- Albury's new LibraryMuseum opens this month
- New Artistic Manager at HotHouse Theatre
- New England North West film strategy
- Queens Birthday Honours for regional arts achievers
- NSW arts budget announced
- ArtStarting in the Central West
- $50K for national timber workers memorial in Eden
- New president of the NSW Shires Association
- Collections Council of Australia release 'regional hubs' report
- Festivals Australia funding in NSW
- Contemporary Music Touring funding in NSW
- Visions Australia funding in NSW
- New $25,000 fellowship for 'courageous' writers
- Call for input on national museum & gallery standards
- Itchiball art competition seeks 'worst' painting
- Corporate sponsorship of performing arts drops
- Minister welcomes Indigenous arts report with regional tour
- OzCo forms National Indigenous Arts Reference Group

Project Reports
- South East Correspondence: Writing Place
- Manipulating Fiobre in Eurobodalla
- Youth Art Workshops on the Mid North Coast
- Regional Piano Workshops in Temora & West Wyalong

Grants, prizes + other events and deadlines to
7 December 2007

June 2007

Highlights
- Lismore Lantern Festival
- National Photography Prize, Albury
- Flametree at Linaeus, Byron Bay
- Spirit of the Bush Drought Relief Concert, Grenfell
- The Biting Dog Theatre Festival, Albury
- The Blake Prize for Religious Art, Grafton

Regional Arts NSW news
- Change of Presidents at RAA
- New RADO at Arts Upper Hunter
- New Admin Officer at Regional Arts NSW
- New England Visual Arts Survey launched
- Regional Arts Fund open for applications

Other news
- Regional councils shine in Local Government Cultural Awards
- Disappointment in arts budget for regional Australians
- Positive news for arts generally in the budget
- $10m extra for tourism in drought affected areas
- Playing Australia now playing regional Australia
- New Aussie film festival in Dungog
- Armidale Council's bid to sell Mosman's Bay fails
- OzCo to hold CP grants info session in Dubbo
- Regional NSW curators win fellowship in NZ
- Broken HIll hopes to lure 'Bollywood' film-makers
- Currabubula Art Prize busiest ever
- Ted Lewis the people's choice in Cowar
- Monkey Baa brings theatre to Orana schools
- Artstart funds projects across the North West
- Seven Artstart projects funded for the Mid North Coast
- New AbaF Chair
- OzCo offers $20,000 for artists to get a Second Life

Project reports
- KidSpace in the gallery, Albury
- The Lonely Horse Band rides again, western NSW
- ANZAC Day Youth Project, Tweed
- Aboriginal gateway sculptures bring ancient art into new setting, Moree
- Our Creeks: Rocky, Terania & Tuntable, The Channon
- Itchy Hand, Itchy Fee + the Young'N'Deadly Day, Evans Head
- Show Day in the Central West
- Clay and casting workshops in Wallaga Lake

Grants, prizes + other events and deadlines to
8 October 2007

May 2007

Highlights
- Saltwater Yirrkala Bark Paintings of the Sea, Lake Macquarie
- Samuel Dark's Dinner Hour, Newcastle
- Australian Celtic Festival: Where Scots rule, Glen Innes
- Sydney Writers Festival in the Mountains, Katoomba
- Box O Tricks: A suitcase tour for kids, Orana
- The Messiah: Country Energy Regional Tour

Regional Arts NSW news
- New Directors on Regional Arts NSW board
- SEAR and STARTS to manage ACT Regional Arts Fund
- New report on the arts in Broken Hill
- Autumn ArtReach out now
- Arts Northern Rivers RADO takes leave
- Quicks grants for the 2nd quarter of 2007

Other news
- Local Government Cultural Awards to be announced this Friday
- Outback NSW teachers on Bell Shakespeare scholarship
- Dubbo Theatre Co turns 50
- Young artists embark on EPIC opportunities
- Arts NSW ConnectEd provides free theatre and transport for Northern Rivers schools
- Bald Archy Tour a roaring success
- Kernaghan headlines Grenfell drought relief concert
- Media in the spotlight at writers festival
- Support for regional artists to attend Indigenous music workshops in Sydney
- Orange wins Energy Australia National Trust Award
- Wagga Wagga to receive enhanced ABC Local Radio service
- New national category in AbaF Awards
- New OzCo report exmaines creative education for the workplace
- OzCo axes Asialink Literature Program

Project Reports
- Centacare's filmmaker-in-residence, Narromine
- Horsing around with arts and culture in Scone
- Not so silent movies, Albury

Grants, Prizes other events and deadlines to
18 January 2008

April 2007

Highlights
- Sydney Royal Arts Show
- Camden Haven Music Festival
- Ten Years of the Windmill, Goulburn
- National Youth Week, Statewide
- David Hockney: An Intimate Look, Nowra

Regional Arts NSW news
- Small bucks ... Big bang: 148 new arts projects get the go ahead with the CASP Grant for 2007
- RANSW grants manager in online panel
- New staff at Arts Northern Rivers
- New communications officer at Arts OutWest

Other news
- Premier announces new Ministry
- Cowra wins JJJ One Night Stand Competition
- New regional gallery for Lismore
- New strategy to promote far west to filmmakers
- Arts industry symposium in the north west
- Sydney Symphony's drought relief concert in Tamworth
- ABC Short Stories 2006 winners
- Outback Theatre appoints Company Manager
- Dubbo to host Croc Fest
- New design for Slim Dusty Centre awaits approval
- And the rural woman of the year is ...
- Ian Potter Trust's $100,000 music commissions

Project Reports
- Eden High + fLiNG Physical Theatre
- Newcastle Live Sites
- Gilgandra connects with the Powerhouse
- 3rd National Limestone Sculpture Symposium

Grants, Prizes & other events to:
20 August 2007 + some ongoing

Mar 2007

Highlights
- Come Hither: Interpretations of the Boudoir, Wagga
- The Song Company's Chronicles, Orange, Bathurst, Wentworth Falls, Wollongong and Newcastle
- Back-a-Bushie Drought Appeal art auction, Crookwell
- Opera in the Paddock, Inverell
- Jazz in the Tops, Coolah
- Harmony Day, Statewide
- Ironfest: An arts festival with a metal twist, Lithgow

Regional Arts NSW news
- Eight new projects get 'Quick' support
- Arts a big part of National Rural Health Conference

Other news
- Gulargambone cafe|gallery wins national tourism award
- Cultural development an election issue for LG
- Booligal short film selected for Popcorn Taxi
- Bell Shakespeare expands regional program
- NSW FTO announces new regional film projects
- AFC brings Tropfest to the regions
- Country Energy launches Art Prize for Landscape Painting
- NFSA establishes Sounds of Australia
- New $100,000 prize for art about sport
- New CEO to shake up the Australia Council?
- Dubbo student wins Linden Postcard Show
- Slim Dusty songs discovered
- OzCo 2007 Grant Seeker's Information program
- Arts champion a household name in Hawkesbury

Project Reports
- Earthly Encounters, Central West
- Journey of a Generation, Shoalhaven
- Art at Heart of National Rural Health Conference, Albury
- Children unearth their cultural backgrounds in Heritage Books project, Narooma
- YardART - Women Who Weld, Deniliquin

Grants, prizes and other events to
15 August 2007

Feb 2007

Highlights
- National Festival of Australian Blues Music, Goulburn
- Bras, Bodices & Corsets, Broken Hill
- A Regional State of Mind: Terracini tour, Albury, Goulburn

Regional Arts NSW News
- RAA's $60m funding proposal on the table
- RAA appoints National Communications Manager
- RABS implement ArtStart NSW youth arts skills program

Other News
- New Federal Arts Minister announced
- Australia Day honours for the arts
- Council libraries starved of funding: LGSA
- Parkes set new world record ... for Elvis impersonators
- $6m increase for Bundanon Trust
- Tweed River Regional Museum's lease on life
- Bald Archys break attendance records in Wagga
- Murawari artist at WOMADelaide
- 1,000 singers to lift drought-weary spirits in 2007
- New arts show on ABC Radio National
- Winner of the Greg Turner Scholarship for Young Artists
- Visual Arts Network online: curator's choice
- Converted pig shed hosts Mozart
- Broken Hill Council dismissed

Project Reports
- Music Hub 2007

Grants, prizes & other events to
13 September 2007