Dec 2006 #2

Highlight
- Freshly Plucked all ages festival, Orange

Regional Arts NSW News
- ArtReach Summer 06|07 out soon
- Nine new 'Quicks' grants announced
- New staff at RANSW
- Regional Arts Fund assessment report now online

Other News
- Platform Papers 11: Art in the regions launch
- 2007 Ident Partnership Grants announced
- Regional cinemas to get new digital equipment
- AFC's regional exhibition program 2007
- Dubbo Regional Art Space announces 2007 artists
- New art gallery in Murrurundi
- Peter Garrett moves to Shadow Cabinet, keeps Arts
- New CEO for Australia Council

Project Reports
A-llad-in the Tablelands

Grants, prizes & other events to
2 March 2007

Dec 2006

Highlights:
- Parkes Elvis Festival
- Shooters: Daily Advertiser Photography, Wagga
- International Day of People with a DisAbility, Statewide
- Festival of the Sun, Port Macquarie
- Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Tamworth

Regional Arts NSW news:
- CASP now open for applications
- New mailing address for RANSW
- Christmas giveaway: 50 Years In The Bush

Other news:
- NORPA's Electic Lenin in the national spotlight
- $3.39m for Bourke Exhibition Centre
- New Aboriginal art gallery for Northern Rivers
- Critical Stages regional touring program a hit
- Nominations now open for 2007 Local Government Cultural Awards
- Community groups critique Local Government: taskforce roundtable
- CCDNSW launches new network development strategy
- NAVA seeks feedback on new Indigenous art guidelines
- 2006 Community Heritage grants for NSW
- Regional arts groups benefit from 2006 MGnsw VIM grants
- Regional artists feature at Sydney art fair
- Regional writer launches first novel in Sydney
- 2006 ABC Radio Short Story Project winners on air
- ABC Radio National axes The Deep End
- Can the arts keep kids at school?
- Report on Copyright Amendment Bill 2006 released

Project Reports:
- Eyes to the Floor: New play for Hay girls
- Pablo in the Field, Ballina
- ConnectED: schools photography workshops, Hunter
- Music lessons by videoconference, Gilgandra & Baradine
- Writing anthology launchyed: fourWseventeen, Wagga

Grants, prizes & other events up to:
23 February 2007

Nov 2006

Highlights:
- Regional NSW artists in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
- Unsound06 experimental art festival, Wagga
- Electric Lenin, Lismore
- Festival of the Stars, Coonabarabran
- The Song Co's Free As A Bird, Newcastle, Bathurst, Katoomba & Wollongong

Regional Arts NSW news:
- Elizabeth Rogers new CEO
- 21 major new projects to go ahead in 2007 with RAF funding
- New RADO for Arts Upper Hunter
- OzCo:RAA partnership
- National regional arts promotions strategy

Other news:
- NSW Arts Minister, Bob Debus, to resign
- $16m donation for Art Gallery of NSW
- Joanne Logue wins Country Energy Art Prize
- Garth Lena wins 2006 Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize
- Thomas Spence wins Jacaranda Award
- Winners of 2006 AbaF Awards
- OzCo endorses New Media Arts Scoping Study
- 83 arts organisations in national freedom of expresion | sedition campaign
- New director for Byron Bay Writers Festival
- Nymagee Outback Music Festival big success
- Albury City invests in the arts
- DSRD supports Indigenous artist's international market development
- Lennox Head artist invited to exhibit in Canada
- Melbourne artist is resident at Camden Head Pilot Station
- Tropfest feature film, ABC TV documentar to shoot in regional NSW
- 2006 Heywire winners announced
- AART.BOXX now out of the box
- New online CCD publication from Victoria
- Artists' health suffers
- Australian volunteering not all sunny: new report

Project Reports:
- WYK: Wiradjuri Youth Kulture, Eastern Riverina
- Project Sprout, Grafton
- I like Monsters!, Albury
- Maternity Art project, Wallaga Lake
- Art of a Flood, Wentworth

Grants, prizes & other events up to:
28 February 2007

Oct 2006

Highlights:
- Hit'n'Run Family Circus Cabaret, Shellharbour
- Nymagee Outback Music Festival
- Surfing The Coldstream, Yamba
- I Am My Own Wife, Wodonga
- Circus Girl, Albury
- 2006 Schools Spectacular - Shine, Sydney

Regional Arts NSW News:
- A role for the arts in the State Plan?
- Latest ArtReach magazine out now

Other News:
- Western Plains Cultural Centre opening
- Northern Rivers forms creative industry consortium
- Tweed River Art Gallery Stage 2 now open
- Country Energy & Opera House win NSW AbaF Regional Award
- Dalmeny artist wins Basil Sellers Art Prize
- Richard Moffatt wins Thursday Plantation Prize
- Albury student in SMH Writers Award honours list
- 2006 Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize finalists announced
- Country Energy Landscape Prize finalists announced
- CWA doco series to film in regional NSW
- Bathurst Theatre Company goes pro
- Accessible Arts grants for regional celebrations
- Mid North Coast film office relaunch
- Architects shortlisted for new Dubbo Entertainment Centre
- New online regional events website launched
- Orana sculptor honoured in national wine design
- 2006 Deadly Awards announced
- $600m Broadband Connect program launched
- Arts and media groups 'aghast' at Ruddock's sedition veto
- ABS releases new Aboriginal arts and culture report
- Sponsorship, donations up: AMPAG report
- CMC sets national arts and culture priorities

Project Reports:
- Long Paddock Colourful Cattle, South West
- Big Brain beats Big Banana, Central West

Grants, prizes & other events up to:
31 January 2007

Sept 2006

Highlights:
- 5th Australian Poetry Festival - Statewide
- Mungo Festival, Willandra Lakes
- Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial
- History Week - Statewide
- Escape ArtsFest, Shoalhaven
- Flametree Festival, Bundanon
- Who Will Come to The Rescue? Bega

Regional Arts NSW News:
- New Member of the SEAR team
- Volunteer arts workers given a lift to Pacific Edge
- RANSW Audience Development case studies to be presented at The Pacific Edge
- Quick Response Grants for this quarter

Other News:
- 2006 Regional Arts Summit
- Federal ALP releases arts discussion paper
- Does Australia need a cultural policy?
- Visions of Australia grants announced
- Regional film funding in NSW
- OzCo CEO resigns
- New CEO for Bundanon
- New Manager for Tamworth Regional Gallery
- Hay year 10 student a published playwright
- 2006 Year of the Outback youth focus
- New Regional Partnerships guidelines

Project Reports:
- Facing Australia, nationwide + Brewarrina
- The Song Company in Bega + Merimbula
- ABC TV's Painting Australia in Northern Rivers
- 2007 Art of the South East diary
- Girls woodcarving project in Shellharbour
- Wild on the Border music program, Albury

Grants, prizes & other events up to:
11 January 2007

August 2006

Highlights:
- Does Australia need a cultural policy?, Byron Bay
- Courage to Care, Grafton
- As a Lily, Bathurst, Katoomba, Wollongong, Newcastle
- VIBE 3on3, Conamble, Bourke
- Our Community: A great place to be, Bathurst
- The 17th Bellingen Jazz & Blues Festival

Regional Arts NSW News:
- Vale Victoria Keighery, CEO
- Curtains close on Audience Development Project
- Wanted: artists and cultural industry workers in Broken Hill
- New Admin Assistant for STARTS
- Forbes Shire Council rejoins Arts OutWest

Other News:
- The 2006 Regional Arts Summit
- OzCo releases Community Partnerships Scoping Study Report
- Federal Review of Film Funding
- Indigenous Communal Moral Rights Bill seriously flawed: Arts Law
- Better data needed for planning: NSW Regional Galleries Study
- OzCo New Media discussion paper released
- New Director, Arts Development, Arts NSW
- Have you say in new ARC regional communities festivals research
- Indigenous artists sought for new online dictionary
- Country Week Expo 2006
- Windmill Trust Scholarship winners announced
- Winners announced in the 2006 Olive Cotton Award
- Festival seeks licence to impersonate Elvis
- Winner of the Australian Country Music Literary Award announced
- Pacific Edge 2006 RAA National Conference

Project Reports:
- Lonely Horses Tour + Nymagee Stories & Songs on ABC Radio
- ConnectEd Arts in the Far West
- Sense of Place, Bathurst
- The Bundanoon Community Quilt Project
- Murrumbidgee School of Creative Arts Scholarships
- Music Masterclass, Cessnock

Grants, prizes and other events up to:
3 November 2006

July 2006

Highlights:
- Casuarina Sculpture Walk, Casuarina Beach
- AquaLux II, Bathurst
- NAIDOC Week, Statewide
- Bega Stories, Bega
- Byron Bay Writers Festival

Regional Arts NSW News:
- RANSW presents a cultural policy forum at the Byron Bay Writers Festival
- New communications officer at Arts OutWest
- New era at South West Arts
- Outback Theatre incorporates

Other News:
- Qld Artworkers Alliance extends insurance coverage to NSW and Vic
- The Pacific Edge announces a 'Who's Who' of keynote speakers
- Arts funding in the 2006-2007 State Budget
- Regional NSW arts workers honored in Queens Birthday Honours list
- AYO to hold auditions in regions for the first time
- Council seeks court approval to sell half a painting
- NORPA announces new Artistic Director
- 2006 Watermark Literary Fellow announced
- Call for volunteers for the Pacific Edge conference
- AART.BOX winners annnounced
- New Country Music Literary Award
- WA survey to unearth stats on why people leave small towns
- Growing Regions sponsors Australian youth

Project Reports:
- But That's Another Story, Tallangatta
- Public art that 'matters, South East region
- Art infiltrates the Ute Muster, Deniliquin
- ConVerge: Northern Rivers touring exhibition
- 'Songs in the Key of Bloke', Coonamble
- Write in the Heart, Condobolin

Grants, prizes and other events up to:
10 October 2006

June 2006

Highlights:
- Take The Next Step: Aboriginal Film Festival, Wellington
- The Brushmen of the Bush exhibition, Broken Hill
- Bangarra Dance Theatre on tour, Griffith & Lismore
- North Coast Jazz Festival, Bangalow
- The Lismore Lantern Parade, Lismore
- Just Add Water exhibition, Wagga Wagga

Regional Arts NSW News:
- New partnership research project in West Darling
- Regional Arts Fund now open for applications
- Free new DVD brings key arts thinkers to your screen
- Quicks funds expended for this quarter
- Getting Them Going: audience development workshops in Bathurst & Parkes
- Kate Christy joins ERAP
- Travel Assistance for volunteers to attend RAA National Conference

Other News:
- The Pacific Edge: RAA 2006 National Conference
- Regional touring set to roar with VROOM
- New regional touring grant program
- MGnsw announces 2006 regional mentors
- Petition calls for hanging of Pro Hart's works in NSW Art Gallery
- ABC 'best budget oucome in over 20 years'
- 'Sedition' should go: ALRC
- New report says rural Australian needs more money and ideas
- 2006 State of the Community survey: participate online
- Mission Australia's 2006 survey of Australia's young people: participate online

Project Reports:
43rd Red Cross Currabubula Art Show

Grants, prizes and other events up to:
31 October 2006

May 2006

Highlights:
- Sonata: Masterpieces from the Baroque, Albury
- Tribute to Pro Hart, Broken Hill
- Circus Oz, Laughing At Gravity, Wagga Wagga
- A River of Art, Moruya
- Boys' Night In, Lismore
- The Biting Dog Theatre Festival 2006, Wodonga

News:
- Government to get tough on Indigenous art cons
- Australia Council's $3m boost to Indigenous arts
- NAVA working on Indigenous code of conduct
- OzCo's mult-million dollar initiatives to develop artists' earnings
- Accessible Arts invites input on Action Plan for NSW
- New priorities for Regional Partnerships program
- Regional NSW youth feature at Indent Awards
- Queanbeyan artist wins Gallipoli art prize

Regional Arts NSW News:
- Launch of 'How are we going? Directions for the arts in The Creative Age' DVD
- Canberra Arts Marketing and Regional Arts NSW present Kate Oakley at ICAN
- Regional Arts NSW welcomes new Board member.

Project Reports:
- Rural Towns Beat Graffiti Arts Tour, Orana
- Red Dust & Paddy Melons Community Gallery, Hillston

Grants, prizes & other event deadlines until:
- 27 October 2006

April 2006

Highlights:
- Big Screen Outback, West of the Darling
- Sculpture by the Lake, Jindabyne
- Ironfest 2006, Lithgow
- The Tom Roberts Festival, Inverell
- 11th Camden Haven Music Festival, Camden Haven
- Windmill Baby, Wodonga
- National Trust Heritage Festival, Statewide

News:
- Pro Hart dies
- Sedition law review
- Artists' resale rights bill introduced
- National enquiry into rural and regional women's representation
- Winner of the Bald Archy prize announced

Regional Arts NSW News:
- CASP Grants 2006 announced
- New Audience Development workshop on offer
- Call for input on new national arts & environment group
- Autumn ArtReach out next week

Project Reports:
- 3wAyXchange at the Commonwealth Games, Albury & Melbourne
- 39 Hours Short Film Festival & Competition, Nimbin

Grants, prizes & other event deadlines until:
15 September

Mar 2006

Highlights:
- The Four Winds Barnstorming Tour of the South East
- Enchanted River Reflections 2006, Albury
- The Song Company - Corpus Et Anima, Newcastle, Wollongong, Bathurst & Katoomba
- Caldera Shields by Sharon Muir, Murwillumbah
- Opera in the Paddock, Delungra
- Hawkesbury National Fiddle Festival, Clarendon

News:
- State & Local Governments sign Cultural Accord 3
- New touring theatre initiative for NSW
- Does Australia Need a Cultural Policy?
- NSW Ministry for the Arts announces cultural grants for 2006
- New Indigenous Cultural Officer at NSW Ministry for the Arts
- Fourteen NSW Government agencies to amalgamate
- Call for regulation of Aboriginal arts market
- Viscopy releases new copyright toolkit for Indigenous artists
- New England Regional Arts Museum will sell works to pay off debt
- ABC's Heywire winners announced.

Regional Arts NSW News:
- Regional Arts NSW committed to best practice in grantmaking
- New Administrative Officer for West Darling Arts
- Orana Arts' new cultural directory
- Arts North West's new directory of art galleries, museums & public art.

Project Reports:
- Facing Australia: The National Photographic Portrait Project, Statewide
- Public Arts Tribute to Farming Families, Merriwa
- Inheritance by Bathurst Theatre Company
- Site Specific One, Mimosa Rocks
- Farrrout schools literacy projects, Central & Far West
- Ocean Dreaming Surfboard Arts Project, Mollymook & Ulladulla

Grants, prizes & other event deadlines until:
31 July 2006

Feb 2006

Highlights:
- Mirramu Dance Company - Waves of the Desert, Canberra
- Murray River International Music Festival
- The Bald Archy Prize - Launch, Wagga Wagga
- 11th Annual Cobargo Folk Festival, Cobargo
- Two shows at Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Bega
- Harmony Day, Statewide

News:
- Regional youth the winners in 2006 Indent program
- 2006 Australian Bush Laureate Awards
- Regional NSW arts and culture figures in Australia Day honours list
- Australia Council CCD Grants for 2006
- Government grant to boost Film Illawarra
- CSU to help solve Riverina Theatre Company's woes
- Whichway Indigenous music workshops for six regional communities
- Meg Larking appointed to Visions of Australia committee
- Vale Joe Daly, Australian storytelling great
- Graham Pitts wins OzCo 2005 Ros Bower Award
- Cat Southern wins Toyota Star Maker Quest
- ABC TV axes Vulture
- Australian drama content quotas for subscription TV
- 'UnAustralian' art seized in Melbourne
- Regional Arts Australia's new National Directions: Regional Arts publication.

Regional Arts NSW News:
- Creative Volunteering workshops back in 2006
- Regional Arts Fund 2006 Assessment Report now online
- Regional Arts Fund Assessment Panel bios now online
- Victoria Keighery joins Institute for Land, Water & Society Advisory Board
- New Business & Finance Manager at Regional Arts NSW
- New Admin Officer for Outback Arts
- Changes at South West Arts
- New facility to send an email to the entire Regional Arts NSW network now available online.

Grants, prizes and other event deadlines until:
21 April 2006