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Travel Assistance for NSW Volunteers to attend Meeting Place conference 10 August 2004 A total of $20,000 has been made available to Regional Arts NSW to assist NSW arts volunteers to attend Australia's most important regional arts conference, Meeting Place, this year. The funds comprise a grant of $15,000 from the NSW Government and $5,000 from the Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund through Regional Arts Australia. "Volunteers are the backbone of regional communities and keep our country galleries, museums and performing venues operating," said the Premier and Minister for the Arts, Mr Bob Carr, on announcing the NSW Government's contribution to the funds this week. "This conference is a vitally important opportunity for regional arts workers and volunteers to meet one another and share skills. "Providing travel assistance is one of the many ways the Government is ensuring that people in regional areas get the same cultural oportunities as those in the cities," he said. Held biennially, the 2004 Regional Arts Australia National Conference will take place in Horsham, Victoria, 21-24 October, and is expected to attract more than 600 people. Park conference, part festival, Meeting Place will include keynotes addresses, discussions, performaces and exhibitions. CEO of Regional Arts NSW, Ms Victoria Keighery, welcomed the grants, saying that volunteers were the mainstay of arts and cultural development in rural and regional NSW. "The NSW contingent will gain a great deal of inspiration, knowledge, motivation and skills development at Meeting Place," Ms Keighery said. "They will return refreshed to their home state to continue their valuable, irreplaceable work in regional communities." Applications are now sought from volunteers in arts and cultural organisations in regional and rural NSW who are planning to attend Meeting Place. (The funds are to be directed to travel costs only.) Applications will be accepted until the date of the Conference or until all funds are allocated. Applications
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