Publications
ArtReach
The Regional Arts NSW magazine features:
- news
- stories about arts and cultural development projects from around the state
- background information, insights and analysis
- new resources online and in print
- what's on listings
- grants, prizes + opportunities listings.
PDFs of highlight articles from ArtReach are available for download in PDF
on this page. Printed copies available from Regional Arts NSW.
NOTE: The ArtReach project has now finished, and we hope that you enjoyed the last edition. Keep an eye on the e-bulletin and website for more great arts stories.
Latest issue
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Winter 2008
Regional Arts Fund projects
- Download the Winter 2008 issue here [PDF]
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Summer 2007/08
The Music Issue
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Spring 2007
'Never more than ten metres from ART?' Access to the arts
in the regions
- Gr8
ParT! R U Coming? - Tweed Shire Council is crowing about its RAF-funded all-inclusive
multi-arts performance project [PDF 195K]
- Sparkling
the imagination - Port Macquarie's new arts, conference and entertainment
centre - The Glasshouse - is set to become a major cultural landmark in regional
NSW [PDF 180K]
- ARTside!-in
Moree - The Art Gallery of NSW's benchmark new arts education outreach program
was piloted in Moree earlier this year [PDF 155K]
- Shootin'
the Bin in the Great South West - South West Arts' (possibly somewhat insane)
mission to include an entire 140,000km2 region in their touring film festival
[PDF 145K]
- ArtStart
in cyberspace - NSW TAFE's Youth Arts & Skills Festival will take place
online this year [PDF 255K]
- Bundanon's
Spring - The 1,100 hectare 'living arts centre' in the Shoalhaven is building
local, national and international connections, both in the 'real' world and online
[PDF 195K]
Great arts stories from the regions
- Keeping
faith with their muse - A decade of the Windmill - Celebrating ten years'
contribution of the Windmill Trust Scholarship to the vitality and freshness of
contemporary art practice in regional NSW [PDF 170K]
- Gateway
to Moree - Renowned Kamilaroi artist, Lawrence Leslie, is carving a series
of giant red-gum tree trunks with designs from his cultural tradition [PDF 225K]
- Dancing
with living libraries - Tim Bishop's new OzCo funded dance program on the
South Coast is fusing the expression of local youth with a new understanding of
Aboriginal tradition and culture [PDF 105K]
- Theatre
with aroma - Circadian Lace - Emma, the first work to come out of the
pilot Performing Arts Development Project in Bathurst, is a multi-sensory experience
[PDF 125K]
- From
Garage to Parliament House - 27 artists working in a garage in Bega are collectively
setting the standard for arts and disability practice in regional NSW [PDF 105K]
- Matchmaker's
Delight - Arts Northern Rivers' Visual Arts Network (VAN) is hooking local
artists up with galleries from Sydney and interstate with its second successful
'Speed Dating' event [PDF 170K]
- Catapult
Festival 2007 - The nation's only circus and physical theatre festival is
on this September in Bathurst [PDF 90K]
- A
great cultural plan - The winner of the Local Government Cultural Award for
Policy and Planning says cultural planning is easy ... huh? [PDF 115K]
PLUS
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Previous issues
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Autumn 2007
Focus on Aboriginal arts development in the west
- The
Wilcannia Renaissance - how the new arts centre has wrought magic in the remote
outback town [PDF 345K]
- Long
Distance Vision - Outback Arts' Indigenous arts development strategy has an
Indigenous Arts Centre for the region as its long term goal [PDF 320K]
- The
Face on the Front - The DSRD's Aboriginal Business Development Program is
proving a boon for Aboriginal creative industries development across the west
[PDF 375K]
- Weaving
a Yarn - profile of Murawari artist, Louise Warne, from Coonamble [PDF 355]
plus
- What
becomes of the Broken Hill artists? New report on the arts industry in Broken
Hill reveals some surprising facts and figures [PDF 235K]
From the regions
- Clean
Energy for Eternity - an arts + environment project in Eden [PDF 380K]
- The
New Gold - a new project by the Big hART in Griffith about the impacts of
the drought [PDF 250K]
- Fffestival
Fever - why festivals have replaced farming as the new 'f' word in the Central
West [PDF 460K]
- Come
Hither - Wagga art gallery's audience development strategy [PDF 425K]
- Desert
Pea Media - bringing hip hop joy to disadvantaged kids in remote areas [PDF 230K]
- It's
a library, it's a museum - AlburyCity's Group Leader of Cultural Services,
Kevin Wilson, discusses some of the challenges in the development of the new,
converged library museum opening this July [PDF 355K]
- Celebrating
Ability - art was the great equaliser in Arts OutWest's major arts and disability
project in 2006 [PDF 550K]
- NORPA Dance
Action providing a Homebase for kids in the Northern Rivers [PDF 355K]
- Earthly
Encounters from Orange to Sydney [PDF 400K]
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Summer 2006|07
Focus on professional arts practice in regional NS
Arts & Business feature
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Spring 2006
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Autumn 2006
Focus on infrastructure
Plus
- "Nice
Staff, well hung" A report by Audience Development Specialist, Lisa Andersen,
on a survey of visitors to the Archibald Prize Exhibition at Cowra Art Gallery
in 2005. [PDF 80K]
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Spring/Summer 2005/06
- Yaama Bourke's inaugural eight day festival on the banks of the Darling River in Bourke
reignites community pride and engagement. Feature story by Nancy Konstantinou
and Andrew Hull. [PDF
615K]
- Travelling the troupes
- performing arts touring in the South East by Jennifer Hunt, RADO.
- Touring
... why? how? by Merryn Spencer [PDF 175K]
- Songs
in the key of bloke - From Leichhardt to Lightning Ridge. Cover story about
the Leichhardt Espresso Chorus tour of western NSW, by Michelle Leonard. [PDF
205K]
- Beyond
Empathy. A new arts company in the North West is taking young people way beyond
welfare. Feature article by Vivienne Skinner. [PDF
201K]
- The Murray Music Club
in Albury Wodonga by Karen Roben.
- Mulwaree High School's
artistic triumph over 1970s concrete functionalism by Elizabeth Brown.
- Catapult Youth Arts
Festival in Bathurst by Fiona Thompson
- Dirt Bones Assembly's
Rip Out Your Labels cross-artform theatre by Annette Eassie & Zeb Schulz.
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Previous issues
For previous years (2001 - 2005) see the ArtReach archive [here].
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ArtReach
was part of the Regional Arts NSW Communications & Promotions Program which
was made possible by the Australian Government's regional arts program, the Regional
Arts Fund, which gives all Australians, wherever they live, better access to opportunities
to practise and experience the arts.
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