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New South Wales Empty Spaces

March 2010

Various groups are working together to develop the NSW Empty Spaces website and toolkit. As part of developing the site, the organisers want to tell stories about how artists and communities have successfully used local empty spaces and places in NSW as 'pop-up shops'; temporary retail, exhibition, creative making spaces, workspaces; creative enterprise incubators; places of inclusion, or training and learning spaces. The project is based on the success of Renew Newcastle and aims to support local leaders who are organising for short-term creative and community uses for vacant, disused or soon-to-be-redeveloped buildings. The site will include case studies, templates and information and build a community space to discuss relevant issues.

JUMP national mentoring program for young and emerging artists

January 2010

JUMP directly supports the career development of artists, aged 18–30 and in the first five years of their professional practice, by facilitating mentorships with professional artists regarded highly in their chosen art form. As Australia's newest and largest artist mentoring program, JUMP is serious about championing the next generation of arts industry leaders, and ensuring that art form, geography and cultural diversity are no barrier to identifying and promoting artistic excellence.

Call for entries

State Library of Queensland Awards - Queensland

Entries by 19 March 2010

Entries are soon closing in four categories of the State Library of Queensland Awards. These Awards recognise the achievement of excellence in work of libraries; contribution to the appreciation of Queensland's history; and encourage the research and documentation of Queensland history using resources primarily within the John Oxley Library. State Library of Queensland Award ($5,000) John Oxley Library Award ($5,000) John Oxley Library Community History Award ($5,000) John Oxley Library Fellowship ($20,000).

2010 Regional Arts Australia Volunteer Awards - national

Nominations by 26 March 2010

The Regional Arts Australia Volunteer Awards recognise, reward and encourage regionally-based artists and cultural volunteers who have made a substantial contribution to the arts in regional communities in Australia. Nominations open on 19 February 2010. Young people are particularly encouraged to apply. The awards are in two categories: Sustained contribution to the arts and Outstanding contribution to the arts. The awards will be presented at Junction 2010 – connecting the future, Regional Arts Australia's national conference to be held in Launceston, Tasmania 26-29 August 2009.

AICC Grants program - national

Entries by 23 April 2010

The Australia International Cultural Council (AICC) Grants Program offers funding for international arts and cultural projects. The AICC grants program focuses on the AICC priority regions, which reflect Australia's broad public diplomacy and foreign and trade policy interests. Applications should be for cultural diplomacy projects incorporating activities in priority regions.

Scholars and Artists in Residence at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) - national

Entries ongoing

The NFSA invites research proposals from academics, performers, artists, audiovisual industry and archive professionals to draw fresh, innovative perspectives from the national audiovisual collection.  Fellows will use the NFSA's collection to create a new sound or moving image work, a publication, an exhibit, a live audiovisual event or a combination of these and other approaches. The Fellowships offer specially facilitated access and research into the national collection; close collaboration with NFSA curatorial and technical experts; access to the library; modern accommodation; and a fully equipped work space provided on-site.

Announcements

Manning Clark House (MCH) 2009 National Cultural Award

16 December 2009

Manning Clark House is a cultural and scholarly centre based in the former home of historian Manning Clark. The winners of the MCH 2009 awards for outstanding contributions to the quality of Australian cultural life are: Professor Peter Sutton, an Adelaide-based anthropologist and linguist, for his book The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus as the individual winner; and for an outstanding year, the group winner is the National Portrait Gallery (launched December 2008). The awards are medallions made by Gilbert Riedelbauch.

Resale royalty rights for visual artists

26 November 2009

Artists will receive 5 per cent of the sale price of their works when they are resold, following the passage of the Resale Royalty Scheme for Visual Artists Bill 2009 through the Senate.

Creating a better life for regional Australians: Results of Regional Arts Australia's national consultation

23 November 2009

Regional Arts Australia (RAA) completed a national consultation and has released its goals at a national roundtable discussion. The five key priority areas for the next five years are: Building a strong sense of purpose and identity, Developing inclusive and resilient communities, Engaging young people in creating regional futures, Health and wellbeing and Environmental sustainability. The issues, goals and actions related to these five areas, are set out in the publication Creating a better life for regional Australians.

Key online resources

• artsConnect
• OzArts Online

Institutions and government organisations

• ABS - Attendance at cultural venues and events
• Cultural participation by persons with a disability and older persons
• Cultural Data Online
• J Craik, Re-Visioning Arts and Cultural Policy, ANU E Press, Canberra, 2007.
• Australia Council for the Arts - Grants
• Australia Council for the Arts - Research
• Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts - Arts and culture

Peak bodies and associations

• Collections Council of Australia
• Regional Arts Australia
• Arts NT
• Cultural Development Network, Victoria
• Regional Arts Victoria
• Regional Arts New South Wales
• Tasmania Regional Arts
• Country Arts South Australia
• Country Arts Western Australia
• Arts Queensland
• Arts ACT

Featured websites/projects

• SCOPE (Securing Career Opportunities and Professional Employment)
• CreateBiz - Business assistance programs
• Australia 2020 Summit Initial Report, 2008 (38p 1.2MB PDF)
• Australia 2020 Summit Towards a creative Australia, background paper, 2008 (12p 194kb PDF)
• New Directions for the Arts, 2007 (17p 150kb PDF)