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Flying Arts
Image courtesy of Flying Arts.
December 2008
Flying Arts promotes excellence in cultural experiences, providing workshops, touring exhibitions and professional development opportunities for regional Queenslanders.
The Writer's Guide to Making a Digital Living: Choose your own Adventure
December 2008
The Writer's Guide was developed through the Australia Council's Story of the Future project to explore the craft and business of writing in the digital era. It includes case studies from Australia's rising generation of poets, novelists, screenwriters, games writers and producers who are embracing new media. The guide contains audio and video content from seminars and workshops, as well as extensive references to resources in Australia and beyond.
Sydney Sidetracks
Sydney early 1940s. Image courtesy of Historic Houses Trust.
December 2008
Sydney Sidetracks links historic video, audio and pictures to their locations online. Content on offer includes early images from Port Jackson in 1821, as well as more recent events such as the Hilton Hotel bombing. Downloading the mobile version to your phone is ideal for a walking tour of the inner-Sydney streets.
Classic/amp
November 2008
Classic/amp is ABC Classic FM's home for a growing online collection of Australian classical and experimental music, drawn from the ABC's vast archive of music recordings. This website will become an increasingly valuable resource for music teachers, students and general music lovers alike as it expands to embrace a wider range of artists and genres, including rare works which have so far been difficult or near-impossible to access. The collection will also be enriched through the development of search functions and curated sub-collections as well as numerous links to biographies, scores and other documentation on websites of key partner organisations including the Australian Music Centre, the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive.
Artpost
Artpost map.
October 2008
Artpost is an interactive website and short video series for TV broadcast, which showcases artists working in regional and remote parts of the country. Peter Garrett, the Federal Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, launched Artpost at the Art at the Heart Conference in Alice Springs. The centrepiece of Artpost is a digital interactive arts map of Australia where you can watch artists at work in their studio - from Toowoomba to Lightning Ridge, from Broome to Strahan. The site provides the tools for students, teachers, art lovers and artists to create short videos about who they are and their work, for inclusion on the digital map. In five easy steps, a video can be created and uploaded directly to what will become a living art gallery of all corners of Australia. The videos will also be broadcast on ABC1 and ABC2.
The GEO Project
Transmute collective, Intimate transactions. Image courtesy of The Geo Project.
October 2008
The GEO Project offers an exciting approach to supporting and enhancing a suite of four exhibitions with the related theme of 'art and the environment', toured by Museum and Gallery Services Queensland.
Alex Broun
October 2008
As one of the world's most produced ten minute playwrights, Australian Alex Broun has had over 30 short plays produced all over the world from South Africa to Spain in nearly 100 productions. On this website you will find free downloads of all of Alex's ten minute and full length plays, feature and short screenplays as well as collections of poetry.
APRA|AMCOS
September 2008
APRA|AMCOS is an online hub for Aussie songwriters and composers full hub of information about songwriting, copyright, plus all the latest industry news and events, all delivered via a vibrant, easy to use site. The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) collects and distributes licence fees for the public performance and communication of our members' musical works. The Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) collects and distributes mechanical royalties for the reproduction of our members' musical works.
Twelve Canoes
8 September 2008
The Twelve Canoes website which a compelling portrait of the art, culture, history and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the town of Ramingining and the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The web site, honouring the people of the Arafura swamp, and is built around twelve filmed 'visual poems' describing and illustrating many aspects of Yolngu history, life and culture. The visual poems include Creation, Our Ancestors, The Macassans, First White Men, Thomson Time, The Swamp, Plants and Animals, and Seasons, to Kinship, Ceremony, Language, and a slice of contemporary life in Nowadays.
Pool
September 2008
Pool is a social media project developed by ABC Radio National. It's a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers - upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. It's a collaborative space where audiences become makers.
STRUT dance
Image courtesy of STRUT.
August 2008
Founded in 2002, STRUT is located in the King Street Arts Centre, in the centre of Perth. STRUT dance offers support to independent Western Australian dance artists so that they can create and produce their own work. The flexibility of artistic direction and breadth of membership allows STRUT to support emerging and established artists who work across a range of contemporary dance practices.
FORM | Building a state of creativity
Junko Maruyama installing Silent Flower Field in Wolf Lane for Field of Ideas. Image courtesy of FORM.
August 2008
FORM is an independent cultural organisation which works to enhance Western Australia's competitiveness and creativity through creative, cultural and social capacity building projects. Guided by the principle of Creative Capital, FORM develops and manages projects across four program areas that aim to stimulate creative, sustainable and connected communities. FORM's program areas are: Regional Development; Indigenous Development (especially Kimberley and Pilbara regions); Place Activation (urban clusters); and Industry Development (encompassing the creative industries development at Midland - Atelier).
Screen Australia
July 2008
Screen Australia is the Commonwealth Government's new screen agency replacing the Australian Film commission, Film Australia and the Film Finance Corporation. This new organisation has come to fruition out of the necessity for focus on ensuring a strong voice across Australian film, television, documentary and children's programs. Screen Australia provides support to Australian film, television, documentary and digital media makers and aims to put the industry on a new growth path.
Artistcareer
Image courtesy of Artistcareer.
July 2008
The National Association for the Visual Arts and the Australia Business Arts Foundation have launched a new website for visual art, craft and design practitioners. Artistcareer is an independent, non-commercial website whose goal is to offer high quality resources and information to support artists' professional and business skills development.
Culture Victoria
Kylie Minogue. Image courtesy of The Arts Centre.
June 2008
Culture Victoria (CV) is a collaborative partnership that uses broadband to deliver media-rich experiences of collections, culture and communities. With a wealth of previously unseen digitised material, CV provides access to collections, including the ability to research material from across the network, behind-the-scenes insights from experts such as curators and artists, and a listing of over 700 of Victoria's collecting organisations.
ABC Indigenous
June 2008
ABC Indigenous is the ABC's new portal for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Indigenous portal replaces and upgrades the pre-existing Message Stick gateway. It was developed in consultation with the ABC's Indigenous Programs Unit and with members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
Australia's heritage
Kakadu National Park. Image courtesy of the Australian heritage photographic database.
June 2008
Heritage is all the things that make up Australia's identity - our spirit and ingenuity, our historic buildings, and our unique, living landscapes. Our heritage is a legacy from our past, a living, integral part of life today, and the stories and places we pass on to future generations. Discover Australia's heritage on the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts' heritage website.
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