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Murray Arts AGM
On 22nd May our Annual General Meeting was held at Burraja Gallery in Albury.
The meeting resulted in a change of Chairperson and a new board member. Tahni Froudist has been the Chairperson since 2015 and has resigned from the position and the board. We want to thank Tahni for her commitment, passion and expertise in arts administration and wish her all the best.
Congratulations to Richard Hull, CEO Flying Fruit Fly Circus who was elected our new Chairperson and we welcomed Michael Moran, Curator MAMA, to the board.
We also presented our Annual Report and 2020 It's a Wrap video. It was so wonderful to reflect on how much we achieved in the region given the challenges of bushfires and COVID.
From L to R: Richard Hull ( incoming Chairperson), Dianne Shepheard, David Gordon, Tahni Froudist (outgoing Chairperson), David Thurley, Rachael Gadd, Donna Caffrey, Michael Moran.
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Art>Work
In May, we held our first Art >Work artist residency at Oakleigh Hideaway at Hopefield, near Corowa. The residency hosted artists and mentors from the Murray Arts region over 4 sunny days at a peaceful rural retreat. Artists used their time to connect with other practitioners from our region, create and explore works and ideas in a distraction-free environment.
We are thrilled that all the participating artists had such an enriching, engaging and productive experience. The project is a Murray Arts initiative, supported by the Create NSW Arts Restart program.
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Congratulations!
Albury writer, Robyne Young will release a new collection of short stories later this year, thanks to a Booranga Writers Centre micro grant of $1,000.
Robyne was successful in applying for the funding from Create NSW. The small grant program for individuals was intended to restart literary activity in the regions after the social tumult of pandemic lockdowns.
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‘I’m really thrilled to receive the funding which will cover the costs to engage award winning artist, Vernon Bartlett to create the cover artwork, and go toward self-publishing costs. I’ll be learning more about newer platforms to self- publish and will be able to pass that knowledge onto other writers in the region.’
She’ll also be experimenting with format and the collection will have a number of previously published short stories interspersed with micro-fiction.
Photo: Manifeasto Photography
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Mulled Wine and Musings | Lavington Library
6PM, 10 June
Warm up this winter with some mulled wine while sharing poetry. Read a self-composition or your favourite poet, or be adventurous and perform slam poetry!
Bookings are essential, to book please phone 02 6043 5645 or email Lavingtonlibrary@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
Sculpture in the Square | QEII Square | Albury
4-23 June
Come along for the evening launch of the illuminated sculpture 'Adaptation' that will live in QEII Square until 23 June. Opened by Artist Maurice Goldberg the opening night will include music, food and a pop up bar. Come and explore this interactive installation.
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Slide Night | Pecha Kucha | Old Stone Hall Beechworth
24 June 6pm-8pm
Come along to hear local creatives, commercial businesses and community share their biggest and brightest ideas, on topics including collaboration, applying creative processes to commercial problems, valuing our practices and what keeps us up at night - both the challenges facing local creatives and what we can do to fix them!
Tickets $10. Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase on the night.
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Launch Exhibition | Davis Cottage Arts Centre | Corryong
18 June
An official Davis Cottage Arts Centre launch exhibition, has been planned to let people find out more and get everyone inspired too! This exhibition will take place on Friday 18th June 2021 between 6 and 8pm with drinks and canapés – so please put the date in your diary (COVID allowing)!
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Through the Garden Gate | Alison Watson | The Courthouse Yackandandah
12-14 June
Join artist Alice Watson for her first solo exhibition over the June long weekend.
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Winterwords | Beechworth
16-23 June
Winterwords is a week full of talking, listening, watching and doing, which aims to foster the celebration of words in all their forms and functions, and includes workshops, performances, exhibitions, discussions, interactive sessions, and displays, of visual and performing arts, literature, poetry, storytelling, games, and music.
Winterwords specifically designed to occur during the 'quiet' winter period. It is a festival by the community, for the community.
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Clown Lab with Clare Bartholomew | Flying Fruit Fly Circus
2-4 July
Investigate comic formula at this physical comedy workshop intensive with one of Australia’s best loved comic performers, Clare Bartholomew. Clare is Astrid Rot, one half of the multi award-winning international sensation, the comedy/cabaret rock duo Die Roten Punkte. She is also a third of We3 who created The Long Pigs, and a quarter of The Business.
Spend three days with Clare in the beautiful and idiot world of clown and physical comedy. Childish, ridiculous, tragic, naughty, naive, sometimes angry, yet forever optimistic, clowns long for their chance to be in the spotlight and ultimately to ‘save the show!’
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Community Engagement Coordinator | Flying Fruit Fly Circus | Albury
Closes 16 June
The Community Engagement Coordinator is a new role designed to expand and maximise the company’s outreach program and opportunities within our growing and diverse Albury-Wodonga communities.
The role will embrace established programs and develop exciting new engagement initiatives. It will also help drive the company’s long-term vision for circus to be accessible to every kid in every school in Australia.
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Retail Assistant | MAMA | Albury
Closes 13 June
This position is based in the museum store, and delivers an exceptional experience to our visitors. The Retail Assistant is focused on sales, information services, and promoting the products and stories of local makers from the Murray region. Permanent Part-time.
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Visitor Experience Host | MAMA | Albury
Closes 13 June
Working as part of the Engagement Team, Visitor Experience Hosts engage with visitors to the museum and assist with the delivery of events, programs and experiences. This role is key in connecting museum visitors to the art, artists, and ideas in our program, and hosting an exceptional experience for all visitors to the museum.
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EOI Creative Studio | Hyphen Wodonga
Closes 18 June
Hyphen - Wodonga Library Gallery has an exciting opportunity for an emerging artist to be an artist in residence in the newest cultural space in Albury-Wodonga.
The Hyphen Creative Studio residency offers a space for artists, designers and other creatives to develop their work in a purpose-built space within Hyphen.
This is a three to six-month residency for an early career artist (in the first five to seven years of their career) who would like to develop their artistic and professional practice.
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EOI SALON | Arts on Tour
Closes 18 June
Arts on Tour is gearing up for their 6th SALON on Wednesday 21 July. After the uncertain times presented by COVID-19 they're inspired to hear about the quality and range of work currently being made around NSW.
What to expect at SALON:
- Pitches from NSW based artists and companies
- Presenter introductions and insights into their programming
- Networking opportunities
Selected artists and producers present pitches of up to 4 minutes each. These pitches may be tour ready work, works in development.
Pitches can be from all genres of the performing arts and from productions looking to tour to venues, large and small in 2022/2023 and beyond.
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GRANTS / FUNDING / FELLOWSHIPS
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Indigenous Languages and Arts | Australian Government
Closes 21 June
The ILA program assists Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to express, preserve and maintain their cultures through Indigenous languages and arts activities.
Grant funding is available to support:
- projects that contribute to the capture, revitalisation and maintenance of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
- projects that develop, produce, present, exhibit or perform Indigenous arts and language projects that showcase Australia’s traditional and contemporary Indigenous cultural and artistic expressions.
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Small Project Grants (Quick Response) | Create NSW
Ongoing
Small Project Grants (Quick Response) funding aims to:
- Enable artists and arts/cultural workers (including museum workers) to participate in outstanding and relevant time-sensitive opportunities
- Contribute to the creation, development and/or presentation of new work
- Improve the capacity of professionals working in NSW to become arts and cultural leaders.
Funding of between $500 and $5000 is available to support NSW-based professional artists and arts/cultural workers (including museum workers) to build their capability, portfolio of work, audience and/or market.
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The Joyce Spencer Fellowship | The CAD Factory
Closes 18 July
The Joyce Spencer Fellowship is to support a regional NSW textile artist or collective to deliver a new artwork or exhibition. Named after the textile artist Joyce Spencer (1928 – 2019), the fellowship is made possible with funds from the Spencer family and Western Riverina Arts, in partnership with the Cad Factory.
The Joyce Spencer Fellowship will be administered over two years; with applications open in June 2020 and June 2021. Each year, one fellowship of $4000 will be awarded.
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Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups | Australia Council for the Arts
Closes 7 Sept 2021
This program funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences. Grants are available from $10,000 to $50,000. Supported activities must last no longer than two years from the proposed start date.
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Call for Applications Global Connect 2021-22 | IETM
Closes 7 June
IETM Global Connect is a new programme launched and led by IETM - International network for contemporary performing arts and created with the support of IETM’s Associate Members. The goal of Global Connect is to make our network more inclusive, diverse and accessible.
The programme is open to performing arts professionals worldwide (producers, artists, managers, presenters, etc) who have at least 5 years of professional experience in the field and are committed to increase global awareness, inclusion, accessibility and connectivity – in the sector at large and in their communities.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES / RESIDENCIES / OTHER
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Residency | Grindell's Hut | Country Arts SA
Closes 18 June
Country Arts SA is inviting artists from all disciplines to apply for a three-week residency at Grindell’s Hut located in the heart of the Vulkathunha – Gammon Ranges National Park, one of the many stunning parks in the Flinders Ranges & Outback region of South Australia.Established more than 15 years ago, the vision for the residency program is to provide an environment of extraordinary natural beauty with historic significance for artists to pursue their practice while immersed in an outback environment. The park forms part of the traditional country of the Adnyamathanha people and is rich with cultural significance. It is also a haven for many rare and endangered plants and animals.
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Call for Entries | Environmental Art and Design Prize | Northern Beaches Council
Closes 21 June
The Environmental Art & Design Prize 2021 invites submissions from artists and designers across the country who are agents of change, engaged with the natural world, environmental renewal, regeneration and the circular economy through their contemporary practice. Artists and designers are asked to submit original works that contribute to these ongoing conversations.
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Call for Entries | Deakin University Small Sculpture Award
Closes 9 July
In it's eleventh year, this annual acquisitive award and exhibition is organised by the Art Collection and Galleries Unit at Deakin University. One outstanding entry will be awarded $10 000 and will become part of the Deakin University At Collection.
Entry to the Deakin University Contemporary Sculpture Award is free.
Entries can be in any media but must be under 70cm in size and free standing.
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Call for Entries | The Churchie Emerging Art Prize
Closes 20 June
‘the churchie’ returns to the Institute of Modern Art once more in 2021. With a legacy built over 34 years, the prize provides a platform for up-and-coming Australian artists to be profiled on a national stage.
The prize provides valuable exposure, an exhibition opportunity at one of Australia’s leading contemporary art spaces, curatorial support, and a career-boosting chance at the $15,000 major prize.
Entry is open to artists of all ages and disciplines who identify as early career and are Australian citizens or residents. ‘the churchie’ finalists will be selected based on the strength of their practice as a whole.
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GreenHouse: National Artist Residency Program | HotHouse Theatre
Closes 28 June
GreenHouse: National Artist Residency is an immersive, residential creative development program for live performance-makers from across Australia who are invested in:
- Developing a New Work; and/or
- Expanding their own artistic process/practice through specific creative interrogations; and/or
- Radical experimentation in the development of new forms.
We want to entice creative risk takers to experiment, explore innovative interdisciplinary collaborations and strengthen the creative capacity of artists to develop exceptional new Australian stories for the stage, and/or make bold new contributions to their art form, inspired by our region and gifted to the nation.
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Call for Entries | Peebles Print Prize 2021 | Queenscliff Gallery
Closes 30 June
QG exhibiting artist and Queenscliff local, Graeme Peebles, is Australia’s leading mezzotint printmaker. Together, QG and Graeme Peebles established the Peebles Print Prize (PPP) in 2017, a prize aimed to be representative of the highest level of printmaking in Australia and solely focused on the intaglio technique.
The success of the inaugural PPP17 and then following, PPP19 are proof of the ongoing enthusiasm for printmaking in Australia. Coinciding with the Geelong Gallery Acquisitive Print Award, the two prizes form a nationwide cultural focus for printmaking in Geelong and the Bellarine.
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Art Works on iView
ABC has a new show which explores a range of arts across Australia. Each episode has several stories each uncovering and interrogating different art practices through interviews with artists and arts workers. Much like the format of BTN (Behind the News) it's light-hearted and there's no jargon, just easy to understand explanations and insights.
My favourite story so far is in Episode 4 where a blind date unfolds at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). Each person was given a set of cards which had identical words of feelings and descriptions and the daters would walk around and look at the artworks and chat about what they thought it meant and how it made them feel then they'd pull out a card and see if the other had similar reaction. What a great idea! Much better idea and location than a pub and strained conversation!
Check it out on Wednesday at 8.30PM or iView
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Nat
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