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Critical Stages Touring is hosting a FREE theatre forum. One of the biggest opportunities 2020 has presented is the time to critically analyse the impact live entertainment, theatre and touring has on the environment. The future must be kinder on the environment, so how can theatre-makers contribute in positive ways through their work, practice and administration. 
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Connect | Relate | Create is a FREE online creative program that connects and supports Border and North East’s arts community.

Over six weeks, you are invited to participate in a range of creative workshops via Zoom to enable connection, encourage creativity, and boost well-being.

The program not only aims to increase the mental health of our hard hit arts community, but encourages the development of new ideas and skills through a range of art forms.

The program kicked of ealier this week with  off with an artist well-being workshop led by psychologist Dr Louise Cooper (Talking Emotions/Arts and Wellbeing Collective), and the following weeks will include a writing workshop with Alyson Evans, a drawing workshop, a movement workshop with Jodie Farrugia, and Chris Pidd will lead a Zoom Choir. The project culminates with IDEAS LAB, a space where artists of any art form can self-nominate to present a short visual presentation on a seed ideas they are exploring.

This school holidays, Primary School students are invited to join artist Kate Rohde for a 3-hour MAMA Studio workshop. Kate is the colourful and clever artist behind our current Wonder Cupboard installation, Little Gems.

Kate will lead children through the process of creating their own colourful, creative diorama, using simple craft materials. Kids will be inspired by Kate's creativity and enthusiasm to experiment with sculpture, painting, and magiclay, and other materials to create their own wonder world.

A great way to spend an afternoon next school holidays, getting crafty in MAMA Studio. All materials are provided.
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Capturing History – Bruarong Stories Remembered Project Launch

The Bruarong Community Centre Committee are delighted to announce the launch of their project. The research team are keen to hear from;

• Residents of the Bruarong Community, past & present to tell their stories
• Anyone with a connection to Bruarong who may have photographs or documents relating to the villages of Bruarong, Hillsbrough and Sutton
• People with any information about Bruarong History that might help add to the research
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• Learn West African rhythms. 
• Connect with great people. 
• Experience the wellbeing benefits of drumming.
• No experience necessary (beginner/open & intermediate classes)
• Trial your first class for free!

Together, we will create one work for Sydney’s Tamarama Beach, in the heart of Sculpture by the Sea, 2020, and it will tour to Albury’s QEll Square to be shared with the whole community in June next year.

Join a series of free, online workshops to develop the fabrics and prints, which will create part of the structure of “Adaptation”.

These workshops are for anyone who would like to expand their creativity.

The "Adaptation" project, created by Maurice Goldberg and Matthew Aberline, of Goldberg Aberline Studio, explores how collaboration in the age of COVID can happen online in new and amazing ways.
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Split – October Holiday Workshop | HotHouse Theatre
28-29 September

SPLIT - Stories from the Border Bubble 

No one could have predicted the many challenges 2020 would present to our community. In this two- day intensive, participants will generate, write, direct and perform their own pieces inspired by the experiences of those living in the Albury– Wodonga area during the COVID-19 pandemic this year. These works will be filmed and then streamed via zoom for family and friends to see.  

This is a drama workshop designed for story tellers interested in exploring the process of generating material for new work.   

Participants would need to provide their own lunch and snacks, plus a drink bottle, and are encouraged to bring hand sanitiser and a mask.  More info

Opportunities

The Copyright Agency’s Create Grants offer opportunities for mid-career and established creative writers and visual artists to create and develop new work. The grants provide a living allowance to a writer or a visual artist to write or create a new work for publication or exhibition.
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Creative Activation Fund | Creative Victoria
Closes 24 September

Creative Activation Fund seeks to support the development and delivery of creative projects that can increase visitation and have strong potential to become cultural tourist attractions.

Creative activation projects that can be supported include, but are not limited to, public art that responds to the natural landscape, creative interventions that breathe new life into buildings, creative reimagining of silos or unused sites, large-scale murals or sculptures as well as digital activation that could bring sites to life using cutting edge technology through VR or AR.
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Quick Response Grants | Regional Arts NSW
Open 1 July 2020 closes 30 June 2021

Made available under the Regional Arts Fund allocation for NSW, Quick Response Grants offer funding for up to $2,000 are intended to assist regional artists, arts organisations and communities to take up professional or skills development or small project opportunities.
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Following the success of it’s first 7 seasons, the award-winning theatre company Sport for Jove invites high school age students to be a part of their youth theatre productions – The Second Age Project Summer Shows 2020. 

This year they are also developing an ONLINE Second Age Project Performance via Zoom, for regional young actors or those unable to participate in their in-person production for other reasons. 

SFJ is now offering 5 scholarships for young BIPOC, First Nations and CALD background actors.
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Call Out | Sharp Short Dance | Form Dance
Closes 14 September

FORM Dance Projects is calling dancers, choreographers and film makers 21 & under to register for Sydney’s most exciting youth festival.
This year, Sharp Short Dance is going digital! Get your camera and be ready to show the world your best moves, choreographic and cinematic ideas!
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Call for Entries | The Paddington Art Prize
Closes 27 September

The Paddington Art Prize is a $30,000 National acquisitive prize, awarded annually for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape. This National prize takes its place among the country’s most lucrative and highly coveted painting prizes.

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Federation Photo Prize
Closes 28 Sept

The Federation Art Prize Committee is proud to host the second Federation Photography Prize and would like to extend an invitation to you to submit your photographic works for exhibition and sale.

This year we have expanded the categories and introduced Junior awards for artists under 15 years of age.
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The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize
Closes 2 October 
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The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize is awarded biennially to Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles. This includes realist, figurative and representational styles. The Art Prize is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career) at any stage of life, who are pursuing the study and practice of traditional art and who desire to study the works of old masters.

The Koorie Art Show is an annual open-entry, non-acquisitive award exhibition for all emerging, mid-career and senior First nations Victorian artists, designers and crafts people.

All skill levels and visual mediums are eligible, and previous shows have featured works ranging from paintings to drawings, photography, etchings, sculptures and jewellery. Artworks that explore the use of digital technology are also encouraged.
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Residency at Home | Emerging Writers Festival 
20 September

In 2020, EWF is proud to announce the launch of the EWF At Home Residencies, a program that supports emerging writers by offering time and financial assistance to work on their craft.

The EWF At Home Residencies will see four emerging writers spending a fortnight working on their writing craft remotely at home, supported by the Emerging Writers’ Festival. The opportunity is open to writers of all genres and styles, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, scriptwriting, YA, essays and short stories.
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Call for Entries | The Burnie Print Prize | Burnie Arts & Function Centre
Closes 9 October

The $15,000 acquisitive prize is open to artists from Australia and Oceania.

The Burnie Print Prize is an initiative of the Burnie Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) in northwest Tasmania.

The Burnie Print Prize was established in 2007 to:

• Develop the Gallery's print collection
• Present the best of contemporary printmaking
• Support artists who work with the print medium
• Foster innovation in the print medium
• Promote an appreciation of the fine art of printmaking
• Recognize and celebrate craftsmanship
• Explore possibilities of the medium in contemporary practice

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