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25.01.2022 Artists, performers and audiences will benefit from the 2021 Regional Arts Fund Project grants, with $1.2 million to support 76 art projects, including new work...s, performances, professional development and community engagement. The Regional Arts Fund raises the profile of our regional and remote artists and builds creative partnerships in our regions. See more

24.01.2022 Job alert for Mparntwe! Central Craft Alice Springs is seeking a dynamic and motivated part-time Project Officer to manage the planning and implementation of Apmere Mparntwe: The Australian Ceramics Triennale in July 2022. The Australian Ceramics Triennale is a landmark industry event bringing together artists, educators, theorists and collectors from around the country to interrogate the field of contemporary ceramic practice.... This position is based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) from August 2021 to August 2022. Applications close on July 16. Click on the link for details: https://centralcraft.org.au//project-officer-australian-ce

24.01.2022 Applications for the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize close 11 December 2020! Held at the Art Gallery of South Australia this is a biannual prize awarded to artists under 40. 2019 winner Vincent Namitjira is an artist living in Indulkana, in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands who works with Iwantja Arts!... Love to see another regional artist win this year! Get your applications in soon... https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/ramsay-art-prize/ image: Installation view of the Ramsay Art Prize winner featuring Close Contact by Vincent Namatjira. (Photo: Grant Hancock)

23.01.2022 Tomorrow. Don’t miss this deep dive into the digital with four practitioners spanning remote, regional and metro settings across Australia. Registration is free. #spreadtheword #3 Connection in Times of Isolation... Artlands Conversation Series Wednesday 25 November 2020 What role do we want technology to play in connecting our art practices to the wider world? What skills are artists working in isolated or remote parts of the world equipped with? Can issues such as digital saturation and digital inequality be overcome in order to create a more sustainable future? Like many regional artists, Kim V. Goldsmith and Alana Hunt often create work in relatively isolated parts of Australia. In contrast, Jessica Olivieri and Emile Zile both practice in metropolitan areas, but have been no less impacted by the isolation imposed by lockdowns. What can these artists teach each other about isolation and digital connection, and how might this inform our thinking about where to next as arts practitioners. image: Lake Tyrell Workshop, SALTbody by Arts Mildura (a RAF supported project). Photographer Gareth Hart.

23.01.2022 A prompt from a prompt from Coco Fusco: //The prompt given to writers for these Creative Futures provocations references reexamining our shared myths of justice and equity. For those of us who live with injustice on a daily basis, this feels like a ruse. I’m skeptical about the idea that artists should whip up new works for a liberal elite that appears to be open to heart-wrenching tales of injustice and an uplifting imagining of better futures. Artists have been asked ...to do that before, and, after a brief period of what Herbert Marcuse termed repressive desublimation, during which we’re supposed to supply quick and shallow responses to complex issues that essentially end discussions before they really begin, we’ve encountered backlashes of all kinds. We’ve been called too simplistic, too strident, unmarketable, not representative, and anti-art and then we’ve been forcibly disappeared from the art world landscape when critics and curators discover new trends and funders roll out another pressing agenda.// https://hyperallergic.com//ford-foundation-creative-futu/

23.01.2022 Congratulations to South West Local Learning, Mess Ltd and One Day Studios on securing Regional Arts Funding for this exciting electronic music masterclass!

23.01.2022 Fascinating discussion on ABC Radio National with Angie Abdilla, founder and CEO of Old Ways New and Jason Edward Lewis Director Initiative for Indigenous Futures. https://www.abc.net.au/radionat//sciencefriction/12880998

20.01.2022 As many communities across the country enter or re-enter lockdown, Regional Arts Australia sends our thoughts and best wishes to all friends, colleagues and family members affected. The last 18 months have been exceptionally difficult, and we know that artists, arts workers and our communities have felt the impact deeply. Stay home, stay safe, and reach out to crisis services if you are struggling. It's ok to not be ok. Some resources for managing wellbeing and mental health ...during the COVID-19 Pandemic are linked to below. Lifeline COVID-19 Tool Kit: https://www.lifeline.org.au//web-mar2020-ll-2pp-tool-kit-c Beyond Blue Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Service: https://coronavirus.beyondblue.org.au/ World Health Organisation Mental Health Considerations during COVID-19: https://www.who.int//cor/mental-health-considerations.pdf

19.01.2022 This Wednesday June 30, join Regional Arts Australia online for the seventh instalment in our Artlands Conversation Series. Katherine Connor, Felicity Green, Stephen Henderson and Ari Palani will discuss the vital role that performing arts centres, large and small, play in shaping local cultural identity. This session is presented in partnership with Performing Arts Connections Australia - PAC Australia.... Register for Artlands Conversation Series No.7: Shaping Local Identity via the link below. This free online conversation begins at AEST 2:30pm / ACST 2:00pm / AWST 12:30pm on Wednesday, June 30. https://conversationseries.artlands.com.au//shaping-local-

16.01.2022 http://‘The space is being led by Indigenous people when, for so long, our stories and histories have been told through the lens of the coloniser,’ Shonae says of the rapidly growing First Nations fashion community. ‘What we are seeing with the Indigenous fashion industry is a new wave of cultural leaders and artistic innovators who are really shaping the future of the industry, and making important statements through their work.’// A southern Kaantju woman from Coen, Cape York Pe...ninsula, Shonae Hobson is the First Nations curator at Bendigo Art Gallery and board member with Regional Arts Australia. Shonae's most recent curatorial project is Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion on now until 17 January 2021 at Bendigo Art Gallery. Celebrating Indigenous art, history and culture through the lens of contemporary fashion, Piinpi is the first major survey of Indigenous Australian fashion. This is sure to be a landmark exhibition open to the public this summer! exhibition details: https://www.bendigoregion.com.au//piinpi-contemporary-indi media: https://thedesignfiles.net//creativepeople-piinpi-exhibit/

15.01.2022 It's our pleasure this week to introduce a new member of the Regional Arts Australia team, with Scott Howie joining RAA as Interim General Manager. Scott has been making significant contributions to the cultural landscape of regional NSW for over 20 years as an arts manager, artist, educator and advocate. From his home on Wiradjuri Country (Wagga Wagga) Scott previously led Eastern Riverina Arts as the Executive Director and later Creative Producer for ten years, producing m...any significant and impactful community-led projects. Scott has a deep and diverse understanding of the arts sector in regional Australia, and over the course of his career he has maintained an individual practice as a performance maker and exhibiting visual artist, lectured in the creative industries, established an independent theatre company, managed a performing arts centre, and sat on boards of artist run initiatives and established arts organisations. Most recently he developed the artistic program for Artstate NSW Wagga Wagga and been working on new projects as a creative producer. HIs passion for the arts is underpinned by Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community. He is excited to be working for Regional Arts Australia and looking forward to supporting inclusive, diverse, and accessible cultural and creative practice across the country. Welcome, Scott!

14.01.2022 Phenomenal opportunity for artists in Victoria by Arts House. Selected artists will receive $18,000 and a year long community of learning, research and expansion around what is materially and conceptually possible in the world of art making today. https://www.artshouse.com.au/makeshift-publics/

13.01.2022 #3 Connection in Times of Isolation Artlands Conversation Series Wednesday 25 November 2020 What role do we want technology to play in connecting our art practices to the wider world? What skills are artists working in isolated or remote parts of the world equipped with? Can issues such as digital saturation and digital inequality be overcome in order to create a more sustainable future? ... Like many regional artists, Kim V. Goldsmith and Alana Hunt often create work in relatively isolated parts of Australia. In contrast, Jessica Olivieri and Emile Zile both practice in metropolitan areas, but have been no less impacted by the isolation imposed by lockdowns. What can these artists teach each other about isolation and digital connection, and how might this inform our thinking about where to next as arts practitioners. https://conversationseries.artlands.com.au//connection-in- image: Lake Tyrell Workshop, SALTbody by Arts Mildura (a RAF supported project). Photographer Gareth Hart.

12.01.2022 Applications are still open for NBN Australia's digitally-led, regional and remote businesses grants program, and one of the judges is non other than our very own Ros Abercrombie!

08.01.2022 Amazing opportunity from our colleagues at Regional Arts Victoria - Creative workers in schools

07.01.2022 ANAT is searching for a Program Curator for Spectra 2021! https://www.anat.org.au/uncatego/new-program-curator-role/

07.01.2022 Eugenia Lim: The Ambassador opens at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery today! //Eugenia Lim is an Australian artist of ChineseSingaporean descent who works across video, performance and installation. In her work, Lim transforms herself into invented fictional personas who traverse through time and cultures to explore how national identities and stereotypes cut, divide and bond our globalised world. This 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Museums & Galleries of NSW (M&G NS...W) initiated touring project presents Lim’s most recent body of work, The Ambassador series. In this three-part project, Lim takes on a Mao-like persona who sits halfway between truth and fantasy dressed in a gold lamé suit and matching bowl haircut. Throughout each of her works, the Ambassador takes on new roles in uncovering the Australian-Asian narrative drilling down into racial politics, the social costs of manufacturing and the role of architecture in shaping society.// http://www.4a.com.au/exhibition-opening-eugenia-lim-ambass/

04.01.2022 http://MINJERRIBAH DANCE LAB// THE MINJERRIBAH DANCE LABORATORY PROVIDES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR LOCAL DANCE PRACTITIONERS TO LEARN NEW TECHNIQUES FOR CREATING DANCE AND STORYTELLING THAT CONNECTS KINSHIP AND COUNTRY. The Lab, held over 3 days on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), brings together 11 practitioners that are living on and or have cultural connection to Quandamooka, Waka Waka, Kabi Kabi, Yugambeh, Kombumerri, Bundjalung, Yuggera,Turrbal, Badtjala or Jinibara Countrie...s. Co-facilitated by Noonuccal Ngugi woman, Nix Gross, and Bundjalung-Yugambeh man, Thomas E.S. Kelly, this pilot initiative aims to build relationships between dance practitioners and communities and fuel cultural exchange through dance. The Lab will encourage innovation and experimentation of movement and dance styles to seed new ideas and collaborations. https://www.blakdance.org.au/minjerribah-dance-lab https://fb.watch/1AL7cuxG4U/

02.01.2022 Black Inc. is pleased to announce that submissions are open for Growing Up in Country Australia, a new anthology, edited by Rick Morton, which will explore the diverse experiences of Australians growing up outside cities and large regional centres. They are looking for non-fiction pieces that deal with any aspect of growing up in rural Australia in all its vast diversity. They encourage submissions from First Nations writers, writers of colour, writers with a disability and... writers with a migrant background. Editor Rick Morton says: ‘I think anyone who has spent formative years in the country has a secret. It might be a good one, or a dark one, and in most cases it resembles nothing of our national myth. I want to know what your secret is.’ DEADLINE: 22 January 2021. Late entries will not be accepted. further details: https://www.blackincbooks.com.au//growing-country-australi