Victoria Premier Ted Baillieu

Victoria Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu

Victorian Coalition Government Supports New Community Arts Partnerships Across Victoria

Victor P Taffa

Communities across Victoria will collaborate with professional artists and arts companies in the new year under the latest round of Community Partnerships grants announced today by Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu.

 

Mr. Baillieu said the latest round of funding would provide almost $400,000 to support 11 community-based arts projects in regional and metropolitan areas across the state.

 

“The Community Partnerships program enables Victorian communities to access, engage with and participate in a diverse range of artistic and cultural experiences.” Mr. Baillieu said.

 

“The supported projects explore contemporary music, dance, theatre, sound-art and digital art and will provide opportunities for artists, people with a disability, multicultural and refugee communities, children and their families.”

 

Projects funded in the latest round of Community Partnerships grants include:

 

• A contemporary music project for the 2012 Art Is…Festival that will bring together young people aged 12 to 25 from the Wimmera and northern suburbs of Melbourne to explore their shared issues and experiences;  
• An arts residency involving interactive play-spaces where children and families can create huge textured artworks in Melbourne, Shepparton and Latrobe.

 

“These projects will support Victorian communities to express themselves, explore their similarities, celebrate different perspectives, showcase their talents and share them with the wider community.” Mr. Baillieu said.

 

Community Partnerships grants are awarded twice-yearly. Funding is capped at $65,000 and is for fixed-term projects of up to 12 months duration. The next funding round closes on 5 March 2012. For more information, visit www.arts.vic.gov.au/communitypartnerships

 

 

Community Partnerships Grant Recipients

 

Art is…Festival, HORSHAM, $39,500 A project which will bring together young people aged 12-25 from the Wimmera and Melbourne’ s northern suburbs to explore their shared experiences and issues through contemporary music. This is a partnership between Horsham’s Art is… Festival and the Melbourne-based youth performing arts group, the Anti Racism Action Band.

City of Melbourne, MELBOURNE, $56,800 A project in which 100 Melburnians will collaborate with Berlin-based theatre group Rimini Protokoll and a team of Victorian artists. The project culminates in a performance at the Melbourne Town Hall that will create a portrait of the people of Melbourne.

Ken Evans, CLUNES, $33,225 A large-scale live theatre event to mark the 100th anniversary of Australia’s premier steam rally event, the Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally. The work will feature steam engines and steampunk performers.

Hobsons Bay Community Arts Centre, NEWPORT, $27,872 A structured mentorship project involving young musicians from the Karen community in Melbourne’s west. The project is designed to explore their refugee experiences and to develop skills and public presentation opportunities.

Merri Community Health Service, COBURG, $20,000 A collaboration between Y-Glam and young people from Minus 18 and the Safe Schools Coalition to perform a flashmob at Midsumma Festival and devise a large scale dance/physical theatre work for a public performance.

Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, ROSEBUD, $10,300 A collaboration between artists and local Mornington Peninsula community members to develop a performance work about a family in Rosebud West affected by cyber-bullying.

Polyglot Theatre, SOUTH YARRA, $32,000 An arts residency that will be staged in Melbourne, Shepparton and the Latrobe region that will involve the creation of interactive play-spaces where children and families can create huge, textured artworks.

Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Inc, ALBERT PARK, $65,000 A project in Wodonga led by Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company. Youth and other community groups will participate in theatre workshops, culminating in a performance work which tours to a range of regional locations.

St Kilda Drop In Centre, ST KILDA, $35,000 A seven-month collaborative process between five theatre professionals and 15 community participants from the St Kilda Uniting Care Centre to adapt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

The Click Clack Project Inc, FITZROY NORTH, $36,300 A sound art and contemporary music program presented at Federation Square that brings together professional artists and participants from the Cloverdale Community Centre in Corio, Geelong and Footscray Community Arts Centre.

Wild@Heart Community Arts, NORTH MELBOURNE, $39,999 A contemporary music-making project involving people with a disability who will share their stories as part of a hip-hop crew, a rock band playing iPads and through songwriting workshops.