A New Initiative for Arts North West On Tour

Arts North West ON TOUR’s  Pocket Productions  is a new initiative by Arts North West to offer the smaller communities in our region affordable and professional theatre and musical productions in venues such as community or school hall, school of art building or an undercover showground area. Pocket Productions is a networked approach and will be based on the successful Arts North West ON TOUR model.

Now in its fifth year, Arts North West ON TOUR is an established network of community, council, and privately managed venues/presenters. Each network member pays an annual service fee for specialised tour management. This service fee includes the negotiation of a minimum of 2 professional performing arts tours per year; itinerary programming; administration; marketing and audience development, and the coordination of regional network meetings. Currently there are 8-10 network members in the New England North West. More information can be found at http://www.artsnw.com.au/anw-on-tour 

Projects Officer, Nicci Parry-Jones explains, “We have been getting such good feedback about audience satisfaction from the high quality performing arts touring our regional theatres got us thinking that it would be wonderful if the smaller and sometimes more remote communities had the same opportunity.”

Pocket Productions will inherit aspects of Arts North West ON TOUR and will provide a package that includes: a nominal annual rate, venue sourcing and managing the tour itinerary of one suitable touring production, assistance to each venue to ensure the production is well promoted, liaison between production company and venue staff, advice on presentation, ticketing and promotion.

Preliminary Conference Program Released For Artlands 2016

ARTLANDS DUBBO 2016
PART FESTIVAL PART CONFERENCE

2016 will mark the return of the conference to NSW for the first time in 14 years, and will see the introduction of the ARTLANDS brand to be used for all future RAA conferences.

ARTLANDS continues the tradition of Part Conference, Part Festival, All Arts with four jam-packed days of activity, conversation, discussion, debate and inspiration from across Australia and overseas from 27-30 October 2016.

This national biennial conference is the largest arts gathering in Australia and we hope to see you there in the inland City of Dubbo, gateway to the Great Western Plains of NSW.

www.artlands.com.au

Arts NSW Briefing Session

ARTS NSW BRIEFING SESSIONS

Arts NSW invite you to learn more about our grants by attending an information session in Armidale on Friday 29th April at New England Regional Art Museum at 10am-12:00pm and Tamworth Community Centre at 2.30 to 3.30pm.
 
The sessions will cover what we do, who we are, the types of grants available, tips for a successful application and includes time for questions and answers. 

Arts NSW staff will be available to discuss the Arts and Cultural Development Program Guidelines with artists and arts organisations from across NSW.   

2016-2017 Guidelines
http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/index.php/funding-and-support/types-of-funding/the-arts-and-cultural-development-program/ 

RSVP
People interested are encouraged to contact Barbara Vickery on (02) 9995 0656 or email to register interest in attending.  
Email: barbara.vickery@arts.nsw.gov.au
Phone: (02) 9995-0656

Arts NSW staff attending
Sam Wild, Manager Arts Development and Investment (Visual Arts Literature & Museums) 
Minna Muhlen-Schulte, Program Officer (Visual Arts Literature & Museums) 

Visit the Arts NSW website for more information

Congratulations to the Successful NENW CASP Recipients for 2016!

Congratulations to the New England North West groups and organisations listed below for your successful CASP applications. Arts North West strongly encourages the development of innovative projects that contribute to the rich arts and cultural landscape of our region and we look extremely forward to seeing these projects being delivered in 2016.

CASP provides small grants to arts and community organisations and local arts councils for short term, locally initiated arts projects with the program aiming to assist locally determined cultural activities. The Country Arts Support Program of Regional Arts NSW is funded by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.

Narrabri Art and Craft Society
Discover Your Inner Artist- mosaic workshop

Reinvigorate cultural and artistic opportunities in Narrabri through the development of a series of workshops. Given its broad accessibility, we will commence with a mosaicing workshop delivered by Doug Weir for 20 local people on  23-24 April 2016 and a follow up workshop on 24-25 September 2016.
 

New England Bach Festival
Baroque Bar

Three late night free informal performances of baroque music in a local bar as an add on to the 8th New England Bach Festival (5-8 May 2016). Performances will allow visiting musicians, local professionals and students to play together and will increase potential audience for the Festival.
 

New England Medieval Arts Society
Medieval Music workshops and Performance by Medieval music group PRAXIS

New England Medieval Arts Society will be holding their biannual Easter medieval Gathering event between 26-28 March 2016, as part of the weekend there will be two medieval music workshops by renowned medieval performance group PRAXIS. Medieval music skills and instrumentation will be explained followed by hands on demonstration and participation by creation of a bone flute. These workshops will be followed by a medieval music performance by PRAXIS.
 

New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM)
Print Beyond Text- artist in residence project

NERAM will host a one week residency at the Museum of Printing by letterpress artist Caren Florance in February 2016 which will include the presentation of a workshop on letterpress in partnership with the New England Writers Centre; a free illustrated talk on international letterpress activities and printing museums; and a professional development activity for NERAM staff and volunteers.
 

Quirindi Pre- School Kindergarten Inc
'Curious Creators' - Connecting with Nature

Art workshops to strengthen an embedded connection between nature, learning, children and the community focusing on the integration of education for sustainability. 
 

Tamworth Local Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal Cultural Showcase - Traditional Dance

Offer a series of 5 grants to dance groups or artists to  showcase Traditional Aboriginal dance as an addition to & in support of the successful Aboriginal Cultural Showcase at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 2016.
 

Wallaby Art Group
Inclusive Creativity

Professional training for young and emerging artists in regional NSW by providing a series of workshops throughout 2016.

Applications for CASP 2017 have not been confirmed, but if they proceed they will usually close beginning of October 2016.