Arts North West is offering a full day program of advice, networking and professional development for anyone interested in creating an arts-based event. The day will have a focus on eco-arts but has been designed to cater for anyone with an arts project or event idea including artists, council managers, volunteer organisations and community groups. It could be in any art form for example theatre, film, visuals arts, music, festivals etc.
After running a successful series of these workshops in 2016, Landcare New England North West approached Arts North West to run a series of eco-arts based workshops in Uralla, Walcha, Deepwater, Bingara and Bundarra as arts have proven to be a very successful way to explore and address environmental issues and build and strengthen regional communities.
The day is a great opportunity to network and find synergies with others that you might not have known about – sometimes it means a new collaboration, or just a different way of looking at a problem. It is also a great opportunity to see what projects are happening around our region. In 2016, participants in our project planning workshops had ideas from stargazing to stand-up comedy – and many of these ideas became concrete with the assistance of our project planning guides.
You can be at the very beginning with just a germ of an idea that we can explore, or you might have things more concrete… this workshop caters for both.
$50 FULL DAY PROGRAM
(inc all sessions, hand outs, lunch & refreshments)
9:30am-12pm The Project Brief
12-1pm The Project Budget
2-3:30pm The Project Plan
Uralla 11 May
Walcha 12 May
Deepwater 25 May
Bingara 6 June
Bundarra 7 June
Book in online www.artsnw.com.au/#/whatwhywow/
Classrooms get CHARGED!
Arts North West has been successful in securing $15,600 from Australian Government’s funding for CHARGED! Exploring the Story of the Battle of Beersheba, part of the Australian Government’s national Anzac Centenary commemorations.
This week the Arts North West team have taken over the classroom at Kentucky Public School to launch the first workshop of a series of CHARGED! workshops being delivered to small communities across the New England North West.
The charge of the 4th and 12th Australian Light Horse at Beersheba late in the afternoon of 31 October 1917 is remembered as the last great cavalry charge. This strategic victory has great significance to our region as many of the units and soldiers were drawn from the New England.
Arts North West Executive Director Caroline Downer was there to join in the fun. “Some very keen kids at Kentucky Public School have been learning all about the story of the battle of Beersheba which happened 100 years ago. They have made ID tags, created their own poster for the Light Horse, heard about men who were there. They have even made their worn hard tack biscuits. A big thank you to the committed teachers at these smaller schools for allowing us to come into their classrooms and takeover”
For more information about the Anzac Centenary Arts and Culture Fund and a full list of recipients visit www.arts.gov.au/anzac. For more information on the Battle of Beersheba project, contact the Arts North office@artsnw.com.au
Job Opportunity Moree
Do you love children, art and have a creative approach to teaching? Are you looking for a rewarding role with flexible hours and lots of fun? Are you Moree Plains Gallery’s next Education Officer?!
Moree Plains Gallery is seeking a part-time Education Officer to fill a two year contract. Experience in Education and delivery of creative programs essential. For an information pack please call Vivien Clyne on (02) 6757 3320. Applications close 14 April 2017.
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Arts North West Rivers to Ridges team following songlines to Tenterfield.
Arts North West, through their Aboriginal Culture Support Program, heads to Tenterfield next week to record stories of Elders as they prepare a series of documentaries for their “Rivers to Ridges, and the stories in between project” which has been funded by the Federal Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts Program.
“Rivers to Ridges” and the stories in between, gathers and documents the stories of Elders, Artists and the Aboriginal history of the New England North West in multimedia format. It provides Aboriginal Artists the opportunity to translate and share the stories with the broader community through workshops across our region over two years.
Lead artist for the Tenterfield component of the project is well known Elder, Aunty Ronella Jerome, better known as Dolly. Dolly has been working with Creative Consultant/Project Manager, Lorrayne Riggs, Arts North West Aboriginal Arts Officer and Film Maker, Brendan Blacklock from Blacklock media in preparation for recording the stories of other local Elders including Helen Duroux, Rod McIntosh, Grace Binge and Glen Innes’ Adele Chapman-Burgess.
“I’m really looking forward to this deadly project”, said Aunty Dolly Jerome. “Recording our stories is something I am very passionate about, it is paramount for the preservation of our cultural knowledge”
Lorrayne Riggs, Project Manager said “this is the first time that we know of where the stories recorded will be focused on the unique cultural value of our region. Too often Aboriginal culture from NSW is not valued as highly as in our neighbouring states.By translating and sharing the stories from our region we are able to show the world that Aboriginal culture is alive, important and highly valued in the New England of NSW”.
The project team will spend a week in Tenterfield filming before they head to Tamworth, Narrabri and Moree later in the year.