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Ten more Quick Response Grants

11 September 2007

Regional Arts NSW is delighted to announce ten new projects funded in the July to September quarter of the Quick Response grant program. This program continues to offer regional artists the opportunity to undertake exciting and groundbreaking professional development across a range of artforms - theatre, visual arts, music and new media - and in projects that address broad world and environmental issues.

The Quick Response Grants program provides assistance for regional NSW artists, arts organisations and communities to take advantage of professional and project development opportunities that present themselves at short notice. The funds are provided through the Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund which is administered by Regional Arts NSW in New South Wales.

'Quicks' grants for the current July to September quarter are:

• $1500 to Sarah Last (Eastern Riverina) to assist with costs of being a visiting fellow with the Still Water network art and culture research program. The program includes a series of research projects facilitated by academic /writers /artists Joline Blais and Jon Ippolitio and involving 7 other Fellows from around the world.
  
• $1320 to Theatre Onset (South East) for two volunteers to attend a one day seminar in Melbourne to develop skills for an oral history project in Bega. The project is a collaboration with Meals on Wheels and involves visiting aged and isolated members in the community to record their life stories.
  
• $1500 to Chrisjohn Hancock (Southern Tablelands) to attend a six day international performing arts workshop in Slovenia under the direction of Sergey Ostrenko. The workshop will explore the bridge between world theatre traditions and contemporary performing arts, developing international programs and promoting multicultural dialogue and tolerance towards diverse world traditions.
  
• $1500 to West Darling Arts (West Darling) to assist three Indigenous Wilcannia artists Badger Bates, Murray Butcher and Douglas Jones to attend the BLACK2BLAK conference in Sydney. The conference is one of the most significant Indigenous gatherings discussing issues of contemporary Aboriginal arts practice.
  
• $1000 to Booranga Writers Centre in Wagga Wagga (Eastern Riverina) to hold a workshop for young people and emerging writers with visiting children's writer Catherine Jinks. The workshop will launch the 'Cyberwriters' project which explores the writing of historical fiction.
  
• $550 to Shane Murphy (Northern Rivers) to develop and enhance skills in the fast-developing digital music industry through attendance at the biennial Australasian Music Business Conference in Sydney.
  
• $1500 to Nambucca Valley Neighbourhood Centre (Mid North Coast) to assist two young artists, a Gumbaynggirr woman and a Nambucca graphic designer, to work together to design and paint a mural at the centre.
  
• $1500 to Broken Hill Art Exchange (West Darling) to assist local artists to meet with Australian and Dutch artists and designers / architects who are attending a Symposium at Fowlers Gap Research Station and exchange ideas and ways in which artists can be engaged in environmental initiatives.
  
• $360 to Anthony Allison (Mid North Coast) to attend the Northern Rivers Social Development Council's 'From Rhetoric to Reality' Conference in Ballina with specific focus on working with regional and rural young people in the Northern Rivers.
  
• $690 to Duke Albada (Northern Rivers) to attend a two day symposium and follow up three day workshop in Melbourne. The symposium brings together artists, writers, historians and academics to consider the complexities and challenges of living in an urban environment. The workshop involves selected practitioners exploring practical responses to these challenges focussing on spatial, cultural, social and technical aspects of designing sound works.

Congratulations to all the recipients.

The funds allocated to the July to September quarter of the Quick Response grant program have been expended but the program will re-open on 1 October 2007.

More information on 'Quick's is provided in the Grants section of our website here.

The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government initiative
supporting the arts in regional and remote Australia.