JOY Burch has announced that a visual artist mentorship program, a contemporary pop band, and a dance theatre group are among the 49 successful applicants who will share in arts funding worth $720,000.
“The ACT Government is extremely pleased to have been able to increase the number of projects being funded for 2015, up from the 42 that were supported this year,” Ms Burch said.
“Project funding supports the development of the arts through excellence, innovation and community engagement, which are three key principles of the ACT Arts Policy Framework.
“The assessment panel praised the quality and creativity of the ideas proposed, and wereinspired by the vibrancy and strength of our arts community.
“Next year promises to be a fabulous year for the arts and I look forward to the outcomes of such an eclectic range of exciting new arts development projects.”
Full list of 2015 recipients:
| Name | Grant purpose | Amount | Artform |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Chorus of Women | To assist with costs of performances of a community oratorio ‘A Passion for Peace’. | $24,990 | Music |
| Art Song Canberra Inc. | To assist with costs of presenting art song concerts, classes and events. | $6,713 | Music |
| ArtSpace | To assist with costs of a creative development project with artists living with disability. | $15,600 | Visual Arts |
| Aspen Island Theatre Company | To assist with costs of the creative development of a new theatre work, ‘Kill Climate Deniers’. | $18,793 | Theatre |
| Australian Book Review Inc. | To assist with costs of ACT writers creating new work for publication in a literary magazine. | $12,000 | Literature |
| Batchelor, James | To assist with costs of the development and presentation of a new dance work. | $22,000 | Dance |
| Big hART | To assist with costs of the creative development of a new theatre production. | $31,200 | Theatre |
| Blunden, Camilla | To assist with costs of the production and performance of a theatre work ‘All This Living!’ | $19,569 | Theatre |
| Canberra Choral Society Inc. | To assist with costs of a concert and recording of ‘Black Ribbon’ by Australian composers Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith. | $17,032 | Music |
| Canberra City Band Inc. | To assist with costs of the establishment of a Junior Concert Band. | $18,865 | Music |
| Canberra Dance Development Centre | To assist with costs of creating and presenting a new dance work. | $31,605 | Dance |
| Chaseling, Claudia | To assist with costs of an overseas solo exhibition and the publication and documentation of work. | $17,580 | Visual Arts |
| Craft, Nicholas | To assist with costs of producing a solo album of new contemporary music. | $11,549 | Music |
| Davis, Tom | To assist with costs of mounting a production of a new play ‘The Chain Bridge’. | $39,883 | Theatre |
| Farrell, Kirsten | To assist with costs of developing ‘Infinity Lesson’, a new body of experimental performance art. | $6,210 | Visual Arts |
| Featherstone, Nigel | To assist with costs of writing the first draft of a novel. | $12,000 | Literature |
| Galan, Andrew | To assist with costs of developing a manuscript of poems for national and international publication. | $6,842 | Literature |
| Gold, Irma | To assist with costs of writing two picture books for children. | $1,965 | Literature |
| Heaney, Andrew | To assist with costs of the composition and production of a sound score for a film. | $1,670 | Music |
| Hutch, Ellis | To assist with costs of undertaking a residency in Finland and creating a new body of work. | $12,719 | Visual Arts |
| Jackson, Alison | To assist with costs in the development, documentation and production of new work for a solo exhibition at Craft ACT. | $10,141 | Visual Arts |
| Jaireth, Subhash | To assist with costs of editing, printing and promoting a new book. | $4,000 | Literature |
| Lahy, Waratah | To assist with costs of creating work that explores the shift from small scale to large scale painting. | $16,390 | Visual Arts |
| Lingua Franca Dance Theatre | To assist with costs of the creative development and production of new site specific dance theatre and multimedia work. | $15,412 | Dance |
| Lohse, Hardy | To assist with costs of travel to the USA for research, artistic development and mentoring opportunities. | $7,254 | Visual Arts |
| Marston, Ben | To assist with costs of artistic development with Norwegian sample artist Jan Bang. | $11,500 | Music |
| McConaghy, Nicholas | To assist with costs of developing a portfolio of electro-acoustic compositions. | $3,455 | Music |
| McIntosh, Maria | To assist with costs of an exhibition of mosaic works. | $1,500 | Visual Arts |
| Mettes, Marianne | To assist with costs of a puppet building, video and theatre program at the Belconnen Arts Centre. | $9,253 | Visual Arts |
| Miller, Chenoeh | To assist with costs of rehearsing and presenting a new live art work, ‘Rhizome’ at New Acton. | $25,900 | Theatre |
| Mirramu Dance Company | To assist with costs of presenting a program celebrating 50 years of contemporary dance in Australia. | $35,692 | Dance |
| Molonglo Group Cultural Fund | To assist with costs of presenting an arts festival, ‘Art, Not Apart’. | $25,638 | Visual Arts |
| Munro, Al | To assist with costs of an artist’s residency and exhibition in Thailand. | $6,055 | Visual Arts |
| Nican | To assist with costs of the REBUS ensemble attending the ‘Beyond Our Boundaries’ disability arts festival in Hobart. | $5,300 | Theatre |
| Page, Geoff | To assist with costs of producing an anthology of ACT and region poetry. | $8,100 | Literature |
| Petocz, Cathy | To assist with costs of a creative development for a theatrical production. | $12,200 | Theatre |
| Quinlivan, Hannah | To assist with costs of running a mentorship scheme for newly graduated Canberra-based visual artists. | $19,883 | Visual Arts |
| Rip Publishing | To assist with costs of producing a youth-based experimental multimedia publication. | $4,103 | Literature |
| Sage, Charles | To assist with costs of a community multimedia project for exhibition at Nishi Gallery. | $13,919 | Visual Arts |
| Seccombe, Erica | To assist with costs of a residency at the Natural History Museum, London. | $21,659 | Visual Arts |
| Silberman, Heidi | To assist with costs of touring a theatrical production ‘The Home Front’ to the Adelaide Fringe Festival. | $14,715 | Theatre |
| Small, Samantha | To assist with costs of producing large-scale installation work for exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. | $8,490 | Visual Arts |
| Soboslay, Zsuzsi | To assist with costs of developing a theatre project ‘Anthems and Angels’. | $17,500 | Theatre |
| Sparrow-Folk | To assist with costs of touring the show ‘Burb Birds’ to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. | $18,752 | Music |
| Stevens, Rosanna | To assist with costs of researching and writing a book of non-fiction. | $10,526 | Literature |
| The Griffyn Ensemble | To assist with costs of creating a multimedia piece ‘Antipodes Rugby League’. | $16,830 | Music |
| Tunks, Benita | To assist with costs to curate and produce an exhibition and associated public programs. | $11,405 | Visual Arts |
| US MOB Writing | To assist with costs of supporting an ACT delegation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers to attend the 2015 First Nations Australia Writers Workshop. | $21,000 | Literature |
| Wallflower | To assist with costs of recording and pressing an original indie pop EP. | $14,400 | Music |
[Photo: Catherine Crowley and Juliet Moody of Sparrow-Folk with Minister Burch]
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