MORE than $500,000 has been awarded to 15 Canberra artists ranging from playwrights and punk rock to choreographers and contemporary art. 

The ACT government’s recurrent $5000 to $50,000 arts activities funding is open twice a year and provides funding to Canberra-based artists and arts groups for one-off projects. The applications are peer assessed.

The recipients are:

• A Gender Agenda to support transgender, gender diverse, and intersex creative writing workshops $8,570;
• Emma Batchelor, to develop a new fiction manuscript for publication $28,800;
• Christopher Samuel Carroll, for production of original play “I Have No Enemies” $45,944;
• Contour 556, to support the Canberra art biennial “Contour 556” $50,000;
• Glitoris, to support production and promotion of social justice themed album $42,110;
• Hannah Gason, to purchase equipment for the development of a solo exhibition at the Canberra Glassworks $10,608;
• Aislinn King, to support exhibition and participation at the “World Stage Design 2022” event in Canada $10,000;
• Ruth Pieloor, to present a new play “Demented” at the Q Theatre $43,172;
• Storytorch Press, to support a publishing and promotion program of local writers $25,000;
• Eliza Sanders, to support the premiere season of a new dance work “That Was Friday” $25,000;
• Hiroe Swen, to develop content for a website resource “The world of Hiroe Swen’s ceramic art” $10,650;
• Bec Taylor, to support “Bec Taylor and the Lyrebirds” new collaborative album $27,708;
• Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, to support an exhibition at the Campbelltown Art Centre “Spinning the Fire Sutra” $37,448;
• Brenda L Croft, for creation of a multimodal website design – artist, author, curator, educator, researcher $35,000; and
• Seaton Rogers, to support Wiradjuri hip hop artist YNG Martyr with touring costs for festival shows $11,672.

The next round funding will close at 5pm on July 31.

Separately, Screen Canberra and artsACT has awarded funds as part of the ACT Screen Arts Fund, which supports a range of small-scale, self-identified film and screen activity including career development, short films, documentaries, script development, and games development.

The latest seven recipients, who share in the $100,000 fund, are: Prajdnik Awasthi for production of an animated short film “Marionettes (and the virtue of a lotus flower)”; Jessica Beange for a mentorship to develop scripts and pitch documents to market for “Summer Camp, Leona and Victims of Crime”; Nathan Collett for producing a cinematic documentary on the relationship between wild peacocks and human residents in an Australian suburb; Nick Delatovic for script development for “Bleeding Heart”, a supernatural neo-western feature film; Eleanor Evans for development/pre-production of stop motion short film based on the story “The Fairy Woman and the Three Cockerels” by Pixie O’Harris; Kite Shield Interactive for Development of “Legion Fall”, a new role-playing game that explores Roman history and mythology in the Gallic wars of 52 BC; Christine Ryan for development of “Ninja Worrier”, an eight-part comedy series about anxiety and life.