Happy August from Eastern Riverina Arts!
This month we are overjoyed to announce that our bid to convert the historic Wagga Wagga Ambulance Station into a Creative Industries Hub has been successful!
Read more about the exciting news on our website >
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Introducing Ambo
The Ambo Creative Industries Hub will give artists and creative entrepreneurs the perfect launchpad to experiment, collaborate and showcase their work.
The Creative Industries Hub will offer a range of affordable artist studios and creative business suites that facilitate ambitious artists, freelancers and creative companies to collaborate, do business and present their work, seeding a viable creative industries sector for the Riverina.
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Eastern Riverina Arts Presents ArtWork Session 1
The Art of The Sell
Hear from three local visual artists who have found success selling their work in very different ways. Ever wondered how those Bluethumb 'overnight' success stories made it happen? (hot tip, it wasn’t overnight!) Or what the ‘F’ is an NFT? What are some tips for approaching a commercial gallery?
This will be a relaxed panel style presentation with an opportunity to ask questions and join us for a drink and a chat afterwards.
Our panelists will tackle topics such as:
- What are pros and cons of selling via different platforms?
- Money is not a dirty word: How to effectively price your work.
- What the ‘F’ an NFT?
- Selling outside of your hometown
- How to approach galleries or retail venues, and
- Some very handy do’s and dont's
WHEN: Thursday 25th August, 2022, 5.30pm for a 6pm start
WHERE: The Brewers Den, The Thirsty Crow, 153 Fitzmaurice street, Wagga
FREE! Book your spot now >
Presented by Eastern Riverina Arts as part of the Renew Wagga Project
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Shops Art Projects
Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail are calling for expressions of interest from artists living in or raised in the Eastern Riverina to create new artworks for the Shops Art Projects in the Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail in Batlow and Tumbarumba. There are five indoor Shop Art Project commissions available at up to $7,500 per shop. See the attached information pack and get your application in by August 31.
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CASE Incubator program applications open
Led by the Cad Factory, the CASE Incubator is a professional development, knowledge sharing and mentorship program aimed at artists with experience working within the broad context of socially engaged art practice. Applications must be submitted by midnight Friday 16 September 2022 >
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Spirit of the Land Lockhart Call for Entries
In 2006 the Spirit of the Land Lockhart Festival was born and farmers were encouraged to use their skills to enter a farm art sculpture competition. The Festival has grown over this time to attract high calibre artists nation wide. The Spirit of the Land committee is once again calling artists throughout Australia to participate in the Spirit of the Land Art Festival 2022, with a prize pool of over $20,000.
‘Intention to Exhibit’ to be submitted by 23 September 2022.
Info for Sculpture artists >
Info for Fine Arts & Photography >
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Job Opportunity Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Curator
The Curator works as a member of the AlburyCity Library Museum’s Museum Team to curate high quality exhibitions and displays, including semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions. There will be a major focus on the redevelopment of the permanent exhibition galleries, working with artefacts from the AlburyCity Museum Collection, and commissioning new work. They will establish new networks and maintain existing networks with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Closing date: Sunday 4 September 2022. Find out more >
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Click: Marketing and selling your creative work
Arts business professional development training for regional creatives! Developed by regional practitioners and arts-workers for regional creatives, the presenters on Click will give regional perspectives on professional creative practice. Each week a different topic will be covered with guest presenters who have expertise in the field. Book in for the next four Monday evening sessions on Zoom from 5.30pm to 7pm in September >
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Call out to young Aboriginal Artists
The National Aboriginal Design Agency is seeking expressions of interest from young Aboriginal artists (24 years and under) throughout NSW and the ACT to develop an artwork that can be licensed for The YNSW's Reconciliation Action Plan and other marketing collateral. EOI's Close August 22, 2022. For more information and to apply, please contact ebony@aboriginaldesign.com.au
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Ready To Launch
Got a business idea but unsure where to start?
Apply now for Ready To Launch: an immersive 10-week program that will take your business idea to launch phase.
At the end of this course, you will have:
- A lean business canvas (your roadmap to launch)
- Your idea validated by the market (your original idea may morph during this process)
- A pitch video that you can use as a tool for marketing and communicating your idea
- A transformed entrepreneurial mindset
- A community of fellow founders cheering you on.
Starts: Monday 12th September 2022. All sectors welcome to apply.
For further information and to apply, click here *Limited places
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GreenHouse: National Artist Residency
An immersive, residential creative development program for live performance-makers from across Australia who are invested in:
- Developing a New Work
- Expanding their own artistic process/practice through specific creative interrogations
- Radical experimentation in the development of new forms.
Creatives are hosted in a stunning five-bedroom, two-bathroom farmhouse and rehearsal studio located in the Wonga Wetlands, just out of Albury, where creative development can take place uninterrupted.
Submissions close 9am on Monday 19th September 2022 >
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Know your worth
Accessible Arts is presenting a free online webinar as a part of the Advance Your Career Professional Development Series.
In this session, Alise Hardy will introduce the minimum standards for artist fees and wages from the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) Code of Practice. This will be followed by guidance on how to set up an ABN and write invoices as a professional artist.
Wednesday 14 September
10am – 11am (AEST)
FREE online event – bookings essential
Click here to book tickets >
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CREATIVE RIVERINA is a community AND an arts directory, connecting you to artists and artistic organisations throughout the entire Riverina region of NSW.
Looking to get your name out there? Artists and performers of all kinds are listed on CREATIVE RIVERINA, the go-to online directory for creatives in our region! Make sure people can find you - create your FREE listing today! Artists on the directory are also invited to join the CREATIVE RIVERINA Facebook group, a place to share ideas, events and simply connect! Join the CREATIVE RIVERINA group now!
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Yield festival Gala Night
A celebration of creative arts in the Coolamon Shire. A collection of events, workshops, performances and experiences that highlight the makers, thinkers and creators.
The highlight of the festival will be the coming together of two longstanding events within the Coolamon Shire arts scene. Capture Coolamon Shire Photographic Competition, and the Up2Date Art Exhibition are combining to create a premier exhibition held within the Up-to-Date Store Cultural and Learning Precinct. The festival will be launched at a gala evening, featuring live entertainment, food trucks and drink vendors. The gala evening will be held on Friday 26 August 2022 >
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Winter Bites Festival Batlow
Set amongst lush green pastures, panoramic vistas of orchards and grazing country, Batlow is the final stop on the Winter Bites Festival event trail. This stunning township will celebrate the delicious local produce and beverages of their region along with an amazing music line-up, set to fill the winter air with beautiful tones. Australian rock royalty You Am I will headline the epic line-up that rocks the stage & our very own Platform Riverina will be there. From midday to 6pm Saturday 27th August >
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Waybali Murruway - Weaving Paths
You’re invited to attend the opening of ‘Waybali Murruway - Weaving Paths’. Told through imagery, story and weaving by Wiradjuri communities, the exhibition will explore Wiradjuri culture and caring for Country. A culmination of the work that began in 2016 as part of The Wired Lab’s agri(culture) - Wiradjuri Grasslands project, Waybali Murruway is a celebration of Wiradjuri language, culture, heritage and ceremony.
The opening will take place on Saturday 10 September from 1pm at the Museum of the Riverina. The exhibition will then run until Sunday 20 November.
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Wired Open Day Festival 2022
Fancy learning about ancient Wiradjuri weaving practices, taking part in an agri-themed pub quiz, and experiencing a pharmacy that provides remedies for your social and emotional needs, all in the same day? This year’s Wired Open Day Festival, a celebration of landscape, community and art.
The lineup includes some of Australia’s best experimental contemporary artists: Cat Jones, Damian Callinan, Julie Vulcan, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, NYZ, pvi collective, and Speak Percussion.
Saturday, 17 September 2022
Tickets coming soon >
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Toby Mobbs National Album Tour
Toby Mobbs will be showcasing stripped back versions of his debut album ‘Placid In The Rough’ on his first national tour, starting in his hometown of Wagga Wagga, playing every capital city, before a final show in his current home of Albury-Wodonga. Toby will be supported by an array of local support acts, many of which feature on the album. Tickets >
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Love Pizza
C.A.S.T. Snowy, the Community Actors of Small Theatres, are proud to present to you an entertainment feast. Literally, you sit down and feast on pizza while you enjoy a pizza-themed, musical ROM-COM that we cooked up ourselves!
It is a cheesy story about some pizzaiolos who are at war with each other! Can love heal their broken hearts? Can pizza? Can a couple of shop juniors, who are sharper than they look?
19th, 7pm start, and 20th of August 2022 - 2pm and 7pm >
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We are Trees
Nellie Rose Australian Art presents an immersive art experience exploring themes of growth, transformation and connectedness at Trail St Coffee Shop. The show will launch at 6:30pm for an evening celebrating creativity, good food, coffee and all the great things about being human. You will have a chance to hear from our artist about the heart behind the art. Friday, August 26, 2022 at 6:30 PM >
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SOACT Presents Anchors Away for Nautical Nonsense!
Anchors Away offers audiences a boatload of nautical nonsense giving way to a maiden voyage of a very different kind. The luxurious Sapphire Queen sets sail for destinations most exotic with a load of entertainers, passengers, and staff.
Imagine the amazement of all on board when this majestic lady makes it no further than a few miles just out of Sydney Harbour! Anchors Away runs every Sunday in August at 2pm and two evenings at 7.30pm. Secure your tickets on www.soact.com.au or call (02) 6921 2594.
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The Art of Everywhere Else
Lectures by Dr Sam Bowker
This exciting public lecture series is dedicated to preserving and understanding the treasures of humanity as a whole, introducing the complexity of international art history as a series of global and local disciplines across the world.
23 August 2022 - Middle East (South West Asia)
30 August 2022 - Silk Roads: Turkey, Iran and Central Asia
6 September 2022 - South Asia: India, Pakistan and the Himalaya
13 September 2022 - Nusantara: South East Asian Art
20 September 2022 - East Asia: China, Korea, Japan
27 September 2022 - Oceania: A Third of the World
Lectures will be held each Tuesday 6-7pm at the CSU Playhouse >
This lecture series has been successful in securing a Community Arts Grant from Wagga Wagga City Council. This funding means that from 16 August onwards attendance will be free and a ticket is not required. Supported by Charles Sturt University and the Friends of the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.
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Artist Talks at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Artist Talk with Jenny Bowker
Saturday 20 August
An opportunity to hear from one of Australia’s most well-known textile artists, Jenny Bowker. Jenny will discuss the quilts in her current exhibition ‘Pack and Follow – The quilts of Jenny Bowker’.
Find out more >
Artist Talk with Alice Hinton-Bateup
Sunday 21 August
Hear from Kamilaroi/Wonnarua artist Alice Hinton-Bateup. Alice will talk about her poster-making and working at Garage Graphix as a community arts worker during the 1980s.
Find out more >
Discussion - The Caring Effect: Perspectives on Care
Friday 26 August
A conversation giving voice to care. Artist Vic McEwan from The Cad Factory brings together practitioners in arts and health to offer an experiential exploration of caring.
Find out more >
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Australia Council Arts Projects For Individuals And Groups
This program funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities. Grants are available from $10,000 to $50,000. Supported activities must last no longer than two years from the proposed start date.
More information, including details on how to apply here >
Applications close: 6 September
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Create NSW Regional Touring Program
Applications are now open for artists and arts and cultural organisations to tour their work across regional NSW as part of Create NSW’s Regional Arts Touring Program.
Funding available for tours of all art forms. More information, including details on how to apply here >
Applications close: 22 August 2022 at 5pm (AEST).
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Windmill Trust
The Windmill Trust together with the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), is pleased to announce that the 2022 Windmill Trust Scholarship for Regional NSW Artists has opened for applications.
This award opens up avenues for regional artists seeking to further their professional development, exhibition opportunities or deepen research with a $10,000 scholarship.
Applications Close: Sunday 4 September 2022
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Create NSW Project Funding
Project funding supports innovation, vibrancy and creativity within the NSW arts and cultural sector.
You can apply for funding up to $60,000.
More information, including details on how to apply here >
Applications Close: 29 August 2022 at 5pm.
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Create NSW Small Project Grants (Quick Response)
For creation, development and presentation of new work and professional development or promotion for professional artists and arts and cultural workers. $500 to $5,000 >
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RAF Quick Response Grants
Regional Arts Fund, Quick Response Grants are now open! Rounds are assessed at the end of each month with applicants eligible to receive $3,000 for individuals and $5,000 for organisations. Open until Nov 30 2022 >
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