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View this email in your browser Happy July from Eastern Riverina Arts! This is your friendly reminder that applications for the Country Arts Support Program and expressions of Interest for the RENEW Wagga program are both closing soon! Enjoy reading all about the opportunities available to artists and creatives below & remember to support our #creativeriverina Eastern Riverina Arts’ Country Arts Support Program (CASP) program is closing this Sunday! There is a total of $34,000 up for grabs for artists, groups, collectives or companies. This is an opportunity to elevate your latest creative project, expand an existing portfolio, explore creative collaboration and bring ideas big, or small, to life. Individuals can apply for up to $750 for the realisation of artistic outcomes or professional development and groups can apply for $4000 for original creative projects or collaborations. You can find out all the details you need to know and book your appointment at: easternriverinaarts.org.au/CASP Applications Close THIS SUNDAY 24 July 11.59pm If you have any questions regarding your application, don’t forget to contact us this week! Calling all creatives, entrepreneurs and change makers! A callout is open right now for people with unique, creative business ideas to transform vacant CBD shopfronts. We are searching for the next round of RENEW Wagga participants to trial their ideas. If you have a BIG idea, pitch it to us! Submit an Expression of Interest and we will be in touch. EOI’s close soon! July 29, 2022 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 the end of August 2022.  Coolamon Up2Date Exbibition Entries are open for the 2022 Up2Date Art Exhibition which will be held at the iconic Up-To-Date Store from 27th August until 11th September 2022. $2700.00 in prize money will be on offer. Entry Forms must be received by COB Monday 15th August 2022 Capture Coolamon Shire A Photographic Competition open to photographers everywhere, images must be taken within the Coolamon Shire.  Cash prizes awarded across the 5 categories: Landscape; Built Environment; Nature; People Study and; Drone - Youth and Open Sections. $1000 Cash Prize for the image that 'Best depicts the Coolamon Shire'. Entries close Wednesday 3 August Mona Mag #CollaboWriMo This July Mona Magazine are giving you an excuse to get together with your female* writing friends and write a collaborative piece for their first Mona Anthology! If you, or one of your collective live in rural or regional Australia, submit your collaborative writing by the 31st of July to be featured in Mona's collaborative anthology! The best three pieces will be paid features on the Mona Blog in August!   Tamworth Textile Triennial Expressions of interest are now open for the 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial, to be held in 2023. EOI's are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, age groups, emerging artists and established practitioners. EOI's closing Tuesday 26 July, 2022. Corner Store Gallery Regional Landscapes Prize The bi-annual Corner Store Gallery Regional Landscape Prize aims to foster established and emerging creative talent in regional Australia, and will showcase regional, rural and outback Australia in all its brilliant and beautiful glory. There are two prizes up for grabs - $5000 cash prize and two week artist residency in Orange. Submissions are due by September 30th 2022 Varuna Residential Fellowships Varuna Residential Fellowships offer two to three weeks of full board and accommodation at Varuna including a prepared evening meal, uninterrupted time to write in your own private studio, the companionship of your fellow writers and a one-hour Varuna Conversation with a Varuna consultant. In 2023, Varuna will offer 27 Varuna Residential Fellowships. Applications for the 2023 residency program closes midnight on July 29, 2022. Women In Music Mentor Program The Women in Music Mentor program is a four-year nation-wide mentoring and training program aimed at empowering women in the Australian music industry. The program will run once a year from 2020 to 2023 and is designed to enable women to navigate their career and leadership pathways, develop professional decision making, governance, commercial and corporate engagement skills. Closes 10 August.   AlburyCity Short Story Award Writers from across Australia are invited to enter the AlburyCity Short Story Award. There is no set theme. Just submit your most inspired writing! The word limit is 3,000. First prize $1,000; 2nd prize $200 book voucher; 3rd prize $100 book voucher. Closes Monday 25 July, midnight Nextwave Youth Film Festival - entries open! The Screenwave International Film Festival is looking for the next wave of storytellers. Are you between the ages of 10-25, living in Australia, and love to get creative? Then Nextwave is for you! The rules are simple: Create a film under 5 minutes 🧶Include this year’s theme and item, TRANSFORMATION and GREEN 🎞Submit your film before October 25 via Film Freeway for your chance to win big, and have your film premiere at the 2023 Screenwave International Film Festival on the Coffs Coast! Want a leg up on the competition? Learn the fundamentals of filmmaking with Nextwave Online C.R.U.S.H  C.R.U.S.H is 3 days of workshops in contemporary movement, performance and theatre-making to nurture a new crop of fresh and crushingly sweet talent! Opportunity for people with disability from regional areas across Australia to apply for a scholarship to contribute funds up to $2000 towards their travel, workshop fees and accommodation to attend. Applications close on Friday, 26 August 2022 First Nations Creators Program Screen Australia’s First Nations Department and Meta Australia are pleased to announce that the First Nations Creators Program for Instagram is returning in 2022, with applications now open. Creators who successfully complete the program will receive production funding of $5,000 and equipment to help them create a Reels project series for their Instagram account. Applications close at 5pm AEST Thursday 25 August. Every Voice Initiative TikTok is partnering with Screen Australia and NZ On Air to support Aussie and Kiwi storytellers in sharing their voices and stories with the world and is intended for creators from under-represented backgrounds. Creators could receive up to $75K in production money. Applicants are required submit a short one minute pitch video and post the video on their public TikTok account, between 27 June and 21 July, including the hashtag #everyvoice, as well as providing their contact details via this online entry form. Terms and conditions can be found here. Music NSW: Sound Advice | Booking a Tour 6pm - 7.20pm Wednesday 27 July | Zoom Touring is complicated. There are so many things to keep track of, like which venues to approach, line-ups, backline, transport, budgets, accommodation, and all this before a chord’s even been strummed! July's instalment of SOUND ADVICE to the rescue! This panel will get you ready for whatever the road can throw at you, and will include an intro to MusicNSW’s game changing new tour planning tool, the Regional Touring Network (RTN). Check it out ahead of time at rtn.musicnsw.com 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! The Art of Everywhere Else - Lectures by Dr Sam Bowker Following the success of Encounters with Islamic Art (2016) and Renaissance Art and Song (2017) at the Museum of the Riverina, followed by Australian Art (2019) at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Dr Sam Bowker will now survey the art of everywhere else (Global Art Histories - 2022). This exciting twelve-part 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. Supported by Charles Sturt University and the Friends of the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. Lectures will be held from 6-7pm each Tuesday at the CSU Playhouse (8 Cross Street, Wagga Wagga), and the Foyer Bar will be open from 5:30-7:30pm. Tickets for the lectures are available via the Civic Theatre Box Office ($15 adult, $10 concession, free for students enrolled in ART241 at Charles Sturt University) *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Serious Undertakings – Weekend Film Forum Join the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery for a weekend of films by artist and filmmaker Helen Grace. Hear 10 local residents respond to Helen Grace’s work. Join the conversation with curator and writer Julie Ewington. Over the last four decades artist and filmmaker Helen Grace has produced a body of moving image works, and includes film, video and animated photography works. These short films will be introduced by the artist in two open screenings. Ten local writers and creatives have accepted the invitation to provide a creative response to each of Helen’s films. What they have to say will surprise, delight and challenge. Saturday 30 July & Sunday 31 July, 2pm - 4pm bookings essential. Learn the Art of Still Life: Ages 50+ Join the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery for a morning of creativity as we explore the study of still life. Develop your drawing skills using a range of materials in a supportive and relaxed environment. Cost: $80 (8 week program) When: Each Wednesday 10am - 12pm | Wednesday 27th July – Wednesday 14th September What to bring: All materials provided. Please wear old clothes. Tea and coffee provided Who: Ages 50+ | All levels of experience welcome! Artist Talk in conversation with Kate Smith Join Mangoplah-based painter Kate Smith in conversation with Curator Michael Moran to discuss her works featured in Murray Art Museum Albury's Major Exhibition Zombie Eaters. Kate Smith is a nationally recognised artist whose work has been included in major institutional exhibitions. Her lively compositions lie somewhere between figurative and abstract, and conveys her joyful and often fraught approach to her painting practice. She will discuss her motivations to paint, and what it means to sustain a practice outside of the major city centres. Saturday, 20 August at 11.00am - 12.00pm Paul Ramsay Gallery, Murray Art Museum Albury An Evening of the Arts Enjoy a night of beautiful dancing, singing and music at The Arts Centre Cootamundra. Featuring Melissa Lott, Coota local, who is currently a student at the English National Ballet School in London. Melissa will be perform classical and contemporary routines. Melissa will be supported by singer Bridgitt Ryan as well as dancers from local dance schools. 7pm, Saturday 6th of August 2022. Doors open at 6:30pm Tickets $25 per person RAF Project Grants Open  The Project Grants will fund high-quality arts projects benefitting regional or remote artists, arts workers, audiences and communities. The focus of the project could include any area of creative practice, multiple art forms or cross-disciplinary practice. Apply for up to $30,000! Regional Arts Fund (RAF) Project Grants will close on Monday, 15 August 2022 at 5:00pm. Are you a First Nations muso (or know one) that’s had their work screwed by COVID? The Adam Briggs Foundation has launched a new grants initiative called Barpirdhila (which translates to ‘morning star’ in the Yorta Yorta language), offering up to $10,000 to First Nations artists actively working on a forthcoming music project that’s been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The $10k can be put towards third party production costs – eg. studio hire, mixing and mastering, music video production, artwork, publicity, and merch. To be eligible, grant applicants are expected to have their project underway and due to be completed by end of December 2022.  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 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. Here are a few funding and prize opportunities from outside our region currently open to regional creatives that may be worth checking out:   Mossman Art Prize - closing - 20 July 5pm Hornsby Art Prize - closing 31 July Meroogal Womens Art Prize - closing 2 August Federation Art Prize 2022 - closing 12 September Brittany Hefren Previous Previous Introducing The Ambulance Station Next Next RENEW Wagga EOI’s now open Station Creative Workspace 54 Johnston Street, Wagga Wagga, NSW PH: (02) 6921 6890 Phone for an appointment. Eastern Riverina Arts is supported by the NSW Government through CREATE NSW. We are part of a statewide network of Regional Arts Development Organisations and are a member of Regional Arts NSW. We gratefully acknowledge the in-kind and financial support of our region’s Councils - Bland, Coolamon, Cootamundra-Gundagai, Junee, Lockhart, Snowy Valleys, Temora, Wagga Wagga. The Eastern Riverina Arts team acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live and work — the Wiradjuri, the Ngarigo and the Wolgalu people — today and every day. We pay our respects to all elders — past, present and emerging.