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 | Happy November from Eastern Riverina Arts!
Get involved in the latest events, prizes, grants, funding updates and professional development opportunities below! |
|  | Country Arts Support Program (CASP) - applications opening soon!
Are you an artist looking to level up your creative practice in 2025? Are you a group, collective or company with a bold creative project in the works?
There are two streams available through the Eastern Riverina Arts Country Arts Support Program to support proposals for 2025: For Individuals, max $750 – for professional development or the realisation/presentation of an ambitious artistic outcome, or For Projects, max $3000 – for original creative projects and collaborations that meet the eligibility criteria.
Applications open: Monday 16th December 2024, 9:00am Applications close: Monday 3rd February 2025, 9:00am
We’ll be announcing dates for CASP information sessions across the region soon—stay tuned for a session near you! |
| | Image: Inspiring Indigenous COOEE at The Arts Centre Cootamundra as part of the Festival of Turtles Project |
| |  | Distance Makes the Art Grow Fonder III Join the Temora Arts Centre for the opening of Sam Sharman's latest exhibition, Distance Makes the Art Grow Fonder III - The Rural Avant-Garden, on 29th November at the Temora Arts Centre. The evening will feature an artist floor talk at 5:30pm, providing insights into Sam’s innovative works.
To complement the exhibition, enjoy ambient post-rock music with light drums, guitars, and possibly saxophone or clarinet performances, creating a relaxed atmosphere throughout the evening.
Doors open at 5:00pm. All are welcome.
🗓 Friday, November 29, 2024
🕒 5:00 PM 7:00 PM
📍 Temora Arts Centre
🔗 Find out more & RSVP > |
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|  | Myanmar Humanitarian Aid Music Concert
The Rvwang Community of Wagga Wagga are organizing a fundraising concert at the Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre in December
The concert will raise urgently needed funds for those in Myanmar affected by the recent devastating floods, which have compounded the ongoing hardships from the civil war.
The funds will also support internally displaced people in Myanmar and contribute to the development of our local Rvwang Community here in Wagga Wagga.
🗓 Sunday, December 8th, 2024
🕒 6:00 PM
📍 Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre
🎟 Book tickets now >
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|  | The Art Factory: Brave New
Brave New is a celebration of courage, memories of boldness and moments of bravery.
Drawing on the traits and characteristics of the mighty dragon, and in response to the Chinese Year of the Dragon, this eclectic collection of paintings, prints, mixed media and ceramic works delivers powerful personal stories of the emotional strength required to face and overcome life’s small daily tests and larger challenges.
Exhibition Launch🗓 Friday 29th November
🕒 5:00-8:00 PM
📍 Station Creative Workspace
Exhibition Dates 30th November- 15th December
🔗 Find out more & RSVP > |
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|  | Workforce Australia: Mutual obligation requirements for Visual and Creative Artists
Join the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) for a free online information session to help artists and arts workers navigate mutual obligation requirements under Workforce Australia’s Points Based Activation System (PBAS). The Department of Social Services will also be in attendance to discuss the income testing rules.
🗓 Thursday December 5 🔗 Find out more & register >
Image: Jessica Murtagh, Modern relic IV: All in this together, apart 2021. Hand blown glass, sandblasted and engraved.
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|  | Riverina Touring Network presents: Trinket the Robot - by Little Wing PuppetsThe story of a little Robot who longs to become "real"... but is he ready for what it means to be alive?
After a delightful tour of A Little Bit of Blue last December, Little Wing Puppets are back with a new puppet show!
Based on the tale of Pinocchio, Trinket the Robot is lively, funny, interactive and explores emotions and offers ways for children to understand different feelings.
Performing to school groups and interested families:
🗓 Thursday 5, Friday 6 December 📍 Junee Athenium, Montreal Theatre Tumut 🎟 More info + contact box office > |
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|  | Art Speak Exhibition: Truth
Over the past four months, five artists from the supported studio, the Art Factory, have been participating in a program called ‘Art Speak’, facilitated by Artist-Curator Sarah McEwan from theCad Factory, an arts organisation trying to reimagine the world through contemporary art practices.
The resulting exhibition called “Truth” explores how each artist lives their truth in exciting, loud and proud ways. Everyone is welcome to attend, and the dress code is come as the truest version of yourself! There will be lucky and unlucky door prizes given out.
Visit and support five local artists, Dave Nicholls, Lilly Salmon, Jennifer West, Adrian Bustin and Lorraine O’Hara share their truth.
Exhibition Opening 🗓 Wednesday 11 December 🕒 12-1pm 📍 Riverina Community College Gallery
🔗 Find out more >
Image: Wednesday, Lilly Salmon, 2024, Print, posca and acrylic paint on paper, 38cm x 57cm
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|  | Christmas with the Con 2024
Join the Riverina Conservatorium of Music for Christmas with the Con, as we celebrate the festive season with one of the biggest Christmas performances in the Riverina.
Classical, traditional, and contemporary Christmas music. Dazzling fireworks finale.
FREE event for all ages.
🗓 Saturday 14th December 2024 🕒 7 - 9pm 📍 Riverside Stage Precinct, Wagga
🎟 More info > |
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|  | 25,000 Objects (or how I learned to redevelop a regional museum)
A new documentary exploring the colossal task of redeveloping the Museum of the Riverina. Learn all about the unique challenge of a large infrastructure project, coupled with the technical difficulties of creating an entirely new museum.
🔗 Watch the documentary > |
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|  |  | Create NSW Project Funding Applications for the Create NSW Project Funding are open now: Creative Nations - projects for First Nations organisations and individuals Next Steps - professional & skills development (for individuals) Creative Steps – new work development (for individuals) Cultural Access – projects for individuals and organisations led by or for priority area groups
⏰ Closing December 2.
Image: Still from poetic documentary film “Marrow” by Diamond Tat, featuring Vivian Tran. ‘Tender’ series produced by CuriousWorks, commissioned by Sydney Opera House |
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|  | EOI: Artworks for Finley Health Service Redevelopment
The NSW Government has committed $25 million to the Finley Health Service redevelopment which will enhance the current health facility and ensure health care services are carefully planned to meet community needs now and into the future.
Murrumbidgee Local Health District are seeking interest from local creatives to develop artwork that will inspire and comfort patients, visitors and staff in public and clinical spaces. Applicants with strong community links to Finley, and the Riverina, who are living within the Murrumbidgee LHD are encouraged to apply. There are two opportunities available.
⏰ Closing: 5pm Monday 9 December
🔗 Find out more & apply > |
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| | | ✏️ Hunter Writers' Centre is pleased to announce the 2024 Newcastle Short Story Award is open for submissions. | Closing December 22 | More info & enter >
⚓️ Entries are open for the Halloran Contemporary Art Prize, an acquisitive art prize that engages with and responds to the Halloran Collection: Science & the Sea. | Closing November 29 | More info & enter >
✏️ Adelaide Perry Gallery invites artists to submit their work for the 2025 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. | Closing 15 January 2025 | More info & enter >
📞 Support Act offers a free phone counselling service for people in the creative industries. You can receive 12 free counselling sessions from an experienced counsellor. | More info >
📖 Submissions of a complete, unpublished manuscript are now open for literary fiction authors to receive the first option of publishing their work with Penguin Random House through the 2025 Penguin Literary Prize. | Closing December 16 | Apply >
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