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 | Happy October from Eastern Riverina Arts!
Get involved in the latest events, prizes, grants, funding updates and professional development opportunities below!
Stop Press: Don't miss the Create NSW project funding rounds opening next week. It's a fresh wave of opportunities for artists, and we'd love to see strong representation from the Riverina. Be sure to scroll down, check it out and consider applying! |
|  | Creative Commissions Funding
Eastern Riverina Arts are eager to support the generation of new creative work that contributes to the life and legacy of Station Creative Workspace. Applications are opening now for one-off Creative Commissions Grants of $1500. These commissions are for individuals and groups from the ERA Service region to support and develop ambitious and original creative outputs at the Station. The Creative Commissions are open to proposals across a broad range of artforms, including but not limited to: 🎨 visual artworks 🕺 performing arts ✍️ writing projects 📷 video/film or performance artworks 📍 site-specific installations 🧑💻 digital art
Applications close: 18th November 2024 at 9:00am
The Creative Commissions are proudly funded by the NSW Government. Eastern Riverina Arts acknowledges the generous contribution of Wagga Wagga City Council through their Annual Grants Program, which supports 2 additional commissions for artists from the Wagga Wagga LGA.
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| | |  | Powerhouse Regional Stakeholder Forum This free annual opportunity for staff and volunteers from regional and Western Sydney museums to network, share stories and be inspired by current topics relevant to the regional collecting sector. A highlight session from our region is the Up-To-Date Store Cultural Tourism Report Case Study! Coolamon Shire Council General Manager, Tony Donoghue, shares the story of The Up-To-Date Store and cultural precinct, a place where local community and visitors meet. This small museum exemplifies recommendations from the Cultural Tourism in Regional NSW report. 🗓 Friday 22 November 📍 Online or at Powerhouse Castle Hill 🎟 Book tickets > |
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|  | Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Summer Exhibitions LaunchAttend the launch of three exhibitions bringing you stories of local ecologies, the best of textile art from across the country, and artwork from the Gallery’s collection. Understories, Timothy Crutchett, Damien Moloney and Christopher Orchard Residue + Response: Tamworth Textile Triennial Look at Me: Tomorrow's curators explore the collection
Special Guest Speaker Blake Griffiths, Artist and Director of La Perouse Museum, Sydney.
Civic Welcome from Mayor Dallas Tout.
Welcome to Country from Aunty Cheryl Penrith OAM.
You're invited to the official Summer Exhibitions Launch, Saturday 2 November, 5pm-7pm. 🔗 RSVP > |
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|  | Bloom Festival Snowy Valleys
The Snowy Valleys will come alive as the Bloom Festival transforms the night into a dazzling celebration of light, art, and culture!
This vibrant, free event promises a safe, fun, and memorable experience for all ages.
🗓 Saturday, 26 October. 📍 Snowy Valleys
🔗 Find out more >
Funded by the NSW Government and hosted by @snowyvalleyscouncil in partnership with @businesssnowyvalleys 📷: Crazy Big Theremin — an interactive installation that's sure to be a hit. |
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|  | Exhibition: Print on Display
Print on Display is a survey of prints from members of the Print Council of Australia, past and present from the Eastern Riverina Region. Curated by Dr Thomas A. Middlemost.
Exhibition Dates🗓 5th-27th October
🕒 Open 10am-4pm Saturdays
🕒 10am-4pm Sundays
📍Station Creative Workspace
🔗 Find out more > This exhibition is supported by Charles Sturt University. |
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|  | Women of the Riverina
Liberty, lies and lipstick: Women of the Riverina presents powerful stories from our ancient past to the frantic now.
Sit down by the ancient Wollundry Lagoon, step back in time and have a drink with Wagga’s only female pub owner, grab a bargain at Best and Less with a young Iranian refugee, dance with the ghosts of Tarcutta Hall, and don’t forget to bottle fruit for the national larder.
📍 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 🗓Friday 6 December 2024 🕒 6.30pm
🎟 Book tickets >
Supported by The Curious Rabbit, Eastern Riverina Arts, Wagga Wagga City Council.
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|  | Serendipity Exhibition
Wagga Art Society is presenting their exhibition 'Serendipity' until 20th October! The studio gallery will be open each weekend from 10am to 3pm. All works are produced by members and are for sale.
🔗 Find out more about Wagga Art Society > |
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|  | On Track Exhibition by Damian Triulcio 🚄🚂The Art Factory Supported Studio are thrilled to be showcasing the works of Damian Triulcio, who has been illustrating the trains of Great Britain with wonderful attention to detail. Scale models and video will also be on display. Train enthusiasts rejoice!
📍 Riverina Community College Gallery 🗓 5th to 28th October |
|  | Barrie Cassidy | The Fragility of DemocracyJoin Charles Sturt University for an insightful evening with Barrie Cassidy, one of Australia’s leading political analysts.
Barrie will discuss the “Fragility of Democracy” focusing on our longstanding partnership between Australia and the United States that began in 1940. As democracy grapples with unprecedented challenges today, what implications does this alliance hold for our future?
🗓 Thursday 14 November 2024 🕒 5:30pm (for 6:00pm start) – 7:30pm 📍CSU Riverina Playhouse, 8 Cross Street Wagga Wagga 🎟 Find out more & book tickets > |
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|  |  | Create NSW Project Funding This month applications are opening for the Create NSW Project Funding including: 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
The Create NSW team will be travelling across the state to deliver information sessions and answer your questions about the Arts and Cultural Funding Program. →
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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|  | Create ConversationsLearn more about: Creative Nations project funding Project Funding for creative and professional development activities Project Funding for the five priority areas How we have made the guidelines and forms simpler Options for organisations seeking multi-year funding
Each session will include a short presentation followed by time for questions and conversation, either 1:1 or as a group.
🧑💻 Online, 15 Oct, 12:30-1:30pm
📍 Albury - 29 Oct, 11am-1pm
📍 Leeton - 30 Oct, 10am-3pm
📍 Deniliquin - 31 Oct, 10am -12pm
🔗 RSVP > |
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|  | Submissions open for Tenx10 2025
Wagga Wagga School of Arts are calling for scripts to feature in the Ten x 10 Play Fest, part of their 2025 season.
Since its inception, the Play Fest has featured ten-minute plays from across the Riverina and around the world; from established playwriters to first-time writers. Names are not attached to the scripts when sent to the assessors, thus selections are made blind and purely on merit.
⏰ Scripts due 30 November
🔗 Find out more & apply > |
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|  | TACC - A unique venue in Cootamundra!!
The Arts Centre Cootamundra (TACC) offers 4 amazing spaces which are available for hire.
🎬 The Tin Shed Theatre
🏞 The Exhibition Room
🎨 The Visual Arts Studio
📒 The Meeting Room
Their spaces are perfect for exhibitions, meetings, dinners, performances, art workshops, forums, presentations, music, dance and much more.
🔗 Find out more & book > |
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| | | 🌳 Pearl Beach Arboretum Ephemeral Art Trail are seeking EOI registrations from artists interested in the role of the Artist in Residence or artists that would like to submit a work to the Ephemeral Art Trail in 2025. | More info & apply >
⚓️ 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 >
📜 The Burnie Print Prize welcome all artists living and working in Australia to enter a print or an artist’s book created utilising any printing process in the 2025 Burnie Print Prize. | Closing November 3 | More info & enter >
🎨 Local and Australian artists are invited to enter the prestigious Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, with a total prize pool of more than $30,000 | Closing October 30. | More info & enter >
🙋♀️ Entries to the Ellen José Art Award for young women are open now. The Ellen José Memorial Foundation is providing a $15,000 non-acquisitive award to a female visual artist aged 18-35 years working in any medium. | Closing November 1 | More info & entries >
📎 Brunswick Street Gallery is excited to announce that entries are NOW OPEN for our 2025 Small Works Art Prize, Australia’s largest open-call art prize for artworks measuring 35x35x35cm or less. | Closing November 17 | More info & enter > |
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