Community arts
Access Arts is Queensland’s peak arts and disability body. It supports and delivers a range of services to artists, cultural workers and their communities as well as to groups and individuals who experience disability and disadvantage.
Accessible Arts is the peak arts and disability advocacy body in New South Wales. It provides support and opportunities for people with disabilities to experience and participate in the arts.
Aimee Smith is a Perth-based dancer and choreographer with a focus on developing arts practice for social change.
Ali Kadhim is a Sydney-based new media artist who focuses on digital art and multimedia.
Carey Lai trained and worked as a dancer in London in the late sixties and early seventies. Since immigrating to Australia, she started work as an arts administrator, initially as project officer with Arts Access.
Carmen Grostal is an arts practitioner who started work at Footscray Community Arts Centre in 1985.
Cath Cantlon is an artist and arts practitioner that has led and created arts projects across a range of artforms in a career that spans more than 30 years.
Cicily Ponnor is a Sydney-based writer and performer who has worked with various groups in Western Sydney ranging from youth at risk, refugee communities and non-English-speaking background communities.
Claudia Chidiac is a theatre director and performance artist who works with young people, migrant and refugee communities.
Community Arts Network of South Australia Inc (CAN SA) is South Australia’s peak community arts body.
Community Cultural Development NSW
Community Cultural Development New South Wales (CCDNSW) is a peak body for advocacy, brokerage, networking, facilitation and training in community cultural development practice in NSW.
CONTACT Inc is a youth-based community arts and cultural organisation driven by social justice principles of access and equity.
The Cultural Development Network is an independent non-profit organisation that links individual practitioners, communities, artists, local councils and organisations.
Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts, Australia (DADAA), WA offers a state-wide program of arts development and arts and health services for Western Australians experiencing disability and disadvantage.
Feral Arts is a Brisbane-based community arts and cultural organisation specialising in video, photography and digital media.
Footscray Community Arts Centre
Footscray Community Arts Centre is a leader in contemporary community-based arts.
Gadigal Information Service was established and became an incorporated Aboriginal association in 1993 to provide a community based media, arts and information service for the Indigenous community in Sydney.
Gemma Pepper is a performance artist and arts practitioner who works with diverse communities and young people to create distinctive multi-artform projects.
Görkem Acaroglu is a freelance theatre director, writer and dramaturge working between professional and community contexts.
Graham Pitts is a writer, researcher and playwright, who has created scores of arts-based projects with marginalised groups from many cultures, particularly with non-English speaking background and disadvantaged communities, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Information and Cultural Exchange
Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) is a dynamic community arts organisation that delivers a range of innovative new media arts and cultural programs to Western Sydney communities.
Katherine Regional Arts Inc is the peak arts organisation in the Northern Territory’s Katherine region.
Khaled Sabsabi is a community arts practitioner and artist who specialises in multimedia sound and hip-hop music.
Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre
KALACC is a Kimberley wide indigenous organisation which promotes the continued practice of Aboriginal Law and Culture amongst all 22 language groups in the Kimberley
Kurruru Indigenous Youth Performing Arts
Kurruru is Australia's only Indigenous Youth Performing Arts Company and is committed to providing quality performing arts opportunities for young Indigenous people and their communities across South Australia.
Lenine Bourke is an arts practitioner who has worked extensively with socially, culturally and economically diverse communities.
Liverpool Migrant Resource Centre
Liverpool Migrant Resource Centre (LMRC) offers a range of services to assist the settlement of newly arrived communities to Australia. It actively promotes the needs of these communities to service providers and planning groups.
Lockie McDonald is a Perth-based writer, director and producer that has led and created arts projects with marginalised groups within rural, regional and isolated communities living under significant disadvantage including high security prison inmates, people with disabilities, Indigenous and homeless youth.
In a career spanning more than 40 years, Brazilian-born Marily Cintra has coordinated numerous arts-led community projects that have influenced the development of public art in healthcare throughout Australia.
Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is Victoria's peak arts organisation promoting cultural diversity in the arts.
Sally Marsden is a leading community arts and cultural practitioner who has worked as a mentor, coordinator and author since 1984.
Sarah Howell is a Tasmanian new media artist with a passion for social technology, visual communication and storytelling. Her arts practice crosses between visual arts and writing through the medium of comics.
Somebody's Daughter Theatre Company
Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company is a community arts organisation that works with women in prison and after their release, disadvantaged youth and with communities interested in establishing creative partnerships.
Tandanya's major objective is to promote and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and cultural practice, through their visual arts exhibition program, cultural performances and information sharing, theatre performances, Indigenous film program , education and arts development activities.
Since it formed in 1999, The Torch Project has gained a reputation for facilitating diverse community-based arts projects throughout Victoria and North East Arnhem Land.
With more than 20 years of experience in the disability and arts sectors, Tony Doyle is recognised as an advocate of the arts-based disability culture movement.
Woomera Aboriginal Corporation
Woomera Aborignal Corporation based in Mornington Island, a remote Aboriginal community in far north west Queensland. The corporation helps Aboriginal people reach their goals, with four key areas, the Mornington Island Dancers; Mornington Island Arts and Craft, Cultural Pathways Program; and the Mornington Island Archive.
Youth Arts Queensland (YAQ) is the peak body for youth arts and cultural development in Queensland.
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