Community partnership key producers
Across Australia 11 companies are building stronger communities through the arts.
These 11 companies are all supported as Australia Council key producer organisations. The excellence of their art shows the vitality of the communities that produced them.
These companies and their works show us how Australians create their own art, and produce communities that are better places to live.
These 11 companies are featured in the Australia Council exhibition KP11: producing communities. The exhibition will tour to the following venues:
26 June – 31 July 2009, Freight Gallery, DADAA Inc, Fremantle WA www.dadaawa.org.au
21 August – 11 October 2009, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, WA www.brag.org.au
14 November – 6 December 2009, The Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
9 February – 7 March 2010, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD www.artmuseum.qut.edu.au
19 March – 11 April 2010, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT www.belconnenartscentre.com.au
26 August – 17 October 2010, Academy Gallery, UTAS, Launceston, TAS www.acadarts.utas.edu.au
Founded in 1974 as a small community arts project for people with disabilities, Arts Access Victoria has established itself as one of Australia’s most experienced and respected arts and disability organisations.
Barkly Regional Arts operates in a vast and remote region in the Northern Territory - in an area roughly the same size as Victoria. Barkly works to nurture creative expression in the 13 distinct language and cultural groups in the region.
Beyond Empathy (BE) uses digital and mixed media, film, theatre, music, dance and visual arts to build relationships between disadvantaged young people, local support agency staff and their communities in thirteen locations across Australia.
Contact Inc collaborates with young people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Pacific Islander, refugee and migrant communities to create quality art with a social change agenda.
Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts, Australia (DADAA) offers a state-wide program of arts services for Western Australians facing 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 place where artists and communities come together to create, experience and enjoy art.
Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE)
Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) works at the intersection of arts, culture, technology and community in Greater Western Sydney; Australia’s most culturally diverse region.
Tutti provides a full-time day program in visual, performing and digital arts for young adults with disabilities. From its small beginning Tutti has grown to be a stable, mature community-based arts organisation.
Shopfront Contemporary Arts Centre
Shopfront Contemporary Art Centre is a cultural network and co-operative where young people, regardless of background or ability can create themselves.
Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company (SDT) is a community arts organisation that works with disadvantaged young people, women in prison and after their release.
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