The Regional Performing Arts Touring program (Playing Australia) supports performing arts to reach regional and remote communities across Australia.
Three outstanding artists were celebrated at the National Arts and Disability Awards, coinciding with the International Day of People with Disability. The Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Access Australia partnered to present the prestigious awards.
‘In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing About the dark times.’
Adrian Collette AM, CEO Australia Council quoting, Svendborg Poems: Berthold Brecht 1930.
This webinar series is a deep dive into the main themes of the report, exploring how Australians’ increasingly value the benefits of the arts and creativity.
Community arts and cultural development encompasses collaborations between professional artists and communities based on a community’s desire to achieve artistic and social outcomes.
The Australia Council supports community arts and cultural development artists, practitioners, organisations, projects and programs through a range of grants and initiatives.
Our support is focused on priority areas including regional Australia, disability, young people, cultural diversity, emerging communities, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and remote communities, as well as specific critical social and cultural issues requiring focused attention.
Community arts and cultural development is distinct from other arts practice as it is the creative processes and relationships developed with community to make the art that defines it, not the art form or genre.
Kath Duncan has worked extensively across the arts sector, celebrating and embracing the importance of difference. She has been a key part of arts and disability programs including Quippings and Art of Difference. She appeared on the TV program No Limits, and was lead the ARC Linkage Research project The Last Avant Garde in partnership with Arts Access Victoria and with the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney.
Autumn Skuthorpe is an experienced performer, artist, arts worker and administrator driven by community arts engagement and development.
Her work spans music, film, cultural events, ZINES, youth arts leadership and mentoring, visual arts and performance.
Since the age of 12, Autumn Skuthorpe has lived in the Central Queensland city of Mackay with her family. Her regional base informs her approach to art making with community in a range of settings and contexts.
On the International Day of People with Disability, please join us to recognise Australian artists and arts-workers who have made an outstanding contribution to the artistic and cultural life of the nation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted the arts and cultural industries. The pandemic has illuminated pressures we were already feeling. It is bringing to light aspects of our industry many have long wanted to change, along with new issues we are now being forced to address.
Creative Connections is an online webinar series for the cultural and arts sectors and will offer practical, accessible and useful content delivered by industry experts on key topics and emerging themes.
Since its inception in 1973, the Australia Council for the Arts has been a world leader in having dedicated and unbroken funding to support community arts and cultural development practice.
Digital technology is transforming the nature of arts engagement, enabling more Australians to experience the arts in increasingly interconnected ways – growing rather than diminishing arts audiences.
There is enormous public value generated through the arts for the whole of civil society – the arts contribute significantly across our nation’s health, education, industry, global affairs and more. Sam Walsh AO, Chair, Australia Council for the Arts
Creativity is innate to humanity and is the wellspring of culture. We are all connected through arts and creativity. Our arts are vital expressions of human experience. They embody individual and collective stories, histories, identities and help us understand what it means to be human.
One of Australia’s most celebrated and internationally profiled contemporary artists, Angelica Mesiti works across video, performance and installation. Mesiti has developed a practice characterised by large-scale video and sound works.
Akolkol Dastan Gesa Group Image. Between May 2017 and April 2018, Akolkol Dastan Gesa engaged 40 young people between the ages of 12 and 29 to work with a team of professional artists to create a music video called SAME DRUM.
International residencies provide a unique opportunity for artists to immerse themselves in a new arts context, market, community and culture. The experience enables artists to articulate their practice within a global context and build knowledge, networks and partnerships.
The Australia Council for the Arts has released new research which examines the economic conditions faced by practising professional artists in Australia and their increasing value to society and the future of work.