Happy April from Eastern Riverina Arts!
It is great to see how many events and performances are happening in our region at the moment! Find out what's on below and grab a ticket or two to support our talented local creatives as they take to the stage.
We are pleased to share the exciting news that The Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail is opening next month! This is a new and significant series of sculpture collections in Adelong, Batlow, Tumbarumba, Tooma and the Tumbarumba vineyards with cellars doors.
Like a delicious cheese platter full of your favourite snacks, this month's newsletter features a wonderful selection of opportunities for funding, performances, prizes and more. We encourage our Riverina artists and creatives to reach for a slice of some of the terrific opportunities below.
Enjoy reading!
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WAGGA COUNCIL GRANTS - LAST DAYS TO APPLY
Want to apply for funding to develop the latest play, film, exhibition or workshop you've been working on?
Keen to create new and exciting community experiences in Wagga Wagga?
There is only two weeks left to apply for funding in the Arts, Cultural and Creative Industries category of the Wagga Wagga City Council's Annual Grants program.
Applications close: Monday 2 May.
APPLY HERE
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ARTS ON TOUR: BACKROADS INITIATIVE
The Backroads Initiative is established to enable high-quality, small-scale professional productions to smaller towns and remote communities in regional NSW. Backroads can support up to 50% of the performance/ delivery fee (including touring costs) of a touring production.
Applicants can submit a proposal to:
- extend a regional tour to one or more non-professional venues in regional NSW;
- support a new tour to two or more non-professional venues in regional NSW.
Applications open: Tuesday 26 April
Webinar: Tuesday 10 May
Applications close: Wednesday 25 May
APPLY HERE
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RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITY
Western Riverina Arts and Rooms of Requirement (ROR Space) have partnered to offer a six-week residency during 2022 for one creative practitioner in Australia, valued between $1,600 - $1,900.
This residency will support an artist to work on their self-determined goals in a brand new creative co-working space in the heart of Griffith NSW on Wiradjuri Country.
Applications close: April 24.
APPLY HERE
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Photo: Holiday Break Program Nextwave Online youth education program, Screenwave International Film Festival, Coffs Harbour.
HOLIDAY BREAK PROGRAM
The Holiday Break program provides the opportunity to run regional film festival and film making workshops for young people (aged 12-24) during upcoming school holidays. Funded programs can include family-friendly screenings, filmmaking workshops and screen-based events.
Applications close: Wednesday 27 April
APPLY HERE
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ONLINE CONFERENCE FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS
If you’re aged 12-25 and wondering how to break into the music industry, or trying to move your career to the next level, FEEDBACK is THE PERFECT opportunity to learn how to do it – how to get gigs, release music, build a fan base, get airplay, how to work with a publicist, booking agent or manager, or become one yourself. It’s all ahead of you!
When: 11am, Saturday 30 April
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Image: Jack of Hearts Photography
OPEN MIC FOR YOUNG TALENT
Featuring new music created by the participants of the APRA AMCOS SongMakers Workshops, family, friends, and local artists are all welcome to attend and to participate in the open mic. This event will also feature performances from students of local Creative Kids Providers.
When: Friday April 22, 5pm – 7pm
“Playback Session”, open to the public at The Civic Theatre, Burns Way, off Tarcutta St, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650
The APRA AMCOS Song Makers workshops are part of the Holiday Break program supported by the Office for Regional Youth in partnership with Create NSW.
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A curator displays 'Household Furniture & Interior Decoration', by Thomas Hope
WEBINAR: COPYRIGHT IN MUSEUMS
Join Powerhouse Rights and Permissions Officer Harry Ree to discover all you need to know about copyright.
Harry will take participants through the process of dealing with copyright issues involved in exhibiting and publishing exhibition content. The webinar will also cover licensing enquiries for museum objects from external clients.
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Don't miss checking out the Powerhouse Museum's collection of regional resources, including an archive of past webinars here.
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CREATIVE RIVERINA is a community AND an arts directory, connecting you to artists and artistic organisations throughout the entire Riverina region of NSW.
Looking to get your name out there? Artists and performers of all kinds are listed on CREATIVE RIVERINA, the go-to online directory for creatives in our region! Make sure people can find you - create your FREE listing today!
Keen to connect with other creatives in our region? Artists on the directory are invited to join the CREATIVE RIVERINA Facebook group, a supportive online Facebook group with over 350 members. Artists and arts organisations of all types from Riverina NSW can share their ideas, events and simply connect! Join the CREATIVE RIVERINA group now!
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FAR SOUTH FILM FESTIVAL
Calling all regional filmmakers and screen content creators from around Australia to submit their films to the Far South Film Festival.
The overall Best Film Award is a $1000 cash prize and all Finalists will be offered free tickets to the in-person or online screenings. The festival also encourages young filmmakers under 25 years to enter films that tell their stories and have them seen by a wider audience, with a cash prize of $500 for the winning Youth Film.
Normal entry deadline: Monday 9 May
Late entry deadline: Monday 30 May
MORE INFO & APPLY NOW
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PRINT AND DRAWING CALL FOR ENTRIES
The mission of the 2022 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards is to promote excellence in Australian prints and drawings; present an exhibition of contemporary Australian prints and drawings, and continue to build a high quality collection for Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery. There is a $16,000 prize for the winner.
The judges this year are Vanessa Gerrans, Director, Warrnambool Art Gallery and Dr. Thomas A. Middlemost, Art Curator, Charles Sturt University Art Collection.
Entries close: Sunday 19 June
MORE INFO & ENTRY
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DRAWING ART PRIZE
The Paul Guest Prize is an award and exhibition held biennially that highlights contemporary drawing practice in Australia. The Prize was initiated by former Family Court Judge and Olympic rower, The Honourable Paul Guest OAM QC and encourages artists from across Australia to engage with the important medium of drawing in contemporary art practice. The Prize is a non-acquisitive cash award of $15,000.
Entries close: 13 May 2022
MORE INFO & APPLY HERE
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WORKS ON PAPER ART PRIZE
The Omnia Art Prize, previously known as the St Kevin’s Art Show, is an exhibition and art award offering three prizes:
Major Prize $15,000
Best Work on Paper $3,500
People’s Choice Award $1,000
Artists are invited to submit up to three artworks for consideration by the selection panel. All selected artists will have the opportunity to showcase and sell their works at a professionally curated exhibition.
Entries close: 22 April 2022
MORE INFO & APPLY HERE
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LIVE PERFORMANCE
Maverick musician Lucas Abela’s ecstatic performances with shards of amplified glass are the stuff of legend. His practice emerged within the noise underground, where the glass evolved from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing an organic form of outsider electronica.
Book your front row seats to watch an experimental master at work as he debuts this stunning new tour!
When: Saturday 30 April, 7pm - 8pm
Where: Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Cost: Free event | Bookings essential
WORKSHOP
Join Maverick musician Lucas Abela as he shares the inner workings of his new quadraphonic modular set-up by demonstrating techniques for playing instruments with modular synthesisers!
Lucas has turned the normally mono glass into a quadraphonic instrument, using positive and negative envelopes, gates and triggers all derived solely from the glass signals, dynamics and frequencies.
This is your chance to work with cutting edge synthesiser techniques derived from a truly unique process by a world-leading sound artist. Spaces are limited so register your interest today to guarantee your place in this sonically wild workshop.
When: Saturday 30 April, 5pm - 6pm
Where: Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Cost: Free workshop | Bookings essential
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CELEBRATE AUTUMN IN TUMUT
Tumut’s favourite weekend of the year is on again in 2022. It kicks off with the Comedy Gala on Friday night, 29 April is is followed by Saturday’s Falling Leaf Festival in Tumut’s beautiful Bila Park from midday.
Friday’s Comedy Gala is being MC’s by Dane Simpson and features some big names and
emerging artist in the comedy festival scene including Mike Goldstein, Luka Muller, Floyd
Alexander-Hunt and Emo Parsonson.
The Festival on the Saturday is for the whole family with headline singer-songwriters and
performers including the powerhouse, all-female act Hussy Hicks and Timothy James Bowen - probably best known for his outstanding, heartfelt performances on The Voice.
Also in the lineup are Andrew Wertz and Rory Phillips, both hometown favourites who are really making a splash around the country. Maddy Hibbert returns to the stage this year with her beautiful melodies as well. Tumut High School bands Sunni Bois and Shades of Indigo will rock the stage early in the day, along with the student’s of Marty’s Music School.
With the ever changing colours, crisp sunny days, a rocking stage, delicious food and drinks, kids entertainment, market stalls and so much more, our festival is the perfect way to celebrate Autumn. Explore beautiful Tumut, in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, on our favourite weekend of the year.
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COOTA QUEST
Calling all singers, musicians, dancers, poets, mimes, story tellers, circus performers and other local performing artists ... YOU ARE INVITED TO PERFORM!
NO AUDITIONS - NO JUDGES.
Just an opportunity, a stage and an audience!
Interested? Registration Essential by 12noon Mon 25th April 2022! $10pp entry fee.
JUST WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED? Come along and support our talented locals!
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CELEBRATE AUTUMN IN TUMUT
The Illabo Melodrama Group are presenting Irish at Heart this year. The production is being staged at the Illabo Showground Pavilion.
This Melodrama is coming along nicely and the performances could just be billed as the "Best Ever" so you had better not miss out on reviewing this production for yourself.
Tickets are $50 and includes a substantial gourmet supper and bring along your own drinks.
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Rabbits is a kaleidoscopic play of over 50 scenes addressing contemporary issues such as racism, discrimination and xenophobia, with an underlying foundation of hope, identity and strength.
Written and Directed by Robert Lewis
Preview April 27, performances: April 29, 30 May 6, 7
7.30pm Drama Studio, Building 71, Charles Sturt University
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A MIDNIGHT DREAM
Shakespeare's beloved romantic comedy gets a musical twist with banjos and guitars.
A farcical spin on the trials and tribulations of love, as well as a celebration of making theatre as only Wagga School of Arts, in its 163 year anniversary, can do.
Don't miss A MIDNIGHT DREAM at the CSU Riverina Playhouse April 22nd, 23rd, 29th & 30th at 7.30pm and April 24th and May 1st at 3pm.
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