Expressions of Interest: Artists and Musicians for a Collaborative Arts Project Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, in collaboration with the Upper Hunter Conservatorium of Music and Arts Upper Hunter, invites visual artists, sound artists, and musicians to submit proposals for a project exploring the intersection of art and sound. Concept The project is centred around the…
Blak Arts Collective, Arts Upper Hunter’s new program for First Nations creatives in our region, starts to roll out this month. Funded by the Australian Government’s Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support scheme, we are thrilled to be working in collaboration with the Wanaruah Local Aboriginal Land Council to deliver the program. Market stalls, a schools…
Community groups and Council Entities are welcome to apply for these long-standing grants. Still a mainstay of regional arts and communities, CASP provides funds to arts and cultural groups, not-for profit-organisations and local councils for short term, locally initiated projects. Schools can’t apply but school P&C’s can, as can museums. A good portion of the…
We would love to see you at a Strategic Planning Session. Arts Upper Hunter will be visiting towns and villages in the region over the next couple of months as part of our Strategic Planning for the next four years. We want to hear from you, your community, your Councils. This is not just about AUH…
CASP is the long-running and much-loved small grants program for community arts across regional NSW. It’s a great way a community group or facility can have a Project Come True in their area. Applications for Arts Upper Hunter Country Arts Support Program open on Monday 23 September 2024 and close 5pm on Monday 28 October…
Change Generators: Closure and Hope As We Move into a Post-Carbon Future will feature on Big Ideas on 3 July. On Thursday 27 June Natasha Mitchell from ABC Radio National hosted this excellent panel inspired by the LiddellWORKS exhibition, at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, before an audience of 55 interested locals. The nation-wide broadcast of the…
Change Generators: Closure and Hope As We Move into a Post-Carbon Future Be in the audience for this keenly anticipated panel. ABC Radio National’s Natasha Mitchell leads a session to debate the future for our region and the world. As Liddell changes from coal-generation to renewables and storage (even nuclear?!?), what other generators of change are…
Create NSW have overhauled their funding model and system, the Arts & Cultural Funding Program. They’re holding live information sessions and online webinars to explain the new approach and answer questions. There are a lot of questions, including about the changeover period. I strongly urge you to have a look at the changes, some of…
At this year’s Scone Literary Festival Community Afternoon you can sit in on a thought-provoking panel about the legacy and future of our region. After Liddell will look from the past into a transitional future, through the eyes of writers and artists with a deep connection to the Hunter. We’ll be discussing the emotional side…
Three part gig in Dungog at the Royal on 24 November! The Sister Cities tour grabs musicians from across NSW and puts them on mini tours with each other! Andy Nelson’s music weaves together folk & Americana, captivating audiences with soulful vocals and a magnetic stage presence. He has supported renowned Australian artists including Kate…