Thoughts from the Editor 15 November 2021

Around mid December, the unvaccinated will join the vaxed in more freedoms. Meanwhile the rusty gears of creative commerce are grinding back into motion. Please, support anything that’s opening, with all due caution, of course. Over the summer, I’d love it if you did some thinking (just drop the novel into the sand for a…

Metro Arts and Firstdraft partnership: exhibition opportunity for artists living outside capital cities

FIrstdraft (Gadigal Land, Sydney) and Metro Arts (Meeanjin, Brisbane) are delighted to announce a new two-year reciprocal partnership supporting two artists living outside of capital cities – one from NSW and another from QLD – to present work across both organisations in 2022 and 2023. The partnership between the two organisations will support the production…

We Weave Together

First Friday of every month, from 10 am to 12 noon Via Zoom Delivered by the Aboriginal Regional Arts Alliance, ‘We Weave Together’ is an online network for regional and remote Aboriginal weavers to come together to weave, share stories and different weaving skills from regional and remote NSW. It’s never too late to join…

Regional Arts NSW seeks CEO

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for RANSW’s staff, partnerships, programs and growth to ensure that we continue to be the loudest voice in the room as the peak body for artists and arts and cultural organisations located in regional NSW.   RANSW’s CEO…

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences’ Regional Stakeholder Forum 2021

Regional Stakeholder Forum 2021 Date: Friday 26 November 2021 Time: 9.00am-1.15pm Location: Webinar Price: Free, booking essential at https://www.maas.museum/event/regional-stakeholder-forum-2021/ Over the past year the way we connect to people and place has changed. Almost overnight, museums shifted their collections, exhibitions, and programming online. Working from home became the norm and, as a result, creative ways…

Arts Upper Hunter funding uplift

Audiences and creatives in the Upper Hunter will benefit from an increase to Arts Upper Hunter’s core funding as a result of a funding boost from the NSW Government. Through Create NSW the state government will invest over $3.4 million in the Regional Arts Network in 2021/22 that includes $200,000 per annum to each Regional…