Arts Upper Hunter Quick Response Micro Grants Applications close: Wednesday 8 July 2020 In the context of the COVID-19 recovery process, Arts Upper Hunter (AUH) is offering Quick Response Micro Grants of up to $1,000 for artists or organisations including museums and historical societies working across all art forms in the Upper Hunter. The grants…
Interviews with Upper Hunter artists and writers. Visit our Podcast page. First cabs off the rank are Roger Skinner, photographer and Simone Bailey, author.
Arts Upper Hunter is seeking original written and visual responses to the pandemic from writers and visual artists in the Upper Hunter for its website. Written responses can be poetry, prose, lyrics or script with a five hundred word limit and a maximum of two works per writer. Visual responses can be in any form…
Winners of the Arts Upper Hunter Dance Craze Video Comp are Grace Booth, 12, Lula Peebles, 10, Annabelle Hunt, 10 and Rihanna Hunt , 9. Their team Crazy Glaze will share in the $500 prize. They all live in Merriwa and attend St Joseph’s Primary School in Merriwa. They share a love of dance and…
Please note that due to the CONVID-19 pandemic this forum has been postponed. Recognising how valuable the arts can be in improving health outcomes as well as promoting health and wellbeing in the wider community, the forum will look at the benefits of integrating the arts into the design and delivery of health and community…
Have You Got the Moves to Take Home a Prize? Dance crazes have been around for years and now it’s the Upper Hunter’s chance to have a go at inventing one. Arts Upper Hunter’s Dance Craze Video Comp is for young people aged 8 to 15 living the Dungog, Singleton, Muswellbrook and Upper Hunter local…
In collaboration with the Singleton International Day of People With a Disability Committee, Arts Upper Hunter engaged Singleton artists Janice Hanicar, Hope Hardy and Julia McNaught to work with clients and staff from Witmore Enterprises Incorporated to create artwork with a bush theme. Artwork created during the four workshops formed the table settings for the…
In collaboration with the Singleton International Day of People With a Disability Committee, Arts Upper Hunter has engaged Singleton artists Janice Hanicar, Hope Hardy and Julia McNaught to work with clients and staff from Witmore Enterprises to create artwork with a bush theme. Artwork created during four workshops will form table settings for the Annual…
Many thanks to Alicia, Debbie and Steve from Choo Choo Troupe for six great shows of “You’ll Never Guess Where I Hid The Cheese” in Dungog, Singleton, Muswellbrook, Merriwa, Scone and Murrurundi. With the enthusiastic help of the audience, Bobbi and Wanda finally defeated the evil (but funny) Mr Cheesehead. Or did they?! Many thanks…
On a recent visit to the Denman and District Heritage Village, Sandra from our office was asked if she had any idea what these discs could be? The discs are different sizes, heavy, and there is an indentation in the centre of each disc but the back of the disc is smooth. The collection was…