Create NSW has announced the recipients of Annual Funding for Organisations, with 51 NSW arts and cultural organisations sharing in $7.4 million to deliver diverse arts and cultural programming in the coming year.
Communities and audiences across the state will enjoy the exceptional calibre of homegrown creative talent with 51 NSW organisations funded to deliver diverse arts and cultural programming in the coming year.
Organisations located across the state will share in $7.4 million through the Annual Organisation Funding round, delivered as part of Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program (ACFP).
The impact of these programs will be far-reaching, engaging artists, grassroots communities and audiences at large-scale events. Among the 51 diverse recipients are a First Nations program in the Riverina for youth to express themselves through dance and cultural connection; a multi-sensory art and music festival takeover of White Bay Power Station showcasing ambitious new works by NSW artists; and an annual artistic program including a Mardi Gras exhibition that provides emerging curator career-development opportunities.
Western Sydney-based We Are Studios Arts and Disability Inc. received funding to deliver a program of accessible professional skills development workshops in Blacktown for emerging artists with disability.
As employers of our state’s artists, creative leaders and cultural workers, these diverse not-for-profit organisations span every artform – First Nations arts and culture; community arts and cultural development; classical music/choral; dance and physical theatre, digital and experimental, immersive and light art; festivals; literature and writing; museums and history; theatre and musical theatre; and visual arts.
This transitionalround of annual organisational funding bridges the gap as the program transitions to the new, simpler, fairer, faster Arts and Cultural Funding Program with longer-term Multi-year funding programs.
All eligible applications were assessed against published criteria and ranked in order of merit and impact by representative Artform assessment panels.
For the full list of recipients, visit create.nsw.gov.au
Image: We Are Studios Arts and Disability (Pictured L-R) Miah Tito Barratt, Josseline Jeria Holly-lee Dickson Adrienne Proud Image by Ebony Wightman. Courtesy of Create NSW.