Voices of the Wheatbelt is going on tour! Art on the Move has developed a touring program for the Voices of the Wheatbelt project, with photos from both phases of the project (Eastern and Southern Wheatbelt) visiting galleries, schools and local venues across Western Australia over two years.

The first of these exhibitions will be launched on Friday, 7 May at The Gallery, Ellenbrook Arts, 34 Main Street, Ellenbrook. The exhibition runs from 8 May - 30 May, with gallery opening times Monday-Friday, 10am-2pm, Weekends 1pm-5pm. The touring program has an educational focus, with primary and secondary students receiving gallery education sheets and questionnaires about photography and sense of belonging.

iArts 2 closes on Monday 3 May 2010. Download guidelines here.
 
This is a great opportunity to take your arts practice to a national audience, to be published online and broadcast by the ABC with funding for up to 2 projects of up to $100, 000. If you have a great idea but need help to find a digital/film producer, call Michelle on 9224 7325.  
 
We are looking for innovative projects from any art form with potential to thrive in an online environment. Outcomes must include a rich, interactive website and a linear 4 minute video for broadcast but could also include real life activities too. Past projects funded through iArts are here: www.abc.net.au/tv/reface/ and www.abc.net.au/tv/moteldeception/.
 
Don't wait - this is a great opportunity to go digital and national that may not be repeated!

The Esperance Community Arts Executive Officer position requires an individual with knowledge and proven experience in facilitating community arts and cultural development programs and projects.

The successful applicant will have highly developed leadership, management and communication skills. They will have experience and understanding of the local government and community sectors, and will have highly developed training and facilitation skills, as well as a sound understanding of community arts and cultural development theory and practice.

Function of the position

This position mentors and develops skills for community arts and cultural development in Esperance by:

• providing community arts and cultural development mentoring, networking and professional development opportunities for the community
• raising WA local and state government sector awareness of the role and benefits of community arts and cultural development
• liaising with local governments and other organisations in developing community arts programs; assists in developing partnerships with local governments and other community organisations to access funding for development of community arts programs.
  

Experience

• Experience in community cultural development
• Planning and management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in grant writing is desirable
• Advocacy and sponsorship raising skills
  
• Salary $25 per hour (Full-time, 37.5 hours/wk)
• Superannuation is paid in addition to the salary at 9%
  
• Closing Date - 4pm, Monday 22nd March 2010

Contact Details

For a full job description please contact Sophie Davidson:
sophie@esperancecommunityarts.org.au or call (08) 90721158

The Mundaring Arts Centre is seeking a Project Officer to join the vibrant and creative team in the ‘Heart of the Hills’. The successful applicant will have experience in visual arts and project management. For further information and to obtain a Position Profile and the Selection Criteria, email info@mundaringartscentre.com or call 9295 3991.

We are seeking a committed, enthusiastic Manager to join our dynamic team of professionals empowering and inspiring regional communities with innovative, relevant and accessible artistic and funding programs.

The Regional Arts Development Manager is responsible for the overall management of Country Arts WA's regional arts development program.

The successful applicant will have a background in arts development and strong management, strategic planning and community engagement skills. The ability to manage a team and to develop relationships with a broad cross-section of clients will be important to this position. Experience working with young people, Aboriginal artists and communities, and working in regional or remote communities is desirable. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged to apply.

This position will require occasional intrastate travel.  

Download a copy of the application pack here or contact Country Arts WA on info@countryartswa.asn.au, phone 08 9200 6200 or regional freecall 1800 811 883 to request a copy be sent to you.

Country Arts WA is based at the Kings Street Arts Centre (Perth) where a dedicated team of 13 staff deliver a dynamic and responsive arts program to all regions of the state, as well as being involved in national arts initiatives. More at www.countryartswa.asn.au  

Applications close at 4pm, Monday 8 March 2010.

If you are looking for the next step in your career, a new challenge or a sea change, then Exmouth has a unique opportunity for you. We are seeking a motivated person with the ability to work in a dynamic environment to coordinate the delivery of excellent community services, programs and projects. The position will also be responsible for developing and maintaining community networks and coordination and facilitation of events.
 
The position is classified as Level 7 under the Local Government Industry Award 2010 offering an attractive remuneration package of approximately $58,000 per annum. Benefits include up to 17% Superannuation, uniform allowance, service pay, relocation assistance, housing may be available to suitable applicants, utilities subsidies, travel allowance and 4 weeks Annual Leave.
 
If you would like to find out more about this exciting position, please contact Rogé Kempe on 9949 1399 or by email on mcs@exmouth.wa.gov.au For an application pack, contact Vanessa Volkoff on 9949 1399 or by email on admin.manager@exmouth.wa.gov.au or visit our website www.exmouth.wa.gov.au
 
Applications must address the selection criteria to be considered and sent to Shire of Exmouth, Chief Executive Officer, PO Box 21, Exmouth WA 6707 by no later than 2pm on Monday 1 March 2010.
 
More information and Position Description on our Website: http://www.exmouth.wa.gov.au/jobvacancies/communitydevelopmentofficer/

Background

You have the opportunity to become a member of the highly thought of Ellenbrook  Arts organisation, located in Australia's most awarded new town.
 
Responsibilities

You will engender a sense of community and pride in residents and businesses through the development, management and promotion of special community cultural events and programmes.

You will liaise with providers, sponsors, commercial vendors and participants to ensure delivery of a successful programme.

You will be highly motivated with a strong commitment to customer service and display an ability to work productively within a small team environment.

Experience

• A tertiary qualification in an appropriate discipline
• Experience in community cultural development
• Planning and management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good computer skills
• Experience in grant writing is desirable
• Advocacy and sponsorship raising skills
  

Location

Ellenbrook Arts
34 Main Street
Ellenbrook WA  6069
 
Hours of Work

25 - 30 hours per week to be agreed
 
Web Site

www.ellenbrookarts.com.au

Closing Date

5pm, Friday 19th February 2010
 
Contact Details

For a full job description please email Heather Awcock (email address below) and then please email your application which must include a covering letter of introduction to:
 
Heather Awcock
Ellenbrook Cultural Foundation
hawcock@lwpproperty.com.au

WAM is looking for a new Administrative Assistant to help keep things running smoothly at our offices.  The job entails a variety of administrative responsibilities, including phones, filing, running the office, and executing a range of duties related to running WAM's major events such as the WAMi Festival and the Song of the Year Contest.

If you have an interest in WAM and a strong administrative background, please contact Mike Jeffrey for more details.  He's at mike@wam.asn.au.  You can also take a look at a position description on our website.

Four studios are available now in our Midland complex. Good-sized, light, airy studios in a block of 13.

Rents range from $190 to $334 per calendar month (dependant on size). Long-term leases of 4.5 years available.

Call Loretta to view or for more information - 9335 8366 or loretta@artsource.net.au

Deadline: 5pm Friday 19 March 2010


Contact:  Sarah Trant, Project Officer, Community and Regional Arts Development on  (08) 9224 7328 or toll free on 1800 199 090 or via email at sarah.trant@dca.wa.gov.au


The Department of Culture and the Arts is offering special travel assistance funding to attend the Regional Arts Australia National Conference. This special initiative is a travel program designed to assist PROFESSIONAL regional Western Australian artists and arts workers to attend the conference. Applications from regionally based individuals, groups and not-for-profit organisations are welcome. Assistance will be available to offset travel costs associated with attending the conference. Up to $3,000 is available for each successful application.



Ausdance WA is pleased to announce the commencement of its Regional Contemporary Dance Professional Development Fund. This fund is open to dancers, teachers and choreographers living in regional Western Australia aged over 18 years wishing to enhance their skills in contemporary dance. A total of $11,250 is available for 2010 to support activity such as:

• Travel and accommodation costs and registration fees to attend workshops, conferences or festivals specifically focused on contemporary dance
• The cost of attending contemporary dance performances outside of your region
• The cost of engaging regional dance artists in projects delivered by professional dance companies where the activity offers a development outcome to the regional artist.

There is no deadline for the fund and applicants are advised of the outcome of their application within 21 days of its receipt.

To receive further information and an application form email Annette Carmichael, regional.wa@ausdance.org.au or call 0400 618 293 (Thurs & Fri). 

This fund has been supported by the State Government's investment in Future Moves, a strategic initiative to develop and vitalise contemporary dance in Western Australia.

Butterfly Publishing will publish 5 books in 2010!! Will one of them be yours??

Butterfly Publishing will be accepting manuscripts for assessment for Self Publication until 1st March 2010. Manuscripts may be poetry, short stories, novels or biographies. Please email a portion of your manuscript for assessment and Butterfly Publishing will contact you to discuss publishing fees and arrangements. Good Luck!

Manuscripts accepted from 22nd Jan - 1st March 2010

www.mybutterflypublishing.com

Contact: 0400 586 613

The National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPIC) Indigenous Music Competition gives Indigenous people the opportunity
to showcase their creative talent and express their ideas about cannabis and its harmful impact on their communities.

Entries must be in the form of a song. The song can be in any genre or style, but must creatively explore the harmful impact of cannabis on Indigenous communities. Issues that could be explored include how cannabis negatively affects families, relationships, educational attainment or culture. The competition is open to Indigenous Australians only. There will be one national winner with prize money $2000.

www.ncpic.org.au

Closing date: 31 May 2010

 
Cert III (Visual Arts & Contemporary Craft) 2010 @ Kidogo Art Institute

After the unprecedented success of the 2009 program held at Kidogo Art Institute for Aboriginal Artists, we are again running our course “Making a Success of Your Art” for Aboriginal Artists starting on 1 March 2010.

The course is a Certificate III in Visual Arts & Contemporary Craft. This is a wonderful opportunity for Aboriginal artists to learn a wealth of skills such as how to:

• Paint better pictures
• Increase the amount of paintings you sell
• Make your name better known
• Increase the amount of money that you can sell your paintings for

You will learn a huge range of new techniques in painting, drawing and professional practice. We encourage our students to put their work into exhibitions and competitions throughout the year and will hold an annual exhibition for them during the course of the program. Last year we held the Moorditj Mob Exhibition in June/July (in conjunction with the City of Fremantle) and sold over 27 paintings. All of our students put work into the show.

You can find out more about the course from our website http://www.kidogo.com.au/aboriginal-artist-program

The SE@K program at the State Library is a suite of programs to help you navigate your way through information overload. Learn tips on how to use Google, search newspapers, journals and encyclopedias, research your familY's history and more. Sessions change weekly.

For an up to date schedule of SE@K programs check our webpage at: www.slwa.wa.gov.au/whats_on/lifelong_learning. All programs are free and reservations are recommended. For bookings and inquiries please call 9427 3111.

 
Arts - Access - Excellence


25 - 26 March 2010


Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

The Arts Activated conference provides an opportunity for those passionate about the arts and disability sectors to come together to explore, debate, discuss and connect ideas and practice. The conference will also celebrate the accomplishments of and provide showcase opportunities for artists with disability.

Registrations are now open on the AccessibleARTS, disability and arts NSW website.

Have you recently upgraded your digital camera?

The Camera Recycle Project collect donations of old or unused cameras and other photographic equipment (i.e. memory cards, USB drives, computers, tripods) from the community and make it available to disadvantaged youth in the form of a 'technology library'.

Visit camerarecycleproject.org.au to find out how to donate.

Regional Arts Australia is pleased to announce the 2010 Regional Arts Australia Volunteer Awards program.

Award will be presented in two categories:

• Sustained contribution to the arts
• Outstanding contribution to the arts

The awards will be presented at Junction 2010 – connecting the future, Regional Arts Australia’s national conference to be held in Launceston, Tasmania from 26-29 August 2009.

Nominations will open on 19 February and close on 26 March 2010. For more information, visit the Regional Arts Australia website .

AWESOME Arts Australia Ltd (AWESOME) invites contemporary artists to submit contemporary art proposals for the 2011 Creative Challenge to be held in 10 remote and regional West Australian communities.

The Creative Challenge is a two-week artist-in-residence program that uses  creativity to celebrate the rich social, cultural and environmental diversity of Western  Australia. This program encourages young people to appreciate and understand their individual and collective identity by exploring and expressing the uniqueness of  their local community.

Being process-driven, it engages the young people in creative research, skill sharing and concept development to create and present artworks that represent and communicate these ideas of place and identity.

AWESOME’s target audience is aged 6 – 16 years and most residencies occur within schools. We are looking for contemporary art proposals in all fields including but not limited to performance/visual art/new media/dance or hybrid art. Take a look past Creative Challenge projects, please visit the archives at AWESOME’s website:
http://www.awesomearts.com/challenge/archives.

The artist with the successful contemporary art proposal will be the Lead Artist for  the 2011 Creative Challenge. The role includes:

• Design, implementation and creative leadership of the 2011 Creative Challenge;
• Direct training of residency artists to deliver the 2011 Creative Challenge;
• Attend at least one regional residency of two weeks duration;
• Work with the Community Development Manager towards the design and creation of an exhibition outcome for the 2011 Creative Challenge to be featured at the 2011 AWESOME International Festival for Bright Young Things held in the Perth CBD.

To submit your proposal, please outline your project to:

• Describe the audience’s experience of your performance/installation/visual art/new
• media work (1 page max).
• Tell us how you define contemporary performance/visual art and how your proposed
• work is representative of this (1 page max).
• Tell us how young people can make the project their own.
• Your work does not need to be designed specifically for children or young people.
• However, it must appeal to and engage them. Tell us how you think your proposed
• work appeals to and engages children and/or young people? (1 page max).
• Provide conceptual or actual image of your work. If the work already exists, include
• whatever documentation and critical responses you think represents it.

Email your proposal to Li-anne Carroll, Community Development Manager by 5pm
on 29 January 2010 to li-anne@awesomearts.com.

Fee Plumley, Digital Program Officer, Australia Council for the Arts is visiting Perth to offer an information session on the following 2 initiatives:
 
The Geek in Residence pilot program
 
The Geek in Residence pilot program connects ‘geeks’ (by which we mean technically confident artists and creatively confident technicians) with arts organisations through a temporary subsidised* secondment scheme.

The purpose of this fund is for the Australia Council to enable digital artists and technicians to share their skills and experiences with arts workers. Geeks will be able to share their passion for solving unknown technological problems in creative situations, and arts workers will feel better equipped to work in digital spaces. Both will ultimately initiate ‘digital innovation’.

Digital Culture Fund

The Digital Culture Fund is a pilot initiative for people who have been working creatively with digital technologies for some time. They might be experienced artists already within the Australia Council's community, already supported by one of our grants or divisions. But we also want to open up to a new breed of practitioner, the digital native who might not typically consider themselves artists or ordinarily approach the Australia Council.

The purpose of this fund is for the Australia Council to support the creation of innovative digital artwork which might happen physically in front of the crowd or be experienced through a technological platform. Either way, we want it to happen live, having been created as a live collaboration, or to be experienced as a live event connecting the maker(s) and crowd(s).

GENERAL INFORMATION SESSION – ALL INVITED
WHERE: State Library Theatre
Alexander Library
Perth Cultural Centre.
 
WHEN: 6.30pm on the Monday 7th Dec 2009
 
RSVP to dsdadmin@dca.wa.gov.au
 
A LIMITED NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS WITH FEE PLUMLEY ARE ALSO AVAILABLE, BY APPOINTMENT:
 
WHERE: Department of Culture and the Arts
Level 7 Law Chambers
573 Hay Street Perth WA 6000
WHEN: Tuesday 8 December 2009
Bookings are essential: dsdadmin@dca.wa.gov.au

All general queries regarding this fund should be addressed to:

Fee Plumley,

Digital Program Officer,

Australia Council for the Arts
Tel: +61 2 9215 9160
Fax: +61 2 9215 9352
f.plumley@australiacouncil.gov.au
372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
PO Box 788, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au