Applications close 24 January 2019
Critical Path are currently seeking proposals from artists or artist collaborations, for a 3-week residency focusing on experimental choreographic
Footscray Art prize
Applications close 15 March 2019
The Footscray Art Prize is a biennial non-acquisitive visual art prize for contemporary artworks across multiple platforms and disciplines. It is
ACCADEMY 2019 at ACCA
This program is for motivated and committed young people wanting to take their arts learning further, contribute to special projects and gain understanding of the arts industry.
We are now accepting applications for ACCADEMY 2019. Before applying:
- Download information pack and thoroughly read essential information
- Prepare your responses to four key questions and organise one referee
White Night EOIs
Applications close 13 January 2019White Night Winter Melbourne 2019 and White Night Ballarat 2019 are seeking Expressions of Interest from Artists who want to make a contribution. Find out more
BLINDSIDE reduces gallery fees in 2019
REDUCED GALLERY FEES IN 2019!
Thanks to the generous support of Creative Victoria and the City of Melbourne, as well as the artists, sponsors, and patrons who have supported BLINDSIDE through our fundraising initiative, B-SIDE, we are thrilled to announced that in 2019 BLINDSIDE will be reducing its gallery fees by 85%. As part of our continuous efforts to make BLINDSIDE a more accessible and supportive place for all artists, writers, and curators, we are proud to also announce that BLINDSIDE will become a FREE space to exhibit in 2020.
BLINDSIDE’s call for exhibition applications for the 2020 program will open in early 2019. Subscribe to our mailing list to stay posted on the call for applications!
Double the fun at The Sisters’ Christmas Markets
Sisters’ Market Brunswick Town Hall – 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Friday 14 December 4 – 9 pm and Saturday 15 December 10 – 4 pm
LGBTIQ Community Grants Program
Mercedes-Benz Design Award 2018.
Do you have a design idea for the living space? Bring it to life.
Enter the Mercedes-Benz Design Award.
The Mercedes-Benz Design Award is a celebration of excellence in design form and
Centre of Visual Art – Panel: Gender and Indonesian Contemporary Art
Join artists Elia Nurvista, Nuraini Juliastuti and art historian Wulan Dirgantoro for a dialogue on gender and contemporary practice in Indonesian art. Introduced by Dr Danny Butt.
Areas of discussion will include how the Reformasi of 1998 has shaped the formats of women’s practices within contemporary art, in relation to other historical frameworks. We will open with representation in artists initiatives, the art management sector, and how women’s issues leak into the artworks. We will move beyond representation to talk about how everyday patriarchy structures the local art scene and lastly discuss the different strategies (practiced or imagined) used to make room for conceptualising women’s issues in contemporary Indonesian art.
Hosted by the Centre of Visual Art, VCA and Buxton Contemporary.
Buxton Contemporary
Cnr of Southbank Blvd and Dodds St,
Southbank,
VIC 3000
This is a free event, and all
MTC Women in Theatre Program
The Makers & Shakers Conference
The Makers & Shakers Conference will explore where the maker movement has come from, where it’s at, where it’s heading, and what that means for your creative business. Whilst there are plenty of generic business conferences and workshops to choose from, they rarely are tailored around the issues and experiences of the emerging handmade maker scene.
For one special day, The Makers & Shakers Conference will offer interactive Q&A panel discussions with successful makers, branding, retail and social media gurus, and maker-movement academics that will offer usable insights and tools that will help you create, sustain and scale your creative business.
The conference will be held at Deakin Edge at Federation Square in Melbourne, and we’ve curated experts and inspiring speakers including Marcus Westbury, Emily Green, Tiff Manuell, Laura Blythman, Maryanne Moodie, Kylie Lewis, Kate Berry, Kirbee Lawler, Madeleine Dore, Kelly Thompson, Sina Klug, Professor Susan Luckman and Dr Kath WIlson.
On offer to attendees too is seriously yummy food and drinks (all included with the ticket!), and we’ll create the optimal conditions for learning, knowledge exchange, community building, and fun.
Come and mingle with other like-minded creatives and invest in the future of your creative business (and yourself)!
All attendees will receive a FREE COPY of Kylie Lewis’ book The Leap Stories: Intimate Interviews On Overcoming Fear, Choosing Courage Over Comfort And Designing A Fulfilling Career’.
Spots are strictly limited so register now and take advantage of the super-early bird price! There is a link in our bio to register/purchase or go to: makersconference.com.au
For more information and to book go to www.facebook.com/events
Want to grow your arts organisation?
Arts Investment Grants provide financial support to organisations whose business is in the creative sector.
The grants aim to provide organisations with funding to grow their practice, address infrastructure needs and develop new works, programs or services.
Objectives of the Arts Investment Grants Program
- Support Moreland’s creative sector to maintain and grow their practice in the municipality.
- Address identified arts infrastructure
City of Melbourne Test Sites
Applications close 5 December 2018This is your chance to explore and experiment with creative ideas for temporary projects in the public realm. Test Sites is back, providing greater funding and more time to develop work.Funding of up to $10,000 is up for grabs and is open to local, interstate and international artists.
Midsumma QueerTech.io
Applications close 25 November 2018Midsumma Festival in partnership with QueerTech.io2019 is calling for works for the annual URL+IRL exhibition of online digital media artworks by queer artists, anywhere in the world. A modest artist honorarium will be provided for each selected work.Find out more
Midsumma and Australia Post Prize
Senseless Beauty
Opening on Thursday 15th November at 6 pm
Moreland Artists Serena Everill and James Healey’s new exhibition of prints and sculpture opens on 15th November at 43 Bedford St, Collingwood running until Sunday 18th November at 4pm.
Mid-week Walk and Talk – Louise Saxton: The Linen Project
Free, but bookings are essential.
About the exhibition
Louise Saxton: The Linen Project is an immersive installation which pays homage to past lives and past labour and is built largely from the remnants of Louise Saxton’s practice of reclaiming everyday needlework.
The artist has been collecting domestic linens since 1988 and for more than a decade has extracted and reconstructed the embroidery and lace from those linens to build several major bodies of work.
From these discarded and disinherited materials, Saxton creates unique two and three-dimensional assemblages.
The Linen Project celebrates the materiality of linen and investigates its role in caring for family and community. The project is being undertaken with the support of an 18-month artist in residence program through St Vincent’s Hospital at Caritas Christi in Kew.
Featuring: Louise Saxton.
To book and for more information, visit https://www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/events/mid-week-walk-and-talk-linen-project
The 2018 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, 189 High Street, Northcote
The 2018 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize is the fourth annual episode of one of Melbourne’s premier events for spoken word. Taking place this year at Northcote Town Hall.
Join us and an amazing line-up of poets, nominated be gig conveners, to celebrate the year in spoken word and poetry around Melbourne, bringing together the vast array of regular poetry events that happen all over the city and state.
The Melbourne Spoken Word Prize is a prize for live performance judged by some of Melbourne’s most influential and esteemed leaders in our spoken word community. Thirty poets, to be announced, from both nominations and wildcard entries compete for $1,000, plus $200 for people’s choice award and a convener’s choice award for the poet most nominated by gig hosts.
This event is likely to be sold out. Tickets on sale soon.
Craft Hatch Market
Saturday 1 December 2018
10am – 4pm
Five Easey Upstairs
5 Easey Street
Collingwood
Down the lane and up the stairs
The Craft Hatch Market showcases emerging makers, presenting a new flock of fresh craft talent to Melbourne.
Come up the laneway to our beautiful, light filled venue at 5 Easey Upstairs – a cosy forgotten heritage warehouse space – with coffee onsite, easy parking and trams nearby within a well-cultured craft-friendly neighbourhood.
Meet your makers showing their best jewellery, textiles, ceramics, papercraft, toys and more.
Coffee, music and drop-in workshops and demonstrations by the Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild.
Local talent, blooming artists, new makers and debut marketeers all come together in a friendly retail market environment which makes for a perfect Collingwood/Fitzroy Saturday.
Mapping Melbourne 2018 Launch
30 November 6 – 9 PM
MPavilion, Queen Victoria Gardens St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
Over 15 days and 14 venues the 6th edition of Mapping Melbourne creates new perspectives, new possibilities and new expressions through a series of intercultural, multi-artform events in the heart of Melbourne. Exhibiting and performing at some of our most iconic institutions and public spaces the festival profiles established and emerging artists form across Australia, China, India, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. The series celebrates our unique Asian Australian identity and highlights positive global creative connections.
Join us for a special preview into the festival in this night of surprises as we launch the 2018 program!
Featuring a stellar line-up including The Echoes Project, L@NDLESS, UB and more to be announced.
FREE EVENT. Please RSVP by Monday 26 Nov via Eventbrite.
Presented with MPavilion.
Due West Arts Festival Call Out
Applications close 14 December 2018Due West Arts Festival is inviting proposals from artists and companies from Melbourne’s west to be included as part of the event. Initial consideration will be given to local works/ artists/ companies followed by and complemented with national and international artistic programming.Find out more
MoreArt 2018: The Magic Of The North
From 11 November – 15 December, MoreArt Public Art Show will be back for it’s ninth year to explore the places around us. This year, we move our focus beyond the busy artery of moving metal called Bell Street and into the magic of Moreland’s North.
The Magic of the North
Visit the website for a Listing of upcoming MoreArt events
MoreArt is a public art show that showcases Moreland’s community and places, based along the Upfield train line and bike path. From gentle conversation to large scale intervention, we invite artists to take the hand of the community as we explore the ideas that stem from the places where we live.
This year, we move our focus beyond the busy artery of moving metal called Bell Street and into the magic of Moreland’s North. A story will be written from South to North along 10 kilometres of the bike path, children will take over a park, we’ll drink tea in a cemetery, explore sensory space with the EPA and smash 1000 chai cups.
Jump on a bike, catch a train or walk from your house – come and join the journey.
Call for Applications: Speak Out | Spoken Word Event
In conjunction with the
2018 Moreland Summer Show exhibition,
The Counihan Gallery In Brunswick is seeking speakers to participate in:
SPOKEN WORD | PEACE AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Saturday 1 December, 2:30 pm
on the speaker’s plinth outside the gallery on Sydney Road
If you are a writer, poet, spoken word artist, rapper, singer or rabblerouser and would like to respond to the theme Peace and the Pursuit of Happiness please email a biography and indicative draft or summary of your intended piece.
Speakers of all levels of experience welcome and entry is free.
Presentations should not exceed 5 minutes.
For more details please download an application pack from our website:
Local History Grants Program
Applications close 18 December 2018The Victorian Government recognises that local and community history is an important part of Victoria’s memory. The Local History Grants Program encourages and fosters community activities that preserve, record and share the local, social and community history of Victoria and Victorians.Find out more
Celebrating Darebin: Seeding Grants
Applications close 15 November 2018Celebrating Darebin seeks to support new and first time community events that celebrate the people and places of Darebin with a new grant scheme. Individuals and community groups can apply for Community Events (up to $3000) or True North Events for events in Reservoir (up to $5000).Find out more
We Work This Shop
Monday October 29 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Melbourne Spoken Word presents We Work This Shop, a workshop for spoken word artists and poets. It’s a space to bring spoken word or poetry, especially meant for the stage or to be read aloud, for feedback from your peers in a constructive and supportive environment. The workshop is for all levels of experience.
It is a good idea to bring printouts of your piece to share so peers can make notes, but entirely optional. Also worth bringing something to write with, like a notebook or laptop as we usually begin with a short writing exercise or prompt to get the juices flowing.
It’s free but please book via Eventbrite so we know how many people to expect. Presented by Melbourne Spoken Word, and supported by Brunswick Library.
All Ages / Alcohol-Free / Wheelchair Accessible including appropriate toilets and scooter and wheelchair recharge points.
Sydney Road Street Party 2019
Brunswick’s favourite annual party is back in 2019.
Sydney Road Street Party is Melbourne’s biggest street party, transforming Sydney Road, Brunswick into a heaving extravaganza of sounds, smells and sights for one huge day of festivities in March each year.
Add Sunday 3 March 2019 to your calendar to save the date!
Stallholders Wanted
We are now seeking vibrant and unique stallholders to participate in the Sydney Road Street Party 2019. Stallholder categories include Food and Beverage, Artisan and Merchandise and Community Groups.
Apply now to be part of be part of Melbourne’s biggest Street Party!
Applications
The Big Design Market
The Big Design Market is back for 2018!
With over 250 stalls featuring the work of independent designers and makers from around Australia –
Fifty Squared Art Prize
Applications Open: Fifty Squared Art Prize.
Brunswick Street Gallery is proud to announce Fifty Squared, a new art prize open to all artists working in 2D mediums. Entries are now open, and all entries will be exhibited. All works must be no larger than 50x50cm (including frames/display apparatus) and must be wall mounted.
Artwork will be on display from the 3 – 24 Janurary 2019 with an opening event and prize announcements on Friday 11 January, 6–9pm.
Prizes include:
$2500 cash prize sponsored by Brunswick Street Gallery.
Solo exhibition hosted by Brunswick Street Gallery.
Further prizes to be announced.
Entry fee: $50 per artwork (up to ten works accepted per entrant).
Deadline for applications: Midnight, Friday 16 November 2018.
For more information, visit our website, or apply now.
Dance Massive: Open Studios – New Works
Applications close 7 November 2018Dance Massive Open Studios – New Works is a program of open showings that provides the opportunity for dance artists and choreographers from all state and territories in Australia to present Contemporary Dance work-in-progress to audiences and producers in the informal and intimate surrounds of Chunky Move Studios in Melbourne, Victoria.Find out more
Boxit – Group Show
BoxIt! reflects Melbourne’s famous ‘9” by 5” Exhibition of Impression’ that was held at Tom Roberts’s Studio in Melbourne, August 1889; many of the works were painted on recycled cigar boxes.
An open entry exhibition of miniature artworks on, in under or over recycled boxes – no larger than 20 cms width x 20 cms height x 20 depth
Application close date: Saturday 1st December 2018.
Enter the Linden Postcard Show 2018-19
Calling all creatives: The Linden Postcard Show 2018-19 is now open for entries!
This popular open-entry prize show is back home in St Kilda, so everyone has the chance to have their work shown in Linden New Art’s freshly-renovated gallery.
There is no set theme and you can submit up to 4 artworks which must have been completed this year.
The only rule – and it is one that we stick to – is that
your artwork must measure 8 x 10 inches exactly (20.32cm x 25.4cm), including
Northcity4 Board members wanted
We are very sadly saying farewell to Northcity4 founder Ali Limb and we are looking for people to join us to help shape the future of Melbourne’s contemporary jewellery community (We are subsequently looking for a new studio buddy as well – see below for details).
Board members are involved in maintenance and running of the studios as well as devising, planning and executing the creative projects, workshops and social events that define Northcity4.
We are looking for community minded people who have a passion for contemporary jewellery. You could be a maker or a non-maker, an established artist or a recent graduate, but you must have a desire to contribute to what contemporary jewellery in Melbourne could be.
Head over here for more information and to apply.
Amanda Gray Debut exhibition
Exhibition: Noon – 6pm 19th – 28th October 2018
Fernartz Studio 23a Lorensen Ave Merlynston Coburg North 3058
Amanda Gray a representational artist who cares deeply on the environment around her “the beauty, fragility and vulnerability…” (Gray 2018). This is demonstrated in the detailed work of “McKenzie Falls” 2017 Oil on canvas 60x90cm. McKenzie Falls are located at the Northern Grampians Rd, Zumsteins VIC 3401. Gray works mainly in the mediums of oil, pastel and water colour.
The Linden Art Prize
ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN FOR THE LINDEN ART PRIZE 2019
The Linden Art Prize is a non-acquisitive contemporary art award established for artists graduating from a visual arts Masters degree or PhD degree from a recognised Victorian University. Visual artists who graduated in 2017 or 2018 are eligible to enter the Linden Art Prize 2019.
PRIZES
> Linden Art Prize
$10,000 + mentoring
> Linden New Art Board Encouragement Award
$2000 + mentoring
PRIZE JUDGES> Mark Feary, Artistic Director, Gertrude Contemporary> Lisa Sullivan, Senior Curator, Geelong Gallery
ENTRY DEADLINE
> Midnight, 29 October 2018
ENTRY COST
> $33 inc GST
EXHIBITION
A sinking feeling (the politics of risk)
Opening night Thursday 11th October, 6pm.
A sinking feeling (the politics of risk) will explore the relationship between both the artist and curator’s dependence on funding bodies and how that affects the likelihood of creating work that takes risks or offers critiques. The exhibition will engage with the potential ‘freedom’ that is a by-product of working freelance within the arts in Australia.
A sinking feeling (the politics of risk) intends to consider such questions as:
How in the current political/artistic climate can artists feel supported to take risks?
How are gallery spaces/artists/curators held accountable for speaking to, and with, diverse communities and engaging in meaningful cross-cultural dialogues?
This exhibition speaks to a sense of political disillusionment held by those who do not feel represented or supported within Australian arts communities. This is due to contributing factors such as a rapid rise of nationalism and a right-leaning, self-serving government. In relation to the 2018 exhibition, ‘Anatomy of Political Melancholy’, curator Katerina Gregos describes this kind of disillusionment as “…a sinking feeling borne from frustration, anger, despair, mistrust, sadness and hopelessness.”
Through their diverse practices each artist will consider themes of social responsibility while engaging with socio-political diversity and risk-taking. The artists demonstrate responsiveness through critical practices and dialogues, while resisting hegemonic interpretations of whichever communities they associate themselves within or outside of.
Blak Dot Gallery, as a not-for-profit contemporary art space, offers a crucial place to examine the social/political implications or expectations embedded within it. It is a potential sovereign space where a critique of power, funding structures and the vulnerability that artists experience, as a result of an unstable and unsupportive arts economy, can be discussed.
Participating
Happy Art Hour: Paint and Sip
Suitable for all levels. No painting experience necessary.
WHEN: Wednesday 10 October & 14 November, 7 – 9pm
VENUE: Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St, Footscray
COST: $60 (includes two alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages, nibbles and materials: canvas, paint, paint brushes).
BOOK NOW: https://bit.ly/2NTSK6D
Be Heard: The Art of Podcasting
Be Heard: The Art of Podcasting
Audio podcasts are one of the most accessible and popular mediums for modern storytellers. If you have always wanted to create your own podcast, our Be Heard: The Art of Podcasting workshop is the perfect way to start.
Run by acclaimed podcaster and producer James Milsom you’ll learn hands-on recording and editing techniques to develop a high-quality podcast that will engage your prospective audience.
WHEN: 3 x 3hr sessions. Saturdays 20 October, 27 October and 3 November, 1pm – 4pm.
VENUE: FCAC Digital Hub
COST: $250 (3 sessions)
Detailed program information: https://bit.ly/2NUvF3D
BOOK NOW: https://bit.ly/2CseogY
Image courtesy of James Milsom.
Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St, Footscray
City of Yarra Exhibition EOIs
Applications close 15 October 2018City of Yarra are seeking innovative and engaging artists to exhibit at Richmond Town Hall, Fitzroy Library, Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library, Richmond Library and Carlton Library Light Boxes as part of their 2019 Exhibition Program.Find out more
c3 Applications to Exhibit Now Open
Apply to exhibit at c3
It can be your first show, or your 50th…
We are looking for a diverse range of emerging and established artists to present dynamic risk-taking work. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations and culturally diverse peoples, and people with a disability.
Every field of creative practice…
Visual and audiovisual arts, conceptual practice, media, text, design, craft, fashion, sound, performance and architecture…
Go solo or collaborate…
You can apply to exhibit by yourself, as part of a collective, or to curate a group. Applications are welcomed for individual spaces or for projects that span multiple galleries.
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