Applications close 15 February 2019
The Orange House by the Sea Artist residency program is for mid-career women and non-binary artists who are working at the intersections of performance,
Common Ground 2018: Broadmeadows
Thursday September 13 until November 1 2018
Multicultural Arts Victoria is excited to present Common Ground 2018 at Broadmeadows (13 Sept – 1 Nov).
Common Ground 2018 is a series of spoken work poetry workshops for young people from all faiths and community backgrounds to come together and celebrate unity through poetry. Join us and learn how to express your feelings and emotions through the power of words. The program comprises a set of facilitated workshops, a performance outcome in the local area and the opportunity to perform at a venue in Melbourne.
Common ground was established by Multicultural Arts Victoria 5 years ago and is a unique, multilingual, multi-faith project that uses various forms of writing, primarily spoken word, to build connection and understanding between young people of diverse faiths and cultures.
For more information contact Common Ground Coordinator, Ajit Singh: ajit.singhsabha@gmail.com
COMMON GROUND: BROADMEADOWS
Every Thursday from 13 Sept to 1 Nov 2018, 6 to 8 PM
Hume Global Learning Centre
1093 Pascoe Vale Rd, Broadmeadows
FREE EVENT. Bookings essential. Register via Eventbrite.
Light refreshments provided.
Coburg Night Market
Stallholder Applications Now Open
The Coburg Night Market is a magical experience for the whole family, combining delicious food, beautiful wares, music, performances and a great community atmosphere in the lead up to Christmas.
We are now seeking exceptional stallholders to provide food, drinks, merchandise, crafts and wares for the four nights of the market.
Applications close Friday 31 August
Fawkner Festa Expressions of Interest Now Open
Do you work, live in, or have a connection to Fawkner? Do you have a project, performance or activity that you would like to see come to life, or a community, small business or food stall that you would like to bring to the Fawkner Festa?
The Fawkner Festa is an annual event that celebrates the diverse community of Fawkner, featuring music and performance, interactive art, activities, delicious local food and much more. We are currently seeking Expressions of Interest for the 2018 Festa to help make it our best celebration to date!
Applications close Sunday 19 August
First Nations Producers-in-Residence
Applications close 6 August 2018Next Wave Producers-in-Residence is a new springboard for three emerging First Nations creatives who want to leap into producing, programming or curating in the arts and creative industries. This program will give you professional skills and experience in putting on events – which might include gigs, film nights, discussions or performance seasons.Find out more
A Room of One’s Own Residency
Performance Space x West Kowloon Residency
Applications close 10 June 2018The Performance Space x West Kowloon Exchange Residency provides an important new opportunity for an Australian artist working in experimental performance to expand their practice and networks into an Asia Pacific context.Find out more
City of Melbourne Grants Now Ope
Applications close 28 May 2018Each year the City of Melbourne supports and celebrates its overwhelmingly creative and talented community through its annual arts grants program.
Grants of up to $20,000 are available to artists, creatives and arts organisations across all disciplines – including performance, new media, music, dance, theatre and visual art.Find out more
Darebin Arts Speakeas
Applications close 13 May 2018The Darebin Arts Speakeasy Development program supports artists by providing access to fully equipped theatre spaces and a $700 stipend. Developments should be for a new artistic work that has performance at the heart of its creation.Find out more
Call Out: Adhocracy 2018
Applications close 28 May 2018Adhocracy is Vitalstatistix’s national hothouse, supporting the creative development of new experimental and multidisciplinary arts projects. Selected artists spend four days and nights in an open studio environment developing new works that can span performance, live art, sound, visual art and more.Find out more
Critical Animals calling for Proposals
The Critical Animals Creative Research Symposium is an annual conference, part of This is Not Art, one
HyPe Call Out
Applications close 26 March 2018HyPe supports the creation of innovative, contemporary hybrid performance in Tasmania by supporting artists to take conceptual leaps and to challenge the existing perceptions of traditional performance.Applicants can apply for up to $10k to support experimentation, pushing the boundaries of their practice and experimenting with new ways of working.Find out more
Showcase Victoria Applications Open Soon
Applications open 1 November 2017
Showcase Victoria is the performing arts marketplace – an annual event which provides a unique platform for producers, artists and theatre makers to promote their work to a wide range of programmers from Victoria and beyond and ultimately to facilitate touring.
They encourage applications from all genres of the performing arts (including contemporary music) and are interested in productions looking to tour to both metro and regional venues, large and small including performing arts centres, festivals and community halls, in 2019 and beyond.
For more information go here
Rainbow Festival Arts Grant
Applications close 17 November 2017
The Rainbow Arts and Culture Foundation has been established to support the creative, cultural and environmental programs at Rainbow Serpent Festival and in the local Pyrenees/Ballarat communities. The annual Artist Grants Program provides emerging and established artists an opportunity to construct, manage and present new work to a large audience in a natural, outdoor environment.
They encourage submissions that develop a high-quality, imaginative artistic practice; and can reach and engage with diverse audiences. Grants ranging from $500 – $5000 are available.
For more information go here
Artist Bootcamp
Beginning 2 October 2017
The Artist Bootcamp is a four week online program for independent performing artists to learn how to produce a show like a pro!
Do you have a show ready to go, but struggle with all the producing and marketing tasks that come with it? Are you ready to step up and take it to the next
Directors Lab: Melbourne
Applications close 28 August 2017
Inspired by the Lincoln Centre model, Directors Lab: Melbourne is an eight-day creative laboratory held in collaboration with Melbourne Festival.
The program accepts 30 directors from across Australia and the world, to participate in eight days of masterclasses, performance and rigorous debate with leading national and international theatre makers.
In 2016, over 65 artists were engaged in the Lab, with participating directors attending from across Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Spain. Guest directors have included Peter Sellars (US), Moisés Kaufman (US), Robert Lepage (Canada) and Gob Squad (Berlin).
For more info go here
Next Wave x EOI Call Out
Next Wave x will co-commission Seven (7) ambitious projects by early career practitioners will be developed through the project, in
partnership with leading organisations for presentation in Melbourne at Next Wave Festival 2018 and and in Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Sydney.
These co-commissions will include guaranteed funding and, expert mentorship, with and a number also including major interstate multiple presentation opportunities, facilitating successful candidates with the resources and unparalleled artist support to present on a national stage, without creative compromise.
This multi disciplinary project Next Wave will partner bring together the new generation of Australian artists and curators working in visual arts, dance, music, theatre, performance, live art and curating with some of Australia’s most exciting industry pioneer
partners:
Connecting Places EOIs Open
Applications close 14 June 2017
Want to perform in a pub, rock out in a church, grace a historic home, workshop in a library? Connecting Places might be the right fit for you!
Regional Arts Victoria’s Connecting Places program delivers high quality arts experiences to community venues across the state.
What they are looking for?
- The project is innovative, high-quality and entertaining
- The project is appropriate to a regional community context
Spice Trails & Trade Routes
Trace culinary history through a Silk Road inspired dinner: where culture, food and art converge
Artist and nutritionist Rasha Tayeh presents a dinner party like no other on Friday 28 April.
In collaboration with chef Shu Liu (Shu Restaurant, Collingwood) the dinner traces the Silk Road, using spices and herbs that mark points along the journey of these ancient trade routes.
A multi-lingual performance, installation, and feast for the senses for a limited group of just 20 guests.
Artist Rasha Tayeh said that the Silk Road and other trade routes are an insight into the way we eat today.
“This dinner-performance-installation explores some of the incredible stories of spice merchants and traders that took these journeys, and celebrates the spices and flavours they traded,” Ms Tayeh said.
“I’m curious about the movement of things and how ancient trade routes have influenced how we eat today. In this event we’ll be tracing culinary history through our senses, merging art and food in experiential and performative ways. ”.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Friday 28 April, 7pm
Where: MESMA Studio Level 1, 6 Nicholson Street, Coburg
What: Spice Trails and Trade Routes – a 5 course dinner, installation and performance event
Price: $150 with wine / $120 without wine
Ticket link: https://www.trybooking.com/PCFZ
Experimental Choreographic Residency
Applications close Friday 17 February 2017
Performance Space and Critical Path are seeking proposals from artists or artist collaborations, for a 3-week residency taking place from 15 May – 3 June 2017.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are seeking to support a period of creative development for an artist or collaboration that:
- Explores experimental or interdisciplinary approaches to choreography and movement practice.
- Pursues an interest in the role of
Across the Water – An oral history performance for cello and electronics
As part of Oral History Victoria’s inaugural group show, The Foundling Archive is proud to present Across the Water – An oral history performance for cello and electronics.
Following the premier performance of this important and moving composition, Stephanie will be joined by author and Open City Stories project co-ordinator, Rajith Savanadasa for an open forum discussion around the nature of the interview, the role of music, literature and oral history in facilitating difficult discussions and how we, as Outsiders, can learn to listen better.
While the issue of asylum seekers has had a substantial presence in national election campaigns, on media agendas and around dinner table discussions over the last 15 years, Australians collectively have not been very successful at engaging directly with asylum seekers. The conversation has tended to be about asylum seekers rather than with them. This ‘about’ rather than ‘with’ is problematic. Failing to acknowledge asylum seeker perspectives as part of the national discussion takes away the control and authority they have over their story.
Across the Water is a collaboration between cellist Stephanie Arnold and composer Dr Robert Davidson. It was made using oral history interviews between Ms Arnold and Melbourne-based asylum seekers. Through the use of the contemporary compositional technique of speech melody, the performance is imbued with those conversations and recounts the interviewees journeys and arrival in Australia. This musical form of storytelling the project gives a space for the complexities and subtleties of emotion and expression behind the often unheeded words of asylum seeker to be heard, not through the noise of politics or media but on the terms and through the voices of asylum seekers themselves.
Across The Water – Premier Performance
9th December, 2016, 6.30pm
at The Good Room, Brunswick East
390A Lygon Streen, Brunswick East, Victoria
Tickets: $10.50 general fee, $8 Concession, OHV Members
Phillip Brophy – Stadium – Live Performance
Neon Parc Brunswick, 15 Tinning Street
Neon Parc is pleased to present ‘Stadium’, a performance by Philip Brophy, to conincide with the Mike Kelley exhibtion at the galleries’ Brunswick location.
‘Stadium’ is a live music performance of solo drums. The concept of the piece is to present a quasi-orgiastic celebration of rhythm staged theatrically within the mock pyrotechnica of the ‘rock gig’. An almost cartoon-like staging unfolds, with Philip bare-chested and adorned with long flowing black metal-dude hair, flayling away at the drums. No words. No guitars. No other visible instruments.
$5 on the door
Cash bar
CHASS Australia Prizes
2016 will mark the third year of the annual CHASS Australia Prizes. The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the humanities, arts, and social sciences (HASS) sectors, including academics, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students. The CHASS Australia Prizes are intended to draw international attention to Australia’s achievements in HASS.
In 2016, there will be four prizes. Two prizes are sponsored by Routledge (cash prize of $3,500 each): one for a non-fiction book (e-books are acceptable) that enriches Australian cultural and intellectual life, the second for an exceptional artistic performance, exhibition, film, television show, play, composition or practical contribution to arts policy. The third prize (cash prize of $2,000) is sponsored by Future Leaders for an individual under 35 years of age who is demonstrating leadership skill and potential in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The Co-Op has sponsored the fourth prize ($500 voucher) for a student essay, exhibition, performance, project, or thesis in a HASS area.
For more info visit http://www.chass.org.au/2016-australia-prizes/
Poppy Seed Festival 2016
Applications for the 2016 Poppy Seed Theatre Festival will open on April 1st
After experiencing great success in 2015, Poppy Seed Theatre Festival is back for another year. We can’t wait to find four of Melbourne’s most interesting theatre companies to support and collaborate with in 2016.
Poppy Seed provides a platform for independent theatre companies to get their work noticed by enabling greater audience access, providing established Melbourne venues for performance, and providing theatre companies with opportunities to meet and collaborate with their peers and colleagues. We also provide companies with a $7,500 production budget along with budgetary and marketing guidance.
Two information nights will be held in April on the following dates:
Info Night #1: Sunday 10th April, 2PM – 4PM @ The Studio, 8 Munster Terrace, North Melbourne, 3051