The Guide: March 2024
RADF Grants Now Open!
Round Closes 15 April
RADF funds are aimed at the development of emerging and established artists, creative practitioners and producers. Find out more at an online information session or book in for a 1:1 consultation with a RADF officer.
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R|Artist Residency: Natural Ecologies
Applications close 24 March
R|Artist Residency: Natural Ecologies is open to mid-career and senior artists interested in critically applying new, sustainable technologies in their practice with a focus on ecological conservation and regeneration. The residency provides access to specialist resources that will enable you to learn and critically apply new technologies in your practice with the support of specialists.
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Image: Installation view The Politics of Snails, 2023, The Old Lock Up x IN artist-run initiative. Photo by Warwick Gow
Artist Call-Out: IN | SITE DESTABILISE
Applications close 22 March
These can take the form of exhibitions, performance, installations, film screenings, participatory practice, sound works, or interdisciplinary collaborations. Have a project that doesn’t fit neatly into these categories? IN |ARI wants to hear from you too. They particularly encourage group and collaborative projects or solo artists willing to be curated into a group project.
FutureNOW is calling for proposals from established contemporary artists curious to explore what that future looks like.
R|6.0 is a 10-week incubator program designed to build participants’ capacity to grow their practice, gain visibility, understand their value and context, and identify new markets.
Amped is Sunshine Coast’s newest music program providing the music industry mentoring, workshops, rehearsals, performances, and showcases.
Queensland Arts Showcase Program (QASP)
The Queensland Arts Showcase Program (QASP) is focused on celebrating Queensland’s artists and stories, ensuring Queenslanders’ access to high quality experiences and growing Queensland’s cultural reputation.
Flotsam Festival
Flotsam Festival is run by Flotsam Arts Inc, a not-for-profit association that aims to create opportunities for surf and ocean-inspired photographers and filmmakers to showcase their work, develop skills, and experiment with new income streams.
First Nations Commissioning Fund
The First Nations Commissioning Fund is focused on investing in opportunities that share First Nations stories and cultural knowledge and elevate awareness of Queensland’s exceptional First Nations arts and cultural products and experiences.
Sunshine Coast National Art Prize call for submissions
2024 TANJA LIEDTKE STUDIO RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS OPEN
Project 24 Monthly Showing features artists Kerbside Collective and Sam Harrison as they showcase their work at 2ND Space, Nambour.
OCCURRENT AFFAIR is a major exhibition featuring new and recent works by Brisbane-established Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW.
Local Contemporary Art Prize is an annual exhibition, showcasing the breadth of contemporary arts practice from emerging, mid-career and established visual artists residing on the Sunshine Coast.
GIG: Artists & Musicians for Palestine
GIG: Bach Unwrapped
EXHIBITION: Body as work/Hoarder Culture - Zoe Fanning
DANCE: Berserk
OPEN STUDIO: R|Artist Residency: Sub Tropic - Grace Herrmann
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