The Guide: September 2024
It's officially RADF season—time to secure that funding! There are several information sessions lined up across the region, with details linked to your local areas in Moreton Bay, Noosa, Gympie and the Sunshine Coast. Keep an eye out as Sunshine Coast Council is offering 1:1 sessions to assist with your applications. They also now have a new grant of up to $3,000 for small projects, available year-round.
In other news, ArtsCoast is shaking things up, and we’re loving it. Their new monthly email format is packed with artist profiles, stories, and insights into the coast’s creative spaces. Be sure to subscribe and follow their socials to stay connected.
That’s all from us, enjoy the full collection of listings below, and subscribe to The Guide for more.
$5000 contribution available through SCAF’s ‘Gifted’ program
Applications close 30 September
The Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation’s annual giving program, ‘Gifted’, supports the creative development of local artists to ensure their success and the region’s artistic prosperity.
‘Gifted’ awards contributions to artists across all disciplines for work production, presentation or professional development. This year, six artists will receive $5,000 each, including one dance scholarship.
Ignite your live music career with HONC’s new development program
Applications close 23 September
HONC | Home of New Creatives is a three-year Noosa Council development focus targeted at supporting independent, emerging collectives driving new arts and cultural initiatives in the region.
To kick off this new program, HONC is launching a development project specifically for, emerging presenters, producers, or collectives creating unique live music experiences.
EOI
Blakcamp is a 5-day camp on Country. This mob-only residency offers 10 multidisciplinary artists skills development, industry connections, and creative exploration with senior practitioners.
Applications close 9 September.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Accessible Arts provides specialised disability, access, and inclusion training for the arts and culture sector. Workshops are arts-specific, disability-led, and cost-effective, and delivered online.
CREATIVE WORKSHOP
Procreate Beginners Course will explore Procreate 5.2's latest features like Stroke Stabilisation, 3D Model Painting. Ideal for beginners or those looking to sharpen their digital art skills.
Peregian Digital Hub, 16 September.
Anywhere Festival Moreton Bay
Performing arts groups creating theatre, dance, cabaret, circus, or comedy interested in applying to be a part of Anywhere Festival Moreton Bay 2025 can attend an informal information session where you can learn about previous festivals and the approach for Anywhere Festival 2025.
North Lakes Community Centre, 3 October.
Emerging Artist Grant - Ian Potter Trust
The Emerging Artist Grants program offers grants of up to $15,000 to assist talented emerging and early-career artists in taking up professional development opportunities, usually overseas. The Trust's Emerging Artist Grants program funds nationally and supports individual artists practising across the spectrum of the arts.
Venice Biennale 2026
Expressions of Interest (EOI) are now open for artistic proposals for the Australia Pavilion in the category of National Participation for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale 2026).
EOI: RADF Panel EOI
EOI: Creative Australia First Nations Board EOIs
FUNDING: Regional arts development fund 1 on 1 consults
FUNDING: RADF
FUNDING: First Nations Arts Business Grants
ART PRIZE: Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award
FUNDING: Minor Grants
FUNDING: 2025 Adelaide Fringe Fund Grants
EOI: Anywhere theatre festival
EOI: Bindi Digital Art Prize 2024
WORKSHOP: Altar / Alter DAY RETREAT
WORKSHOP: Joy Connection
WORKSHOP: Art after dark special edition: De/construct flags
WORKSHOP: Creative journaling with Claire Ritchie
WORKSHOP: Into Blue with Charmaine Lyons
ARTIST SHOWING
MadeSC (formerly Project 24) is launching their first quarterly showing. With resident artists Melissa Stannard (Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay and Koama), ShayKet Productions, and the R|6.0 2024 cohort.
2nd Space, 25 September.
EXHIBITION OPENING
Continuum, a Ketakii + Nikita collaboration, explores ancestral connections and place while expanding their practices through interdisciplinary collaboration.
LANTANA Space, 13 September.
FORUM
The Arts and Cultural Forum invites artists, arts workers and advocates to connect and collaborate on cultural mapping in the Gympie region.
Gympie Music Hall, 10 September.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Spirits in the Ink - Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
EXHIBITION OPENING: | w h e r e l i g h t f a l l s | - Cool Art Gallery
FILM FESTIVAL: Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival
EXHIBITION: Deadly Photographers Exhibition
OPENING: Guess Who’s Coming to the Corroboree
EXHIBITION: The Fifth Week of Friday Exhibition
EXHIBITION: Anastasia Klose: For thy sake I in love am grown
EXHIBITION: Zanny Begg: These Stories Will be Different
Image credits (from top): Gifted Recipients, photo via Sunshine Coast Council; Image courtesy of Noosa Council; Image courtesy of Munimba-ja; Image via Unsplash; Image via Perigian Digital Hub; Image courtesy of Sunshine Coast Council; Photo by Will McDonald, Rising Moon Media; Image via Gympie Regional Council.
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