Close to $1m drives Australia’s creative culture
December 22, 2015
The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has given more than $933,000 to 41 creative projects all over Australia in its latest grants round.
Highlights of the round include: $90k to Queensland Theatre Company for an Indigenous New Work Residency; $24k to support the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2016; $30k for the Kid’s Own (Vic) project: Into the Grand Imaginarium: Authors and illustrators inspiring family creativity; $60k for the Literature Centre’s (WA) Regional Talented Young Writers Program; and $30k over two years for the inaugural Patrick White Project run by Carriageworks (NSW). Grants range between $5,000 and $90,000.
Chief Executive of the Copyright Agency, Adam Suckling, says the Cultural Fund has given $20m to creative organisations and individuals such as authors, teachers and visual artists since it began in 2004.
“In this round of funding there is strong support for all forms of Australian creativity including journalism, Indigenous storytelling, children’s literature and enhancing Australian literacy,” Mr Suckling says.
“The Copyright Agency’s members generously give 1.5 per cent of annual revenue from their copyright royalties to provide opportunities to Australian creative organisations to develop new programs and engage audiences. This support is critical to Australia’s vibrant cultural life,” Mr Suckling says.
See the full list of recipients by State below.
| State/Territory | Organisation | Project Title | Funding amount ($) |
| ACT | |||
| Australian Embassy Beijing | Australian Writers Week 2016 | 20,000 | |
| NSW | |||
| Carriageworks | The Patrick White Project | 30,000
(over 2 years) |
|
| Currency House | An investment in cultural leadership | 22,800
(over 3 years) |
|
| The Red Room Company Poetry | Poetry object – supporting excellence in poetry across Australasia | 30,000
(over 3 years) |
|
| Centre for Media History, Macquarie University | Brian Johns Annual Lecture series | 15,000
(over 3 years) |
|
| UTS | New Writers Program | 80,000
(over 2 years) |
|
| Sydney Review of Books | Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics Fellowships | 10,000 | |
| Sappho Poetry Reading Series | Sappho Poetry Reading Series | 30,000
(over 3 years) |
|
| Perpetual Limited | 2016 Miles Franklin Shortlist Prize | 32,000 | |
| Playwriting Australia | Indigenous Playwrights Retreat | 40,000
(over 2 years) |
|
| The Walkley Foundation | Walkley Foundation Freelance Program | 10,000 | |
| The Walkley Foundation | Walkley Foundation Storyology Festival | 30,000
(over 2 years) |
|
| Australian Publishers Association. | Hello! From Australia | 20,000 | |
| Newcastle Art Gallery | Black White & Restive | 12,000 | |
| Sydney Non Objective | SNO Young and Emerging Artists Interdisciplinary Project | 10,000 | |
| Das Platforms | Oberon Editorial Project | 10,000
(over 2 years) |
|
| WestWords Ltd | CAL Western Sydney Writers’ Fellowships/Artist residencies | 20,000 |
| State/Territory | Organisation | Project Title | Funding amount ($) |
| QLD | |||
| State Library of Queensland | Communities of Story | 20,000 | |
| Queensland Poetry Festival | Indigenous Poetry Prize (National) | 12,000
(over 2 years) |
|
| Queensland Theatre Company | Indigenous New Work Residency | 90,000
(over 3 years) |
|
| Playlab | The Incubator | 10,500 | |
| TAS | |||
| Festival of Golden Words Inc | Tamar Valley Writers Festival | 10,000 | |
| VIC | |||
| Australian Children’s Literature Alliance | Australian Children’s Laureate 2016/2017 (Stipend for 2016 only) | 24,000 | |
| Kids’ Own (Australia) Inc | Into the Grand Imaginarium: Authors and illustrators inspiring family creativity | 30,000
(over 3 years) |
|
| Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) | ACMI X – Cretaive Industries Co-working space – Writer residencies | 20,000 | |
| National Gallery of Victoria | Melbourne Art Book Fair 2016 | 30,000 | |
| La Trobe Uni (Huss) with Melbourne Uni (Edu) | Teaching Australia | 15,000 | |
| The Lifted Brow | Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction + related writing workshops | 15,000
(over 3 years) |
|
| O L Society Limited | Overland residency | 15,000
(over 2 years) |
|
| Chart Collective | Chart Collective online map content | 5,000 | |
| Australian Poetry | Australian Poets Festival and National Poetry Prize | 20,000
(over 2 years) |
|
| Malthouse Theatre | Co.Lab: Malthouse Theatre Writer+Director Program | 45,000
(over 3 years) |
|
| Australian Booksellers Association | Australian Booksellers Association Conference 2016 | 7000 | |
| Melbourne Fringe | 2016 Artist Development Forum Series and Resources | 4500 | |
| Koorie Heritage Trust | Nukun and Ngujarn Footprints | 15,000 | |
| PEN Melbourne Centre of International PEN | PEN Melbourne FreeSpeak project 2016-2018 | 39,000
(over 3 years) |
|
| WA | |||
| Arts Margaret River | Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival | 10,000 | |
| writingWA | Singapore-Western Australia Book Industry Trade Summit | 10,000 | |
| The Literature Centre Inc. | Regional Talented Young Writers Programme | 60,000
(over 3 years) |
|
| Perth International Arts Festival | 2016 Perth Writers Festival Inspired Learning Program | 10,000 | |
| Westerly Centre | Westerly Magazine’s Writer Development Program | 5000 |