2013 and 2014 Projects Funded
Exposure Media & Arts:
An initiative by Nina Kourea and Caz Nowaczyk that secured Culture Bank funding to establish Studio 19, a beloved visual arts studio and gallery space in Wollongong.
Studio 19 was an inspired creative studio and gallery space that ran for several years in the heart of Wollongong. Exhibitions were frequent, as well as performance art, life drawing classes and musical soirees.
Austinmer Dance Theatre
AUSTI Dance & Physical Theatre
Night Eats Day
Wollongong Writers Festival
Every year a weekend-long program of art, ideas and literature in Wollongong. Offering a program of free and ticketed literary and cross art-form events in great venues across town. Panels, readings, workshops, performances, music and spoken word events showcase local, national and international writers and thinkers right here in our regional city.
The aim is to bring the world to Wollongong, and share the stories of Wollongong with the world and run workshops, a Short Story Prize and residencies for writers.
Solidarity Illawarra Aboriginal - Utopia
Utopia is John Pilger's documentary, drawing on his long association with the first people of Australia, his homeland, Utopia is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.
One of the world's best kept secrets is revealed against a background of the greatest boom in mineral wealth. Has the 'lucky country' inherited south African apartheid?
Utopia tells a universal story of power and resistance in the media age driven by old imperatives and presented as liberalism.
Aboriginal solidarity group launched in the Illawarra
Illawarra Folk Festival
It has been an exciting event on the cultural calendar of the Illawarra region for 34 years. Through the enormous effort of dedicated volunteers prior to the festival (40 persons) which swells to 380 volunteers during the festival.
The festival has provided numerous opportunities to local, national and international performers to share their amazing musical talents.