2015 Funded Projects
Wishart, Mel
Mel Wishart attending HONK! (activist street-music) festivals in Somerville, Boston
South Coast Writers Centre Inc
Programs that feature a vibrant line-up of author talks, book launches and workshops on topics ranging from crime fiction, history, young adult literature, poetry, environmental writing, publishing, memoir, literary journals and more.
South Coast Readers & Writers Festival — South Coast Writers Centre
Jam n Bread
Funding from Culture Bank helped lay the foundations for this program run by Our Community Project. Featuring musicians and dancers from different cultures, Jam n Bread follows a participatory model, breaking down the barrier between musician and audience by inviting participants to engage in both music-making and bread baking of the culture featured.
https://www.ourcommunityproject.org.au/jamnbread
Where Lies Beauty Project - Rentell, Anne-Louise
Where Lies Beauty charts the history of Wentworth Street, Port Kembla, and its sites of architectural beauty through the words of the people who have lived, loved and worked among its bricks and mortar.
Project creator Anne-Louise Rentell’s own love of the street began when she started The Vault Cabaret at the Vault Venue in 2004; recognising the unique nature of the street’s representation of 20th century Australian architecture and its role in Australia’s industrial history, she decided to dig deeper to find out more about the place and its people. It didn’t disappoint.
For the past two years, she has been gathering the stories of people connected to Wentworth Street during its different eras of boom, neglect and current revitalization. These are now gathered in narrative form here providing an opportunity to experience both the fascinating history and community spirit of one of our region’s most iconic high streets.
The website will develop and grow over time as stories and images are uploaded to this website and dedicated Facebook and Instagram pages
About – The story of Wentworth Street Port Kembla
Yours & Owls
The Farmer & The Owl: One of the very first iterations of the iconic local music festival, taking a chance on an early, unpolished vision with early-stage backing.
Farmer and the owl festival funded in 2014, one of the first Y & O festivals.
“We're so thankful to culture bank for supporting our vision and ideas in the very (very) early days. We know we were definitely pretty unpolished and half-baked to say the least, so we are very thankful to cb for seeing something in us and so much so that they were willing to take a punt on us.“