2024 Projects
Real Made-Up Stories:
An immersive audio and podcast storytelling project by Phillip Crawford that revisited and reimagined fictional narratives co-created with disadvantaged individuals.
‘Real made-up stories’ stems from over two decades of collaborative storytelling with individuals facing hardship and disadvantage in the Illawarra.
Using immersive audio storytelling, the podcast project and an engagement strategy with real made up stories revisits and reimagines fictional narratives co-created with individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds
Eric Avery Concert:
A NAIDOC Week performance at the Wollongong Art Gallery curated by Inspire Music Australia, featuring First Nations violinist, vocal dancer, and composer Eric Avery.
Inspire music Inc and first nations musician Eric Avery held a concert during Naidoc week at Wollongong art gallery.
Eric Avery, Kabi Marrawuy Mumbull, is a violinist, vocalist, dancer and composer from Ngiyampaa, Yuin and Gumbangirr people of nsw.
He works with his family‘s custodial songs, and his haunting compositions often feature him singing while playing the violin, predominantly in the Ngiyampaa language.
Eric has an international reputation, appearing alongside some of the greatest artists of our time, from yo-yo ma to tina arena. He has commissions and performances booked with camerata Queensland ensemble offspring, the jack quartet, Marrugeku and several of Australia’s major orchestras
Beats for the Blues:
A music and mental health mini-festival organized by Yasmin Russell that combined live musical sets with professional Q&A wellbeing resources.
The project provided a safe, welcoming mini festival that allowed attendees to enjoy the link between music and their mental health.
Bringing together the community and providing them with the knowledge and resources needed to better support their wellbeing through music and workshops.
A Q&A panel was utilised by attendees to seek advice from local mental health professionals
Pootopia:
A playful, educational eco-art collaboration between Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein at the Wollongong Botanic Gardens featuring a hay-bale composting toilet named the "V.I.Poo".
In our pootopia project, we are trying to reframe sh*$ and wee as a good thing. When composted, humanure becomes a vital component of soil - one of the most valuable materials on our planet.”
This project is a collaboration between eco-artists Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein, with composting luminaries from the local area. Our beautiful bespoke composting toilet (the “v.i.poo”), built from hay bales, will offer participants a direct experience of “shi*$ing for good”
Through a fun and educational pop-up humanure event at the Wollongong botanic gardens. Users (poo-sers!) Marvelled at the pleasant odourless experience
Pootopia: the science, art and economics of human manure - University of Wollongong – UOW
Creative Engagement for Warrigal Care:
A project in its development phase by Susan Kennedy collaborating with theatre, circus, and dance artists to build a 1-hour show tailored for dementia wards.
To collaborate with local dance, theatre and circus artists to explore the transformative nature of engaging with art in a dementia setting.
This project is still at development stage. It aims at highlighting creative engagement within the dementia wards of Warrigal Care, how interaction with the arts can transform residents' quality of life.
CB funding has enabled ongoing development towards a 1 hour show that will demonstrate the transformative power of art ,while raising awareness of the potential to improve wellbeing.