Cultural Grants and Sponsorship Program (Round 1) 2014‐2015
Applicant
Project
Project Description
Cash
Value inkind
Asian Australian Mass Incident
Artists
Group
Association Inc
A five-month project premiering new works by artists
from Asia and Australia, comprising an exhibition,
workshops, off-site performances and other live
projects in and around Haymarket.
$30,000
Nil
Band Association 2015 Centenary of
of New South
ANZAC Australian
Wales Inc.
National Band
Championships
A festival involving approximately 100 bands and 6000
participants from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific,
USA and Europe as part of the ANZAC centenary.
Commemorates the involvement and sacrifice of
members of the Australian Banding Movement in
service.
$30,000
Nil
Chalk Urban Art Chalk Urban Art
Incorporated
Festival
Transformation of Cathedral Square into a week-long
open air art gallery celebrating street painting, with
colour, music and interaction between artists and the
public.
$30,000
(Year 1)
Nil
Chippendale
BEAMS Art
Creative Precinct Festival 2014
Incorporated
A multi-disciplinary arts festival in the laneways of
Chippendale bringing together hundreds of creatives
and showcasing work from the whole spectrum of the
arts.
$20,000
Nil
First Draft Inc
Firstdraft Public
A public outreach program to integrate the gallery and
Outreach Program its activities into the Woolloomooloo community.
Includes a writers program that produces interpretive
texts for exhibitions and hosts forum discussions, and a
public after hours program.
$15,000
Nil
Force Majeure
Ltd
Nothing to Lose
A new dance theatre work investigating and exploring
the rising rates of obesity. Intended to premiere at
Carriageworks as part of the 2015 Sydney Festival.
$15,000
Nil
Griffin Theatre
Company
Commissioning
and Creative
Development
Program for
Culturally Diverse
Playwrights
A new program commissioning and developing works
by playwrights from diverse cultural backgrounds to tell
stories which reflect Sydney's richness and diversity.
Aims to link professional development programs and
the main stages of theatre companies.
$20,000
(Year 1)
$15,000
(Year 2)
$10,000
(Year 3)
Nil
Head On
Foundation Ltd
Head On Photo
Festival
Australia's largest photo festival activating Lower Town
Hall, Gaffa Creative Precinct, George St hoardings and
Paddington Reservoir Gardens with photography
exhibitions, talks, screenings and workshops over three
weeks.
$30,000
Venue hire
waiver of
Lower Town
Hall up to the
value of
$103,737
Idea Bombing
Idea Bombing
Sydney
Sydney
(Auspiced by
Object;
Australian Design
Centre)
Five events that invite participants to engage with the
issues of the city. Part meetup, part popup bar, and
part talk series, the series represents a new way to
engage, catalyse creative ideas and explore how to
turn those ideas into reality.
$8,750
Nil
Inside There
Falls Limited
Inside There Falls Presentation of a major sound installation as part of the
2015 Sydney Festival, Inside There Falls is a creative
collaboration between composer/artist Mira Calix (UK)
and Australian partners Sydney Dance Company and
Sydney Festival.
$20,000
Nil
International
Performing
Writers
Association
Multilingual Poetry Workshops, mentoring and performances by
Slam: Workshop, professional artists, culminating in new poets and
Mentoring and Live students from diverse Sydney communities
participating in The Multilingual Poetry Slam for
Performance
Harmony Day/World Poetry day in Circular Quay and
Project
The Rocks.
$8,000
Venue hire
waiver of
Customs
House up to
the value of
$3,500
Banner pole
hire waiver up
to the value of
$4,091
Joni Taylor
The New
Walczak
landscapes
(Auspiced by
Institute
Office of Finance
and Services)
Development and presentation of an exhibition and
public program exploring urban architecture and green
spaces in Sydney, and their connection to natural
elements outside of the city. In partnership with the
NSW Government Architect's Office and collaboration
with artists and architects, New Landscapes Institute
will present current and emerging ideas about urban
and ecological design practices.
$15,000
Nil
Kinetic Energy
Theatre
Company
Two festival programs of jazz and improvised music
featuring leading Australian music artists. Each series
spans 6 consecutive days with fifteen individual
concerts at Glebe Town Hall.
$10,000
Venue hire
waiver of
Community
Venue up to
the value of
$6,000
Metro Screen Ltd Film Festivals
Australia
A collective resource for local film festivals, including a
collective website, regular cross-promotion and support
for social media strategies, quarterly workshops, a
meeting space, technical support, and other sector
development initiatives.
$15,250
(Year 1)
$10,000
(Year 2)
$5,000
(Year 3)
Nil
Milk Crate
Theatre
A theatre production exploring the relationship between
homelessness and mental health. Works with an
Ensemble of artists who have experienced
homelessness or social marginalisation to deliver
theatre that creates change.
$15,000
Nil
A performance event bringing real jobseekers to be on
stage in front of an audience for the first time with no
rehearsal. Explores the relationship between artist,
audience and community; and between work and
entertainment.
$10,000
Nil
Kinetic Jazz
This House Is
Mine
Mirabelle
Artwork
Wouters
(Auspiced by
Performing Lines
Limited)
Natalie Rose
The Drawing
(Auspiced by
Performing Lines
Limited)
$16,000
Nil
$20,000
(Year 1)
Nil
$20,000
Nil
Pinchgut Opera Gluck's Iphigenie Four performances of Gluck's opera 'Iphigenie en
Ltd
Tauride' at City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney.
en Tauride
$20,000
Venue hire
waiver of City
Recital Hall
up to the
value of
$10,000
places and
spaces
incorporated
association
places + spaces
presents
Pilot concert series in Glebe Town Hall supporting
independent musicians and sound artists with
infrastructure, marketing, and production assistance to
enable them to perform their works.
$25,000
Venue hire
waiver of
Glebe Town
Hall up to the
value of
$1,825
Queer Screen
Limited
Mardi Gras Film
Festival
A lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, intersex and
queer film festival to promote acceptance and diversity,
showcase Australian queer film makers and provide a
platform for queer film makers to tell queer stories.
$15,000
(Year 1)
Nil
Rinse Out Inc
Underbelly Arts
Lab & Festival
A residency program run in partnership with local arts
organisations and spaces which will culminate in an
open weekend where the works in progress will be
presented. Underbelly Arts aims to contribute to the
viability, growth and continuation of creative practice
and presentation in Sydney by providing an opportunity
for Sydney’s emerging artists to create and showcase
their works.
$20,000
Venue hire
waiver of
Abraham Mott
Hall up to the
value of
$1,500
Screen Culture
Association Inc
Antenna
Documentary
Festival 2014
Annual International Documentary Film Festival held
over 5 days, showcasing documentaries from Australia
and around the world, with Gala Awards, Q&A
sessions, international guests, masterclasses and other
audience and industry events.
$20,000
(Year 1)
Nil
Newtown
Neighbourhood
Centre, Inc
Second stage creative development and presentation
of a contemporary, innovative and interactive theatre
piece for younger viewers, which engages children
creatively and enables the audience to decide how the
story unfolds.
Newtown Festival Free event held annually in Camperdown Memorial
Rest Park with a strong sustainability ethos, and
featuring music, arts, a writers tent, family area, an
eco/cycling area, and food and market stalls.
NSW Service for Face to Face the Treatment
Refugee
and
Teenagers
Rehabilitation of
Torture and
Trauma
Survivors
A series of creative writing, art and photography
workshops with teenage refugees and asylum seekers
culminating in a website and exhibition which combine
portraits of the teens with their personal stories.
Seymour Centre, Courtyard
University of
Sessions, 2015 Sydney
2017
Surry Hills
Neighbourhood
Centre
Gathers independent emerging musicians to play free
all-ages Friday night concerts over summer in the
Seymour Centre courtyard.
Surry Hills Festival Event celebrating the vibrant and eclectic inner city
- Love and tales of community, with live entertainment, multicultural and
Indigenous programs, food, art, family, educational and
Surry Hills
eco programs. Engages local businesses, creatives,
residents and partner organisations in program
development.
$15,000
(Year 1)
$10,000
(Year 2)
$10,000
(Year 3)
Nil
$30,000
(Year 1)
Nil
Sydney
Sydney
Improvised Music International
Association
Women's Jazz
Festival
Annual festival with an emphasis on female jazz
musicians and composers, featuring performances and
workshops, and encouraging the creation and
presentation of new works.
$25,000
(Year 1)
Nil
Sydney
Philharmonia
Limited
Community awareness campaign and funds to make
participation more financially accessible for people who
might not otherwise be able to take part in the City’s
leading participatory choral event.
$15,000
Nil
The Twenty-Ten Insight Out
Association
Series of art workshops for young GLBTIQ artists, who
are predominantly homeless or disadvantaged.
Culminates in an art exhibition in a professional gallery
allowing the young artists the opportunity to sell their
work to the public.
$10,000
Nil
University of New Rectilinear
South Wales
Displacement
An experiential video installation where digital scanners
project real-time x-ray images of the Eastern Chamber,
Paddington Reservoir onto a moving portal altering
visitors' visual perception of time and space.
$15,000
Nil
Australian Live
Music
Association
Rockstar Sydney
Music competition for unsigned artists that will see
Sydney singer/songwriters compete in a live and
interactive 10-week series with celebrity mentors in
venues across Sydney.
$0
Venue hire
waiver of
Community
Venue up to
the value of
$5,000
Creativity
Australia
With One Voice
Redfern and
supporting the
disadvantaged in
With One Voice
Sydney
A social inclusion choir program in Redfern supporting
the participation of disadvantaged people from
surrounding areas to promote community connection.
$0
Venue hire
waiver of
Community
Venues up to
the value of
$3,330
ChorusOz 2015
Ensemble
Offspring
$0
Venue hire
waiver of
Major and
Community
Venues up to
the value of
$11,215
Greek Festival of 33rd Greek
A program of cultural events celebrating the Greek
Sydney
Festival of Sydney contribution to the rich multicultural nature of Australia.
Festival includes art exhibitions, theatre, workshops
2015
concerts and lectures.
$0
Venue hire
waiver of
Barnett Long
Room up to
the value of
$3,020
History Council of History Week 2014 Over 120 community events to commemorate World
NSW Inc.
- The Great War War One and its impact at home and aboard, including
a speaker’s program, hands-on workshops, walking
tours and exhibitions.
$0
Banner pole
hire waiver
up to the
value of
$2,727
Nakkiah Lui
(Auspiced by
Auspicious Arts
Projects Inc)
Two week development of Blackie Blackie Brown, a
hybrid piece of Indigenous theatre/live comic book
animation based in Blaxpoitation and Revenge cinema
that recounts an Indigenous woman’s mission to
avenge the murder of her ancestors by white settlers
100 years earlier.
$0
Venue hire
waiver of
Community
Venue up to
the value of
$7,000
Sydney Gay &
Cheek to Cheek: A An original music theatre production to bring a GLBTI
Lesbian Choir Inc Ballroom Fantasia perspective to the world of ballroom dancing. Includes
the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir alongside same-sex
dance groups to promote the joys of participating in
community dancing.
$0
Venue hire
waiver of
Paddington
Town Hall up
to the value of
$10,225
Aims to grow Sydney St Patrick’s Day Parade and
Family Day by developing opportunities for new artists
and performers, increasing the community’s
participation and creative input into the event.
$0
Banner pole
hire waiver
up to the
value of
$5,454
Sydney St
Patrick's Day
Organisation
Incorporated
Plunderphonia
Blackie Blackie
Brown: The
Traditional Owner
of Death
Sydney St
Patrick's Day
Parade & Family
Day Workshop &
Entertainment
Project
An innovative music event exploring the practice of
musical quotation/sampling in recent classical and
popular music to be held in Lower Town Hall.