The library’s children and youth co-ordinator Judy Atkinson says that the entry
requirements are simple.

“Just take a photograph inspired by the theme love to read. It could include a book or be your favourite place to read – it’s up to you!

“Be creative, bold and inspired – you don’t even have to be a library member to
enter, just between the ages of twelve and eighteen and live or study in Coffs
Harbour,” Atkinson said.

Entries will be judged by local photographer Bruce Thomas, there are great prizes to be won and the photos will be displayed in the library.

All photographs must be digital and the original work of the entrant. Prizes will
be awarded at Coffs Harbour Library at 4.30 pm on Thursday 23 August 2013.

Entries close Saturday, 18 May and should be submitted by email (or on disc or
thumb drive to Coffs Harbour, Toormina or Woolgoolga Libraries) with a signed
application form.  For further information, see http://libraries.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/youngpeople/teens/Pages/YouthWeek.aspx , contact Judy on 6648 4900 or email coffs.library@chcc.nsw.gov.au

The arts may be the only sector happy after the Federal Budget, which slashed most sectors but followed through on the promises in the Government’s long-awaited national cultural policy. Funding for Creative Australia – has finally materialised delivering the healthy increases in base funding announced earlier this year by former Arts Minister Simon Crean.

It was a quiet budget for the arts with no new announcements. Arts Minister Tony Burke was chiefly concerned with funding announcements in his Environment portfolio, and no budget media release for the arts was sent out

The Australia Council receives ongoing extra funding of approximately $25 million a year from this year on, and the various components of the Creative Australia policy are all budgeted for, such as the extra funding for performing arts companies via the ‘excellence pool’, top-ups for six capital city performing arts companies, the “Creative Young Stars” grants for local MPs in their communities, and the funding of ArtStart for a further four years.

National arts training organisations, such as the Australian Ballet School, the Australian Youth Orchestra and the National Institute of Circus Arts, have had the extra funding previously announced through Creative Australia budgeted here. This equates to $20.9 million over the forward estimates.

The indigenous visual arts have also received extra funding. The budget provides an additional $11.3 million over four years from 2013-14 ‘to continue the 2009-10 Closing the Gap component of the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support (IVAIS) program.’

Australia Council Chairman Rupert Myer told artsHub while he had been confident Creative Australia had been funded in the forward estimates it was ‘very nice to see it in black and white’.   more

Learning Outcomes

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Gain knowledge to facilitate creative group work activity through art-making;
•  Consider the effective use of imagery to enhance group work dynamics;
•  Learn art-based techniques to enhance individual group work processes;
•  Enhance therapeutic skill working with non-verbal communication.

Target
Therapists, counsellors, artists, educators, and/or anyone interested in group work, particularly people working in multi-cultural or disability settings where English language or verbal communication is challenging.  Artistic skills are not necessary.

Facilitator:      Annette Coulter

Where:           Manning Regional Art Gallery, 12 Macquarie St, Taree.

When:             Tuesday June 4^th 2013  9.30am – 4.30pm

Cost:               $140.00 (IGL members) or $160.00 (non IGL members) – (GST is not applicable)

For registration please visit  www.igl.org.au/training

Facilitator: Annette Coulter

Annette Coulter is a registered art psychotherapist with 35 years clinical experience,
specialising in child, adolescent and family art therapy. She lectures in
Australia and overseas and is a published author. Through the Centre for Art
Psychotherapy she runs Foundation Studies in Art Psychotherapy and is
available for supervision, training and consultation.

Our Neighbourhood Community Grants are open to eligible registered charities and community organisations for amounts between $1000 and $25,000 to support local projects.

Our Neighbourhood Community Grants will be awarded to organisations with projects that help connect local communities and foster inclusion across Australian neighbourhoods.

Our Neighbourhood program has been designed to provide opportunities for people from varying backgrounds and communities. With a focus on local, it will also extend to regional and remote, the disadvantaged, the culturally diverse and small business.

Our Neighbourhood Community Grants are now open for applications and will close on Friday, 28 June 2013 at 5pm (AEST). You can apply for a grant today at www.ourneighbourhood.com.au

For some time a small group of people , interested in sculpture, has gathered to discuss ways of introducing sculpture into the Macleay Valley environment.

Inspired by “Sculpture in the Gaol” at Trial Bay, “Sculpture by the Sea” coastal walk in Sydney, displayed from Bondi to Tamarama Beach, and other communities which have installed public sculpture in their towns to enhance their environment and promote local artists, the group has decided to hold a competition.

The competition, open to all artists, has the theme “The Aussie Mailbox”. Many Aussie roads have imaginative mailboxes on their roadsides often grouped together to form interesting collections of shapes and styles.

Conditions of Entry

All entries need to be designed and constructed from durable materials, suitable for outside installation, constructed for longevity and displaying sound craftsmanship with no sharp or protruding objects or edges.

Sculptures must come ready for installation e.g. with post or stand.

The committee reserves the right to use photos of any sculptures entered for publicity, to reject any entry not meeting the conditions or any entry not considered durable enough for long term installation. Entries must be able to be moved by a minimum of two people.

Winning entries will be installed within the Shire at sites to be approved by Kempsey Shire Council. These may include outside West Kempsey Post Office, in the courtyard of the Kempsey Shire Library or other sites to be negotiated by the committee. There is no prize money attached to this competition.

All artists will remain the owners of their works but winning works will be on permanent loan to the sculpture committee until the winning displayed works are de-commissioned.

A fee of $20 for each entry is to be paid to Macleay Valley Arts Council.

Further information from Steve MacDonald at mooneba@hotmail.com 

Friday, May 31…Entry closing date.
Deliver completed entry form to West Kempsey Post Office.  

Saturday, June 15 …Delivery
of Aussie Mail Box sculpture to the Macleay Valley Arts Council’s Oddfellows
Hall, 22 Kemp Street, West Kempsey from 9am to noon.

Friday, July 26…Opening of installation. All artists will be invited to the opening.

Grafton Regional Gallery

Wednesday 15 May

9.00 am – 5.00 pm

Cost: $50

Bookings and Information:

http://www.open.aftrs.edu.au/course/Q571

Tax Essentials for Creative Business is a one day intensive workshop on taxation issues for solo practitioners and arts industries, supported by by Arts Northern Rivers, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Clarence Valley Council and the Grafton Regional Gallery.

As the old saying goes, two things in life are inevitable and tax is one of them. Creative people who have a handle on their tax situation can also find themselves having the best of both worlds.
Artists, performers, filmmakers and musicians need to have a handle on their tax situation, not just to comply with regulations but also to take advantage of the deductions and concession available to those who work in the arts. This intensive and entertaining workshop day explains how, and in an easy to understand way.

Freelancing expert Monica Davidson will explore practical answers for the technical questions relating to GST, PAYG, BAS, allowable deductions and the special provisions relating to creative industries to ensure you have an appropriate tax strategy for your creative enterprise.

Purpose

INVITATION TO THE SCULPTORS OF BELLINGEN SHIRE

Individuals, Businesses, Community groups and schools are invited to participate in a celebration of Arts Week activities through out the shire.

Included in the festivities is a concert in the park by the river in Urunga on Saturday the 28^th of September.

As part of the afternoon’s entertainment, an exhibition of sculpture  will be on
display in the park.

A registration form and invitation letter with more information for participants will be posted or emailed to anyone who applies at the contact addresses below.

Sculptors can let your imaginations run wild. Whether you see this opportunity as a chance to show everyone that you can take a chip off the block from one of the great masters like Michelangelo! Or make an artistic statement with some wire, a dead washing machine and a bit of driftwood!!
All works of Art will be considered.

If you would like to join in the fun and produce a Sculptural piece to be displayed in the park for all the world to see.

Contact me for more information –

David Southgate   Ph 66557550  dgsouthgate@westnet.com.au

www.bellingenshireartsweek.com

INVITATION CLOSES ON THE 30^TH JUNE 2013

Then the competition was open to Australian
artists only. Today it is one of Australia’s most prominent cartoon
competitions attracting approximately 1000 entries annually from leading
Australian and international cartoonists.

Each year monetary prizes to the value of
$15,500 and medallions are awarded in up to seven separate categories and one
cartoon is judged to be the prestigious Cartoon,of the Year.

The Rotary Cartoon Awards enjoys the support of
the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City, Bunker Cartoon Gallery, Coffs Harbour
City Council, many individual sponsors and is endorsed by the Australian
Cartoonists’ Association and FECO.

Cartoon and caricature artists are invited to enter the 25^th Rotary Cartoon
Awards.  Entries close September 12, 2013.  For more information and to
download an entry form go to:  www.rotarycartoonawards.com.au