Gondwana Choirs, Anthony Pateras and the Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival are among the artists and organisations to share in $9.5m in Australia Council funding.
Composer Anthony Pateras, Gondwana Choirs and the Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival are among the artists and organisations to share in more than $9.5m in just-announced funding from the Australia Council of the Arts.
The funding pool ($9,504,275) will be distributed among 225 creative projects and cultural activity to take place across Australia and internationally. First Nations and disability-led projects, and creative experiences for young people have received notable support.
The funding will deliver “flow on benefits across the creative industries and the broader community,” said Australia Council Executive Director for Arts Investment, Alice Nash. “We are pleased to support so many impactful projects led by First Nations artists and artists with disability, as well as a range of activity engaging young people and families.”
Gondwana Voices receives funding for Melbourne tour in 2023. Photo © Lyn Williams
Among the recipients are: The Space Company’s The Blow-Ins, a new theatre work inspired by the efforts of Tasmanians to save 500 stranded pilot whales in 2020; composer Anthony Pateras, who will create a new work exploring how sound in ocean environments is accelerating and becoming noisier with changes in climate; the Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival; a Digi Youth Arts project focused on amplifying, celebrating, honouring and archiving the stories of significant Elders, and support for a program of activity for Gondwana Choirs including the National Choral School, a Melbourne tour for Gondwana Voices and a NZ tour for Gondwana Chorale to collaborate with the NZ Youth Choir.
There is also support for the annual program of works by Second Echo ensemble in Tasmania, including a collaboration with Restless Dance Theatre and The Boite’s The Music Between – a work exploring intergenerational and intercultural aspects of how musical traditions from Italy, Iran, India and Indonesia evolve and develop in Australia.
For the complete list of funding recipients, visit the Australia Council website.
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