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Baw Baw local artists are encouraged to apply for new Arts and Culture Fund with up to $2,000 funding until 11 November 2024
Baw Baw Shire new Arts and Culture Fund offers up to $2,000 for local artists. Support is available for projects, development, and community engagement. Apply online from September 9 to November 11, 2024.
Baw Baw Shire is calling all local artists and creatives to apply for up to $2,000 in funding through council's new Arts and Culture Fund program. The Arts and Culture Fund is a new initiative by council to support local creatives in their work, focusing on their professional development and building on their portfolios. Eligible applicants can apply for a monetary grant of up to $2,000 to support their work.
The Arts and Cultural Fund provides small grants to local artists, supporting their work and fostering a vibrant local creative community
Creative project funding
The fund is designed to support projects that:
- Help grow creative projects in the community
- Add value to the local creative community and/or to their own work
- Help to develop the local arts community
- Provide the wider community with the chance to experience and/or participate in the arts
- Create opportunities for creatives to work together with other artists, residents and local community groups on projects
The first round of applications will be open from Monday 9 September and close at 5pm on Monday 11 November 2024.
Artists' funding opportunity
Mayor Cr Annemarie McCabe said Baw Baw Shire was home to a vibrant arts community and welcomed applications from artists to help further their local creative projects. "This is a great opportunity for local artists and creatives to access funds to help bring creative projects to life, or to support professional development to improve their works in the future," said Cr McCabe.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be residents of Baw Baw Shire or creative practitioners with a creative practice primarily located in Baw Baw Shire. Submissions can be made online via SmartyGrants on council's website at Arts and Culture Fund website.
All successful projects from first round submissions must be delivered by 30 June 2025. A second round of funding will open early in 2025. This funding opportunity has been made possible by Baw Baw Shire Council's Arts and Culture Advisory Committee. For more information about this initiative including the funding criteria, or to access the online submission form, please visit Arts and Culture Fund on council's website.
Pictures from Baw Baw Shire Council website.
Source: http://gippsland.com/
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