PAST PROJECTS
Horizons: Creative Industries Career Launchpad
The Regional Arts Network, made up of the 15 Regional Arts Development Organisations across NSW is embarking on a new State wide project for regional youth called Horizons: Creative Industries Career Launchpad.
Horizons is a creative industry mentoring and career development program for NSW regional youth. The project will run over 18 months and will support a total of 75 young people from across NSW to showcase their talents, gain experience, build valuable industry networks and kick start their creative career.
Participants will be paired with an experienced mentor from their chosen field who is based in regional NSW. Each mentoring relationship will address the needs and interests of each individual and enable participants to connect into a network of peers to build strong state-wide networks early in their careers.
The results of this extended mentoring program will be shared through a creative industry showcase developed and led by the project participants. The showcase will highlight each mentoring project and the range of creative practice and industries represented and will enable the conversation on the opportunities open to regional young people, in this dynamic and evolving industry, to continue beyond the project. Horizons will therefore have longer term influence on an extended cohort of young people by creating access opportunities and pathways for creative industry careers and employment in the arts sector.
Kil.n.it X Bandicoot Ceramics Exchange 2024
In 2023, Kil.n.it Experimental Ceramics Studio applied for and was granted funding from CreateNSW for an Experimental Ceramics Exchange to foster a collaboration of skills and ideas between inner-city Kil.n.it and South East Regional NSW arts community.
The 2024/2025 Ceramics Exchange involves a series of residencies and workshops culminating in an exhibition at SECCA, Bega, in 2025.
Kil.n.it Artists will work with Bandicoot Pottery to create pieces that will be fired in the Bandicoot woodfiring. 3 Artists will stay at Bandicoot for 2 weeks and help with the packing, firing, and unpacking of the woodfiring. 3 Artists from the South East Regional NSW arts community will come to stay in Sydney for 2 weeks each, making works at Kil.n.it in which collaborations and workshops will take place.
Of Pigs and Whistles
How Steam Navigation Linked South East NSW to the World is a new travelling exhibition at the Eden Killer Whale Museum.
The exhibition explores the compelling history of steamship navigation in the region and the enormous significance of maritime industry’s contribution to the development of the South Coast and hinterland.
Founded in 1858, the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company tells a story spanning almost 100 years, revealing the fascinating history surrounding shipping’s role in creating a vital link to the rest of the world following European settlement.
Curated by heritage management and interpretation consultant Angela George with support from writer and arts worker Leah Szanto, the exhibition also involves considerable input and contributions from the combined museum community of the South Coast and hinterland, including Bega Valley Shire Council, Eurobodalla Shire Council, Shoalhaven City Council City of Wollongong, & Snowy Monaro Regional Council.
Regeneration Roadtrip
Reconnecting people to natural places, rediscovering the beauty and wonder of our native animals and plants
Regeneration Roadtrip is a local artist and community led engagement project that aims to promote community wellbeing and social recovery in fire impacted localities throughout the Queanbeyan-Palerang, Eurobodalla and Bega Valley Shire. The project is presented by Navigate Arts, proudly supported by South East Arts and funded by the NSW Government through its Bushfire Community Recovery and Resilience Fund.
Leonard’s Beautiful Pictures made its debut tour on the mainland, originating from the Ten Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania.
@Four Winds Festival, Bermagui
In the family of entertainers known as The Marvellous Corricks there were eight talented siblings: seven sisters and their brother, Leonard. He was just 14 years old when he started making and screening silent films.
It was 1901 and his early projections – a highlight of his family’s travelling shows filled with sketches and singalongs – would light up the world.
In 2021, Leonard’s Beautiful Pictures returned in all their wonder for a world premiere at Ten Days on the Island in Tasmania. These 100-year-old films once again are entertaining and delighting audiences.
Leonard’s fascinating newsreels and dramatic films once awed our local communities with the latest in cinematography. Now, a selection of Leonard’s films, some black-and-white, some gorgeously hand-tinted – digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) – represent a rare vision of a former world.
ARTLESS BASTARDS PODCAST
Join hosts Jazz Williams and Andrew Gray from South East Arts as they dissect and disinfect the stories and processes of regional artists while we ride out the public health pandemic of Covid-19. Take some time to get to know regional artists, arts workers, creative producers and performers from the south east of NSW and beyond.
OUTPUT: ART AFTER FIRE
OUTPUT: Art After Fire aims to support communities in bushfire ravaged southeast NSW, Australia, and western USA, by assisting their visual artists and creative writers whose practice has been affected by recent fires and who would benefit from mentoring in field-based creative practice to make new artwork about their experiences.
GROW THE MUSIC 2017
South East Arts brought Grow the Music back to South East NSW, courtesy of Create NSW.
Throughout October 2017, the Grow the Music crew undertook intensive music and recording workshops in the Aboriginal communities of Wallaga Lake and Eden, NSW.
It’s the third year in a row that South East Arts has brought the program to the region but the first time that it will incorporate the communities around Eden. Each year, the growing musical ability of the younger performers who take part is evident as well as the engagement with the broader community. The Grow the Music program at Wallaga Lake Koori Village has seen the birth of the Ngaardi Womens Choir and has helped to identify and support emerging professional musicians like Gabadoo, who now performs at festivals around the region.
In 2016, participants in Grow the Music, with the assistance of South East Arts, performed to very appreciative crowds at the Cobargo Folk Festival and the Candelo Village Festival. Performers included the Kids of Wallaga, Takeisha Thomas, Alison Walker, Gabadoo and the Gadhu Boys.
An example of the benefits of the skills, experience and confidence gained from being part of the South East Arts’ Grow the Music programs, is Warren Foster Jnr. Warren is now studying music production at Wollongong University and has recently returned from a stint working for Grow the Music in outback Aboriginal communities. Warren will be giving back to the program this at Wallaga with his newly acquired sound engineering skills.
Visit www.growthemusic.org for more information.
YOOFTube
YOOFTube was the regional youth short film competition run by South East Arts over a period of 6 years, specifically aimed at ages 12-25 living or studying in our south east region.
The winners for YOOFTube 2018 were:
Ocean Thomas winner of The Creative Achievement Award in the 16-20 yrs age group for CLINT HALLOWIEN for Best Actor in 16-20 yrs age group for her portrayal of Sam in FRIENDS WITH THE FINCH (Eurobodalla)
Sam Wright winner of Best Technical Achievement Award in the 16-20 yrs age group for PONTOON PATIENCE (Eurobodalla)
Chloe Bobbin winner of Best Film in the 16-20 yrs age group for FRIENDS WITH THE FINCH (Eurobodalla)
Matilda Mitchell has won Best Technical Achievement Award in the 12-15 years age group for LAST CHANCE ULURU (Snowy Monaro)
Luca Yi has won Best Actor in the 12-15 years age group for his portrayal of Sensai in MILK CHUG: THE MILKENING (Bega Valley)
Llew Badger has won Best Film in the 12-15 years age group for BANANA SPLIT (Bega Valley)
Raine Atkinson & Kate Kavanagh have won an Encouragement Award for METAMORPHOSIS (Eurobodalla)
Ruby Bichard has won an Encouragement Award for RINSE & REPEAT (Bega Valley)
Sienna Spencer Schnabel and Alana Bretherton have won an Encouragement Award for MARSH (Bega Valley)
Jules Roche & Luca Yi have won the Best Soundtrack Award for ENTITY (Bega Valley)
David Perry has won the Cynicism Award for The Joy of Filmmaking (Bega Valley)
Llew Badger has won BEST OVERALL FILM for BANANA SPLIT (Bega Valley)
Art & Environment – Exhibition in a Suitcase
The Art and Environment Exhibition in a Suitcase project was developed by the Australian National University as an aspiration building and educational enrichment outreach tool for use in selected regional secondary schools. South East Arts and Bega Valley Regional Gallery are partnering with the ANU to make this education resource available to high schools in the south east region.
The exhibition featured diverse works of art made by seven artists associated with the ANU School of Art, which are contained within a custom made travel suitcase. Designed to enable teachers and students in regional an remote areas to access contemporary works of art in a classroom setting, the Suitcase is supplemented by visual and curriculum support materials for students in Years 7-12.
Erth Waterways Museum
One of South East Art’s major past projects has been the Waterways Musuem. Artists from Sydney-based Erth Visual and Physical theatre company workedwith local artists, students and the community to present a futuristic, creative and educational installation,as part of the Eurobodalla River of Art Festival which took place 16-24 May.
Presented by South East Arts, the Waterways Museum at the Moruya Showground Pavilion was a stunning visual experience for all ages. Immersive installations, puppetry, performance and imagined artefacts took visitors on an imaginative journey into the water museum of the future.
Through The Waterways wormhole, visitors travelled through time and experienced the ‘water that was’, in a future world imagined by today’s students and local artists – where people actually used sprinklers, flushing toilets and allowed plastic and rubbish to enter their precious waterways.
Pipes, pumps and contraptions creatively explored water’s role in our day-to-day lives. The Underwater Room introduced visitors to sea creatures of the ‘past’ and the mutated ‘present’.
Visitors were left wondering how their lives currently impact on our water supply and what efforts they could make to protect this valuable resource for the future.
Artists from Erth Visual and Physical Inc. – Aesha Henderson and Brian Martinez– werejoined by local artists including Toby Whitelaw, Derek Crannaford, Julie Hurt, Sue Barford and Brett Martin, as well as engaging with students fromvarious schools within the Eurobodalla Shire.
The Storm Crew (Bermagui Public School and Battlebird) werebrought together by Luke Ferguson to bring you H2WOAH! – the cool kids of Grade 2 rapping with a real message about not taking water for granted.