ARE YOU A FIRST NATIONS ARTIST LOOKING FOR SUPPORT?
We can assist you in a range of ways including:
• Writing an artist statement/bio
• Sourcing funding and grants
• Project development
• Creating invoices
• Promoting your work – mainstream & social media
• Pricing your art/creative services
• Assistance with licenses, contracts and agreements
• Developing cultural workshops and activities
• Finding performance opportunities
• Introductions to organisations and festivals
• Developing a website
• Professional development
• Creative collaborations
• Cultural tourism initiatives
• Stepping up your arts practice
• Insurance and legal issues in the arts
• Understanding Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights
• Communicating with festivals and events
AND MORE!
Contact Jazz Williams – jazz@southeastarts.org.au or 0428 228 084
ARE YOU AN ORGANISATION OR EVENT WANTING TO CONNECT WITH FIRST NATIONS ARTISTS AND COMMUNITIES?
We can assist you in a range of ways including:
• First Nations content and programming
• Budgeting for First Nations content
• Promoting First Nations Artists
• Cultural Protocols and Awareness
• Understanding Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights
• Creative collaborations
• Sourcing funding and grants
• Insurance and legal issues in the arts
• Assistance with licenses, contracts and agreements
• Providing a culturally safe environment
• Communicating with First Nations artist and communities
• Understanding historical and current issues facing First Nations communities
• Appropriate engagement
• Strategies for long-term, respectful relationships
AND MORE!
Contact - Jazz Williams – jazz@southeastarts.org.au or 0428 228 084
Supporting First Nations Art and Culture
South East Arts has a key commitment to fostering a vibrant First Nations arts and cultural sector that affords Aboriginal people greater opportunities to participate in, share and strengthen their culture through arts practice; and develop careers and businesses in the arts and cultural sector.
We continue to achieve this by:
• Advocating for enhanced Aboriginal arts and cultural expression through creative generators
• Providing professional development opportunities and greater access to cultural infrastructure and events
• Increased exposure of Aboriginal artists, artistic practice and culture in the region
• Delivering initiatives aimed at developing creative practice and arts business skills to support sustainable creative careers
• Maintaining regular contact with and advice for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organisations engaged in arts and cultural programs and projects
• Advising and assisting Aboriginal artists and organisations to access funding supporting cultural projects and programs
• Increasing participation of the Aboriginal community in arts and cultural activity through strategic partnerships and engagement initiatives
• Liaising between individual artists and organisations to establish connections, foster opportunities for artists and ensure appropriate cultural protocols are followed by the organisation.
Our work in this area is guided by South East Arts’ Aboriginal arts and cultural action plan - a five-year action plan from 2020-2024 that you can read HERE
Our past and recent achievements in First Nations sector development include:
• Presenting Giiyong Festival in September 2018 – the region’s first all-Aboriginal arts and cultural festival with over 5000 audience members and 100 musicians, performers, artists and presenters – with our partners Twofold Aboriginal Corporation and Eden LALC.
• Establishing a partnership with Twofold Aboriginal Corporation to develop the Jigamy site as a cultural tourism venue, present programs, festivals and events.
• Curating exhibitions for the Bundian Way Aboriginal Gallery in Delegate featuring artists from the region and beyond.
• Supporting the creative and business development of the Djaadjawan Dancers, an Aboriginal women’s dance group based in Narooma
• Engaging music development organisation Grow the Music to deliver contemporary music residencies and performances at Wallaga Lake Koori Village, Eden, Bega and Narooma.
• Delivering songwriting and video projects at Eden and Bega High Schools to produce original songs and music videos.
• Supporting a range of emerging artists from various creative disciplines including musicians, dancers, writers, visual artists and designers.
• Delivering a range of professional development opportunities for artists from the region including workshops, creative developments and mentorships.
It is widely recognised that Indigenous artistic and cultural expression within all elements of the arts sector, be it visual or performing arts, is leading the way in terms of its innovation and imagination.
Creative expression and the arts are an important way to acknowledge the true history of the region, and the ongoing challenges and disadvantages faced by many Aboriginal people as a result of colonisation and subsequent institutional and widespread racism. Creative expression through music, visual art, writing and dance will help people understand the impact of this history and the intergenerational trauma that continues as a result.
South East Arts is supported by funding from the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Scheme (IVAIS)