Project news.
These are the stories and updates behind Outback Arts key projects and programs.
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CASP
- 1 Apr 2025 2024 Outback Archies Winners Announced 1 Apr 2025
- 1 Apr 2025 Apply now! 2025 Country Arts Support Program (CASP) funding 1 Apr 2025
- 28 Feb 2023 Apply now! 2023 Country Arts Support Program (CASP) funding 28 Feb 2023
- 4 May 2022 2022 CASP recipients announced 4 May 2022
- 1 Mar 2022 2022 CASP applications are now open! 1 Mar 2022
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LIVING ARTS AND CULTURE
- 5 July 2021 ‘Our Stories’ films launched 5 July 2021
- 12 Apr 2021 'Our Stories’ filming underway 12 Apr 2021
- 9 July 2019 Exhibition and Publication launch 9 July 2019
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OUTBACK ARCHIES ART PRIZE
- 20 Sept 2022 2022 Outback Archies Art Prize, exhibition opening and winners! 20 Sept 2022
- 18 July 2022 2022 Outback Archies 18 July 2022
- 8 Nov 2021 2021 Outback Archies Art Prize - winners are grinners! 8 Nov 2021
- 16 July 2021 2021 Entries now open 16 July 2021
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OUTBACK OUTLOUD
- 1 Apr 2025 Outback Outloud Season 3 - Villages is live! 1 Apr 2025
- 12 Oct 2022 Outback Outloud Series Two - now streaming 12 Oct 2022
- 6 May 2022 Outback Outloud, Series 2 interview and workshops 6 May 2022
- 14 Mar 2022 Outback Outloud- call for local champions 14 Mar 2022
- 21 June 2021 Series 1 - now streaming! 21 June 2021
- 13 Apr 2021 Tour One Completed! 13 Apr 2021
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REGIONAL FUTURES
- 9 May 2022 Regional Futures - artists announced 9 May 2022
- 7 Mar 2022 Regional Futures - call for Expressions of Interest 7 Mar 2022
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RESTART
- 12 Nov 2021 Outback Laughs Comedy Tour 12 Nov 2021
- 11 Mar 2021 Creation and Presentation Micro Grants 11 Mar 2021
- 10 Mar 2020 Festival of Small Halls 10 Mar 2020
- 9 Mar 2020 Little Wings Puppetry Tour 9 Mar 2020
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YOUTH
- 6 Oct 2022 Little Arty Afternoons with Rainy King 6 Oct 2022
- 10 Aug 2022 The Gravity! Kids Aerial Dance Workshops 10 Aug 2022
Series 1 - now streaming!
Emma Hoy and Caroline Wallace directors of Signal Creative visited Walgett, Brewarrina, Bourke and Cobar hosting listening parties, celebrating the launch of their collaborative project with Outback Arts, the Outback Outloud podcast. This project has collected over 100 interviews from the Outback Arts region.
Tour One Completed!
Emma and Caroline from signal Creative have recently completed stage one of their Outback Outloud Tour across the Outback Arts region, visiting; Walgett, Brewarrina, Bourke and Cobar. Outback Outloud is an audio storytelling project involving workshops and a community story booth designed to collect stories from and about our communities.
'Our Stories’ filming underway
Our stories is a contemporary storytelling project documenting artists on Country in regional NSW. Filming of these stories has involved engaging videographer – Andrew Hull to work with the artists to create a short film, unique to each of the artists.
Creation and Presentation Micro Grants
This Micro Grant funding round will be inviting artists from the Outback Arts region with a well-established visual arts practice to apply for support to produce and present their artwork ready for exhibition.
Festival of Small Halls
The Festival of Small Halls takes the best folk and contemporary acoustic artists and sends them on the road to tiny halls in communities all over Australia. It is an opportunity for music lovers from welcoming communities to invite artists from home and abroad into their towns, and a way of exploring this vast country in the spirit of hospitality and great fun.
Little Wings Puppetry Tour
Jenny Ellis from Byron Bay is an accomplished puppeteer who will be touring the Outback Arts region this month. Targeted towards children 3-10 years, the tour will include workshops and performances and will be delivered in preschools, primary schools, childcare centres, local Bowling Clubs and Youth Centres.
Exhibition and Publication launch
Living Arts and Culture is a photographic exhibition and publication recording the stories of Aboriginal knowledge holders and artists living across the Far Western NSW communities of Bourke, Brewarrina, Cobar, Coonamble, Lightning Ridge, Nyngan, Walgett, and Warren.