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Are you passionate about the arts? Are you interested in making a difference to the local Wyndham community? If yes, Arts Assist is looking for you! Applications are now open to join the Arts Assist board. Arts Assist is a not-for-profit community organisation that promotes and supports artistic and...
Funding Round 2!
Are you an artist that requires funding for a future artistic or cultural project? Arts Assist offer opportunities for applications of grants for individual projects, collaborative projects and significant acquisitions. Applications for our 2nd Funding Round of 2019 are open from the 14th of October 2019 until the 15th...
Water Tower Project funding approved by The Victorian State Government – Community Support Fund!
Let’s make the Water Tower a great work of art! We here at Arts Assist have been very fortunate to secure funding from the State Government of Victoria through the Community Support Fund, along with permission from Southern Rural Water which will allow us to transform the disused concrete...
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"I would like to thank Arts Assist for its valuable contribution towards furthering my music career, and the arts in Wyndham generally."
The Grange Community Centre would like to Thank Arts Assist for supporting The Wyndham Your Community Photography Competition. The number of photos submitted and number of attendees at the exhibition was a testament to what it meant to our community.
Head on over to the Art Gallery of New South Wales website and check out this year's finalists in Australia's favourite portrait prize. Winners announced tomorrow, 25 Sept 2020!
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🎉🎉 The 2020 #ArchibaldPrize finalists have been revealed! The exhibition opens next Saturday 26 September, but you can view the finalist works for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes on our website now. (Link in bio)
Swipe through to take a sneak peek at some of this year's finalists, and join us at 12pm next Friday 25 September when we declare the winners via livestream.
Proudly supported by @anz_au.
From left: Archibald Prize 2020 finalists Angus McDonald 'Behrouz Boochani'; Nick Stathopoulos 'Ngaiire'; Kim Leutwyler 'Brian with pink, blue and yellow'; Jonathan Dalton 'Angela'; Wendy Sharpe 'Magda Szubanski – comedy and tragedy'. (All artworks are details.) © the artists.
Arts Assist grants - applications closing soon!
Are you a Wyndham creative? Got a great idea for a local arts or cultural project? Need funding to turn it into reality?
Get to it – grant applications close on 30 Sept 2020 (midnight). Please do get in touch if you need any help finalising your application or have any queries.
Application forms and details: link in bio
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Have a look at Ghost Light, an online series presented by @wyndhamculturalcentre featuring talented Wyndham artists. Check out a few or all of the videos!
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We are the Wyndham Cultural Centre - a place for the Wyndham community to come together through arts, performance and culture!
We have had to close our doors for the time being but even from a safe social distance, art has the power to bring us together. And our Facebook page has become a place of positivity to shine a little light of hope on the current COVID-19 situation.
Our new program Ghost Light💡 connects audiences with talented Wyndham artists through the live-streaming of various performances from spoken word, hip hop, dance, theatre, readings and even a photography exhibition. And in the coming weeks, we will be showcasing our Ghost Light performers right here, so please watch this space!
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Arts Assist grants - applications now open!
Need inspiration for your project idea or application?
@westernedgeyoutharts received a grant towards their 2019 youth theatre production, The Watching. Over 40 emerging artists from their three ensembles - Footscray Edge, Wyndham Edge and St Albans Edge – came together on stage in three locations, including the Wyndham Cultural Centre.
Proudly supported by Arts Assist.
Application forms and details: link in bio
Applications close 30 Sept 2020
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Another great initiative by the National Gallery of Victoria - check it out!
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🔊 Remember when Melbourne’s Collins Street was full of commuters travelling in and out of the city each morning and night?
We’ve partnered with Description Victoria to make some of our favourite works more accessible by creating detailed audio descriptions of highlighted artworks from the NGV Collection. Click ‘Audio Descriptions: NGV Collection Highlights’ via the link in our bio for the complete audio description of John Brack’s ‘Collins St., 5p.m.’ and more.
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John Brack
Collins St, 5p.m. 1955
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1956
© National Gallery of Victoria
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Congrats to all the winners of the Picturing Footscray Photography Prize 2020! Check out the online exhibit til 11 Sept 2020
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@ben_dowling_ and his portrayal of an encounter on Paisley Street won the fifth annual Picturing Footscray Photography Prize!
Both judges observed that the photograph raised more questions than answers. Read their full comments below:
"Like many successful street photographs, 'Paisley Street', may not be what it seems and raises more questions than it answers. Is it blackface or a beauty treatment we see on the window of the salon? Is the mother in the scene pondering that same question while her child ponders the photographer? It's a puzzle that sparks the imagination in the spirit of a Matt Stuart or Jesse Marlow and speaks both to the global Black Lives Matter movement and the cultural juxtapositions of everyday, local Footscray." - Cameron Cope
"This work speaks to the current but sadly ongoing issues on race and racism. It captures many layers of very contemporary debates. The irony of the small poster that could be an image of 'black face' but which is actually a face mask, talks of the painful experience of black bodies who are mocked by the act of 'black face' which is done with racist overtones. The face of the baby looking innocently away at the same time as the mother whose face captures the shock of the image. This photograph is also sophisticated in its composition, being split down the middle and a clear directional gaze that draws the viewer from the actual gaze of the black woman to the center of her attention." - Megan Evans
Congratulations Ben!
Arts Assist grants - applications now open!
Need inspiration for your project idea or application?
Beat Factor Music Drum Group, led by Rod Pilois, have been performing African & Latin drum beats and grooves around the Wyndham community for years. Rod received a grant to purchase percussion instruments to use in his workshops and performances. Rod’s currently offering online drum classes and we can’t wait to see his drum group perform locally again when restrictions ease!
Proudly supported by Arts Assist.
Application forms and details: link in bio
Applications close 30 Sept 2020.
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Are you a creative from Wyndham & interested in taking part in a group exhibition? Here's your chance! Get in touch with local artist cooperative @redwest_au to find out more
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Shout out to our Wyndham artists... We would like to invite you to submit an expression of interest in participating in this exhibition.
Putting together an exhibition is like creating an artwork and it means looking at all the work and how it sits with one another. At this stage we are reaching far and wide within the Wyndham community for artists who would like this opportunity.
If you would like to participate please send us up to 10 low resolution examples of your work to admin@redwest.org for consideration. You must include the Titles of your work, Dimensions and Medium for each piece of artwork. We will let you know in the coming weeks if your work will be included in the final exhibition. You are also welcome to extend this invite to other Wyndham artists in your network as we wish to encourage a supportive local creative community.
OPEN HOUSE
10 DEC – 21 JAN – This may be extended into February
OPENING NIGHT
THU 10 DEC
6.30pm – 8.30pm
Co-Curated by emerging curators and community members
Paul Zahra @rukzone and Ayesha Dharmabandu @arty_aye
Arts Assist grants - applications now open!
Are you a Wyndham creative? Got a great idea for a local arts or cultural project? Need funding to turn it into reality?
Funding is available for a huge range of projects: performing arts (music, drama and dance), visual arts and photography, literature, design and crafts, film and video, community arts, and festivals. The possibilities are endless!
Details and application forms: link in bio
Applications close 30 Sept 2020.
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WERRIBEE WATER TOWER MURAL
Check out the completed mural!
The mural design depicts how water supply helped grow the township of Werribee. Hayden Dewar drew inspiration from Werribee-based historical photos of a water bailiff as well as farmers of Werribee South market gardens.
The centerpiece of the mural is a water bailiff, checking the speed of a Dethridge Wheel, which measures the flow of water delivered to farms for irrigation.
The Werribee River also features, as do locally significant flora and fauna: River Red Gum trees, (which are commonly found along the Werribee River); a Platypus; a Growling Grass Frog; and up high on the tank, critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrots, who fly through Werribee as part of their migration pattern.
Thanks to @hayden_dewar_artist for pouring such enthusiasm into this project! And thanks to @artmix.photo for the wonderful photo!
Mural location: 1 Tower Road Werribee VIC 3030
Project Lead: Arts Assist
Project Partner: Southern Rural Water
Artist: @hayden_dewar_artist
Funded by the State Government of Victoria
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