Innovation and Participation recipients
Projects funded under the Innovation and Participation stream of Catalyst.
| Recipient | Applicant state/ territory |
Project title | Brief project description | Total funding approved (GST Exclusive) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All The Queens Men | VIC | The Coming Back Out Ball | To support The Coming Back Out Ball - a large-scale community arts project, created in collaboration with LGBTI elders (65 years old +). | $42,000 |
| Anywhere Theatre Festival | QLD | Anywhere Theatre Festival in Wollongong | To support work by local and national artists for local audiences anywhere but a theatre in the Wollongong Anywhere Theatre Festival. | $26,800 |
| Artback NT | NT | Beyond: Artback NT's multi- artform regional and remote delivery program | Beyond is a multi-arts program designed to support NT-based visual and performing artists to develop their work for tour, beyond initial ideas and productions, to diverse audiences Territory wide. (2 Years) | $481,473.20 |
| Artback NT Incorporated | NT | Mobilise: Artback NT's development and touring initiative | To support four innovative programs which will support and network the NT's dance and theatre sector particularly in regional and remote locations. | $309,546 |
| Auspicious Arts Project Inc (auspicing Jodee Mundy Collaborations, JMC) |
VIC | JMC program of activities 2016 - 2018 |
To support JMC to deliver a program of artistic activities around disability and social inclusion using different mediums. | $185,015 |
| Australian Art Orchestra Limited | VIC | Australian Art Orchestra 2016 Creative Music Intensive | To support the Australian Art Orchestra to bring together 20 young improvising musicians from around Australia and Asia to work together in Tarraleah, Tasmania culminating in performances at MONA and Tarraleah's Grand Hall in September 2016. | $24,400 |
| Australian Centre for Contemporary Art | VIC | ACCA Education and online platform | ACCA will implement a leading innovative gallery based and online education program aligned with the Australian Curriculum, which encompasses primary to tertiary education and professional development for teachers. (3 Years) | $445,660.00 |
| Australian Dance Council - Ausdance QLD Inc | QLD | Career Dance Slam and Community Bounce - North Queensland 2017 | To support Ausdance QLD to tour Career Dance Slam and Community Bounce, a program of dance workshops and forums to 4 regional centres in North Queensland. | $41,693 |
| Australian Dance Council - Ausdance WA Branch Inc | WA | Regional Dance Initiative - Future Landings | To support a multi-layered program connecting artists, producers, presenters and communities across regional WA through contemporary dance productions. | $106,500 |
| Australian National Maritime Foundation | NSW | Virtual STEM for students: Digital tours of HMB Endeavour. |
To enable students to experience the wonders of the HMB Endeavour vessel without leaving the classroom. | $230,000 |
| Australian National Theatre Live Pty Ltd | NSW | Australian National Theatre Live | To film mainstream, (and fringe), theatrical productions in metropolitan cities and distribute them to cinemas and arts centres in rural and regional areas. | $497,400 |
| AWESOME Arts Australia Ltd | WA | Children's Rights to Art and Culture Exhibition - Western Australia. | 2016 AWESOME Festival presents The Charter of Children's Rights to Art and Culture featuring 18 works of art that celebrate children as citizens. | $32,000 |
| Bangarra Dance Theatre Australia Limited | NSW | Knowledge Ground Digital Platform | A new digital platform that provides Bangarra Dance Theatre with an innovative solution to widen access to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and culture for all Australians. (Over 3 years) | $436,825 |
| Belconnen Arts Centre Incorporated | ACT | IGNITE: Creatives | To support 7 Canberra based artists with disabilities to transition and develop their practice, ready to effectively negotiate the mainstream arts environment, both locally and nationally. | $47,000 |
| Big hART Incorporated | VIC | Project O | Project O is a collaboration between young women affected by family violence and professional artists in two rural communities. (Over 2 years) | $317,800 |
| Black Hole Theatre Inc | VIC | The Book of Revelations | To present the premiere production of The Book of Revelations at 45 Downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, in July 2017. | $20,500 |
| Bundanon Trust | NSW | Bundanon Near | To support a community engagement program which engages leading artists and arts companies to develop programs to encourage artistic potential within the community. | $735,000 |
| Byron Writers Festival | NSW | StoryBoard 2017 to 2019 | StoryBoard is a travelling creative writing workshop that stimulates the critical life-skill of active and functional literacy in Northern Rivers' youth, at no cost to the school or students. (Over 3 years) | $300,000 |
| Carriageworks Limited | NSW | New Normal - National Arts and Disability Strategy | To support New Normal, a new National Strategy initiated by Carriageworks that will lead the development of contemporary disability arts practice. | $150,000 |
| Central Australian Singing Incorporated | NT | Arrkanala Lyilhitjika - the National Tour 2016 | To support the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir first Australian national tour comprising intrastate and interstate performances each month from April to October 2016. | $92,000 |
| Corrugated Iron Youth Arts Inc | NT | Embedding Theatre in the North | To support the production and touring across the top end of two theatrical productions (Milly the Detective Dog and Mr Takahashi) around cultural and historical themes of significance. | $154,000 |
| Emerging Writers' Festival | VIC | Emerging Writers' Festival | The Emerging Writers’ Festival develops, nurtures and promotes Australia's new writing talent, creating platforms for connecting writing communities and their audiences. (Over 3 years) | $240,000 |
| Eramboo World Studies Centre Pty Ltd | NSW | Ku-ring-gai pH: Art + Science Collaboration | To support a collaboration between artists, scientists, geologists and historians to research and develop new knowledge about the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. | $28,900 |
| Express Media | VIC | Express Media: delivering a national program of support to young writers | Express Media hits the road with Tracks: a pop-up program for young writers, making pit-stops around Australia. | $52,720 |
| Footscray Community Arts Centre Limited | VIC | Indigenous Cultural Program | To support new performance and visual art works as part of the Footscray Community Arts Centre's Indigenous Cultural Program. | $150,000 |
| Form Building A State Of Creativity Inc | WA | The Goods Shed, international residency program | To support the establishment of The Goods Shed (TGS), a new West Australian studio development and creative hub which will support visiting artists, residencies, skills-sharing and workshops and provide professional development opportunities for Western Australian artists. | $400,000 |
| Geologies Project auspiced by Contemporary Art Services Tasmania | TAS | Geologies | To support a trans-disciplinary project exploring the nexus between geology and the body through combinations of live dance performance, video installation, mixed media, recorded and live sound composition in Hobart and Queenstown in October 2016 as part of The Unconformity Festival. | $67,955 |
| Heaps Decent Ltd. | NSW | New Perspectives, Local Lives | To support the development and creation of original works by young people across NSW by drawing upon a wide range of partnerships, emerging practices and technologies. | $90,000 |
| International Art Space Pty Ltd | WA | spaced 3: north by southeast | To support an art-mediated cultural exchange between Australian and Nordic artists and regional communities to create new works which will be presented as a series of solo exhibitions in the host community and subsequently as part of a larger group exhibition presented in Perth and the Nordic region. | $100,000 |
| Jewish Museum Of Australia | VIC | Amy Winehouse, a family portrait | To support the exhibition "Amy Winehouse: a family portrait", a personal and intimate exhibition curated by the Jewish Museum in London. | $75,500 |
| Just Us Theatre Ensemble Trading as JUTE Theatre Company | QLD | Telling Diverse Stories from the Deep North | A series of projects designed to strengthen the arts in regional and remote northern Australia. (Over 3 years) | $420,000 |
| Kaldor Public Art Projects | NSW | Kaldor Public Art Project 33: Anri Sala’s 'The Last Resort' | To support the engagement strategy for Kaldor Public Art Project 33: Anri Sala’s ‘The Last Resort’, to be presented at Observatory Hill, The Rocks, in October-November 2017. | $60,000 |
| Kaldor Public Art Projects | NSW | Engagement Strategy for Barrangal dyara (skin and bones) 2016 | To support the Kaldor Public Art Project - Barrangal dyara, a vast, new artwork by contemporary Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones, across 17,000 square-metres of the Sydney Botanic Gardens from 17 September to 3 October 2016. | $230,000 |
| Kickstart Arts Inc. | TAS | Establish a Creative Living Park in Southern Tasmania | A program of five Community Arts and Cultural Development projects to kickstart the Creative Living Park - a cultural hub where community members play, explore and create together. (2 Years) | $315,649.00 |
| La Compañia Australia Ltd | VIC | La Compania Subscription Series | To create, develop and present La Compañia's subscription series consisting of four artistic programs annually from 2016-17 to 2019-20. | $120,000 |
| Legs On The Wall Inc. | NSW | Creating a touring set suitable for regional & remote touring of new trampoline installation/performance Highly Sprung | This outdoor trampoline performance & public-interaction experience, involving Australia’s most exciting physical performers, will coerce thousands from communities all over Australia, to kick-off their shoes & re-engage with their bodies & each other. | $49,243.00 |
| Library Board of Queensland | QLD | black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Program | To support the National Indigenous Writing Fellowships and Indigenous Editing Internships. | $149,058 |
| Liverpool City Council (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre) | NSW | COGS - Performance Project for Children with Moderate to Severe Disabilities |
To develop a research structure around delivering performance outcomes for children with moderate to severe disabilities. | $73,612 |
| Logan City Council | QLD | Making arts accessible | To develop a series of public programs that engage people with disabilities and increases their interaction and participation in the arts, culture and heritage of the City of Logan. | $18,795.00 |
| Malanda Community Mural Group Auspiced by - Malanda Theatre Company | QLD | Malanda Community Mural | Large Vibrant Community Mural in the centre of town adjacent to the longest running picture theatre in Queensland (heritage listed) and the town's historical 105 year old hotel. | $9,157 |
| Melbourne Fringe | VIC | Fringe: Outreach and Drive | To support the Melbourne Fringe to design and implement a new outreach and access program, DRIVE, which will increase the opportunity and capacity of artists with a disability to participate in the independent arts. | $30,000 |
| Monkey Baa Theatre for Young People Limited |
NSW | 'Diary of A Wombat' from page to stage | To support the production of a 45-minute theatre work for audiences aged 3+ and complementary Education program, based on the 'Diary of A Wombat'. | $103,440 |
| Moogahlin Performing Arts Incorporated | NSW | Winyanboga Yurringa | To support Moogahlin Performing Arts Inc's new stage production 'Winyanboga Yurringa' by award winning Yorta Yorta/Kurnai playwright Andrea James, at Carriageworks, Sydney on the 3-6 August, followed by a regional tour to the Geelong Performing Arts Centre 17-20 August 2016. | $60,000 |
| Moogahlin Performing Arts Incorporated | NSW | Yellamundie Festival [Yellamundie National First Peoples Playwriting Festival] | To identify, develop and present new First Peoples playwriting that displays potential for further development and production. | $420,000 |
| Multicultural Arts Victoria Inc | VIC | Mapping Melbourne 2017- 2018 | To map our Asian cultural identity in Melbourne, providing audiences with new experiences & pathways/connections for local independent contemporary artists to connect artistically through independent contemporary work. | $200,000 |
| Mundaring Arts Centre Inc. | WA | The Habits of Horses: Displaying a healthy obsession with horses 2017 | Five curated exhibitions, a series of community engagement arts and culture projects; public Open weekend, multiple displays of all things horse and saddle, temporary sculptures, musical ponies, riding, drawing workshops. | $85,000 |
| Murmuration Dance Theatre t/a Murmuration Auspiced by - Cootamundra Creative Arts Inc t/a Cootamundra Creative Arts and Cultural Centre (CCACC) |
NSW | Ripple Effect | 'Ripple Effect' will build inclusive arts development in the region through workshops, events, professional development forums, short film and live performance production. (Over 2 years) | $170,940 |
| Museums Australia Incorporated | ACT | A Roadmap for better Indigenous participation and representation in museums and galleries | To develop a strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to engage with the arts sector, substantially improving their training and employment. | $300,940 |
| Museum of Brisbane Pty Ltd | QLD | Brisbane DNA | To support an interactive experience within an exhibition whereby 100 residents will present their own stories and opinions via a custom-designed interface. | $101,400 |
| Musica Viva Australia | NSW | Development of a new Torres Strait Island music ensemble with accompanying innovative digital resources and extensive metropolitan, regional and remote schools touring. | To develop a new Torres Strait Island music ensemble and accompanying digital resources, and support metropolitan, regional and remote schools touring of the ensemble. | $397,550 |
| Naomi Milgrom Foundation | VIC | Regional collaborations for MPavilion 2017 | To support collaborations with Shepparton and Geelong regarding Rem Koolhaas's research into the future of city and countryside within an Australian context. | $118,900 |
| National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales |
NSW | Anxiety 2017 Festival | To support a unique festival that addresses contemporary experiences of anxiety, stress, mental illness and neurological difference through cutting edge art practice and pioneering modes of community engagement. | $462,172 |
| National Museum of Australia | ACT | Encounters Indigenous Cultural Workers' Scholarships Program |
To provide new learning opportunity for Indigenous cultural workers living in regional and remote communities. | $100,000 |
| Northern Rivers Performing Arts Inc | NSW | Generator Program | A Performing Arts Generator to support Northern Rivers three year arts program of training, research and creative development. (Over 2 years) | $387,672 |
| Nyamba Buru Yawuru Ltd | WA | Bugarrigarra Nyurdany Community Exhibition, Archive and Training Project |
To support an innovative cultural heritage project telling the story of Yawuru culture, history and resilience. | $161,210 |
| Outback Theatre for Young People | NSW | Of This Place: While You Were Sleeping and Bordertowns | To support the guerilla-art activity 'While You Were Sleeping' in Deniliquin and surrounding border towns in the Berrigan Shire, collecting local stories and using them as the basis for a large-scale, verbatim musical. | $100,000 |
| PATA (Performing Arts Touring Alliance) auspiced by Australian Performing Arts Centres Association Incorporated | VIC | Performing Arts Touring Measurement and Evaluation Framework | To develop a National Touring Measurement and Evaluation Framework and Annual National Touring Forums to assist the sector's future development. | $55,000 |
| Phunktional Limited | VIC | Respectful Relationships - Melbourne | A cross-sectorial collaborative arts-in-education project that connects at-risk youth in Dandenong and Wyndham (Melbourne) with each other, their communities, local service organisations, Indigenous and CALD professional artist role models. (Over 2 years) | $110,000 |
| Phunktional Limited | VIC | The Second Story (Phase 2) | To creatively engage disadvantaged youth from Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Sunraysia, Victoria, encouraging positive social development and supporting learning, diversity and inclusion through the arts. (Over 3 years) | $343,260 |
| Poetry in Action Incorporated | NSW | Bringing poetry to life for 100,000 young people per annum by 2020. | To deliver theatre in education programs to over 100,000 young people each year in every region of Australia. | $285,920 |
| Polyglot Puppet Theatre Ltd | VIC | First On The Ladder – an art and sport collaboration between two regional Aboriginal communities | To support a three year art-meets-sport project that involves 2 Aboriginal sports clubs in Moree and Shepparton. | $570,000 |
| Port Fairy Spring Music Festival Inc. | VIC | Quartet and Country | For presentation costs to stage new works by Indigenous composers in the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival 2016. | $17,600 |
| Powerhouse Youth Theatre (PYT) | NSW | New Work: Watan-Al-Watan | Watan-Al-Watan is a new Australian hip-hop musical exploring the lived experience of young migrant Australians in Western Sydney. | $139,000 |
| Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival Inc t/a The Unconformity Inc |
TAS | FLUX, The Unconformity, Queenstown, Tasmania, 14–16 October 2016 |
To support FLUX, a collaboration of Australia's leading experimental sound artists, in Queenstown, Tasmania, 14–16 October 2016. |
$50,614 |
| Regional Arts New South Wales Ltd | NSW | Artlands Dubbo 2016 Festival | To assist the production & presentation of the inaugural Artlands Festival - the cultural program at the Regional Arts Australia National Conference - Artlands 2016 - to be held in Dubbo, 25-30 October. | $300,000 |
| Restless Dance Theatre Inc | SA | "Elegance" Creative Development - an exploration of body image and disability | To support the development of Restless Dance Theatre's new work "Elegance", which will be performed in 2018. | $13,000 |
| Riverland Youth Theatre | SA | Pathways to Performance | A multi-access project for young emerging artists to develop artistic and cultural skills and expertise. | $29,690 |
| SA Writers Centre Inc | SA | Writers and Readers in Residence Project | To support the South Australian writing and reading community through a new longterm, residency-style project featuring local and international writers and readers. | $240,000 |
| Science Gallery Melbourne | VIC | BLOOD - Science Gallery's inaugural season showcasing innovative arts/science practice | To support a public program of installations, workshops and events exploring the scientific, symbolic and strange nature of blood, with a focus on innovation and interdisciplinary arts/science practice. | $67,000 |
| Seymour Centre, University of Sydney | NSW | 2071 - A theatre and digital/video performance event addressing climate change. | 2071 - Is a ground breaking theatre and digital/video performance event created by climate scientist Professor Chris Rapley and playwright Duncan Macmillan, performed by John Gaden and four actors aged 10-14 | $35,367 |
| South Australian Country Arts Trust | SA | South Australian Regional Theatre Strategy | To develop a strategy to increase participation, enjoyment and build capacity for communities in regional SA. | $304,472 |
| Stalker Theatre Incorporated | NSW | Creature | To support the creation of 'Creature', a new digital theatre work for children that explores the issues around Australian biodiversity and environmental depletion to be presented in June 2016 at Out of The Box Festival in Brisbane. | $50,000 |
| Tantrum Theatre Co-operative | NSW | Trajectory: Emerging Artists Initiative | To support Trajectory: Emerging Artists' Initiative, a suite of activities over four years to assist local emerging artists in the Hunter region for clear, articulated and supported pathways for to develop professional careers. | $84,750 |
| The Australian Haydn Ensemble Inc | NSW | Australian Haydn Ensemble 2017: Concerts, Education and Charity Programs | The Australian Haydn Ensemble will present concerts in Sydney, regional NSW and Canberra in collaboration with The Song Company. They will also conduct workshops with schools, disadvantaged youth and perform for Alzheimers patients. (Over 2 years) | $50,000 |
| The Cad Factory | NSW | Re-Hearing | To support the project, RE-HEARING, to create new sound experiences that improve medical outcomes for patients in Australian hospitals. | $87,760 |
| The Creative Corner inc | WA | Emergence Creative Festival 2017 | A world class conference and festival held in March each year in the Margaret River region. Providing a platform for artistic and creative talent to develop and create. | $36,700 |
| The Denmark Arts Council Inc. | WA | 12 Voices 3 Countries 1 Heart | To bring the Compagnia Sacco di Ceriana and the Aznash Ensemble to the 2017 Denmark Festival of Voice | $34,750 |
| The History Trust Of South Australia | SA | REVolution : where pixels meet motors - an interactive history of video gaming and motor culture | To produce an interactive exhibition at the National Motor Museum in Birdwood, South Australia, that will investigate the influence of motor culture on video gaming. | $125,000 |
| The Institute for Creative Health | NSW | Health Arts Action Leadership Project (HAALP) | HAALP is a development program that up-skills arts and health practitioners to devise and implement strategy that leads to greater participation in the arts for improved health and wellbeing. | $159,802 |
| The Song Room Limited | VIC | Engaging Young People through the Creative Arts | Partnering with leading arts organisations and nationally, to ensure there is access to rich, high quality arts participation across multiple arts forms for all children through ARTS:LIVE. (2 Years) | $401,600.00 |
| The Sydney Writers' Festival Limited | NSW | Digital Outreach Strategy | To support 2 digital activities that provide access to Sydney Writers' Festival content for regional audiences. | $75,200 |
| The Wired Lab Ltd | NSW | The Wired Lab - Innovation & Participation programs | To support The Wired Lab to deliver a suite of interconnected projects spanning four years (2016-2019) across regional rural Australia. | $340,000 |
| Think & DO Tank Foundation Limited | NSW | AGAINST THE TIDE: A HIGHWAY WEST | To create & present Against the Tide:A Highway West, an innovative, interactive experience staged as users travel by ferry between Circular Quay and Parramatta on the Parramatta River, Sydney's first highway. | $235,920 |
| Think & DO Tank Foundation Ltd | NSW | Delivery of the creative program at LOST IN BOOKS multilingual children's bookshop, creative community hub and writing studio in Fairfield, NSW | To support LOST IN BOOKS - a kids' bookshop, creative arts hub, writing studio and safe space for women that speaks your language in Fairfield, NSW. | $120,000 |
| Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts | QLD | Pop Up North Queensland | To support, stimulate and promote Townsville as a vibrant and ambitious hub of the creative arts. | $165,000 |
| Unconscious Collective Auspiced by - Contemporary Art Tasmania |
TAS | Pastoral | Pastoral is a multi-site lighting project hosted in roadside churches and developed by visiting artists and local communities. Pastoral will create an illuminated 'spiritual path' through the Tasmanian midlands. | $46,725 |
| Urban Theatre Projects Ltd | NSW | THE HOME PROJECT (working title) – a major new Australian work | To support THE HOME PROJECT, a major new Australian performance that grapples with our multi-faceted national identity. | $47,025 |
| Warburton Community Inc | WA | Ngaanyatjarra New Music Project | To support the Ngaanyatjarra New Music Project in Western Australia including a series of facilitated workshops and an interactive online platform for new music in Ngaanyatjarra language and English. | $73,080 |
| West Australian Aboriginal Dance Company trading as Ochre Contemporary Dance Company |
WA | Kaya | To support the creation and tour of a performance through the Nyoongar lands of WA by an ensemble of Indigenous dancers and musicians from various dance cultures. | $208,200 |
| Writers Victoria Inc | VIC | Write-ability Goes Regional and Online | Write-ability Goes Regional and Online is an accessible literature program for writers with disability in regional Victoria (and beyond). (Over 3 years) | $350,000 |
