Project news.
These are the stories and updates behind Outback Arts key projects and programs.
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CASP
- Apr 1, 2025 2024 Outback Archies Winners Announced Apr 1, 2025
- Apr 1, 2025 Apply now! 2025 Country Arts Support Program (CASP) funding Apr 1, 2025
- Feb 28, 2023 Apply now! 2023 Country Arts Support Program (CASP) funding Feb 28, 2023
- May 4, 2022 2022 CASP recipients announced May 4, 2022
- Mar 1, 2022 2022 CASP applications are now open! Mar 1, 2022
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LIVING ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jul 5, 2021 ‘Our Stories’ films launched Jul 5, 2021
- Apr 12, 2021 'Our Stories’ filming underway Apr 12, 2021
- Jul 9, 2019 Exhibition and Publication launch Jul 9, 2019
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OUTBACK ARCHIES ART PRIZE
- Sep 20, 2022 2022 Outback Archies Art Prize, exhibition opening and winners! Sep 20, 2022
- Jul 18, 2022 2022 Outback Archies Jul 18, 2022
- Nov 8, 2021 2021 Outback Archies Art Prize - winners are grinners! Nov 8, 2021
- Jul 16, 2021 2021 Entries now open Jul 16, 2021
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OUTBACK OUTLOUD
- Apr 1, 2025 Outback Outloud Season 3 - Villages is live! Apr 1, 2025
- Oct 12, 2022 Outback Outloud Series Two - now streaming Oct 12, 2022
- May 6, 2022 Outback Outloud, Series 2 interview and workshops May 6, 2022
- Mar 14, 2022 Outback Outloud- call for local champions Mar 14, 2022
- Jun 21, 2021 Series 1 - now streaming! Jun 21, 2021
- Apr 13, 2021 Tour One Completed! Apr 13, 2021
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REGIONAL FUTURES
- May 9, 2022 Regional Futures - artists announced May 9, 2022
- Mar 7, 2022 Regional Futures - call for Expressions of Interest Mar 7, 2022
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RESTART
- Nov 12, 2021 Outback Laughs Comedy Tour Nov 12, 2021
- Mar 11, 2021 Creation and Presentation Micro Grants Mar 11, 2021
- Mar 10, 2020 Festival of Small Halls Mar 10, 2020
- Mar 9, 2020 Little Wings Puppetry Tour Mar 9, 2020
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YOUTH
- Oct 6, 2022 Little Arty Afternoons with Rainy King Oct 6, 2022
- Aug 10, 2022 The Gravity! Kids Aerial Dance Workshops Aug 10, 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.