ARTS AND CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS
The following list provides a web address and a brief overview of arts and cultural service delivery organisations around Queensland. A browse through the web pages will help you keep in touch with what is happening across the state, provide information on upcoming grants and open up opportunities for collaboration between the region and the service providers.
ARTS QUEENSLAND
Arts Queensland is the State Government agency dedicated to supporting and growing Queensland's vibrant and innovative arts by promoting a diverse, dynamic, creative culture; strengthening partnerships and collaboration; and capitalising on Queensland's unique strengths and characteristics.
AUSTRLAIN COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/
The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body.
It enriches the lives of Australians and their communities by supporting the creation and enjoyment of the arts. The Australia Council cultivates the nation’s creativity by investing in artists and arts organisations working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, community partnerships, dance, literature, music, theatre, visual arts and multi-artform practices.
CREATIVE COMMUNITIES
Access Arts
Access Arts Queensland is the peak body working with artists, cultural workers and their communities across Queensland. We deliver a range of Professional Arts and Cultural services to Queensland communities with an emphasis on those communities, groups and individuals who experience disability and disadvantage.
Arts Nexus
Leading and facilitating, strategic, sustainable development across the cultural and creative industries in North Queensland.
Contact Inc
CONTACT Inc presents a diverse range of workshops, training programs and performances in collaboration with communities. Programs are designed in response to community needs, identified through consultation and cultural mapping.
Crossroad Arts
Crossroad Arts is a small dynamic not for profit multi arts company located in Mackay,
who work in partnership with professional artists, government and non-government organisations, business groups, arts installations and communities. They tell stories about the physical and human landscape of our region and beyond.
Feral Arts
Feral Arts is a cultural development company working in digital media. We work with communities and other partners to make better use of their cultural assets – stories, histories, networks – enhancing the creativity and sustainability.
La Luna Youth Arts Association
La Luna Youth Arts is an organisation that helps children, youths and adults to come together and collaborate their creative minds and skills. With two full-time staff, three support staff and up to five casual tutors, they work with their students to help them to reach their full potential, and have a fun filled time in the making!
Speakout
To address the social, cultural and economic needs of young people and their communities, SpeakOut is committed to the ongoing development and delivery of a suite of creative, community and industry based programs.
Vulcana
Vulcana offers a series of circus workshops, a variety of performances projects, outreach programs and team development workshops.
Youth Arts Queensland
Youth Arts Queensland (YAQ) is a not-for-profit, membership-based organisation. YAQ represents and promotes a diverse and thriving youth arts sector in Queensland. From festivals to multi-arts workshops, performances and exhibitions, young people from a diversity of places, cultures, and communities are participating in and creating their own arts and cultural experiences.
DANCE AND MUSIC
Ausdance Queensland
http://www.ausdance.org.au/qld/index.html
Ausdance Queensland is the dance service organisation funded by Arts Queensland to support dance throughout the State. This means help can be on its way from Thursday Island to Charleville or Mt Isa to Moura.
Dancenorth
http://dancenorth.com.au/company/
Dancenorth is one of Australia’s leading contemporary dance-theatre companies and experiment with all art forms to create immersive and dynamic dance experiences for audiences locally, nationally and internationally.
Expressions Dance Company
The Company produces main stage performances; regional, national and international tours; an extensive education program of touring performances and workshops; community dance classes; and development opportunities for emerging performers and choreographers.
Q Music
http://www.qmusic.com.au/dsp_content.cfm?contentID=26
Q Music is Queensland's Music Industry development association. Promoting the artistic value, cultural worth and commercial potential of Queensland music.
MULTI ARTS
Cairns Centre for Contemporary Arts
The Centre of Contemporary Arts in Cairns brings together a variety of exciting art forms under one roof. It is a dynamic cultural facility that showcases the breadth and energy of contemporary art is all its established and emerging forms.
Metro Arts
Metro Arts delivers professional development for artists to achieve sustainable creative practice. This is delivered through a unique combination of artistic programs, business skilling and facilities, and through an open platform approach to programming.
Museum & Gallery Services Queensland
Museum and Gallery Services Queensland promotes, supports and provides services to foster excellence in museums, galleries and keeping places. We strive to ensure a future where museums, galleries and keeping places are relevant, accessible and valued by their communities.
Queensland Arts Council
Queensland Arts Council is a not-for-profit organisation that ensures all Queenslanders have access to high quality arts regardless of their geographical location. We present, produce, program, tour, fund and facilitate the arts right across Queensland.
Queensland Arts Council tours mainstage and school productions, plus multimedia art exhibitions. We also support regional communities to develop their own arts events through funding, training, advice and resources.
THEATRE, WRITING AND NEW MEDIA
Backbone Youth Arts
Brisbane Writers Festival
http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) is a five day feast of books, writing, ideas and most importantly readers. The Festival features the crème of Australian and international writing talent as well as promoting the next generation of Australian voices.
Circa
Cica has a unique vision of circus as a delightful, challenging and contemporary artform. Our committed ensemble of multi-skilled performers work year round to explore (and extend) the limits of what circus can do.
Playlab
http://www.playlab.org.au/index.php
Playlab is a not-for-profit script development and playwright development agency, funded by the Queensland State Government, through Arts Queensland. Playlab Press is a part of Playlab Inc and is Australia's second largest publisher of theatre and new work for performance.
Queensland Poetry Festival
http://www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com/
The Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word is dedicated to the promotion, presentation and professional development of poets and poetry in Australia.
Queensland Writers Centre
Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) encourages networking, connection, and creativity through the art and business of writing. We provide knowledge, networks, skills and professional development opportunities to QWC members and Queensland writers, and work to service diverse audiences, including regional and indigenous writers.
University of Queensland Press
http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/index.php
UQP is a dynamic university press known for its risk-taking philosophy and commitment to publishing works of high quality and cultural significance.
Zen Zen Zo
Zen Zen Zo is a Brisbane-based physical theatre ensemble at the forefront of contemporary performance and training in Australia. Founded in 1992, the comp any has continually produced edgy, innovative theatre experiences ranging from radical interpretations of classics to original new works. These have been showcased throughout Australia and Asia.
VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFT
Artisan
Artisan is the peak body in Queensland presenting and promoting unique and individual quality crafted design to an Australian and international audience.
Products represented include jewellery, furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, fashion, textiles, paperware, leather goods, and interior products. Artisan presents exhibitions of high calibre and ilk situating art, craft and
design, within our culture, time, and place.
Artisan’s ethos of sector advocacy, leadership, partnerships
and marketing, benefits the sector through the creation of opportunities including: retail through artisan’s
designer store (m)art, seminars and mentoring programs, exhibition development and touring, export, artist referrals, lecturing and critical writing, Corporate Gifts and corporate
commissioning.
Artworkers
Artworkers exists to support the people working in the visual art, craft and design industries in Queensland and Australia. Artworkers provides advice and information on all areas of professional practice and we connect our members with jobs and opportunities. We run an annual program of seminars, workshops and events to assist with the professional development of artists and arts workers. We also advocate on behalf of the visual arts sector at state and national levels.
Eyeline Publishing
http://www.eyeline.qut.edu.au/
Eyeline is a leading Australian arts journal based in Brisbane. It publishes criticism and analysis of the contemporary visual arts, craft and related media and is recognised for the quality of its writing, ideas and visual style.
Flying Arts
Promoting excellence in cultural experiences, arts workshops, touring exhibitions and professional development opportunities for regional Queenslanders.
Institute of Modern Art
http://www.ima.org.au/pages/home.php
Founded in 1975, we are one of Australia’s first contemporary art spaces. We run a program of exhibitions and events featuring local, national and international artists; emerging and establish
KickArts Contemporary Art
http://www.kickarts.org.au/about.html
KickArts Contemporary Arts is the leading contemporary visual arts organisation in regional Queensland and one of the most innovative in the state. Based in Cairns, with a demographic encompassing Far North Queensland and extending into the remote and regional communities of Cape York and Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait), KickArts is dedicated to facilitating and promoting contemporary arts and extending the experience and cultural life of northern Australians and the 2.2 million annual visitors to Cairns.
MAAP
http://www.maap.org.au/index.php
MAAP specialises in showcasing the work of the region's major and emerging new media arts practitioners, creating new networks, introducing the artists and their work to audiences, and increasing cultural contact and understanding through the experience of new media arts. MAAP is the atlas of the new world - the place where culture, art, technology, and the dynamism of the Asia region come together.
Queensland Centre for Photography
The Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) is a non-profit organization that facilitates connections between audience and art practitioners.
Umbrella Studios
Umbrella Studio Association Incorporated is an inclusive, not-for-profit, members based, exhibition and studio space that drives innovation, invites experimentation, encourages excellence and inspires appreciation for Contemporary Visual Art in the North Queensland region
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