We’re committed to investing in the arts and supporting our city's creative community, especially when times are tough. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we're providing $2 million in grants to artists and creatives to invest in new works, and digital presentation of works and performances.
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Take a look through the works that have been made possible through our quick response arts grants.
This Container Ed08
This Container is a zine for texts produced through and alongside dance, performance and choreography bringing together thirty authors. Poetry, diagram, recipe, critique, the epistolary, the essay: have all found their way in sculpting a diverse set of readerly structures of affective expectation.
all that you hear is all that is heard
all that you hear is all that is heard is an online companion piece to past and future live performances by The Letter String Quartet; a combination of audio interviews with Nicholas Building tenants, composition and video imagery creating a compelling and intimate response to people and place.
Omoon
The Omoon project is a short puppetry video clip depicting five living spaces during the Covid lockdown. It portrays a recount of our collective experience in readjusting in the ‘new norm. This include an adaptation to working and studying from home, loneliness and homelessness.
An Embroidery of Old Maps and New
Voice, music and image interweave to celebrate the woman who migrated from a Cypriot village to work in the Thomastown factory sewing clothes. A trio of videopoems hosted on the Greek Australian Cultural League's website are accessed by older migrants who settled in Melbourne in the 1950s-60s.
In my father's garden
During May and June I spent time with my father in his garden in the Strathbogie Ranges in Victoria. I’ve been working on a video capturing this time, my father’s lifelong passion for gardening, and the inspiration I’ve derived from it. Music: Jim White, Xylouris White Picciotto, Marisa Anderson.
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