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Arts Queensland’s monthly update of arts and culture

December 2013

Great state. Great opportunity.

Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts

Madeleine Ekeblad, Arts Minister Ian Walker, Ruth Bonetti and Antoni Bonetti at the Culture Champions morning tea. See page three for the full story.

In this final edition for 2013, we acknowledge Queensland’s

Culture Champions and the many faces that shape arts and

culture in Queensland, with great photos from our Culture

Champions morning tea. Check out what’s hot in January

(besides the temperature) and Arts Support Officer Linda

Dreghorn offers her invaluable monthly tips, tools and

resources for securing financial support. Our office is closed

from 25 December 2013 to 1 January 2014 inclusive.

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Earlier this month I was delighted to deliver the Arts for all Queenslanders strategy.

This is an important milestone and represents the great ideas and feedback of 2000 Queenslanders who took part in eight months of consultation and workshops across the state.

The Arts for all Queenslanders strategy will allow us to figure out how best to develop and grow our arts and cultural sector. The strategy places Queenslanders – as participants, volunteers, creators, consumers and keepers of arts and culture – at its heart.

It provides a framework to grow the arts sector and build a community of arts by building returns on arts and cultural investment, bolstering the sector’s commercial and entrepreneurial capacity, growing public value for arts and culture and strengthening cultural tourism.

I encourage you to get online and read the strategy at www.arts.qld.gov.au/AFAQ

One of the initiatives of Arts for all Queenslanders is Culture Champions – a program that continues to be an inspiration. On Tuesday 17 December, we brought a group of Culture Champions together to celebrate the incredible contributions each of these individuals make to the creative life of our state.

It was wonderful to see so many talented and dedicated artists and arts workers in one room learning from one another and making connections. I thank every one of our Culture Champions for what they do every day and for making our sector the success that it is. I am looking forward to working with our Culture Champions next year.

I wish you all a very festive Christmas and New Year and thank you for your ongoing commitment to our dynamic arts industry.

The Honourable Ian Walker MPMinister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts

Minister for the Arts

Minister Ian Walker at the Culture Champions morning tea

Message from the

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More than 70 of Queensland’s Culture Champions recently mixed and mingled at The Edge, where they were congratulated by the Arts Minister Ian Walker for their role in growing a vibrant arts and culture sector.

The Champions, who represent a broad arts spectrum, met the Arts Minister and were treated to a special performance by this year’s Billy Thorpe Scholarship winner and Indie-pop darling Jeremy Neale [see story on page six].

Culture Champions is a Queensland Government initiative that recognises the many faces that shape arts and culture in Queensland. There are now over 170 Culture Champions on Arts

Culture Champion Samara Welbourne and father Adrian (left), with Arts Minister Ian Walker

Queensland’s Wall of Fame coming from the areas of visual art, design, literature, music, film, cultural philanthropy and more.

We would like to thank the Culture Champions as well as the people who have taken the time to nominate them.

To view our Culture Champions page visit www.arts.qld.gov.au/culturechampions or search the hashtag #CultureChampions on Instagram.

Culture Championsmorning tea

Arts Update teamThanks for reading us in 2013. We will be back in February 2014.

Best wishes for ahappy Christmas and New Year.

From the

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Museum of BrisbaneFor the past decade, the Museum of Brisbane has been revealing the hidden stories and extraordinary people who make up the narration of Brisbane. To celebrate its 10-year anniversary the Museum has released its first online-only exhibition 10 Years, 10 Stories, which uses text, images and film that monumentalise ideas and memories from yesteryear and now. Also on show is Fellow Humans, a mini-sculpture exhibition by Stephen Hart that portrays 20 people who make up the artist’s immediate community, or who have caught his eye, many of whom have played a role in contributing towards a creative life in Brisbane.

View the 10 Years, 10 Stories online exhibition here.

Fellow Humans is on show until 2 March.

Museum of Brisbane, Level 3 City Hall, King George Square.

www.museumofbrisbane.com.au/ten

Fresh CutNow in its 16th year, Fresh Cut is an annual exhibition showcasing the Institute of Modern Art’s pick of emerging local artists. This year IMA Director Robert Leonard and artist and QUT lecturer Grant Stevens have selected four artists Joseph Breikers, Caitlin Franzmann, Anita Holtsclaw, and Ruth McConchie to receive $5,000 to produce new works for the show, assisted by an Creative Sparks grant from Brisbane City Council and Arts Queensland. Fresh Cut 2013: Part 2 showcases Holtsclaw’s cinematic representation of women in cinema and McConchie’s maze-like installations of perversity and vouyerism. Fresh Cut 2013: Part 2 showcases Holtsclaw’s cinematic representation of women in cinema and McConchie’s maze-like installations exploring perversity and vouyerism.

Fresh Cut 2013: Part 2 is on show until 8 March 2014.

Institute of Modern Art, Fortitude Valley Brisbane

http://ima.org.au/

Bleach* FestivalCelebrating the art and culture of Gold Coast beach and surf lifestyle, the Bleach* Festival promises to wow audiences with an exciting program of live music, visual art, beach concerts, theatre, performing arts and film. The main programs for Bleach* will be held on the Southern Gold Coast, with satellite events throughout the Northern Gold Coast and across the city. Musical acts include Violent Soho, Elizabeth Rose, The Trouble With Templeton, Band Of Frequencies, Hey Geronimo + more.

Bleach* Festival is on 7–23 March 2014, Gold Coast

www.bleachfestival.com.au.

What’s hotJanuary to March 2014

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Stephan Hart, Fellow Humans 2013. Photo: courtesy of Museum of BrisbaneAnita Holtsclaw, Palaces 2013. Photo: Sam CranstounElizabeth Rose, photo: courtesy of Bleach* Festival

January to March 2014

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Queensland indie pop sensation Jeremy Neale has taken out the Queensland Government’s annual Billy Thorpe Scholarship for 2013.

Mr Neale, a rising star on the national music scene, will receive the $10,000 scholarship which is targeted at emerging musicians.

Jeremy is having a stellar year. He was a finalist in the Queensland Government’s 2013 Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship, 2013 winner

of The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Most Popular Male artist at the Queensland Music Awards in August and has a hit In Stranger Times in top rotation on Triple J.

Jeremy says the Billy Thorpe Scholarship couldn’t have come at a better time for the development of his career.

“It will allow me to start work much sooner than anticipated on my debut album and to also

wins the Billy Thorpe Scholarship in 2013Rising star Jeremy Neale

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Jeremy Neale performs

wins the Billy Thorpe Scholarship in 2013spend time improving my skills as a performer and songwriter.

“I’d like to think that Billy Thorpe would approve of what I’m doing musically, given that he and his contemporaries are a great inspiration to me. Thanks for believing and rest assured I’ll do my best for the city, the state and Australian music as a whole.”

The finalists were Felicity Lawless, Hannah Karydas and Michael Morgan.

The Billy Thorpe Scholarship was established to help musicians follow in Thorpe’s footsteps. The singer spent his formative years in Brisbane, leaving an enormous legacy to the Australian rock music scene in over five decades of performing, writing and producing.

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In keeping with the Arts for all Queenslanders Strategy which was released by Minister Walker on 17 December, Arts Queensland continues to work on ways it can support the sector to demonstrate its artistic, cultural, social and economic returns on investment.

I would encourage any artist or arts and cultural organisation seeking investment whether through funding programs, philanthropy, Crowdfunding or corporate sponsorship to look at the new outcome reports, resources and tools available on the Arts Queensland website http://www.arts.qld.gov.au/funding/outcome_reports.html . These resources will help any-one seeking investment to clearly articulate their value and the impact of any investment.

The tools and resources include facts sheets on counting attendances, tracking online data and evaluating social impact; sample satisfaction surveys; and tools and resources for evaluation. Following receipt

of an outcome report for the Individuals, Project and Programs or Organisations Funds, Arts Queensland will publish a case study. The publication of the case studies will provide a platform to highlight the great outcomes and impact of funding as well as being a place where learnings and reflections can be shared. Together the case studies will build a clear picture of the value of the government’s investment and help to tell the story of the importance of arts and culture in our community.

Being able to concisely convey your project is also important when seeking corporate sponsorship or philanthropic support. Tips for seeking corporate sponsorship include:

• Corporatesponsorsexpectareturn on investment – what are you providing?

– Are you in an area the company is working in or hoping to work?

– Will the project help the company with its image as a good corporate citizen or

with Linda Dreghorn

Funding Update

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Funding Updatemeet other obligations it might have?

– Is your audience the company’s target demographic?

• Doyourresearch–whichcompanies are active in your area?

– Are there companies working on any infrastructure projects?

– What industries operate in the vicinity?

• Exploityournetworks–whodo you know in the target company?

– A personal introduction is more likely to be successful than cold calling.

• Doyourhomework–whichcorporations support arts and culture?

– Look on the websites of arts and cultural organisations and see who supports them.

– Look at the websites of target sponsors which will often say what the company is interested in supporting

Got a great arts story? We want to hear from you. Please contact Arts Update by emailing jill.martin@arts.qld.gov.au

About us: Arts Queensland is part of the Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts.

For more information on Arts Queensland go to www.arts.qld.gov.au or call 1800175531

For more information on Queensland Government go to www.qld.gov.au

• Putyourbestfootforward–do you have a pithy, concise one-pager that clearly describes what you are seeking funding for and what your value proposition is?

• Findoutaboutthecompany– what are its values and future goals?

– Companies especially resource and infrastructure companies will have a wealth of useful information on their websites such social impact management plans, mission statements etc

– Are there companies with an historical connection to your area?

Doing your research and taking a strategic approach is likely to save you precious time and focus your resources on sponsorship leads with the best chances of success.