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Pool
September 2008
Pool is a social media project developed by ABC Radio National. It's a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers - upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. It's a collaborative space where audiences become makers.
STRUT dance
Image courtesy of STRUT.
August 2008
Founded in 2002, STRUT is located in the King Street Arts Centre, in the centre of Perth. STRUT dance offers support to independent Western Australian dance artists so that they can create and produce their own work. The flexibility of artistic direction and breadth of membership allows STRUT to support emerging and established artists who work across a range of contemporary dance practices.
FORM | Building a state of creativity
Junko Maruyama installing Silent Flower Field in Wolf Lane for Field of Ideas. Image courtesy of FORM.
August 2008
FORM is an independent cultural organisation which works to enhance Western Australia's competitiveness and creativity through creative, cultural and social capacity building projects. Guided by the principle of Creative Capital, FORM develops and manages projects across four program areas that aim to stimulate creative, sustainable and connected communities. FORM's program areas are: Regional Development; Indigenous Development (especially Kimberley and Pilbara regions); Place Activation (urban clusters); and Industry Development (encompassing the creative industries development at Midland - Atelier).
Screen Australia
July 2008
Screen Australia is the Commonwealth Government's new screen agency replacing the Australian Film commission, Film Australia and the Film Finance Corporation. This new organisation has come to fruition out of the necessity for focus on ensuring a strong voice across Australian film, television, documentary and children's programs. Screen Australia provides support to Australian film, television, documentary and digital media makers and aims to put the industry on a new growth path.
Artistcareer
Image courtesy of Artistcareer.
July 2008
The National Association for the Visual Arts and the Australia Business Arts Foundation have launched a new website for visual art, craft and design practitioners. Artistcareer is an independent, non-commercial website whose goal is to offer high quality resources and information to support artists' professional and business skills development.
Culture Victoria
Kylie Minogue. Image courtesy of The Arts Centre.
June 2008
Culture Victoria (CV) is a collaborative partnership that uses broadband to deliver media-rich experiences of collections, culture and communities. With a wealth of previously unseen digitised material, CV provides access to collections, including the ability to research material from across the network, behind-the-scenes insights from experts such as curators and artists, and a listing of over 700 of Victoria's collecting organisations.
ABC Indigenous
June 2008
ABC Indigenous is the ABC's new portal for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Indigenous portal replaces and upgrades the pre-existing Message Stick gateway. It was developed in consultation with the ABC's Indigenous Programs Unit and with members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
Australia's heritage
Kakadu National Park. Image courtesy of the Australian heritage photographic database.
June 2008
Heritage is all the things that make up Australia's identity - our spirit and ingenuity, our historic buildings, and our unique, living landscapes. Our heritage is a legacy from our past, a living, integral part of life today, and the stories and places we pass on to future generations. Discover Australia's heritage on the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts' heritage website.
Craft ACT
Georgina Donovan, Grind at Craft ACT. Image courtesy of Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre.
May 2008
Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre provides a unique service to craft and design practitioners and audiences in Canberra and the region. Craft ACT delivers cultural programs and recognises the ongoing need of Canberra craft and design artists to have access to: a professional exhibition program, professional development opportunities promotion and commercial services and advocacy on behalf of the sector.
Linking cultures
May 2008The international program, Indigo, has launched its new website. The program is presented by Icograda - the world body for professional communication design, in partnership with Australia 's National Design Centre, and provides a platform for Indigenous design.
New website for Regional Arts NSW
May 2008After several months of work in collaboration with website designers and techies, Regional Arts NSW have launched their new website and new e-bulletin format.
Q Station
Q station, Defiance immersion theatre . Image courtesy of Quarantine Station.
The North Head Quarantine Station is a large historic site within the Sydney Harbour National Park, near Manly. North Head has long been a meeting place for the Garrigal people. At a beach close to the former Quarantine Station, there was an early incidence of the stealing of Aboriginal women and subsequent spearing of Governor Phillip. From the 1830s to 1984 migrant ships arriving in Sydney with suspected contagious disease stopped inside North Head and off-loaded their passengers and crew into quarantine to protect local residents from becoming sick. In some instances, Sydney residents suspected of contagious disease were removed from their homes and quarantined with the immigrants.
New website for ANAT
May 2008ANAT is Australia's leading cultural organisation working at the intersection of art, science & technology, networked & emergent art practices, experimental music & sound arts, and mobile & portable platforms.
Crawl - news for artist run initiatives
April 2008Crawl is an online news resource for Artist Run Initiatives around Australia. Also referred to as ARIs, an Artist Run Initiative is an organisation established by artists for the purpose of providing an environment to produce and present new art. Typically run by young emerging artists, ARIs are a constant source of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art being produced.
Australia Council for the Arts
Arts Yarn Up Summer 2008. Image courtesy of the Australia Council for the Arts.
The Australia Council for the Arts has a new website. In 2006-07, the Australia Council provided $156 million in total funding through 1,799 grants, projects and initiatives to artists and arts organisations. This funding supported the creation of 4,476 new artistic works, the presentation of 3,636 new artistic works and 9.3 million attendances at arts events.
Hogarth Arts
February 2008Hogarth Arts features the artwork of Stephen Hogarth, an award-winning Indigenous artist based in Brisbane. The website provides information on artworks, photography and other products available for sale.
Buzz Words
February 2008Buzz Words is Australia's only ezine exclusively for people in the children's book industry. It has competitions and opportunities for children's authors, illustrators, editors and librarians as well as interviews, book reviews, up-to-date information on the industry and columns of general interest.
Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network
February 2008
The Environmental History Network is an affiliation between people from all departments of the Australian National University, surrounding institutions and private individuals living in the Australian Capital Territory (or nearby) interested in environmental history. Environmental history is the study of the interactions between people and nature in the past, and how they have changed with time.
DiscoverHuntersHill
February 2008DiscoverHuntersHill is a website dedicated to historic Hunters Hill - Australia's oldest garden suburb. The website has an extensive Calendar of Events, including Festivals, music, theatre, artist exhibitions, museums, guided walks and tours, walking trails/maps, archived historical information and more.
Design Victoria
Image courtesy of Design Victoria.
Design Victoria is a new Victorian Government initiative designed to increase industry awareness and utilisation of Victoria 's world leading design capability to grow their business, improve competitiveness, find new markets and increase the competitive skills for Victorian designers to succeed in local and global markets. Through collaboration with major associations and bodies representing Victoria 's business, manufacturing and design sectors and design education institutions, Melbourne's RMIT University is delivering three major components of the Design Victoria Strategy.
Key online resources
Institutions and government organisations
Collection resources
- Collections Council of Australia - Australian Framework and Action Plan for Digital Heritage Collections
Online publications
Featured websites/projects
Culture Portal website collection
- Submit a website to www.culture.gov.au
- Website collection policy
- Application of the website collection policy
To contact us with your news and events, please email the News Editor, NewsEditor at culture dot gov dot au, including the URL of your website.
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