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Community Cultural Development organisations
King Street Arts Centre organisations
Government Departments:
Australia Council for the Arts
The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body.
Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA)
DCA is the Western Australian State Government agency responsible for the Government’s support of arts and culture in Western Australia.
Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
The Federal Department administers programs and policies that encourage excellence in artistic effort, support for cultural heritage and public access to arts and culture.
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) is the Australian Government's principal source of advice on social policy and is responsible for about a quarter of the government's budgetary outlays.
Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA WA)
DIA engages with Indigenous people and all levels of Government to improve service delivery and facilitates the development of policy and programs which deliver sustainable economic, environmental and social benefits to Indigenous communities.
Festivals Australia is an Australian Government program which funds Australian regional and community festivals to present quality cultural projects. Funding is available to add a new or special sort of cultural activity.
To be eligible for funding, an activity must not have been previously presented and must be one that could not be afforded without the funding.
Funding bodies:
Healthway (the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation) functions under Section 15 of the Part 5 of the Tobacco Products Control Act 2006 as an independent statutory body reporting to the Minister for Health.
Lotterywest grants are as diverse as the community itself. They support wide variety of community-based proposals to enhance the lives of Western Australians right across our State.
Relationships Australia is one of Australia’s largest community-based, not-for-profit organisations providing relationship support to people regardless of age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, lifestyle choice, or cultural or economic background. We are a national, values-based organisation that has no religious affiliation.
AusCAN:
Community Cultural Development New South Wales (CCDNSW)
CCDNSW - Providing advocacy and support services for the 1000+ CCD practitioners and artists busy at work in NSW as well as the many organisations, corporations and local councils who use or need their incredible talents.
Cultural Development Network Victoria
The Cultural Development Network is an independent non-profit group that links communities, artists, local councils and organisations across Victoria.
Community Arts Network South Australia (CANSA)
CAN SA is the peak body for community arts and is the principal source of community cultural development, information, advice and support services in South Australia.
Tasmanian Regional Arts (TRA) is the peak organisation for regional arts and community based arts in Tasmania. TRA is a dynamic network organisation that assists artists and inspires communities through arts engagement and cultural experience.
Darwin Community Arts enriches and inspires Darwin by facilitating arts and cultural development that reflects and celebrates our communities’ diversity and creativity.
Arts Nexus is a non profit, member-based regional arts development and cultural industry association providing services for the arts, entertainment and cultural sector in Far North Queensland.
Community Cultural Development organisations/websites:
activate - Fairfield City's Guide to managing community-based art projects
A kit prepared by Fairfield City Council to explain the steps involved in organising a community-based arts project.
ArtsYakka is an online resource of practical tools and templates, information and ideas to take some of the 'hard yakka' out of developing community arts.
Community Cultural Development in Australia (ccd.net)
ccd.net is the home of community cultural development in Australia on the internet.
Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts (DADAA)
DADAA Inc. is a not-for-profit Community Cultural Development organization. Based in Fremantle, Australia, we have been a catalyst for the development of an inclusive approach to the arts and culture of Western Australia for more than ten years.
Footscray Community Arts Centre (Footscray Arts) works with communities and artists to produce community focused arts activities. Located in Melbourne, Victoria.
The aim of Pittwater Community Arts (PCA) is to enhance, embrace and extend the arts and cultural life of the Pittwater shire (located on the northern most tip of Sydney's Northern beaches). The concept of an umbrella organisation that searches for the true vision of the cultural essence of Pittwater is our ultimate goal.
The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information. Headquartered at its Web site on the Internet, CAN is a program of Art in the Public Interest (API), a nonprofit organization based in North Carolina, USA.
Arts Organisations:
King Street Arts Centre organisations:
Artsource is an exemplary membership and advocacy body for visual artists in Western Australia, that inspires, expands and improves the profile and sustainability of artists and the sector. Artsource is also located in the King Street Arts Centre.
Ausdance WA promotes awareness and understanding of, and access to, dance in WA and throughout Australia.
The Blue Room is the trading name of the Performing Arts Centre Society (PACS) a membership-based not-for-profit organisation that provides resources and services to independent performing arts practitioners.
Buzz Dance Theatre is Australia’s premier dance theatre company for children and young people. Nationally awarded as a leader in our field, we make performances and lead workshops that are designed specifically to foster creativity in all its shapes and forms.
Country Arts WA is an independant, not-for-profit organisation that ensures regional communities are able to use culture and the arts as part of their communities development and celebration. Country Arts WA is also located in the King Street Arts Centre.
FORM is an independent cultural organisation which works to enhance Western Australia's competiveness and creativity through creative, cultural and social capacity building projects. FORM is also located in the King Street Arts Centre.
Performing Lines develops produces and tours new Australian performance nationally and internationally.
STEPS Youth Dance Company works with young dancers to create physically expressive and feverishly electric dancetheatre.
STRUT offers support to independent 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.
The Western Australian Youth Theatre Company (WAYTCO) was founded in 1990 to develop and present drama and theatre with, by and for young Western Australians in collaboration with a dedicated team of theatre arts.
WA:
Art Gallery of Western Australia
ARTRAGE is one of the most dynamic production companies and support mechanisms for contemporary culture in Western Australia.
AWESOME ARTS AUSTRALIA Ltd (AWESOME) is a not for profit arts company based in Perth, Western Australia. AWESOME aims to inspire creativity in young people by developing arts projects that will engage them, inspire them and encourage them to think creatively.
Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts Australia (DADAA WA)
DADAA Inc. is a not-for-profit Community Cultural Development organization. Based in Fremantle, Australia, we have been a catalyst for the development of an inclusive approach to the arts and culture of Western Australia for more than ten years.
KULCHA - Multicultural arts of Western Australia
KULCHA Multicultural Arts of Western Australia was established in 1983 as the Ethnic Music Centre and is today the state's peak presenter of multicultural arts and Australia's leading world music venue.
National Trust of Australia (WA)
The National Trust of Australia (Western Australia) is the pre-eminent community based heritage organization in Western Australia. Established through an act of parliament in 1959, and with a large and active membership, the National Trust plays a pivotal role in heritage education and advocacy as well as the management of heritage sites throughout WA. Many of these sites are open to the public.
Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF)
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is a place where visitors can experience the work of local, Australian and international artists working in the areas of visual, performing, new media and hybrid arts.
Propelarts exists to propel Youth Arts and Culture in Western Australia.
ScreenWest is Western Australia's screen funding and development agency, committed to working in partnership with the screen industry to develop, support and promote film, television and digital media production in Western Australia.
Skadada is Australia’s unique and innovative multi-artform circus company.
The State Library of Western Australia
Only 10 minutes west of Perth's central business district, the Subiaco Arts Centre is a multi-purpose venue surrounded by magnificent gardens often used for craft fairs, wedding photographs, picnics, and free summer twilight concerts presented by the City of Subiaco.
WAFTA (Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association)
WAFTA was established in 1996 with the primary function of supporting and advocating Western Australian fibre and textile practice.
Western Australian Music Industry Association (WAM)
WAM, the West Australian Music Industry Association Inc, exists to develop the contemporary music industry in WA.
Collections and research at the WA Museum are centered on systematics, ecology, biogeography and evolution of living and fossil organisms, palaeontology, mineralogy, meteoritics, anthropology and archaeology, history, maritime history, maritime archaeology and conservation. Explore the collections and exhibitions from one of our six branches including Perth, Maritime, Fremantle History, Albany, Geraldton and Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra is Western Australia’s largest and busiest performing arts company. It plays a central role in the heart of musical life in Western Australia, performing over 130 concerts each year with some of the world’s most illustrious conductors and soloists to audiences in excess of 180 000.
West Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra
The WA Youth Jazz Orchestra under the talented Artistic Team of Graeme Lyall AM, James Morrison, John Morrison, Joe Chindamo, Mace Francis and Daryl Somers is the only organisation in Australia with the national and international reputation to bring together the best and most talented young Australian Jazz musicians.
As the peak body for writing and associated activities in WA, writingWA seeks to advance the collective interests of our member organisations and the literary sector in WA.
WA theatre companies:
Black Swan Theatre Company is Western Australia’s Flagship Theatre Company and one of Australia’s foremost theatre companies.
Barking Gecko Theatre Company is Western Australia's leading professional theatre company performing for young people 5-17 years and their families.
Perth Theatre Company has been producing professional theatre in Western Australia since first being founded in Fremantle as SWY theatre 1983.
Since 1956, the Playhouse Theatre has been 'home' to several professional theatre companies, and first choice as a performance venue for touring drama and dance productions.
The portal for Australian Theatre.
Yirra Yaakin (Yir-raarh Yaarh-kin) Aboriginal Corporation is Australia’s leading Indigenous theatre company. Located in Perth, Western Australia, the company sits proudly in the heart of the Noongar nation, in fact, the name Yirra Yaakin means ‘Stand Tall’ in Noongar language.
artistcareer is an independent, non-commercial website that offers high quality resources and information to support professional and business skills development for artists.
Arts Hub is the leading online publisher of creative industry information, currently serving over 50,000 creative professionals and more than 600 organisations in Australia.
Artworkers exists to support the people working in the visual art, craft and design industries in Queensland and Australia.
The Arts Law Centre of Australia is the national legal community centre for arts in Australia.
blueBanksia helps you to find visual art tutors and workshops across Australia.
Craft Australia is the national advocacy organisation representing professional Australian craft and design at a national and international level. The organisation has been celebrating the achievements of Australian professional craft practice for over thirty years.
National Association for Visual Arts Ltd (NAVA)
The National Association for the Visual Art (NAVA) is the peak body representing and advancing the professional interests of the Australian visual arts and craft sector.
Carclew Youth Arts covers the broad spectrum of youth arts and creates opportunities for children and young people from many kinds of backgrounds, from urban centres and sometimes isolated areas of South Australia, to discover and explore their creativity and to develop a fuller awareness and appreciation of themselves, the arts and their society.
Top End Arts Marketing is a not-for-profit organisation that works with arts organisations and artists in the Top End of the NT to spread the word out about the astonishing range of art coming out of the region.
Community sites
City Farm is an organic community garden, education and network centre that operates on permaculture principles. We promote healthy urban environments that are productive and diverse.
Community Television Perth (CTV Perth)
CTV Perth Inc. is a not for profit member based television production service actively providing an open access for local dialogue. The service reflects a diverse range of expressions and views; cultivates a sense of community; encourages participation, learning, innovation and promotes competence in audio-visual skills. As a result, CTV Perth produces television programmes with the community and for the community which reflect Australia’s rich multicultural diversity and heritage.
mystylelocal.net is a life, style, culture and entertainment site. It informs, entertains and promotes Perth as a culturally live city for both locals and visitors.
NOISE is a global creative community, offering emerging artists their own online galleries to showcase their talents, as well as opportunities to have their work viewed by industry leaders across many disciplines.
YMCA Headquarters (HQ) is a not-for-profit community based youth facility located in Leederville, Western Australia. You will be amazed to see the range of facilities and services we offer.
Our Community is a world-leading social enterprise that provides advice and tools for Australia's 700,000 community groups and schools, and practical linkages between the community sector and the general public, business and government.
www.ScoopCommunity.com.au provides the West Australian community with a free resource to enable all community organisations to promote their services and what they require to increase their impact on the community.
SMYL Community Services is one of WA's largest not-for-profit community organisations, and a leader in the development of new and innovative employment and training programs.
What's on where in Kalgoorlie.
General sites
Artabase is a professional, online network that unites art collectors and art lovers with contemporary art, artists and dealers.
We provide information, advice and training about copyright in Australia. We also produce publications, do research, and make submissions on copyright policy issues.
Duck for Cover is an incorporated association for Australian performers. The group, run by volunteers, exists to make available to its members reasonably priced public liability insurance cover.
Language Factory, a social enterprise of Infoxchange Australia, is a community resource that aims to provide affordable and responsive interpreting and translation services to diverse sectors of the community; government, non-government & community organisations.
Search for Australian art prizes, residencies, grants and scholarships.