The New South Wales Local Government Cultural Awards celebrate council cultural success. Award winners were announced on the evening of 1 May 2009. Here you can browse all nominated and winning projects for 2009. To view photos from the Awards Evening, please visit EventPix.

Featured Projects

  • Spring into Arts 2008

    Spring into Arts calendar, November 2008

    Spring into Arts was a pilot arts marketing project initiated by Hornsby Shire Council in 2008. Consultation with the arts and cultural community in Hornsby Shire revealed that, while there were…

  • Culture in the Chambers – ‘inSights inSounds’ & ‘Summer Moonlight Cinema’

    Home-grown ARIA & Urban Music Award nominated hip hop performers, Foreign Heights, showcased the resilience of youth arts culture in Western Sydney.

    A new take on a traditional program - 'inSights inSounds' and ‘Summer Moonlight Cinema’ brought local youth art and urban culture together with new-media technology to enliven Council's Culture in the…

  • Creative Imagination

    A selection of characters from Harry Potter Theme Party. Includes Council staff and Youth Council members and local children with their prizes for the best dressed.

    Moree Plains Shire Council conducts regular children's theme parties in partnership with the Moree Youth Council, Moree Community Library and the PCYC for the pre-school to year 1.

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Featured Videos

  • When a Stranger Calls... Again
  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • Adam Bailey on Why he Loves Where he Lives
  • Celebrating Diversity
  • 2day 2morrow African Youth - The Facts... The Fiction
  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • Childhood Dreamers by Maria Kyriacos
  • Spiraling Down by Calyca Rose
  • Once upon a time in Mosman...
  • Pat Barraclough in Why she Loves Where she Lives
  • Powerlines by The Kthanxbyes
  • CatchingDreams
  • Wendy Dowton on Why she Loves Where she Lives

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Featured Photos

  • Women from the Resourceful Indian Network preparing the food at the final celebration
  • Exhibition at the Coonamble Library 2008
  • The crowd gathered at Harmony Day celebrations, March 2008 at the Albury Community Wood Fired Oven. A puff of smoke from the Oven and the band plays on.
  • Community members got together to knit blankets for distribution by local charity organisation
  • Young dancers featured in the Kung Hei Fat Choy photographic exhibition.
  • Singing Quilt Logo - Quilt by Southern Highlands Embroiderers Guild
  • Kids reading not going to the dogs! Toby from the Delta Society of Australia enjoying stories (and pats) from BaRK participants at Lake Macquarie City Library
  • Sowing Seeds, Growing Stories and Harvesting Families participants, Grandmother and Grandson show us what they have made.
  • Screen shot of Cultural Plan website
  • Spring into Arts calendar, November 2008
  • Casula Powerhouse photo by Brett Boardman
  • The participating women from Spring Glory Womens Association at the final celebration
  • Participants Lea Tucker and Ann Brandon have a coffee at Museums Connect 2008.

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The Blog

  • CAMRA website launches - join in!

    3 August, 2009

    CAMRA (Cultural Asset Mapping in Regional Australia) is a major Australian Research Council and industry funded project which will provide planners, policy-makers and local communities with the information they need to plan for a future in regional Australia that integrates the effective development of the arts and cultural industries. LGSA is an project partner.

  • Arts forums and networks for councils – regional attendance reimbursed

    7 July, 2009

    LGSA in partnership with CCDNSW are presenting a series of six arts and cultural development forums for councils in 2009....

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Organised By

  • Local Government Association of NSW, Shires Association of NSW

Sponsors

  • Country Energy
  • accessibleArts. Arts + Disability NSW