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

  • The Underline Project

    Examples of the mix of work that can be seen in The Underline Project.

    In 2007, Ashfield Council received letters from St Vincent Primary School Year 4 students asking if Council would do something about the pedestrian walkway under the Ashfield railway station. Words…

  • Stories of Love & Hate

    One picture representing the project

    Stories of Love & Hate is a theatre work developed through an extensive interview process with 65 residents from the Bankstown and Sutherland Shire LGAs, revealing the lives and loves of people…

  • Artists Communities and Places

    Art In The Park – Four exciting workshops in fruit, vegetable, butter and ice sculpture were held at Don Bosco Youth Centre for young people and their families from many cultures followed by an exhibition of Filipino Australian arts and ideas at Coachmans Park in St Marys. An initiative by Dante Barcoma, auspiced by Philippine Australian Community Services Incorporated (PACSI) with community partners Don Bosco Youth Centre and Information Cultural Exchange (ICE).This project was funded by and given mentoring support on the ground by Magnetic Places Community Cultural Grants Program 2008.

    Two dynamic pilot programs developed by Penrith City Council have provided vital support to Community Cultural Development projects in Penrith, introducing Magnetic Places Community Cultural Grants…

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Featured Videos

  • Bloomin' Arts Boomalli Aboriginal Cooperative
  • Adam Bailey on Why he Loves Where he Lives
  • Stories of Love & Hate by Urban Theatre Projects
  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • When a Stranger Calls... Again
  • Powerlines by The Kthanxbyes
  • PEREGRINE - 4. The Departure - Letting Go
  • 2day 2morrow African Youth - The Facts... The Fiction
  • Once upon a time in Mosman...
  • PEREGRINE - 1. Waiting
  • Maximum Choppage: Round 2 Trailer
  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • PEREGRINE - 2. Finding a Seat

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Featured Photos

  • 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.
  • Examples of the mix of work that can be seen in The Underline Project.
  • Smart Arts
  • New wing added to the rear of the heritage town hall, for new children's library on ground floor and on first floor, local history items and storage of equipment for the main hall.
  • Didge workshop as part of PPF 5
  • 'The Q' exterior with the striking anthracite zinc finish
  • Casula Powerhouse Theatre
  • Local youth band "The Kythanxbyes" music video
  • Sowing Seeds, Growing Stories and Harvesting Families participants, Grandmother and Grandson show us what they have made.
  • Gallery Installation
  • John Griffiths, General Manager and Cr Tim Horan, Mayor Coonamble Shire Council join Paul Tosi, General Manager and Cr Russell Matheson, Mayor Campbelltown City Council at the launch of the Festival of Fisher's Ghost Art Award on 28th November 2008 at the Campbelltown Arts Centre.
  • Member of the Hornsby Youth Collective learning stencil registration techniques with artist, Wendy Murray.
  • Right hand panel of Windows

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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