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

  • Public art at Roundabout in Mt. Druitt

    Aboriginal Designs for Mosaics at roundabout in Carlisle Ave and Jersey Rd: Artist/Danny Eastwood. Fabrication and installation: Franco and Dennis Collusi Signage mosaic works at roundabout in Calisle and Woodstock Ave.: Artists/Abbas Makrab

    Public Art - Mt Druitt Roundabout Project Council’s 2007-08 Works Improvement Program allocated funds towards the landscape improvement of the Jersey Rd and Carlisle Ave roundabout and later to a…

  • Smart Arts

    Smart Arts

    Smart Arts is for Newcastle and Hunter artists and arts organisations. It is about providing opportunities for the arts and cultural sector to meet, network and source information that has been…

  • Mental As!

    Mental As! Participants

    Mental As! was established on the premise that 17 out of 20 people in Australia will experience mental health issues, either personally or through someone they know. It is also the biggest health issue…

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Featured Videos

  • Bloomin' Arts Boomalli Aboriginal Cooperative
  • Pat Barraclough in Why she Loves Where she Lives
  • Spiraling Down by Calyca Rose
  • Stories of Love & Hate by Urban Theatre Projects
  • Powerlines by The Kthanxbyes
  • PEREGRINE - 2. Finding a Seat
  • CatchingDreams
  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • Bill Hoskins on why he loves where he lives
  • Imagine
  • When a Stranger Calls... Again
  • Once upon a time in Mosman...
  • PEREGRINE - 4. The Departure - Letting Go

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Featured Photos

  • Singing Quilt Logo - Quilt by Southern Highlands Embroiderers Guild
  • The 08/09 AYT Artistic Program image
  • 2009 FEBRUARY, 24TH - The official opening marks an exciting beginning for a renewed Cavanbah Centre, bringing back to life a facility to serve the whole community. Cavanbah Centre represents a facility for the future and is an add-on to the well used Community Village complex, which will oversee the management of the Centre.
  • Musicians performed against a backdrop of live projections inspired by the work of local artists.
  • Cultural Plan document front cover
  • Portrait of Captail Cook
  • For improving the cultural awareness and harmony for the local community in Parramatta, the library brochures in thirteen different community languages are always put together with the new borrower's registration form.
  • Clarence Creative offers assistance to individuals, businesses and/or organisations who are attempting to make a living through creative activities primarily as a business interest.
  • Banner image for Spring/Summer "Look Who's Joined the Library" campaign.
  • Talking Tree Project in North St Marys: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists Vicki Thom and Greg Simms led the local community to create a community meeting place under a Talking Tree, inclusive of all cultures to sit, reflect and relax in North St Marys. An initiative by North St Marys involving a range of community partners including the local school, parents group and the local shops. This project was funded by Magnetic Places Community Cultural Grants Program 2008.
  • Traditional Ceremonial welcome circle with Aboriginal messenger carrying a message stick and spear and 2 dig players
  • Back page of the Library brochure. A generic library information which can be implemented in other public libraries.
  • Annette Webb and Friends exhibition.

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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