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

  • Having a Field Day

    One of the student's photographs from the Having a Field Day exhibition

    On 13 August 2008 Kogarah Council held a sporting day for students with a disability from local schools. The field day was held in partnership with Recreation Sports & Aquatic Club, the Australian…

  • 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…

  • New Art Education Facility and Program

    Children's program at the official launch of the art education facility, August 2008

    Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery [LMCAG] is an exceptional cultural and tourist destination offering a range of experiences for visitors of all ages and interests. The gallery’s innovative and relevant…

Featured Videos

  • Spiraling Down by Calyca Rose
  • PEREGRINE - 2. Finding a Seat
  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • Celebrating Diversity
  • PEREGRINE - 4. The Departure - Letting Go
  • Imagine
  • CatchingDreams
  • Bill Hoskins on why he loves where he lives
  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • Maximum Choppage: Round 2 Trailer
  • Powerlines by The Kthanxbyes
  • Pat Barraclough in Why she Loves Where she Lives
  • When a Stranger Calls... Again

Featured Photos

  • Christmas menu from Sid's Restaurant, Carramar, 1956.
  • Toby making friends before the reading begins...
  • Local residents "dream up their park" actively contributing to the development of a playground in their neighbourhood. Artist David Capra explains the process the community undertook to 'dream up their park' : “The models took the form of plasticine, paddle-pops, pipe cleaners, coloured paper and foil among other craft media, where children felt free to play with ideas….the objects included a telescope, microscope, spider webs, ponds, fountains, jumping equipment (made from a large sponge), flowerbeds, bridges and climbing and Parkour equipment. There were also suggestions of sculptures in the form of a dinosaur, clouds, and wind catches. Throughout, themes that appeared frequently were animals and nature.”
  • Taking a bite of a pizza at the oven.
  • A snapshot of part of the scene at the Blokes Bake with the crowd, the soccer ball being kicked around and the sports cars in the background.
  • Works by Anne Thomson exhibited on the Trail
  • Sydney Street Choir
  • Quilts on display at Coonamble Library 2008
  • Performer Kat Chester and her fire torches in Burwood Park
  • Sculpture by Philip Walker - "Back Fence"
  • Exhibition of works from the Youth in Hornsby Mall Protocols Project, Cherrybrook Community Centre Gallery.
  • Built 1904...to Exhibition, Performing Arts, Rehearsal Space 2008.
  • flier for community art exhibition held during 2008

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....

Organised By

  • Local Government Association of NSW, Shires Association of NSW

Sponsors

  • Country Energy
  • accessibleArts. Arts + Disability NSW