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

  • Quilting & Patchwork Show-Coonamble Library

    Exhibition at the Coonamble Library 2008

    Each year as part of the Annual Rodeo festival the Coonamble Library hosts a Quilting & Patchwork exhibition. The Library is transformed into a gallery for the weekend and visitors have the chance…

  • Celebrating the Year of the Ox

    1. This photo is of 2 ladies from the Cantonese Opera performing on stage on the Kogarah Town Square.  It took 5 hours of make-up to create this authentic look.

    Council hosted its 7th Chinese New Year event in Kogarah Town Square as a celebration of the Year of the Ox. This event has grown from a small community event to one of Council’s major annual…

  • 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…

Featured Videos

  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • PEREGRINE - 2. Finding a Seat
  • Spiraling Down by Calyca Rose
  • PEREGRINE -  1. Waiting
  • Stories of Love & Hate by Urban Theatre Projects
  • Imagine
  • Maximum Choppage: Round 2 Trailer
  • Adam Bailey on Why he Loves Where he Lives
  • When a Stranger Calls... Again
  • Pat Barraclough in Why she Loves Where she Lives
  • PEREGRINE - 4. The Departure - Letting Go
  • Bloomin' Arts Boomalli Aboriginal Cooperative
  • Powerlines by The Kthanxbyes

Featured Photos

  • Hawkesbury Regional Museum is located on one of the oldest land grants in Australia
  • Spring into Arts calendar, November 2008
  • Darrio Philips guides young local residents of Kingswood Park through cutting edge "krump" moves at Kingswood Park Public School, January 2008. In high demand, the workshop series was booked out with a waiting list of 20 people plus from surrounding areas wanting to participate. The workshops have generated an extremely positive repsonse building social identity, cohesion and pride in Kingswood Park.
  • Hanging the exhibition
  • 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.
  • Crowds enjoying Chinese New Year celebrations in Kogarah Town Square
  • Clarence Creative acts as a support base for creative practitioners - from architects to potters, sculptors to rug makers, designers to performers and everyone in between.
  • Community members got together to knit blankets for distribution by local charity organisation
  • Liz Boothby's studio at Burrawang - photo by Chris Pusell
  • A group of participating women at one of the weekly cooking sessions
  • Casula Powerhouse photo by Brett Boardman
  • 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.
  • Ceramic lamps by Celeste Coucke, Cloud Farm Studio

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