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

  • Crossing Cultures

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    Crossing Cultures - Recent printmaking works from Urban and Desert based Australian Aboriginal Artists. Crossing Cultures is the first international exhibition tour coordinated by Blacktown Arts…

  • Creative Community Engagement in Kingswood Park

    A local resident in Kingswood Park does a Parkour move instructed by Ali Kadhim, Parkour Artist-in-Resident with ICE for the Parkour + Krump Summer Series 2008. As Kadhim says, the philosophy of Parkour empowers participants to overcome obstacles through the art of movement, proving an ideal skills development activity for young peole from this area.

    Demonstrating innovation in creative community engagement and leadership in an integrated approach to Cultural Policy Implementation, Penrith City Council has collaborated with local residents, artists…

  • Circ d'verse

    Local children took only a short time to master the art of stilt walking.

    Moree Plains Shire Council developed a circus school for young people aged between 8 and 18 years of age. This initiative is an alternative to mainstream sport activities as it was realised that not…

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Featured Videos

  • Once upon a time in Mosman...
  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • When a Stranger Calls... Again
  • CatchingDreams
  • PEREGRINE - 4. The Departure - Letting Go
  • Rumble Pictures - Happy Dent
  • Pat Barraclough in Why she Loves Where she Lives
  • Childhood Dreamers by Maria Kyriacos
  • Spiraling Down by Calyca Rose
  • Celebrating Diversity
  • Bloomin' Arts Boomalli Aboriginal Cooperative
  • PEREGRINE - 2. Finding a Seat
  • PEREGRINE - 1. Waiting

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Featured Photos

  • During the workshop.
  • Migrant, Peter Tsoukleris, shares his experiences of the project with the audience at the book launch.
  • A variety of shorts made by youth from marginalised and disadvantaged backgrounds were screened at the Summer Moonlight cinema.
  • Annette Webb and Friends exhibition.
  • This image show Campbelltown school students in collaboration with NAISDA students and staff, performing for elders, families, community representatives and teachers to showcase the skills and dance work developed throughout the workshop program. Image: Silversalt photography
  • Sowing Seeds, Growing Stories and Harvesting Families participants, Grandmother and Grandson show us what they have made.
  • Home-grown ARIA & Urban Music Award nominated hip hop performers, Foreign Heights, showcased the resilience of youth arts culture in Western Sydney.
  • 'La Famiglia' unveiled 15th August, 2008.
  • Singing Quilt Choir rehearsal
  • Packers Prize Winner
  • Balmain Town Hall looking from east
  • Madame Butterfly, on stage at the Paradise Palladium Theatre, Morundah
  • Artist Gabriella Heyges putting the finishing touches on one of the terrazzo panels.

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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