After meetings last week with Senator Mark Dreyfus, Tanya Plibersek MP, and Clare Jason MP plus additional requests for a Sydney public hearing, it seems that the NSW arts sector is being listened to. Add your voice to our latest ‘Five On Friday’ survey TNN Survey. This survey asks 5 very quick questions about the … Read More
This final survey report includes comments and reactions to the NPEA and the survey itself. With 59 respondents over a 5 and a half days survey period, the report gives a good indication of the feeling in our community about the impact of the budget announcements on our arts industry, our daily lives, and our … Read More
Quick update to let you know that our first 53 responses are in on this survey. We’ve quickly saved them to a pdf so that you can have a quick look at what your peers and colleagues are thinking and take the survey yourself. It’ll all add to our sector’s response on the NPEA draft … Read More
With over 2000 submissions to the Senate Enquiry into the Arts Budget 14-15, we know that the arts sectors voice will be heard. Next lies the 31 July feedback on the NPEA guidelines. Time is ticking…here’s a way to provide feedback without having to do the hard yards yourself. TNN’s second Five on Friday survey … Read More
The Australia Council for the Arts has today announced changes to its grants program in response to the 2015-16 budget measures. Source: Australia Council outlines revised grants program | Australia Council Their announcement leads with a focus on ‘The Council will continue to deliver a grants program for individuals, groups, and small to medium sized … Read More
In April TNN asked our stakeholders for some pretty basic demographic information that we thought might start to build a picture of who we are and where we are. We had an amazing 132 responses and the findings from our first ‘Five on Friday’ are now available for you to use and share. We look … Read More
Our Future in Their Hands – with thanks to Feral Arts for the live stream and Australian Theatre for Young People for the venue and all who attended! The consensus last night was that WE (individually and as a united ecology of micro, small, medium, independent, major, key, regional, metropolitan, western, culturally and creatively diverse … Read More
Dear Associates and Peers, If you can’t attend tonight’s Free the Arts forum (scroll down for agenda) at ATYP in Sydney it will be streamed from 6.00pm EST. You can access the stream on the Free the Arts Facebook page: Free The Arts Facebook or via the LiveStream event page Free the Arts Livestream On twitter please … Read More
More than 60 senior arts leaders and artists travelled to Canberra yesterday to discuss changes to arts funding, but the Minister for the Arts refused to see them. Source: Brandis refuses to meet with arts industry | ArtsHub Australia The delegation mainly from the small-to-medium sector and from all states and territories travelled to Parliament … Read More
On Thursday June 18, fifty arts sector delegates from across Australia will gather in Canberra at Parliament house to participate in meetings, facilitated by Anne Dunn, with Senators Mark Dreyfus, Richard Di Natale, and (TBC) George Brandis. If you are one of the NSW delegates attending you will already have received this information but if, like many … Read More
