ARTS outwest
We promote, educate, facilitate and advocate for arts and cultural development across the NSW Central West.
Queer Screen Film Festival Best of the Fest is coming to CSU Bathurst on Thursday 21 September at the Ponton Theatre on the CSU campus.
Tuesday 24 October, 1-3pm, Forbes. A free workshop to help arts, heritage and creative groups find and keep volunteers.
Tuesday 24 October, 9.30am-1.30am, Molong. A free workshop with CreativePlusBusiness for anyone in the creative sector who knows they need to make their website better.
25 and 26 September, Mudgee Arts Precinct Cultural Workshop. For creatives aged 16-21. Collaborate with some of Australia’s most exciting hitmakers to write and record new songs.
Two of the four Arts On Tour Backroads tour funding recipients are from the NSW Central West: Congratulations Sam Paine (Mudgee) and Jude Bowler (Gulgong).
9 – 20 September at The Oberon Library & Community Centre. Celebrate the Aboriginal Artists from around our region, with work curated by Arts OutWest Aboriginal Arts Development Officer Aleshia Lonsdale.
Artists search for the voice of The Foundations. This September regional artist Gabrielle Bates will be joined by 40 regional artists, vocalists and performers to activate The Foundations in Portland, NSW.
Arts OutWest are currently expanding the range of products sold at our Kew-Y-Ahn Aboriginal Gallery at the Hartley Historic Site. We’re particularly looking for unique, contemporary items set at affordable prices.
project highlights
arts experiences in aged care
arts project to create healing environments
Schools based history and storytelling
REGIONAL NEWS
The Cowra Tidy Towns Committee, in collaboration with Cowra Shire Council, is delighted to announce the resounding success of the 2023 Recycled Art for Cowra Awards (RAFCA Award).
Canowindra Folk singer/songwriter, Nerida Cuddy, has just returned from her first UK tour, starting in Scotland and finishing in Southampton, southern England, at the end of August.
Clay. Pottery. Ceramics. Who teaches ceramics? Who supplies materials? Who has kilns? What groups are there? Here’s an updated local list.
Sunday 24 September. To celebrate the upcoming release of Orange-set WW2 drama series While The Men Are Away, See Saw Wines, Orange Open Air and Arcadia are bringing the Australian premiere of the series home to Orange for a night…
ARTS opportunities
Closes 26 November 2023. Presented by Writing NSW and Text Publishing. The prize was established in 2019 to discover and nurture a powerful new Indigenous voice in Australian literature.
Closes 10 November 2023. Calling all Regional Artists! BRAG is excited to announce our new partnership with Bathurst Grange Distillery and the launch of the BRAG x BGD Summer Gin Art Competition.
25 and 26 September, Mudgee Arts Precinct Cultural Workshop. For creatives aged 16-21. Collaborate with some of Australia’s most exciting hitmakers to write and record new songs.
Closes 1 November 2023. Get your applications in to exhibit at the highly esteemed WAYOUT Artspace in Kandos.
Saturday 21 October 2023, 11am. Orange. Calling all potters and ceramic artists in the Central West NSW. Do you want to be part of a community pottery group? Here is your chance!
Workshops 16 September. Entries close 2 October. Show 11 November. The Regional Songwriting Contest returns for another year and BMEC are looking to unearth new and exciting talent from the Central West of NSW.
Closes 22 October 2023. The Carstairs Grant aims to support socially-engaged art projects that embrace participatory and collaborative experiences and bring participants into active dialogue with the artist/s in order to involve audiences beyond the art community.
Join photographer Elizabeth O’Donnell at Gang Gang Gallery from September and become part of the Lithgow Lens Community Portrait and Story Project capturing Lithgow’s living history.
Closes 20 October 2023. A dedicated exhibition space within the WPCC Gallery, enabling emerging regional artists living and/or practicing in the Central West Region of NSW to focus and expand their skills under the guidance of a professional gallery
Opens 23 August for 2024 dates. Bring the 2023 Female Artist of the Year, Golden Guitar winner, Amber Lawrence to YOUR TOWN, YOUR PUB, YOUR HALL, even YOUR GREAT AUSSIE BBQ!!
Closes 22 September, 2023. The latest round of the Volunteer Grants Program is open for eligible not-for-profit community organisations, with $66,225 being allocated to the Calare electorate for the region’s wonderful volunteers!
For October 13-14. CALLING FOR DONATIONS! Hidden Treasures is an art sale fundraising event for Friends of the Orange Regional Gallery (FORG) where anyone can donate artworks – professional, amateur, novice and emerging artists.
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Arts OutWest acknowledges the traditional owners of the country on which we work, the Wiradjuri / Wiradyuri people, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their custodians past, present and emerging.