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We promote, educate, facilitate and advocate for arts and cultural development across the NSW Central West.
Things have been firing up (sorry) in Condo with Lachlan Arts Council’s project to teach young women pottery skills.
From the smiles on the faces of these young emerging artists you can tell something special has happened: these are participants in the APRA AMCOS SongMaker workshops in September.
This year Arts OutWest has been supporting Orange’s monthly music night 4 on the 4loor through our Live & Kicking program. Here’s a recap of this music institution.
Sunday 9 October, 2pm. This session features two of Dubbo’s finest Indie bands Raptor County & Civil Hands.
Bathurst’s Carillion is more than a war memorial – it’s a rare but fully functioning instrument. Bathurst’s carillonists will present a series of three special concerts in October, thanks to a Country Arts Support Program grant.
Arts OutWest’s Aboriginal Arts Development Officer Aleshia Lonsdale has been invited by the Australia Council for the Arts as one of five creative and cultural workers to spend an intensive three-days of professional development at the 59th Venice Biennale.
Opening 6pm Friday 23 September at Mudgee Arts Precinct is ‘Ngayirr Ngurambang: Sacred Country’ a group exhibition curated by local Wiradjuri artist, Arts OutWest’s Aleshia Lonsdale. Runs to 11 December.
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Deputy Premier and Member for Bathurst Paul Toole has announced $239,651 from the NSW Government’s $25 million Reconnecting Regional NSW – Community Events Program for Lithgow community events.
The latest sculpture to be unveiled along the Sculpture Down the Lachlan trail uses interlinking geometric shapes to represent the patterns formed in nature, and the interconnection that exists between them.
The IMAGinE awards highlight the resilience, innovation and creativity of museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres and recognise the people who work in them.
Opens 30 September. The opening event for the new ‘Made in Lithgow’ lighting installation is set for Friday 30th September. The installation is part of the award-winning Streets as Shared Spaces program
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Closes 18 November 5pm. Exhibition 16 December 2022 – 12 March 2023. MAP Portrait Prize is open to submissions in all media to artists at any level of their artistic practice
Closes 28 October 2022. Mandy Martin was a pre-eminent Australian artist who called Canberra – and later, Central West NSW – home. This is a new national annual award to an arts practitioner for their creative response to climate change…
Now closes Sunday 9 October, 11.30pm. Bathurst Regional Art Gallery is calling for an Exhibitions Coordinator to join their team.
Closes 10amn Friday 14 October 2022. Lachlan Shire Council invites quotations for the design and fit-out of an interpretive space at the new Lachlan Shire Discovery and Visitor Information Centre.
Due by 4pm Wednesday 12 October 2022. The Cowra Festival of International Understanding is the premier annual festival in Cowra. In 2023 it will be held from 9-12 March 2023.
Do you have something to offer? Greer Films are growing our production crew and offering a traineeship to the right person. Our studio is family cultured, fast paced & creative.
EOI are due by 2pm on Wednesday, 2 November 2022. Artists are invited to respond to an unusual space in the Scone CBD for public mural artwork.
Closes 21 October. WAYOUT is looking for proposals for the June 2023 – Jan 2024 period.
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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.