Country Arts Support Program (CASP) 2022 Successful Projects

The Country Arts Support Program (CASP) is an annual small grants program funded by Create NSW and managed by Regional Arts Development Organisations.

It is guided by Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program’s three major objectives:

1. grow creative leadership and programming excellence in NSW
2. strengthen NSW arts and cultural activity that drives community and social benefits
3. showcase NSW as a leader for strategic arts and cultural governance and strong financial management.

The latest CASP round for Southern Tablelands Arts opened on the 1st March 2022 and closed on the 18th April 2022, and as a result of the selection process, seven projects were selected:

Yass: Community Art Gallery – Visual Arts Society of Yass (VASY). VASY is revamping the anti-room of the Yass Community Centre for use as a community art gallery in time for the Yass Valley Arts Trail in November 2022.

Hilltops: Artists Walk on Wiradjuri Country & NAIDOC “On Country” Exhibition – Young Society of Artists Inc. Local artists, photographers, sculptors etc. will walk across Wiradjuri Country in Hilltops, led by Indigenous Elders. The group will visit sites important to local Aboriginal people to gather information to produce an art work to exhibit in July for NAIDOC.

Upper Lachlan: Fight or Flight? Exhibitions will be held at Connections in Gunning NSW and in Crookwell and Taralga NSW along with workshops with youth and adults aimed at raising awareness of our native animals, plants, environments which support them.

Wingecarribee:

• Sunset Dreaming – Mental Bowral. Djon Mundine will paint the entire interior of Mental Gallery in large horizontal stripes, floor to ceiling, adding imagery to create an immersive artwork. Celebrating NAIDOC Week 2022 – Get Up Stand Up!
• Poetic Art Workshops in First Nations Language – Ngununggula Southern Highlands Regional Gallery. Ngununggula will engage Gunai woman Kirli Saunders to develop and deliver workshops for all ages and abilities. Participants will write poetry, and create visual poems using a range of mediums, exploring connection to Country, local history and culture.

Goulburn: Drought & other plays by Millicent Armstrong – Music Theatre Projects. Dianna Nixon will produce four plays written by Millicent Armstrong premiering at Goulburn Performing Arts Centre, as part of the Festival of Regional Theatre, and matinee performances in Gunning. Millicent’s works reflect their connection to the Australian Gothic tradition, and feature sparkling dialogue, idiomatic writing, and strong female characters, with a focus on the relationship between sisters.

Southern Tablelands: Imperial Stockings catalogue/gallery book design – Annemaree Dalziel. The Imperial Stockings catalogue is a collectable gallery book that interprets the history knitted into socks. The socks describe the traumatic dispossession of Gaelic-speaking Scots and their displacement to colonial Australia.

• Topics:

• Arts and Media
• Community