APPLICATIONS
OPEN: Monday 20 January 2025
CLOSE: Wednesday 30 April 2025
Successful recipients will be notified by 12 May 2025
Details
The Woden Arts Program invites applications for creative endeavours designed to activate a space in Woden.
Open now until the end of the April, artists working in any discipline can submit proposals for individual or group activities that include a strong community engagement component. Individuals can apply for up to $5,000. Groups can apply for $10, 000. Multi-artform proposals are encouraged.
Projects Funded in 2024
Projects funded in 2024 include Daydream Procession with artist Tom Buckland and Julia Higgs, Words on the Wind with artist Lynn Petersen, Plein Air Drawing with John Hart, and Curtin Open Studio Sessions with Sophie Edwards.
The Daydream Procession drop-in workshops brought together people who met in Eddison Park over a series of weekend workshops. Taking inspiration from their parkland setting, participants created large-scale puppet armatures with cardboard and paper-mache, had fun decorating them, then became puppeteers in public performances.
Scores of community members and school students came together for Words on the Wind, a project with artist Lynn Petersen. Participants celebrated their favourite literary quote by creating Australian author inspired pennants, banners and flags that were displayed near Tree of Knowledge – the public artwork at Garran shops.
Singer songwriter Sophie Edwards created an original song using sound samples collected from public spaces around Curtin. She also opened her studio and invited interested members of the public for a peek into her working process and the production involved in creating an original recording.
Click here to listen to the recording
Tom Buckland and Julia Higgs Woden Activation in Farrer Park, 2024
Lynn Peterson Woden Activation at Garran Shops, 2024
How to Apply for the 2025 Woden Activations Program
An online application form above ask for the following:
- Activity Outline (200-400 words): A brief description of what you will do with TAC Woden Activation Funding.
Please write a simple overview/activity outline and indicate what space in Woden you are intending to activate. - Benefits (100-200 words): What are the benefits of your activation for the Woden community and why is this important?
How will your project engage with the Woden community? - Budget: Simple budget to show use of grant funds
- Referee: Name, email and phone number
- Biography/organisation information (100 words): A bio that gives a brief history of yourself, your group or collective
- 2 images: Something we can use to promote your activation, if successful.