We are reviewing our Creative Yarra Triennial Grant Program and a survey is now open for community feedback.  Creative Yarra is our three-year funding scheme offered to individual creative practitioners and organisations.

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Nominations are now open for the Yarra Community Awards, including a category for Contribution to the Arts. The category of Arts recognises contributions to the thriving and evolving creative experience in Yarra. Yarra is home to a range of vibrant arts communities, be it visual art, performance art, music or another creative discipline. 

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Jill Orr’s work The Promised Land – Flag is now on display as part of Freshwater/Saltwater, an exhibition at The Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre. 

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un Projects is currently seeking an Editor for un Magazine volume 13 in 2019. This is a unique opportunity to take a leading role in the development and production of one of Australia's most respected independent contemporary arts publications.

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The Sportsman's War Memorial was erected in memory of members of the local sporting clubs who died in the First World War. 

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The Yarra Youth Services Artist in Residence program gives early-career artists aged between 20 and 25 years a free studio space to develop their practice in return for encouraging the next generation of young artists.

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SEVENTH gallery have announced that from July 2018, exhibition fees have been eliminated and all exhibiting artists will be compensated a fee for showing. Proposals are now being accepted for the next 12 months of programming. 

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The City of Yarra has received a $40,000 Creative Victoria grant towards public artworks to celebrate Australian music, including a special tribute to Richmond music legend Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum AM.

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Pick Me Up is your guide to arts, culture and events in Yarra. Our latest guide is now available as an accessible PDF or printed booklet, and features events from July until December 2018. 

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un Projects is delighted to announce Wiradjuri woman, artist and writer Hannah Donnelly as the inaugural un Writer in Residence. A new initiative from independent arts publisher un Projects, the un Writer in Residence program offers an emerging-to-mid career Australian arts writer a five-month paid writing residency.

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Applications are now open for the annual ROI Art Prize. The annual prize of $10,000 is a recognised and valued prize. Artworks in the media of painting, limited edition printmaking, photography and drawing, and created within two years of the closing date, are eligible, and is open to artists living, having a studio, or exhibiting in galleries within the Cities of Yarra, Darebin or Moreland.

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A group of keen community members with interests in heritage, architecture, urban planning and local history have been appointed to Yarra’s Heritage Advisory Committee.

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Bus Projects have partnered with Collingwood College for the third year in a row, to develop a project as part of Bus's Concentric Curriculum program. Students are developing games with artist Lee Shang Lun.

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 Room to Create Artist-in-Residency Program

Yarra City Council is proud to announce our new Room to Create artists in residence Michelle Mantsio, Andrew Atchison and Kati Javan. Council’s Room to Create Artist-in-Residency Program, commenced in late 2017 as a pilot program, across three under-utilised spaces within council owned buildings.

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Check out the recently announced performance times for next week's inaugural CHANGES event.

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Australian singer-songwriter Laura Imbruglia joins an impressive line-up of talent performing at this year's Leaps and Bounds Musical Festival, celebrating live music in Yarra.

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A marker for the Stolen Generations was launched in the Atherton Gardens Housing Estate on Saturday 26 May, the 20th anniversary of National Sorry Day.

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un Projects is now calling for proposals for un Magazine 12.2, co-edited by Maddee Clark and Neika Lehman with sub-editor Daniel Browning, to be published in November 2018.

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The Women’s Art Register have partnered with volunteers from Melbourne University’s Grimwade Centre to embark on a conservation project which will rehouse 8000 photographic slides which form part of the WAR archives. The slides contain images of artists work from the 1970s until the 90s. 

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Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library has won a gold prize at the 2018 Melbourne Design Awards, beating three other shortlisted projects in the public and institutional architecture category.

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