Yarra’s latest Pick Me Up Guide is now available and features events from July to December 2019. Pick Me Up is your guide to arts, culture and exciting events in the City of Yarra.

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In late 2018 Yarra Council was approached by a group of Michael Hutchence’s family members, friends and fans, with an offer to create and donate a statue of the late musician at, no cost to Council. The statue was proposed to be located in Richmond. 

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Q44 Theatre Company was awarded a Room to Create grant from the City of Yarra to transform a concrete shell into a flexible and exciting theatre space at Abbotsford Convent.

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The Keir Foundation, Dancehouse, Carriageworks and Australia Council for the Arts today announced a cash prize increase to $50,000 for the winner of the now prestigious award.

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Registrations for Fringe Furniture 33 are now open. Artists, designers, visionaries, dream-weavers - Fringe want your beautiful, wild, and outlandish design at Fringe Furniture as part of the Festival in 2019.

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Live music is usually out-of-bounds when you're not old enough to set foot in a bar. And even in 2019 gigs are often male-dominated. The Girls Rock! Melbourne Fundraiser at this Year's Leaps and Bounds festival is changing that.

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2020 Annual Grants Open : Grant Information Sessions this week
Our annual grants provide financial and in-kind support for community initiatives and projects. 
In 2020 this program will invest over $900,000 in programs which support and enrich the Yarra community. 

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Yarra Council will consult with local residents and businesses in Richmond, following the offer of a statue honouring Michael Hutchence by the late INXS singer’s family.

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Yarra City Council is inviting artists and creatives to submit an Expression of Interest for a 12 month residency at the Hugo Wertheim – Studio One Community Hub, 15 Barnet Way, Richmond. 

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SEVENTH Gallery is now accepting proposals for exhibitions and events from July - December 2019. SEVENTH will continue to offer a free exhibition space, and pay artists throughout 2019.

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Contemporary art organisation West Space has been awarded a $30,000 Room to Create grant, which they will use to help foster emerging and underrepresented artists in Yarra. The grant is the largest ever awarded from Yarra’s Room to Create Charitable Fund, which supports artists and creative organisations in Yarra by helping with operational costs.

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Registrations for Melbourne Fringe 2019 are now open. Fringe is proudly open access, which means that anyone can register to be part of the Festival. They champion inclusion, diversity, freedom of expression, and amplifying voices on the margins. If you've got an idea of an event, an exhibition, an arena spectacular, they want to know about it.

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IchikawaEdward is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Ichikawa Lee and Joshua Edward, est.2017 based in Naarm (Melbourne). IchikawaEdward was recently awarded a Small Project Grant to support the development of a new work v. their body swells, and asks to be held.

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We are currently reviewing Yarra’s Arts and Heritage Collection Management Policy to see how effectively they support Council’s vision. Consultation with the Yarra community is an essential part of that review. Have your say by completing our brief survey. Your short and long-form answers will form a critical component of our research and inform our recommendations. 

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This development funding offers a one-off amount of $10,000 to individual creative practitioners or organisations to contribute towards the development of a new work by artists who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in Yarra. 

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The City of Yarra values the creativity that exists in our city and we want to make sure it continues to be an essential part of our neighbourhoods into the future. In a rapidly changing landscape, we recognised the need to take action to keep creative spaces available and affordable.

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Polyglot Theatre’s 5678 Film Club is seeking volunteers! Have fun assisting school aged young people between grades 5-8 tell their stories. 

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Fairfield in Feb has wrapped up for another year. Tell us your thoughts and you are in the winning for a bag of music goodies from the artists on this years line up. 

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To mark 2019 International Women’s Day, the Women's Art Register are hosting an ART+FEMINISM Wikipedia EDIT-A-THON. The Edit-a-thon, the third hosted by the Women’s Art Register, aims to increase coverage of knowledge about women, gender, feminism and the arts online.
 

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Ever wanted to create theatre? Now’s your chance. In One Act is a rare opportunity to hone playwriting skills under the guidance of professional writers. In One Act alumni have seen their work performed at Melbourne Writers' Theatre productions and Midsumma Festival – who knows where this free program could take you!

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