Are you an individual artist or creative organisation looking for support to realise a project in 2023?

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Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre captures its community with the talents of portrait artist Amir Tehrani. This project was supported by Yarra City Arts.

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We're excited to announce Queerways: Retracing Queer Yarra has been shortlisted for a Victorian Community History Award. 

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Yarra City Council is calling for Expressions of Interest Edinburgh Gardens Plinth Program A large, empty plinth stands as a centrepiece of the park in the middle of a circular garden bed in the gardens. Erected in 1901, it was originally the base for a wooden statue of Queen Victoria which stood watch over the gardens for a very short while before going missing. The statue was never replaced, and the plinth has stood bare in the park for over a century.

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We encourage proposals from innovative and engaging artists, to exhibit at: Richmond Town Hall, Fitzroy Library, Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy and Richmond Library, as well as in the four outdoor light boxes at Carlton Library.

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Registrations now open for Melbourne Fringe Festival

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Yarra City Council is working with the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to develop a Stolen Generations Marker in Atherton Gardens, in Fitzroy.

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Incorporating the past, present and future, the artwork - Celebration Dreaming - references Aboriginal identity, connections and culture in Fitzroy and highlights the significance of the area.

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The Emely Baker Centre will be used for the upcoming exhibition Wayfind, as part of the Next Wave Festival, 2018.

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The Molly Meldrum statue and Wall of Music mural by 23rd key will be launched at 11am on Tuesday 25 September at Wangaratta Street Park. You are invited to attend the newly upgraded precinct to celebrate these installations which celebrate Australian music.

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2019 City of Yarra Exhibition Program Expressions of Interest

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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.

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From music venues to local artists, Yarra Council is backing our live music scene through the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with Leaps & Bounds Music Festival returning in June.

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Two grant programs have been developed to support Yarra’s creative community to adapt, create and develop during this period of physical isolation. Artists, creative organisations and creative businesses have the opportunity to apply.

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Leaps & Bounds Music Festival is returning to Yarra’s live music venues this winter, and is looking for local venues to take part and receive both cash and promotional support.

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We are pleased to announce that in December 2021, Council adopted our new vision for the arts in Yarra, the Arts and Culture Strategy 2022-2026.

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Do you enjoy the arts? Are you involved in the creative industries in Yarra? Help us shape our next Arts and Culture Strategy.

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We are now accepting applications for the 2023 Artist in Residence through the Room to Create Program.

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If you work in the arts, entertainment or media industries, what impact has COVID-19 had on you? Share your experience via one of these arts and creative sector surveys.

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