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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Registrations now open for Melbourne Fringe Festival

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Melbourne-based street-artist, Baby Guerrilla, has transformed the Church Street side of the Richmond Library wall into a large bookshelf. Stacked with a broad range of publications, the shelves run along the length of the building. Engaged in various activities, animals and fictional characters weave their way through the books, attesting to the infinite possibilities that libraries offer.

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If you’ve visited or travelled past Fitzroy Swimming Pool in the last 5 years, you’ll be familiar with the eye-catching mural, Pool Parade by Stephen Baker.

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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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We’re reviewing our Arts and Culture grants program to ensure it continues to be accessible, impactful and meet the needs of our diverse communities. We also want to make sure these grants continue to support the creative and social impact these exhibitions, events or programs can provide the wider Yarra community

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Yarra City Council's Annual Grants provide financial and in-kind support for community initiatives and projects running in 2018. Through this program, we will invest over $850,000 in programs which support and enrich the Yarra community.

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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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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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Bus Projects is excited to call for proposals for the 2020-21 program! This is the inaugural open call for the new venue at the Collingwood Arts Precinct (CAP). This move will allow Bus to drastically improve the way they support artists and engage with communities by removing rental fees paid by exhibiting artists.

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Womens Art Register Wikipedia Edit a Thon 2024

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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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Earth, Body and Soul is a series of collaborations with dear friends and family. Here nature acts as both content and context. In this series, characters inhabit the landscape wearing sculptures they created in collaboration with the artist. The spaces these works exist in are undeniably interwoven within the work itself. Spaces shapeshift us, tell stories and unfold histories, as well as having the ability to become transformed through artistic practices.

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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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Gertrude Street Projection Festival Program Announced!

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‘Exploring the Blak Queer Frontier’ is an official exhibition presented as part of 'Victoria's Pride 2023', delivered by Midsumma in partnership with the Victorian State Government. Enoki is a proud Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta Non-Binary Blak Fulla who is based on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne), and they’re a multimedia artist with a main focus in digital media. Enoki explores Blakness and queer identity in their practice. They’re inspired by everything from 90s and early 2000s artists, music and pop culture to old classical paintings.

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2020 Annual Grants Open : Grant Information Sessions

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Pick Me Up features events, festivals, exhibitions, concerts, opportunities for young people, projects presented by our grant recipients and information about Yarra’s programs such as Room to Create and our Artist in Residence program.

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