PERFORMANCES in Queenscliff, Portarlington, Apollo Bay and Birregurra are among those supported in the latest round of the Touring Victoria and Small Regional Presenters programs.<\/p>\n
Delivered by Regional Arts Victoria, the Small Regional Presenters program provides grants to community groups and not for profit organisations, helping them bring performing arts shows to their local communities.<\/p>\n
Grants totalling almost $120,000 have been awarded to 11 recipients for theatre performances, concerts, art and education programs and literary events including:<\/p>\n
$3,150 to the Queenscliff Literary Festival to present Hysterica<\/em>, four original monologues telling the stories of Joy Hester, Alice Anderson, Elizabeth Gould and Dawn Faizey-Webster<\/p>\n $15,000 to the National Celtic Folk Festival in Portarlington for the presentation of The Bellarine Sessions<\/em> \u2013 five concerts staged in unique settings across small coastal towns and the surrounds of the Bellarine Peninsula<\/p>\n $15,000 to the WinterWild festival (auspiced by the Apollo Bay Chamber of Commerce) for a new work by artistic collective APHIDS, which will direct and present a co-created performance responding to Apollo Bay\u2019s environmental and cultural settings, and<\/p>\n $2,205 to the Birregurra Community Arts Group to present Junklandia<\/em>, a production about two brothers from a faraway planet embarking on a mission to teach earthlings the \u201cJunklandian\u201d ways of creative recycling and be resourceful with rubbish.<\/p>\n Touring Victoria provides grants to arts and cultural organisations, performers and creatives to help them to take professional productions, performances, exhibitions and programs to regional and outer-metropolitan Victoria.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s program has awarded grants of more than $765,000 to eight tours including The Australian Ballet for performances in Mildura and Bendigo, singer-songwriter Kutcha Edwards\u2019s tour of 26 locations and a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra tour of nine centres including Wangaratta, Warragul, Shepparton, Ballarat, Bendigo and Mildura.<\/p>\n The MSO\u2019s initiative takes in concerts, free pre-concert lectures, schools and community workshops and rehearsals with community choirs.<\/p>\n