Page 3781 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 19 September 2018
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funding to ensure that the 30 year 11s in the program could complete the year 12 component if they wished.
On 15 February this year, I answered a question without notice in this place—Ms Lee was here as well—from Mr Wall on that matter. I also answered an extensive question on notice on 23 March from Mrs Dunne on these same arrangements.
In that February announcement, the ANU welcomed what it called a boost to dynamic music and visual arts programs for the whole community to enjoy. The head of the School of Music stated that he was delighted with the new funding agreement and was looking forward to delivering these exciting new programs, which will continue to help the School of Music grow from strength to strength.
This announcement, over six months ago, was preceded by over a year of talks between the ANU and artsACT. Those talks had been taking place since December 2016 to ensure that the ANU School of Music and the School of Art & Design were proposing a suite of community outreach programs to meet the stated intention of the government’s community outreach arts funding.
That intention is to increase the participation in the arts for the whole community; to promote collaboration between organisations, artists and the community; and to engage members of the community who might otherwise experience barriers or disadvantage that inhibit their participation in the arts.
As part of ensuring that all programs proposed to be offered by the ANU utilising the ACT government community outreach funding were meeting these intentions, assessment was undertaken, including with the advice of an expert national independent panel. That resulted in a shift away from focus on supporting students in the school environment to supporting members across the whole community to access music programs and to develop their artistic skills in line with the aims of the 2015 ACT arts policy and 2017 social inclusion in the arts plan.
The refining of the entire suite of the ANU community outreach arts programs has resulted in a range of activities for both the School of Music and the School of Art & Design that have better reach into the wider community, especially for people experiencing disability.
The ACT government’s financial contribution to the School of Music is significant. It includes $512,000 per year from 2018-20 for community outreach and $250,000 per year for four years to the advanced music performance program. The government also provides community outreach funding to the ANU School of Art & Design. Their programs were also refocused on better community access through a negotiation process. Their new suite of programs will receive $284,000 over the next three years.
Madam Speaker, this is a total of nearly $2.1 million over the next three years for community outreach at the ANU. As I say, that is in addition to $1 million over four years to the advanced music performance program that provides the ANU School of Music students with high level performance activities within the undergraduate degree.
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