Page 765 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . . Video
The ACT government has also recently funded MusicACT with $108,000 to harness its specialist knowledge and expertise in the live music sector to support capacity-building programs, including in artist management, recording, touring and promoting and to create more opportunities for young musicians to participate in Canberra all-age shows. Music for Canberra, which provides community music programs for all levels and abilities with a youth focus, including young artists, currently receives $276,500 per year in government funding. Kulture Break’s Elevate Academy is currently funded to assist in the development of a creative arts academy specialising in dance and music.
Australian National Capital Artists provides specific exhibition opportunities for young and emerging artists, as well as annual residencies for emerging writers, in conjunction with the ACT government funded Art Monthly magazine. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, notably, runs Blaze, a major annual group exhibition featuring recent graduates and emerging visual artists.
Ausdance ACT provides, among other things, the youth-mentoring program Elevate for ACT-based dance artists between 16 and 26 years of age. M16 Artspace, the Canberra Potters Society, Canberra Glassworks, Belconnen Arts Centre and Tuggeranong Arts Centre all also deliver a wide range of community arts programs and activities for young people and emerging artists, reaching thousands of young people annually. The government is pleased to support the National Eisteddfod, which plays an important role in developing and nurturing the next generation of musicians.
The government has also been contributing funding annually to Art Not Apart, which is a contemporary arts festival showcasing some of Canberra’s most innovative artists, particularly young and emerging artists. The 2019 festival was held just last Saturday and featured over 200 artists of all disciplines, with more than 85 percent of them being from Canberra. I was pleased to be able to attend that festival as well.
The ACT government also values the importance of arts education for all students in Canberra public schools and has a proud history of being involved in a range of quality arts programs and events, including the instrumental music program Limelight and the Arts Up Front annual conference, as well as a range of musical ensembles.
Funding in the Education portfolio has allowed for implementation of the Australian curriculum for the arts, which includes music, visual arts, dance, drama and media arts. Teachers continue to be supported to deliver the arts curriculum through a range of professional learning opportunities, including workshops delivered by expert presenters from the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. Notably, music is part of the arts learning area of the Australian curriculum and is taught in all ACT K-10 schools, with over 50 ACT public schools currently participating in the instrumental music program, which provides tuition in a range of band instruments and is designed to complement and supplement existing music programs in schools. The program offers a range of tiered extension programs to extend young musicians in ACT public schools and runs four auditioned concert bands and two choirs out of school hours, which regularly perform locally and tour interstate and overseas.
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . . Video