Mid North Coast
Bush circus, performance skills, video production and Indigenous projects are being offered as part of the Arts Mid North Coast ArtStart program.
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North West NSW
Arts based workshops, including printmaking, sculpture, circus skills, hip hop and public art, are being offered through a small grants program.
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Northern Rivers
In 2009 we offered ran a small grants round, inviting applications from youth and community organisations. Seven great projects were selected for funding, all addressing the theme of 'Unique & Invited' or 'U & I'.
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Central West NSW
Hip-hop, drama, performance, design, mural painting, short film making, documentary making, photography and media workshops are the key projects in the Arts OutWest 2009 ArtStart program.
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Upper Hunter
A series of creative development retreats for young people across the hunter. These retreats will provide a variety of workshops in response to requests by young people. A small grants round will support young people to run projects in their communities using skills learnt at the retreats.
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Blue Mountains
Small Grants Round Now Open! http://www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/yourcommunity/communityservices/youthservices/artstartprogram
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Eastern Riverina
A small grants program plus support to take the Dramatic Minds Festival into the region.
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Sydney South
Airbrushing, Hip Hop dance and choreography, video clips, movement, self devised performance and graphic design are some of the exciting projects offered by Shopfront.
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Sydney West
Our Artstart program is called Youth Digital Cultures (YDC). YDC is an exciting initiative led by young people structured around a series of creative digital skills development activities in film, hip hop music, graphic design etc for reason of self expression advocacy and lobbying.
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Sydney East
Metro Screen's ArtStart program is one large digital storytelling program comprising workshops and exhibition of final works.
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Sydney Central
The Bigger the Better, Impress Yourself! Art & Fashion
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Albury Wodonga
Drama, music and sculpture workshops & camps will be the main focus of the Murray Arts ArtStart 2009 projects
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Orana
A regional tour of the region by Fresh Red Earth. Hip hop through rhyme and dance is the key focus of the Orana Arts ArtStart program.
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Far West NSW
Mural art, digital photography, website networking for Indigenous youth and cadetships with a local newspaper will be the key focus of the Outback Arts program.
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Central Coast
This year’s ArtStart was designed to be smaller, but it didn’t quite work out that way! With the focus on more intensive skills development, 196 young people participated in the workshops, 188 attended the festival events, over 219 hours of workshop/events, 13 different locations, link ups with over 30 service providers/schools and strong media coverage from the local press and radio stations illustrates the success of this program.
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South East NSW
Clowning, jazz, physical theatre, scriptwriting comedy, film making, and a curated exhibition are some of the projects on offer as part of the SEAR ArtStart program.
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South West NSW
Media Forum, website development including an online exhibition and young and emerging artists profiles as well as workshops across 8 communities in performance/story telling/film are the focus for our ArtStart program.
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Illawarra

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Southern Tablelands
The ArtStart 09 program is being co-coordinated by Southern Tablelands Arts (STARTS), South East Arts (SEAR) and Southern Councils, covering a massive seventeen local government areas. Each of the coordinating partners are running individual programs. For example: Shoalhaven City Council Reduce are engaging in a re use & recycle art project. STARTS will be running Film Education workshops and festivals, as well as a Youth Theatre Forum.
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Lower Hunter
Creative Development Retreats and small grants to support young people taking new skills back to their communities
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West of the Darling
West Darling Arts in partnership with Monkey Baa Theatre for Young, People are conducting a series of Theatre and Movement performance workshops in Wentworth, Menindee and Broken Hill.
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Sydney North
A range of workshops and projects will be taking place across Northern Sydney including film making, mural art, photography, hip hop, circus skills, t shirt making etc.
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Sydney South West
As a region we have decided to develop Youth Maps in each of our areas from the point of view of young people through creative means.
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