Deadline: 2-Feb-23
The Creativity for Schools Program offers funding support to connect Western Australian creatives with schools.
The 2 program categories, Collaboration and Residency, will support arts access, participation and overall engagement for students (K to 12) and teachers to engage in transformative creative learning experiences.
Objectives
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The Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) recognises that the following 5 program objectives are interdependent.
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Primary objective
- Enhance students’ and educators’ creative learning capabilities to increase engagement and support success across Western Australian curriculum areas and beyond.
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Supporting objectives
- Build the pedagogical and partnership capacities of arts organisations, creative practitioners, education leaders and teachers.
- Foster creativity in schools by increasing access to, and participation in, arts, cultural and/or creative activities.
- Improve the engagement of disadvantaged students in schools, particularly in low-socioeconomic, such as low Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) schools and/or in regional areas.
- Enhance the health and wellbeing (for example mental, social, and/or physical) of students.
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Primary objective
Priorities
- Low socioeconomic index and geographically disadvantaged schools
- Programs exposing students’ to enriching arts experiences instilling curiosity, creativity, imagination and empathy
- Programs engaging with students’ and their educators in school years K–12
- Programs that demonstrate cross curriculum links beyond the arts
- Programs that incorporate element/s of co-design with schools ensuring student and educator agency
- Programs that incorporate creative learning capacity building for creative practitioners
- Programs that incorporate creative learning capacity building education leaders and/or teachers
- Programs that provide a legacy for school communities.
Funding Information
- Residency: Grants of up to $20,000 for projects involving artists-in-residence in school environments, with the activity including approximately 25 days of engagement per school.
- Collaboration: Grants of up to $60,000 for projects and/or programs designed to connect Western Australian arts organisations and creative practitioners with schools.
Eligibility Criteria
- Open to all Western Australian Primary and Secondary Government and Non-Government Schools, including Catholic and Independent Schools, and creative practitioners.
- Community organisations
- Individuals
- Local governments
- Organisations
- Not-for-profit organisations
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools.
For more information, visit Creativity for Schools.
