Australia Council’s Re-Imagine: Industry Collaborations

Deadline: 23-Feb-21

The Australia Council for the Arts has launched the Re-Imagine: Industry Collaborations to support future-focused, cross-industry collaborations across and beyond the cultural and creative industries.

It invests in strategic cross-industry collaborations that explore new models of development and delivery. This funding stream is intended to leverage additional investment from partners (cash and in-kind) and to establish new frameworks for future partnership models.

Australia Council strongly encourage applications from diverse artists and organisations including people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability, people who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing, and people living in regional and remote areas.

Funding Information

Grant amount: Up to $100,000;
Duration: Initiatives must start after 1 May 2021 and must be completed by 30 June 2022.

Eligibility Criteria

Individuals, groups or organisations working within the cultural and creative industries.
Applicants must be an Australian citizen or an Australian permanent resident.

Criteria

Action research – undertaking research, producing knowledge, sharing information sharing, critical reflection.
Transformation models – exploring new ways of doing business, producing, presenting, or reaching new audiences.
Market development – gathering and sharing market intelligence, peer-to-peer exchange, partnerships and collaboration, expanding audiences and networks.
Cross-industry collaborations – across cultural, creative and other industries to build future pathways and ways of working.

Assessment criteria

We will assess applications against three criteria:

Viability
We will consider:
- The relevance and timeliness of the proposed activity;
- The skills and abilities of those involved, and their relevance to the activity;
- Realistic and achievable planning and resource use, including contingency planning;
- Appropriate payments to participating artists, creative professionals, collaborators or participants;
- Measures being applied to ensure safety and wellbeing of people involved in the project;
- Measures applied to ensure the proposed activity is accessible;
- Adherence to relevant cultural protocols;
- Evidence of appropriate consultation with participants, audiences or communities;
- The role of partners or collaborators, including confirmation of involvement;
- The diversity and scale of income and co-funding, including earned income, grants, sponsorship and in-kind contributions.
Impact
We will consider:
- The contribution of the activity towards re-imagining a future for the cultural and creative industries;
- The extent to which the activity contributes to a sector that is accessible, inclusive and equitable;
- The impact of the activity on the intended beneficiaries in the short and medium term;
- The impact of the activity on the intended beneficiaries and/or the cultural and creative industries in the long term.
Strategic focus
They will consider how your proposal delivers against one or more of the following strategic priorities.
- Equity and justice – structural transformation that contributes to cultural equity, embedded accessibility, social inclusion and sustainability;
- Mobility and exchange – building and activating local, national and international networks for the future;
- Resilience – ensuring a sustainable and healthy creative economy that can weather future disruptions;
- Health and wellbeing – promoting and nurturing health and wellbeing of artists, communities, cultural practitioners and organisations, and climate responsibility;
- Leadership – nurturing the next generation of creative and cultural leaders ensuring diversity and self-determination;
- Digital – skills and capability building, and creation, sharing and dissemination of arts and culture.