Creativity for Schools Program in Australia

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

• The Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) recognises that the following 5 program objectives are interdependent.
  • Primary objective
    • Enhance students’ and educators’ creative learning capabilities to increase engagement and support success across Western Australian curriculum areas and beyond.
  • 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.

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.