Deadline: 25-Aug-22
The Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries is seeking applications for its Grants to Support the Performing Arts in regional Western Australia.
In the House supports the expansion of annual performing arts programs delivered by performing arts venues in regional Western Australia.
Objectives
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Funding delivered through In the House is intended to:
- raise the quality, scale and profile of the performing arts in regional centres
- boost tourism and employment opportunities in regional Western Australia
- enable regional performing arts venues to better leverage investment and generate income
- increase opportunities for regional communities to participate in arts and cultural activities at performing arts venues.
Funding Information
- Category 1 (Up to $80,000)
- Category 2 (Up to $60,000)
- Category 3 (Up to $40,000)
Eligibility Criteria
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Applications to In the House are open to regional performing arts venues that are operated by Local Governments or not-for-profit organisations, and those organisations which have received funding in the past from the department’s Raise the Roof or In the House programs.
- Competitive applications should be able to demonstrate a:
- significant commitment to delivering a diverse, high quality annual performing arts program
- consistent prior audience engagement data, ticket sales and other forms of revenue
- genuine willingness to diversify performing arts programming.
What can I apply for?
- Expansion of the venue’s existing annual program to enable a diverse range of contemporary professional performing arts productions
- community engagement activities and residencies that are clearly aligned to the annual program.
What can’t I apply for?
- Purchase of capital equipment including instruments, equipment, software, computers, tablets (iPads) and/or uniforms
- capital works such as construction or purchasing of studios, work spaces or gallery spaces
- activities already funded by Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries’ (DLGSC) culture and the arts grant programs
- activities relating to radio broadcasting
- display, restoration or conservation of cultural and/or historical material
- costs of manufacturing and/or producing prototypes
- fundraising, competitions, prizes and trophies
- the work of Western Australian or Australian government departments
- activity that will be academically assessed or any school curriculum-based activity
- facsimiles, genealogical works and histories of local governments,
- clubs, districts and organisations
- activities related to an individual’s membership in a national organisation
- ongoing staffing costs
- film and television activities such as:
- the development or production of narrative shorts or features, pilots for television series, mainstream animation e.g. conventional character-based narrative cartoons
- documentaries, including documentaries on the arts
- screenwriting activities or script development for film and television
- stand-alone documentation activities
- education activities, or activities where members of the public take part, where the main or only artform being used is film or digital, unless it’s in support of an artist’s work.
For more information, visit Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.
For more information, visit https://www.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/funding/arts-funding/in-the-house/in-the-house-guidelines