Page 3314 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 19 October 2022
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The Bangladeshi Seniors Club received funding to maintain and uplift social inclusion of Bangladeshi Australians and awareness workshops. The ACT Chinese Women Cultural Association provided horticulture workshops for older people, and the ACT Chinese-Australian Association were also providing projects and group activities to engage with the older Chinese community.
But it is not just the seniors grants. There were also a number of grants provided through our Technology Upgrade Grant Fund, which I talked about earlier this week. That includes grants to the Canberra Hindu Mandir, to the Spanish Speakers Association, the Samoan Advisory Council, the Multicultural Hub Canberra, Navya Andhra Telugu Association, the Australia Sri Lanka Association, Canberra Oceania Community Alliance, the Sierra Leonean Community in Canberra, the Australia China Friendship Society, the National Ethnic Disability Alliance, ACT Chinese Women Cultural Association, and many more.
Arts—Creative Recovery and Resilience Program
MR PETTERSSON: My question is to the Minister for the Arts. Minister, how has funding under the Creative Recovery and Resilience Program been used to support Canberra artists?
MS CHEYNE: I thank Mr Pettersson for the question. The Creative Recovery and Resilience Program was established in 2021 to support artists in the wake of COVID-19. Through this program, the government has invested $711,000 in supporting Canberra’s artists and to creative industries. This funding has been used by artsACT to partner with local organisations and institutions to deliver seven projects, spanning a range of artforms, organisations and parts of Canberra.
Funding under the Creative Recovery and Resilience Program has specifically supported the following programs: the Creative Recovery and Resilience Forum with the University of Canberra, which comprised nine events that contributed to the ongoing growth of a well networked and more resilient sector; residencies in digital innovation and cross-sector engagement with the University of Canberra and the Belconnen Arts Centre; residencies in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and cultural practice and community arts and cultural development with Ainslie and Gorman art centres through which two artists explored community engaged arts practice and three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists further developed their practice; Arts Infinity Lab, with Paper Giant, a six-week program of design-led workshops that supported with artists and arts workers to communicate their practice, including guest speakers and support, to develop small pilot projects; Good Company, with You are Here, through which 16 local arts events producers were each granted $5,000 to support small live events in venues and businesses across the ACT; the ACT government Creative-in-Residence Project delivered by artsACT, which comprised six-month residencies for two creatives in an ACT government directorates; and City Commissions, with contour556.
MR PETTERSSON: Minister, what has the recent City Commissions element of the Creative Recovery and Resilience Program involved?
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