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The Sculptors’ Society Gold Coast Inc is calling for entries for Exotic Erotic 2006, an Exhibition of Sculpture, Paintings and Art in all media celebrating Love, Romance, Desire and Pleasure. Entry forms are due 16 November 2006.

For further details and entry forms contact the Exhibition's Curator Midge Johansen on 0423 835 590 or email midgehelena@bigpond.com.

Lovett Gallery & Framing logo Annette Raff will be conducting a workshop on watercolour technique at the Lovett Gallery & Framing at West Burleigh. This workshop is planned to run on two consecutive Saturdays 21 and 28 October.

For more information visit www.lovettgallery.com or phone Annette on (07) 5564 2416.

A Colour Workshop will be held at the Royal Queensland Art Society, Broadbeach, on Sunday 22 and 29 October. This is designed to give artists and beginners a basic and practical approach to Colour and Colour mixing. The tutor, Wendy List, is a graduate of the Sydney School of Colour and Design and has been giving these workshops on the Gold Coast for several years.

For further information call Wendy List on (07) 5522 8505, or visit www.artimpart.com.au.

Big Sound Logo Whether you are an emerging songwriter, a fledgling indie label, or in a band taking on the world, there will be plenty on offer for you at the 2006 Big Sound Music Industry Conference. To be staged around Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley from October 18 to 20, Big Sound is an initiative of Q Music and will be one the most important events of its type held in the country this year. Now in its fifth year, Big Sound has mirrored Queensland’s growth as a music hotspot and will feature three days of forums, workshops, discussions and panel sessions aimed at all levels of the music industry.

For all you need to know about the 2006 Big Sound Music Industry Conference, visit www.qmusic.com.au/bigsound today.

Interplay Logo The team responsible for producing World Interplay (the International Festival of Young Playwrights) is excited to be launching their first ever Online Festival! Now you can have an Interplay festival at your fingertips! Playwrights aged 13 to 17 and 18 to 26 are encouraged to apply, as are dramaturges, and directors who are interested in tutoring. Interplay’s Online Festival will be kicking off on 24 October 2006 and run until January 2007 – plenty of time for you to develop your scripts in a natural, non-competitive environment. The application process can be completed totally online.

For further information visit www.worldinterplay.org/childsplay/cgi-bin/show_page.pl/5/50 or email info@worldinterplay.org.

The Inside Film Awards need six drivers to assist in talent transport on Friday 17 November. This is a fixed daily rate position.

For full details please email ross@if.com.au or phone (02) 9318 4477.

Artists and painters wanted to display their works at a new cafe situated in the new and developing area of Gumdale (20 minutes from Brisbane). There are no restrictions to the type of artistry/theme except that they must vibrant. All works will be displayed free of charge and may be sold at the artists discretion. No commission from sale of paintings required.

For further information phone (07) 3890 7723 or email noopdcc@gmail.com.

This October, Arts Northern Rivers in partnership with the Australian Taxation Office presents Tax Basics Seminars for artists. The Tax Basics seminar will be held in four locations around the region - Tweed, Ballina, Byron and Grafton and will include two evening sessions.

For more information contact Arts Northern Rivers on phone (02) 6628 8120 or email artsnorthernrivers@tpg.com.au.

After the success of the 2006 Byron Bay Film Festival submissions are now open for the BBFF 2007 festival, which will run 9 February through to 17 February. Films of all lengths and genres which were completed after 1 January 2005 are welcome to enter with awards available in the categories of Best Film, Young Filmmaker (under 25), Animation, Experimental, Surfing, Drama, Documentary, Marine, Comedy and Cinematography.

More information, entry forms and the festival's guidelines and regulations are available at their website. Visit www.bbff.com.au.

Qld Association for Healthy Communities is holding an art competition to promote safe sex. The Condom Competition encourages artists to submit positive works of art (photography, collage, song, sculpture, painting, animation, video clips/mpegs) that encourage the use of condoms and promote safe sex. A $1,500 cash award is up for grabs. Winning entries will be used by the Qld Association for Healthy Communities, with acknowledgement to the artist, to promote condom use. Entries must be received by 5.00 pm 31 October and will be accepted from residents of Australia only.

For more information email rcraig@qahc.org.au or phone Rosz Craig on (07) 3017 1734.

Adultshop.com in partnership with Artrage are calling for submissions for the $10,000 adultshop.com Erotic Art Prize. Works are to explore the boundaries between 'erotica' and 'pornography'. Open to emerging and established artists. Submissions close 1 December 2006.

For more information visit www.art.adultshop.com.

Vis-à-Vis artlab is an independent and non-profit contemporary artist run space in Xiamen, South China. Their residence program provides artists, architects, curators, researchers, etc with an opportunity to live and work in China. There is also the possibility of having an exhibition at the end of the residency. Duration of residencies: minimum one month. Vis-à-Vis artlab does not provide funding, however, will provide letters to artists to apply for grants and funding in their home countries. No deadline for submissions.

For more information visit www.visavisartlab.com.

Museum & Gallery Services Logo Museum and Gallery Services Queensland and Brisbane's Living Heritage Network will be delivering in partnership a skills training workshop on significance assessment on 28 October and 11 November. A skills training workshop on preventive conservation will be held on 29 October and 12 November. Both workshops will be held in Brisbane, and are for members of Brisbane’s Living Heritage Network, Museums Australia (QLD) and Regional Galleries Association of Queensland.

For more information contact Kerri Laidlaw, Training & Professional Development Co-ordinator, Museum & Gallery Services Queensland on phone (07) 3215 0844 or email kerri.laidlaw@magsq.com.au.

The inaugural Conference 2006 of the Australian & New Zealand Art Therapy Association Inc will be held 21 to 22 October at the Manly Community Centre, 12 Wentworth Street, Manly.

For registrations and more information phone 1300 557 002 or visit www.anzata.org.

If you have a screen culture event (including festivals, awards, regular screenings, or conferences) or a deadline for festival or awards entry which falls between 1 January and 30 June 2007 then you can have it listed for free in the Inside Film (IF) magazine calendar. Send information to email tim@if.com.au.

The Australian Writers' Foundation and Southern Star Children's Television Production Initiative is now open. The successful candidate will receive an industry placement with Southern Star Entertainment allowing them to participate in script development meetings of a children's television production. New writers and those who have experience in other areas of performance writing, such as adult drama are invited. Applicants must be members of the Australian Writers' Guild and applications are due 20 October.

Email admin@awg.com.au or visit www.awg.com.au.

Coffs Harbour International Day of People with a Disability are seeking films by or involving actors or subjects with disability for their first Film Screening, to be held on 1 Dec 2006. Materials should be: 10 minutes maximum long; DVD or VHS format (copies only); Fiction, Comedy, Animation, Documentary or A Day In the Life of/Autobiography; feature actors with a disability or be made by people with a disability.

Send entries by 20 October to Sandi Vangucci, 3/27 Circular Ave, Sawtell 2452. Phone (02) 6658 5175 or 0406 141 791.

Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre invites proposals by 23 October from women working professionally in theatre or other performing arts for programming consideration in the period 2008 to 2010, offering a unique opportunity to have work developed or produced.

Phone (08) 8447 6211, email vitalstatistix@ozemail.com.au or visit www.vitalstatistix.com.au.

The ABC Symphony Australia: Young Performers Awards are aimed at nurturing the talent and ambitions of Australia's young musicians (>30 years). Originally known as the Concerto and Vocal Competition, the Awards are held in four stages - two recitals with piano accompaniment, and two performances with Symphony Australia orchestras. The winner of the Grand Final receives a total of $10,000 in cash, multiple copies of a CD of the winning performance and recital program and at least three concert engagements with a Symphony Australia orchestra. Applications close 27 October.

Contact Greg Low, Sydney Symphony Orchestra on phone (02) 8215 4691, email greg.low@sydneysymphoney.com or visit www.symphony.net.au.

The NSW Writers' Centre 2006 Prize for best self-published Australian book closes on 27 October. A prize of $500 will be awarded to the best Australian book self-published between September 2005 and August 2006.

For further details or entry forms visit www.nswwriterscentre.org.au. Inquiries can be made through Irina Dunn, Executive Director, NSW Writers' Centre by phone (02) 9555 9757 or email nswwc@nswwriterscentre.org.au.

Expressions of interest are now open for artists who would like to sell their artwork via the new artworkers website. This is a great opportunity for artists to access the online market and gain international advertising and publicity.

For further information contact artworkers by phone (07) 3215 0850 or 1300 780 291, email info@artworkers.org or visit www.artworkers.org.

The only purely independent music video festival in Australia, SunScreen is back for a second year, bigger, brighter and better, offering an opportunity for independent bands across the country to air their film clips to the nation and go into the draw to win $10,000 worth of services and product to make their next clip. Submissions close 15 November.

Visit www.theprogram.net.au.

A major playwriting initiative of Sydney Theatre Company and The Sydney Morning Herald, the Patrick White Award for Young Playwrights is Australia's richest award for a full-length unproduced play of any genre by an Australian playwright 20 years of age or over. Two winners (one junior, one senior) will participate in a workshop with a professional director, dramaturg and cast which culminates in a staged reading at STC. The two young playwrights will also each receive $1,000 courtesy of The Sydney Morning Herald and judges also present a number of Merit Awards in each age category. Submissions, which are due 20 November, should be one-act plays on any subject, and no longer than 30 minutes long.

Email feedback@sydneytheatre.com.au or visit www.sydneytheatre.com.au.

Imagine your own Australian drama on TV, on mobile, and online. Made with the MTV production team. Created by you. Optus One80 Project, supported by MTV and Sony Ericsson is calling out to aspiring Australian scriptwriters, directors or just anyone with a damn good idea to submit a three minute pilot and an accompanying script/concept for a one hour TV drama. Submissions due 24 November.

Visit www.one80project.com.au.

Entries invited from all Australian writers of any age for The Fellowship Of Australian Writers Di Cranston Award for a stage or radio play, TV script or screenplay on any topic. Winning and commended scripts will be reviewed by a film producer for potential as a feature film or television script production, and the winner will receive $250. Chosen scripts may also receive a development grant. Submissions should be no more than 120 pages and be in script format, securely fastened with a bulldog clip and be received by 30 November. Copies will not be returned.

Email blundell@vicnet.net.au or visit www.writers.asn.au.

Events

Wahine Maori of Queensland Inc presents an exhibition of the largest private collection of Maori Arts to be seen in Australia with the support of Bond University. The Exhibition will open with a traditional Maori Ceremony followed by the viewing of the Maori Arts. The exhibition will also include a Maori Fashion Show with each garment being made entirely out of harakeke (flax). The exhibition will be held on 22 November at Bond University’s Art Gallery.

Spotlight Theatrical Company presents Jesus Christ Superstar. The season will run from 21 October through to 18 November.

Gold Coast Dancers Company Inc presents a triple bill of classical and modern dance: Peter & The Wolf, Tarantino Torque and Amor En Espana. The performance will feature professional guest artists and directors plus three local dancers who leave for the Australian Ballet School's full time training course in January 2007. The show will be at the Gold Coast Arts Centre on Saturday 21 October at 7.30 pm and Sunday 22 October at 2.00 pm. For further information visit www.gcac.com.au.

Club Picasso Art School and Gallery is presenting its Spring Exhibition All Things Bright & Beautiful. Opening night is Friday 13 October from 6.00 pm and will run for the month of October. Address is Lavelle Street, Nerang (next door to the Professionals Real Estate).

Murwillumbah Theatre Company in association with Dominie Drama presents The Truth About Cinderella Cinderella with a twist! A pantomime for the whole family. Presented at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre from 20 October through to 4 November.

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre has a few great shows coming up in November.

Women in Voice is now in its fifteenth season! And the line-up of talent will be as stunning as ever when the six female performers hit the stage at QPAC in November. From humble beginnings in a West End café in the early nineties, Women in Voice has made an impressive journey: for the past six years it has been performed in the 800-seat QPAC Playhouse, and in 2006 will be on for a ten show season. Creator and co-producer Annie Peterson’s vision was to profile female artists and provide quality performance opportunities, by bringing singers together into an exciting showcase of talent. The successful concept has resulted in an annual show that’s one of the most anticipated events on Brisbane’s musical landscape.

270,000 watts of light, 20 tonnes of state of the art sound, 9 awesome musicians, 1 epic concert – in Qpac’s concert hall! The internationally acclaimed Pink Floyd Experience returns to Brisbane for one spectacular concert on Wednesday 22 November, as part of a fourteen city Australian tour. From the dazzling light show and awe-inspiring sound, to the soaring guitar solos, everything about this concert is inspired by a reverence for the music of one of rock and roll's greatest icons, Pink Floyd. The musicianship and the attention to detail of the nine-piece Pink Floyd Experience tribute band are extraordinary. The Pink Floyd Experience first visited Australia in 2004 and critics and audiences around the country were unanimous in their praise for this amazing concert. This year, as part of the experience, two of the highest selling albums of all time The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall will be performed in their entirety on stage.

Lock up your daughters! The pirates are coming to QPAC, from 23 November, in a new Opera Australia production of The Pirates of Penzance. Living National Treasure and star of many a hit musical, Anthony Warlow plays the fearsome yet soft-centred Pirate King alongside a top-notch cast including David Hobson as Frederic, Suzanne Johnston in the role of Ruth, John Bolton Wood as Major General Stanley. As part of the national opera company’s 50th birthday celebrations, Opera Australia returns to Brisbane for the first time since 1988. Director Stuart Maunder, with designers Roger Kirk and Richard Roberts, thought it fitting to bring one of the best known and brightest of Gilbert and Sullivan works to QPAC to mark the occasion.

For further information visit www.qpac.com.au.

Club Picasso Art School and Gallery is presenting its Spring Exhibition All Things Bright & Beautiful. Opening night is Friday 13 October from 6.00pm and will run for the month of October. Address is Lavelle St, Nerang (next door to the Professionals Real Estate).

Robina Gallery
6 October to 20 October – Diana Cook and students
21 October to 4 November – Community Support Agency
6 November to 17 November – Robina State High School

Funding

Don’t forget to let us know (by email) if you have had a successful application to a funding body or philanthropic trust! Tell us what the funds are for, and how much you got. It gives us all hope for our own applications! Funding bodies continue to tell us that the Gold Coast is under-represented in funding applications, so check out the information below, and start thinking up some great new projects!!!

Secondary students are invited to apply to The Foundation for Young Australians for an Indigenous Youth Leadership Programme (IYLP) secondary scholarship. The IYLP provides scholarships and leadership opportunities targeting young Indigenous Australians from remote areas. Scholarships of up to $15,000 per eligible secondary student, per year, are available for tuition and accommodation costs.

Further information and application forms are available at www.youngaustralians.org or call The Foundation on (03) 9670 5436.

Akademie Schloss Solitude, located in Stuttgart, Germany is offering approximately 60 residency fellowships of six to twelve months in duration. Persons up to 35 or who have completed a university or college degree within the past five years are welcome to apply. Each fellowship recipient is granted Euro 1,000 per month, in addition to free lodging.

For more information visit www.akademie-solitude.de.

Craft Queensland have announced their Mentoring Grant Program for 2006-2007. Up to $9,000 is available for arts and craft workers to establish a mentoring relationship with an experienced practitioner in their arts practice.

Applicants are urged to discuss their proposals with Andrea Higgins at Craft Queensland on phone (07) 3215 0807 or email andrea@craftqld.com.au. An Expression Of Interest document is available to be downloaded from www.craftqld.com.au.

Metro Screen Logo Filmmakers across Australia are invited to receive full funding and assistance to make their first short film through Raw Nerve – National Screen Funding which closes 30 October. Now in its fifth year, Raw Nerve is a joint initiative developed between the Australian Film Commission (AFC) and Screen Development Australia (SDA).

To find out how to submit your application or to find out more about Raw Nerve and Metro Screen, please call (02) 9361 5318, email metro@metroscreen.org.au or visit www.metroscreen.org.au.

The Martin Bequest Travelling Scholarships assist young, talented Australians to explore and develop their artistic gifts abroard and interstate. The awards are open to native-born Australians aged 21 to 35 (17 to 35 for ballet) who are of outstanding ability and promise in one or more categories of the arts. The scholarships are intended to augment a scholar's own resources towards a cultural education, and may be used for study, maintenance, and travel either in Australia or overseas. There are twelve awards made annually, valued at $18,000 each and close 27 October. The categories vary from year to year.

Phone (02) 9326 5507, email trustawards@cauzgroup.com.au or visit www.trust.com.au.

Australia Council For the Arts
For further information about any of the grants listed below visit www.ozco.gov.au or call 1800 226 912 to obtain a free 2006 handbook.

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