Are you a musician that works collaboratively? Are you interested in broadening your compositional skills? Are you looking to take your music to another level?

Applications for Rewriting the Score are invited from professional musicians who experience disability, practicing in all genres from across Australia.

Orange Regional Conservatorium, in partnership with Accessible Arts, is offering this opportunity to promote inclusive performance opportunities and collaborations that include musicians with and without disability working together.

Thirteen musicians will work together to create new music, led by Artistic Director Graham Sattler. The residency will culminate in two concert performances at the Orange Regional Conservatorium on Friday 25 and Saturday 27 November 2011.

Rewriting the Score provides a high profile professional development opportunity for musicians with disability in a supportive arts environment. Recipients will receive an honorarium fee of $1400, plus travel and accommodation expenses. Support workers/carers travel and accommodation expenses also covered where required.   

More information on eligibility and the application process is available online for download www.aarts.net.au/projects/rewriting-the-score

Deadline for applications is Monday 19 September 2011.

When:        Sunday 20 November to Sunday 27 November 2011
Where:       Orange Regional Conservatorium, Central West Region NSW
Who:          Professional musicians who experience disability from across Australia
Contact:     Belinda Quince – Events & Promotions Officer – Orange Regional Conservatorium
Phone:       02 6361 7974
Email:         events@orangecon.org.au

Rewriting the Score is an initiative of Orange Regional Conservatorium, with support from Arts NSW, Accessible Arts, and Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol services and Western NSW Local Health Network.

This photo competition by the Australian Human Rights Commission will explore the theme of the Right to Education, and will showcase on their website and on their Flickr website a selection of the best photos they receive. They’re looking for great photos about the broad theme of education – maybe it will be you and your classmates, an exciting event your school or local library held or anything about education – from Kindergarten to life-long learning. So crank up your imagination and grab your camera!

Each month we will choose a winner who will receive an Apple iPod shuffle. The overall winner will receive a $500 voucher from Apple and have their prize presented at our Human Rights Awards in Sydney on 9 December.

Good luck and happy snapping!

There are two categories – under 18 and over 18
Entry is free, and you can submit up to six photos per month.

Photos may be submitted via email (Photocomp@humanrights.gov.au) or through their Flickr group.

For more details please phone (02) 9284 9600 or see their website: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/PhotoCompetition2011/index.html

25th January to 18th February 2012
Welcome to FRINGE WORLD Perth – The Boutique Fringe at the Edge of the World. Following the huge success of our pilot season in Feb 2011, we’re launching the full fringe festival in 2012 and its set to be a pearler.

If you’re an artist or promoter interested in being part of the festival, please visit our website: www.fringeworld.com.au

For those artists and promoters looking to tour work to more than one festival in the Australasian summer season, FRINGE WORLD dovetails into the second largest arts festival in the world, the Adelaide Fringe in South Australia, Western Australia’s closest neighbour. Adelaide Fringe is also currently accepting registrations until 12 October 2011 – www.adelaidefringe.com.au

We’d love you to be a part of FRINGE WORLD 2012.
Interested In Having Your Work In The Fringe World 2012 Festival?

Create an artist account at www.fringeworld.com.au. Registering doesn’t commit you to putting on an event or paying a registration fee, it just gives you access to information for your consideration until your registration is complete. Have a look at the information in the artist toolbox.

If you need assistance with your registration at any time, please email artists@fringeworld.com.au with ‘registration assistance’ in the subject heading.

Key Dates
FRINGE WORLD hub applications close midnight Sunday 9 Oct, 2011
ADELAIDE FRINGE registrations close 5pm Wednesday 12 Oct, 2011

Artists who want to be successful in business have the opportunity to participate in a series of business development workshops over the next few months to be run by Flying Arts and Artworkers Alliance, two of the Queensland’s iconic arts development organisations.

The professional development workshops are part of the Flying Arts Artist in Business Series which have been successful around the State and now with the support of Artworkers are available to artists in Brisbane.

Director of Artworkers Kevin Wilson said that the business workshops will be beneficial for emerging and practicing artists in Brisbane, providing an opportunity to gain arts business skills and develop pathways towards a sustainable career.

“The professional development workshops, run by experienced industry professionals, will give artists a greater understanding of business skills and principles and how these can be applied to their own practice to help forge sustainable and successful career” he said.

The first workshop ‘How to plan and manage an arts project’ is supported by Art Shed Brisbane and will be held on Sunday 18 September at Circle Gallery, 274 Montague Rd West End from 10 am – 4pm.

In the workshop experienced facilitator and Flying Arts Executive Officer, Stephen Clark,  will introduce the principles of effective arts project management and explain how a little method in the madness will help to produce a successful project.

At the end of the session students will understand the importance of project planning and the steps in the planning process as well as have practical skills in writing a project brief and a project management plan.

The cost of each workshop is $40 for members or $50 for non-members and booking and payments must be made in advance to ensure a place is available.

For more information about the workshops, or to make a booking go to www.flyingarts.org.au/brisbaneworkshops or call Flying Arts on 3844 7211

Arts Access Australia (AAA) is very pleased to launch our new membership scheme and to welcome any organisations or individuals with an interest in arts and disability to become a member of AAA.

AAA members include the state peak arts and disability bodies, disability and mainstream arts organisations, disability services, and individual artists and arts-workers with disability (and more). We also work with non-disabled people, arts and cultural organisations, and others within the wider arts and disability sectors. To find out more and to download a membership form visit: www.artsaccessaustralia.org/membership or contact Kate Larson, CEO    0419 201 338 (voice / text)

All of the Super Art students have disabilities and the standard of their work is high. The students create work in various mediums, such as printmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture and mosaics. It will be a big night, especially for the students and their parents. Visitors get to see and buy excellent work and there will be about 300 artworks on display with money going to the students. Of particular interest is one of the students work on the flood – it is excellent work.

Where:      Sherwood Neighborhood Centre 38 Thallon Street, Sherwood
When:        Friday September 9th from 5:30pm