Funding boost for arts and community projects

Twelve local projects have received a funding boost in the City of Fremantle’s Arts and Community grants September round.

A diverse mix of applicants were successful in securing funding, including $5000 each for five arts projects and grants ranging between $1500 and $5000 for seven different community groups.

Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt said the September round focussed on supporting projects and initiatives that contributed to the community’s COVID-19 recovery.

“The City’s grants program judging panel looked for art applications with strong collaboration and connections with other local artists, residents, visitors or businesses,” Mayor Pettitt said.

“We’re looking forward to seeing how these winning art projects stimulate Freo’s creative economy and play a fundamental role in connecting community and lifting people’s spirit post COVID-19.

“Proposed community initiatives that responded directly to the significant challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and supported vulnerable and disadvantaged groups were also successful in securing funding.”

Arts projects supported in the September round included an immersive performance exploring heritage, architecture and the ever-popular genre of ghost stories, a major survey exhibition honouring Ross Seaton the ‘Walking Man’, a Fremantle-based multi-art fringe festival, an intergenerational theatre production that navigates blame for the state of our planet and a series of musical installations celebrating original Indigenous music.

Projects supported with a community grant included a series of Indigenous Yoga/Tai Chi workshops, a PorchFest event to connect neighbours through music, funding for Repair Cafe Fremantle to continue next year, dune restoration works at Leighton Beach, a community event to remember loved ones who have passed and a 26-week program supporting women at high risk of unemployment, homelessness and other disadvantages.

The next Arts and Community grants round will be held in March 2021. For more information about the grants program, visit the Grants and Donations page on the City’s website.

Arts grants Ross Vegas – Dark Corners: A Spooky Heritage Tour$5000Ted Snell – Ross Seaton: Walking Man Exhibition$5000Martina Van der Escken – 6 x F (working title)$5000Ralf Rauker – The Handover$5000AbMusic: Chelsy Loveridge – Boodjar Beats$5000 Community grants  Sub-Ek Denise Groves – Indigenous Spirituality: Wayapa Wuurrk$3750           South Fremantle Corner Pocket – PorchFest$5000Repair Cafe Fremantle Inc. – Repair Cafe Fremantle$1500Fremantle Wesley Mission – Wesley Link Project$2160Leighton Community Action Network Inc – Leighton Community Action Network Sustainability Program

$2000 

Tender Funerals Perth Ltd – The Festival of Remembrance and The River of Ribbon Project$4000Women’s Informal Network – Women’s Informal Network Program$4030

Image: Repair Cafe Fremantle was one of the recipients in the City of Fremantle’s latest round of Arts and Community Grants.