City sponsors Fremantle Biennale at Coogee Beach
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To the tune of $60,000 from the City’s Cockburn Community Fund, the public art festival will land at Coogee Beach on 19-20 November in the form of a choreographed light show featuring a fleet of 180 drones.
The decision forms part of the Council’s 12 August adoption of recommendations from the City’s Grants and Donations Committee.
The City has allocated $1.455m to be distributed as grants, donations, sponsorships and subsidies from its Cockburn Community Fund for 2021-22.
Other allocations include $42,463 for Cockburn Community Mens Shed, more than $94,000 each to WA Wildlife (formerly Native ARC) and The Wetlands Centre Cockburn, $31,569 for a two-year partnership with Little Green Steps for sustainability education, and a $500 donation to Beeliar teenager Ella Willans as she takes up a position at the European School of Ballet in Amsterdam.
Fremantle Biennale approached the City for a funding contribution for its CROSSING21 Moombaki event, a place responsive Noongar-led story telling project and drone light show presented in Fremantle, Cockburn and Melville from 5-20 November.
The events will comprise a fleet of 180 drones equipped with LED lights programmed and animated to reveal a series of connected Noongar creation stories of the river and ocean – Moombaki is the Noongar word for where the river meets the sky.
It aims to attract 40,000 people across the expanded sites of Fremantle, Cockburn and Melville. The 2019 event attracted more than 17,000 people to evening events in Fremantle with an economic benefit of more than $1m.
The City will seek applications to its Cockburn Community Fund from community groups, schools, businesses and not-for-profit organisations from a pool of over $1m for donations, sponsorships and grants including Community Grants, Cultural Grants, Junior Sports Travel Assistance, Economic Development and Small Events Sponsorships.
The first of these rounds is due to open shortly, closing on 24 September 2021 and the second on 25 March 2022.
For more information about the Cockburn Community Fund visit the City’s website opens in a new window.
More information about Fremantle Biennale 2021 is available on its website opens in a new window.
Caption: The 2017 Fremantle Biennale was best known for installation Arcs d’Éllipses, by world-renowned Swiss artist Felice Varini, which spanned 800m from the Round House to Fremantle Town Hall.