COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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'The Australian Government has established a $1 billion COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund to support regions, communities and industry sectors that have been disproportionately affected by the Coronavirus crisis. The initiatives announced under the Fund are supporting industries including aviation, agriculture, fisheries, tourism and the arts.' 

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2021

recipient Ciella Williams $20,000 Ruptured Ciella Williams will collaborate with Darwin’s Browns Mart Theatre and Sydney-based New Ghosts Theatre Company to co-produce a 3-week season of her new play Ruptured in 2021. The project includes five Sydney-based artists mentoring and collaborating with young regional artists based in Darwin. The production will foster long-term collaborative relationships, present innovative new work relevant to NT audiences, champion regional work in larger centres and upskill local artists.
recipient Cairns Tropical Writers Festival $30,000 COVID-19 Digital Lead-up Program In response to the 12-month postponement of the biennial Cairns Tropical Writers Festival until 2021, this project is a recovery strategy and a digital event lead-up program. To ensure the festival will be the vibrant, stimulating, diverse event originally planned, it will be expanded to bring together online writers, readers and commentators globally. This festival recovery strategy will ensure audience reach and impact will be extended with quality digital and live-recorded events reflecting program priorities, including engaging diverse, remote, Indigenous, and young writers and readers.
recipient Justin Heazlewood $20,000 GET UP MUM Justin Heazlewood will produce and premiere GET UP MUM, a theatre piece which examines the situation of caring for a parent with a mental illness. This stage of the project will be supported by the Regional Arts Fund to develop COVID-safe rehearsal and premiere of the work, with a view to touring in the future
recipient Julie Waddington $14,178 MENTAL—The Mother Load STAGE 4 Julie Waddington will deliver MENTAL—The Mother Load STAGE 4 at Junction Arts Festival, a creative documentary performance exploring motherhood, which engages and connects with mothers and shares their stories. This final stage of the project was heavily impacted by COVID-19 and will be developed for a re-imagined stage 4 outcome more suited to a COVID-impacted world.
recipient Marta Dusseldorp $20,000 Theatre and Film Marta Dusseldorp will develop and deliver two projects, Token Love and Living Underground. Token Love is a multi-disciplinary live performance work responding to convict love tokens, and speaking about lived experiences of COVID-19 of isolation and being kept away from loved ones. Living Underground is a film which examines the stories of Tasmanian women who have survived domestic abuse.
recipient Terrapin Puppet Theatre $20,000 Tip Duck Terrapin will develop and present Tip Duck, a new performance for public space, meeting the economic and social challenges of the COVID-19 recovery period.
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