Partners
Local Giants is an initiative of three key partners: Regional Arts Australia, PAC Australia and Performing Lines.
The project is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund—an Australian Government initiative, the Australian Government through the Regional Arts Fund, and the NSW Government through Create NSW. Local Giants regional partners include Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, Country Arts SA and Topology | Regional Arts Services Network North Queensland.
Green Woman - Walking with Giants Finale. Photo by Rebecca Hosking. This project was the recipient of a Cultural Tourism Project Accelerator Grant.
Regional Arts Australia is a not for profit independent body that enables the national voice for arts in regional Australia.
With an aim to raise the profile of regional artists nationally Regional Arts Australia seeks to ensure arts in regional Australia are recognised as essential.
Regional Arts Australia’s work is cross-disciplinary and inter-generational to ensure they can facilitate significant outcomes through partnerships, engagement, practice and research. Regional Arts Australia’s strategic approach is deeply collaborative, ethically positioned and unapologetically ambitious. Regional Arts Australia’s priorities are to facilitate partnerships that support a creative ecosystem that is interconnected and integrated across art form, across communities and across landscapes.
Regional Arts Australia’s programming supports high quality practice through professional development opportunities and cross sector projects to improve opportunities for the presentation of regional artists, organisations and regional communities.
PAC Australia’s Australian Performing Arts Exchange (APAX) 2022
PAC Australia is the national peak body for performing arts centres, presenters and producers across Australia. PAC Australia connects presenters, producers and artists through their membership program and at their flagship event, the Australian Performing Arts Exchange (APAX). PAC Australia advocates for their members on a national level with government and key stakeholders. PAC Australia conducts research and publishes insights on the latest trends and thinking in the performing arts and hosts training programs specifically designed to develop and enhance the presentation of the performing arts in Australia.
Grey Rhino by Charmene Yap and Cass Mortimer Eipper, Carriageworks. Photo by Daniel Boud.
Performing Lines produces provocative contemporary performance by Australia’s most audacious independent artists.
Performing Lines curates a portfolio of work that is propelled by pressing questions and new ways of seeing the world. Performing Lines champions the unconventional, the marginal, the rebellious and the new. Performing Lines’ purpose is to embrace risk and to ensure that the breadth and plurality of Australia’s creative potential is represented and celebrated. Performing Lines is led by Executive Producer Marion Potts, and manages teams in Sydney, Perth and Hobart, with a network of producers and presenters around the country and the world.
Performing Lines is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, the NSW Government through Create NSW, the WA Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, and the Tasmanian Government through Arts Tasmania.
Local Giants resourced three regional performing arts organisations to guide and nurture local artists and commission works that resonate with their communities.
An ambitious project like Local Giants is only possible with support from our funding partners.
