A new four-year fund has been announced to target emerging First Nations arts organisations across the State.
Minister for the Arts, Leeanne Enoch said the First Nations Pathways Fund 2022-2025, would support First Nations emerging performing arts organisations that created and presented new work.
“As home to the world’s oldest continuous living cultures, we have a unique opportunity to support the growth of both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and culture,” Ms Enoch said.
She said the Fund would ensure audiences could experience the quality and diversity of First Nations arts and cultures, engage in truth-telling and share Queensland’s rich history, languages and stories.
“Support through this fund will enable organisations to focus on their future and help deliver on Queensland’s plan for economic recovery from COVID 19, developing new work, creating jobs and new career pathways for First Nations artists and arts workers,” Ms Enoch said.
“The First Nations Pathways Fund was an important outcome of the Government’s Creative Together 2020-2030 roadmap and its newly-established First Nations Arts and Cultures Panel.”
The Minister said First Nations organisations held Country and culture at the core of their businesses and shared stories through various art forms.
“That’s why the First Nations Arts and Cultures Panel has been engaged in developing this program,” she said.
Ms Enoch said the Fund would offer $60,000 to $100,000 per annum to eligible Queensland-based First Nations organisations to support operational costs, with an additional $30,000 per annum dedicated to supporting the specific growth needs of the business.
More information on the Fund can be accessed at this PS News link.
