Co-funding Round: Sidney Myer Fund and Pride Foundation Australia
November 26th, 2019
The Sidney Myer Fund and Pride Foundation Australia Board of Directors are pleased to announce our next joint funding round – the tenth in our collaboration. A grant of up to $20,000 will be available to support an initiative improving the wellbeing of LGBTIA+ people who are refugees or seeking asylum. Since 2014 PFA and […]
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New Report Presents the Big Picture on Government Arts and Culture Funding
September 18th, 2019
A new report released 10 September 2019 by independent think tank, A New Approach (ANA), shows local governments are seeing the value of arts and culture in their communities, and are responding by stepping up their financial commitment and playing a bigger role in government support for arts and culture. The report, The Big Picture: […]
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Nominations Open: Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards
September 17th, 2019
Nominations for the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards will opened on 17 September and will close at midnight AEST 27 October 2019. All nominees will be notified of the outcome of the panel’s decision in December with the recipients announced publicly at ceremony held at Cranlana, Toorak 11 March 2019. To nominate a recipient […]
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2019 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows Announced
September 16th, 2019
Courage is at the core of the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships and this year; nine exceptional mid-career artists have been announced as 2019 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows. They have been awarded to: Lior Attar, music, Vic; Maxine Clarke, writing Vic; Ceridwen Dovey, writing, NSW; Natano Fa’anana, performance, Qld; Lydia Fairhall, producing, Qld; Alisdair Macindoe, dance, […]
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The Myer Foundation Supports the Uluru Statement From the Heart
July 12th, 2019
The Myer Foundation has joined with more than 60 others in Australia’s philanthropic community to sign a collective response to the Uluru Statement From the Heart. Released in May 2017, the Uluru Statement From the Heart is a national Indigenous consensus position on Indigenous constitutional reform, which was drafted at the end of a three-day […]
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