Unlimited UK will subsidise a group of Australians to travel to London in September to attend the ‘Festival of the World’ as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

This international arts and disability gathering will showcase the Unlimited Commissions, the largest program of work by artists with disability ever commissioned. Whilst in London, participants will also be able to attend a range of panel discussions, meetings and workshops.

Participants will then share their experiences at the Arts Activated Conference in Sydney on the 30^th and 31^st October 2012.

Unlimited UK is open to Australian artists and arts workers with disability who are involved in any area of the arts. Applications close on the 1^st of June 2012.

An application form is available on Arts Acessss Australia website or by contacting Emma Brown on emma@artsaccessaustralia.org or 0478 803 920 (voice / text).

Unlimited UK is delivered in partnership by:

The project is supported by the Australian Government through the Office for the Arts, the British Council, the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts SA and Arts Victoria.

The conference spans all forms from film, visual arts, animation, graffiti, architecture, design (in all its variations) and much more. 

Meirion Pritchard worked in a variety of publications before joining leading design publication Wallpaper* Magazine. After helping with the re-design of Wallpaper*, Pritchard took over as Art Director of the magazine and has continued to produce an innovative magazine as well as initiating the first iPad edition of Wallpaper*. 

 
HiRes! was founded by Florian Schmitt and Alexandra Jugovic after moving to London from Germany. The pair thought their eclectic set of experiences and interests would be best combined into one format and they began to experiment with Adobe’s Flash technology. Their first self-initiated online project, soulbath.com, attracted worldwide attention. Since their initial experimentation they have collaborated with film director Darren Aronofsky and they continue to be showered with accolades their work in digital media.

Pritchard and Schmitt will be sharing their publishing and art direction secrets at the Semi-Permanent in Sydney on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 May.

They will also be presenting at Semi-Permanent in Auckland on the Friday 18 and Saturday 19 May as well as presenting master class sessions.

For more details and bookings click here.

Sethi has written for leading UK publications, reported from the Baluchestan desert, interviewed prominent cultural and political figures and is currently working on a novel.

As the International Writer-in-Residence and Ambassador for the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Sethi will be participating at a number of events as well as connecting with Australia’s emerging writers. 

The book has been has won six international literary awards and has been translated into 28 languages.

In addition to presenting the opening address, Matar will also speak at another event facilitated by Suzanne Leal.  Prior to becoming an author Suzanne practised criminal law and was on the Refugee Review Tribunal and her conversation with Matar will prove to be thought provoking.

For further information about the Sydney Writers’ Festival click here.

ACCELERATE gives Indigenous people working in the creative industries an opportunity to undergo intensive training, and to travel to the UK on a tailored programme of professional meetings and placements, while in the company of peers from around Australia.

CultureLabel.com was initiated by Peter and Simon in 2007 with the aim to create a site where art, product, design, heritage, fashion, culture and more could be found.  They have a particular focus on the relationship between cultural entrepreneurship and commercial income generation for the arts.

The London-based pair are interested in the opportunities and challenges that are arising from the transformation of the global cultural sector with the emergence of new technologies, consumer trends and business models. Their key focus is on ways cultural organisations can create new commercial income streams on the strength of what they already possess – great content, great experiences and great brands.

Around the country they will be presenting trend briefing sessions as well as intensive workshops designed to help cultural organisations develop big ideas for reaching new consumers and unlocking new income generation streams.

Peter and Simon will draw on the content of their influential book ‘Intelligent Naivety’; a blueprint for would-be cultural entrepreneurs. They will also present a sneak preview of their new book REMIX – Culture, Technology, Entrepreneurship (published later in 2012), which explores the key technology and consumer trends that will impact the cultural sector over the next 5-10 years in terms of audience development and associated income generation opportunities.

From new partnership and business models for the cultural industry (including crowd sourcing and commercial branding through cultural assets), to new consumer journeys into culture (the digital experience and the virtual visitor, audience profiling systems and digital hotspots for the new cultural communities), Peter and Simon’s models are pivotal to the success of every cultural organisation and this will be a unique opportunity to hear Peter and Simon speak.

CultureLabel.com will be presenting in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.

Event details can be found at www.abaf.org.au/events

New South Wales

April 11 & 12 at the State Library of New South Wales

Queensland

April 17 & 18 at the State Library of Queensland

Victoria

April 19 & 20 at the State Library of Victoria

The British Council is proud to present CultureLabel.  The CultureLabel program is part of AbaF’s Richard Pratt Legacy Project developing leadership in the arts and cultural sector with support from the Pratt Foundation.

British Council Australia will be supporting an exciting exchange of young producers between Next Wave and Fierce. The outcomes of the exchanges will be presented at both festivals from 2012- 2014.

Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison, who are joint Artistic Directors of Fierce Festival, will be part of Next Wave’s Residents crew and will be participating in various events throughout the festival.

Both Next Wave and Fierce Festival have developed reputations for curating risk-taking and innovative art forms that push the bounds of audience engagement whilst at the same time provide a platform for emerging artists to exhibit their work.

Fierce and Next Wave both have a desire to create deep and lasting connections between Australian and UK artists; this exchange will explore sustainable ways for collaborating on an international scale well as establishing a relationship between the cities by focusing on ideas of locality and site.

The exchange will also investigate new models for festival audiences to engage in the arts.

The British Council is proud to present Fierce at Next Wave Festival.

Their collaboration focuses on the connections made and the preservation of language through song.

Songwriters and performers, Lou Bennett and Shellie Morris of The Black Arm Band, will be collaborating with 9Bach’s Lisa Jen Brown and Martin Hoyland to continue the creative partnership started in Australia in spring 2011.

The artists have collaborated on a series of new performances. Together they will be developing a new work called Mother Tongue which will be performed at BT River of Music as part of the London 2012 Festival.



The British Council is proud to present The Black Arm Band & 9Bach as part of London 2012 Festival. For more information on how you can participate stay tuned to Arts Frontier.

Fifteen shortlisted applicants will take part in a leadership workshop in Australia, with up to 5 applicants subsequently selected to travel to the UK on a formal professional visit.