Services
We can offer a range of sessions or longer engagements for independent artists and organisations. Examples include feedback on applications, mentoring and advice, market development strategy, and workshop facilitation. Please click below for further details on these, and some of our past events and projects.
Funding Application Workshop –
How we plan, design and own it.
Would you like to broaden the base of applications you are receiving? Want to assist applicants to articulate & clarify their project ideas in writing? Co-designed & co-delivered by a producer who’s navigated language & cultural barriers to funding in Australia, alongside a producer of 20 years.
Arts Learning Forum
Together with Joshua Wright, Kath was Co-Producer of the inuagural Arts Learning Forum for the Australia Council for the Arts at Footscray Community Arts Centre, 25-27 November 2015. The Arts Learning Forum was a sold-out event that brought together two hundred odd arts professionals with a role or interest in arts education, learning or engagement across all art forms, ages and communities for the first time in a national context.
National Dance Forum
The National Dance Forum is a partnership of the Australia Council for the Arts and Ausdance National. It is the most significant platform for dialogue across the Australian contemporary dance sector. Kath produced the first two editions, in 2011 and 2013, and co-produced the third edition with Kristy Ayre, in 2015.
Advising and Funding Submission Development
Kath can assist artists and organisations with ideas, strategy, advice, connections and submission development.
Arts About Us Producers
With Artistic Merit, Kath worked as a consultant producer for VicHealth’s Arts About Us program, which aimed to foster conversations about cultural diversity and the harms of race-based discrimination, over 2011-2014.
Australian Dance Awards
The annual Australian Dance Awards recognise and honour professional Australian dance artists who have made an outstanding contribution to dance. The Awards are presented in an evening of performance that showcases some of the best Australian dance acts of the year.
Kath was creative producer of the 2010 Awards Gala at the State Theatre in Melbourne, for Ausdance Victoria, rounding out three exciting years of the ADAs in Melbourne: as Ausdance Victoria’s Director she was executive producer of the 2008 and 2009 events.
Animated Magazine Edition
Kath curated an Australian-focused series of articles for the Autumn 2011 edition of ‘Animated’, the magazine of the Foundation for Community Dance (UK).
The edition included an introduction (below) along with five articles: an introductory conversation ‘Dancing under a big sky’, with artists Annette Carmichael and Lee Pemberton.
