Funding for Meeting Place 2018

Australia’s national peak body for arts and disability, Arts Access Australia (AAA) in partnership with Incite Arts, have secured $99,600 under the NT Government’s Strategic Arts Program for its 2018 Meeting Place event, to be held in Alice Springs.

Meeting Place 2018 will be hosted by Incite Arts, a community-led arts organisation that works with young people, people with disability, Aboriginal communities and other diverse communities in Alice Springs and the central desert region.

Meeting Place is an inclusive forum where people of all abilities, art forms and locations across Australia, come together in an accessible and supported space. The event attracts national and international speakers and presenters.

“We are absolutely thrilled with the success of the funding application and are looking forward to holding Meeting Place in Alice Springs, NT. In 2018 we have a unique opportunity to partner with Incite Arts and present Meeting Place side by side with their inclusive, signature program UNBROKEN LAND,” AAA CEO Meagan Shand said.

“Meeting Place 2017 was held in Perth and in 2018, we are excited to be able to showcase the unique and spectacular cultural landscape of Central Australia and to work with Incite Arts on what promises to be a unique and compelling Meeting Place event. Most importantly, Meeting Place 2018 will give NT artists and arts’ workers with disability the chance to attend, perform and present along with their peers at a nationally and internationally significant event.”

Incite Arts CEO Jenine Mackay said: “Incite Arts is looking forward to hosting this important national cultural event and sharing the wealth of arts and disability practice in the NT with our national contemporaries.”

Fifteen art projects, six of which are focused on inclusion, have been allocated $400,000 under the new Territory Government’s Strategic Arts Program.

Minister for Tourism and Culture Lauren Moss said the Strategic Arts Program was a new initiative prioritising funding for artists with disability, independent producers/curators and arts industry development.  “The Strategic Arts Program funds initiatives that grow a sustainable arts sector, market and promote Northern Territory arts and increase opportunities for access and participation in the arts across the NT,” Ms Moss said.

To find out more about AAA, visit www.artsaccessaustralia.com.au and for Incite Arts, visit http://www.inciteya.org.au/

Follow AAA on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ArtsAccessAust and Twitter @ArtsAccessAustralia. Follow Incite Arts on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/InciteArts/

Pictured: Meeting Place 2018 will be delivered side by side with Incite Arts’ inclusive signature event UNBROKEN LAND, which focuses on stories of connection to nature, to place, and to belonging to find out what it means to find home and belonging in Alice Springs. Image Credit: Oliver Eclipse, Red Hot Arts Central Australia.