• To develop innovative, distinctive and new ideas to engage local audiences in the Arts.
• To showcase arts and cultural spaces and businesses located within the City of Charles Sturt.
• To create opportunities for the City of Charles Sturt's cultural and creative workforce.

Projects can contribute to one or more of the following outcomes:

• A flexible and adaptive program that targets timely and appropriate creative & performing arts activities that aid community recovery and enhance community wellbeing after a significant disruption to our cultural life.
• Collaborative projects between artists and local businesses to attract customers in creative ways.
• Support programming and operational adaption of local arts organisations to enable them to continue to operate through restricted trading conditions and/or within virtual spaces.
• Creative placemaking that animates public spaces to improve local business visibility.
• Increased connection of our local creative & performing arts sector and community during and beyond the Government COVID-19 restrictions.
• Apply creative thinking to our COVID-19 response and allow us to creatively imagine what recovery looks like. Artists and their creativity have a key role in helping communities make sense of the crisis, reconnect and recover.
• Plan for the recovery phase to restore public confidence and encourage residents to attend live events, workshops, exhibitions & businesses when it is safe to do so.
• Create a suite of projects ready for rapid implementation and installation within the community when safe to do so.
• Capitalise on the strengths, assets and inspiration of our local arts community, provide employment opportunities for local artists and support our creative economy.
• Explore collaborative solutions to build resilience of our local creative and performing arts sector.

In addition to the general program eligibility applicants must:

• Be a sole trader with an ABN (all artforms, including visual and performing arts, writers, musicians) who resides in or has a studio located within the City of Charles Sturt, or
• a not for Profit Arts organisation within the City of Charles Sturt or
• a for profit arts enterprise within the City of Charles Sturt that employs 1-19 full time equivalent employees

Up to $5,000 plus GST per project or business

• Artist fees
• Digital and online materials or tools
• Marketing and promotion of the activity
• Materials required to deliver the activity or adapted business approach

Expressions of interest for the 2020/21 program open on 1 July 2020.

Expressions of Interest for the 2020/21 program will be open on an ongoing basis until 1 June 2021 or until funding is exhausted.

Payment under this program will be made directly to the business and or artist after receipt of a signed funding agreement and tax invoice.

The business/artist agrees to acquit the funds within one month of completing the project, as per the funding agreement.