Country Arts SA in partnership with SA Power Networks and with support from Arts SA is pleased to announce two new residency opportunities.
Dr Jesse Budel and Cynthia Schwertsik were...
The Arts Writing Hot House is a program run to support emerging regional South Australian writers. Country Arts SA launched this inaugural program in...
Country Arts SA is a dynamic arts organisation bringing the arts to life in regional South Australia. Regional artists, communities and partners inspire us to create opportunities for artists at every level to flourish and produce great art and provide regional South Australians the best possible arts experiences.
South Australian artist Cynthia Schwertsik was selected from more than 72 applicants from around Australia for the four week residency of this new partnership between Country Arts SA and...
Palace of Production Artist in Residence
Euphoria by Emily Steel is a new play commissioned by Country Arts SA and developed in consultation with regional communities. This South Australian regional story explores the joys and...
This is a blog sharing the adventures, lessons, creative discoveries and behind-the-scenes insights on the road with Carclew & Country Arts SA’s Creative Producer Regional Youth,...
The Creative Producer Regional Youth is a statewide role co-funded and managed by Carclew and Country Arts SA. The role of the Creative Producer Regional Youth is to nurture and support young people (aged 12-26) living in regional South Australia to explore and express their creative aspirations. Young people themselves know what they want to do and how they want to do it. The Creative Producer’s role is to be a listener, cheer squad, connector, collaborator, facilitator, champion and ally. Alysha Herrmann was appointed to the role of Creative Producer in late 2017, she is based from the Riverland region of South Australia. Alysha is an award winning writer, theatre-maker and community organiser in her own right.
Vitalstatistix is a South Australian contemporary arts organisation with a focus on the development of multidisciplinary artworks, which experiment with ideas, forms and engagement. They provide a site for big ideas and intimate experiences, for long-term development and hothouse intensity, for contemporary art and community life.
James Dodd is an artist who has a strong interest in public space and often works on mural scale and community oriented outcomes. He has a multi-faceted visual arts practice that embraces a range of painting and sculptural approaches. He exhibits regularly across Australia and has had his work collected by major institutions, including the National Gallery of Australia. Dodd is an educator at Adelaide Central School of Art and is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.
Ten of the island’s visual artists are bringing ‘ mainlanders’ a glimpse of the isolation and inspiration of island life in Island to Inland: contemporary art from Kangaroo...
Kathie Stove is a Kangaroo Island writer and editor, and advocate for the arts and nature. She was one of the initiators of this project along with CASA Visual Arts Coordinator Eleanor Scicchitano and Art Gallery of South Australia Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, Lisa Slade. For seven years until 2013, Kathie wrote a monthly arts page for the Kangaroo Island newspaper, The Islander, and has published a book profiling 27 island artists, Artists of The Art Part. She blogs on nature and art from Kangaroo Island and beyond.
Country Arts SA is excited to announce an exceptional dance program just for the Riverland! DanceXtend’s curator, South...
After studying dance in Brisbane and Melbourne, Larissa joined Australian Dance Theatre in 2000 and has since toured extensively with the company winning multiple awards for Best Female Dancer including a Helpmann and Australian Dance Award. Larissa appeared as a guest choreographer on two seasons of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’. She has created work for WOMADelaide, Link Dance Company, Sydney Dance Company, Tasdance and premiered her first full length work, ‘Skeleton’ at the 2013 Dance Massive.
Imagine a place where you could access information, communicate with other people, form connections, find your community … you mean the Internet?
No … welcome to The Post...
Mish Grigor, Natalie Rose and Zoe Coombs Marr are post, Sydney-based artists who devise and perform original works.
Sandpit creates immersive, personal experiences that change people. We place audiences right at the centre of interactive experiences.
The world is an interesting place. Particularly places such regional South Australia where you can discover that theatre doesn’t need actors on a stage and the end of days could be a much more...
Country Arts SA recognises and respects that we are living and creating on Aboriginal Lands and we are committed to working together to honour their living cultures.
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