Support for Creative Industries

• Victorian Government - Creative Victoria COVID-19 updates 
• Federal Government - Arts COVID-19 updates

• 2020 RESILIENCE FUND from Australia Council  
• Australian Communities Foundation   
• Our Community 
• Small Grants through Reconciliation Vic 
• Yarra Ranges Council Grants
• Creative Victoria - supporting our creative state through coronavirus

• Creative Connect 
• Yarra Ranges Council Grants and skills building update - email  to be put on this mailing list.  
• Australia Council Resilience Fund:
• Victorian Music Development Office - Webinars and networks  
• Australian Museums and Galleries Association - Running a webinar on the basic and fundamental standards, procedure, equipment and storage when undertaking a digitisation project. This may be useful for small heritage and museum groups and organisations.
• What creative freelancers can do in coronavirus isolation

Resource, further links and threads around moving creative classes and workshops online

• Resources for Moving Dance and other Workshops Online: Link
• Teaching Theatre Online
• Resources for Moving Production Courses Online in Case of an Emergency 

• Yarra Ranges Creative Community page  
• Arts Hub
• State Library Victoria
• Our Community

Participation in NAVA Survey
Submit stories of impact for industry advocacy purposes.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NAVA-COVID-19-Impact

 I Lost My Gig Australia (ILMG)
An initiative of the Australian Festivals Association (AFA) and the Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN).  ILMG was established as a short-term quick response data capture project to quantify the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia’s live event and entertainment industries.

https://ilostmygig.net.au

Support Act

https://supportact.org.au/support-act-music-charity-announces-covid-19-emergency-appeal-with-20-million-target/

Surveys and petitions
Peak bodies across all artforms have been busy gathering info and advocating for creatives. Here’s surveys to participate in.

• Australian Music Industry Network / Australian Festival Association– Survey to tally impact on music performers, crew, hospitality staff at gigs / events
• Live Performance Australia – Advocacy / media campaign 
• National Association of Visual Artists – Survey to tally impact on visual artists
• Performing Arts Centres Australia (PACA)– survey to tally impact on performance venues
• Writers Survey – survey to tally impact on writers / writing organisations
• AusDance Survey – survey to tally the impact on for dancers, choreographers, dance industry folks
• Diversity Arts Australiahas developed a survey to capture the impact on culturally diverse creatives who have been impacted by event cancellations and postponements
• A petition has been started to “help Australian freelancers and sole operators weather coronavirus

https://creative-connections.heysummit.com/schedule/#resilience fund     

MAV is excited to launch #DistanceBetweenUs a staff wellness program that integrates music, spoken word, visual and performance arts into the home workspaces of companies around Australia – preserving the morale of both artists and the broader workforce in light of the crisis.https://www.multiculturalarts.com.au/news/distancebetweenus/

Global Art Competition
Global open call for art competition
https://community.amplifier.org/campaign/global-open-call-for-art/

Ballarat foto Biennale
https://ballaratfoto.org/massisolationaus/