Winners of the November 2024 Culture Bank funding round.

SAHSSI .(Supported Accommodation & Homelessness Services Shoal haven Illawarra)

This is the beginning of SAHSSI’s connection to the creative arts as a healing practice for the many women we support in the Illawarra community. We are so excited to implement creative ways of connecting our clients with the community, and themselves ,enriching the community with the voices of women who are too often forced into silence and isolation.An 8 week programme of weekly art therapy sessions will be implemented and an art exhibition at the end of  this program will be the platform that connects a women’s self-expression with the community. As a fund-raising opportunity it will encourage others to connect.We want our project to give women the opportunity to express themselves creatively and empower them to share their stories of healing with the community.
This is exciting because when women are given a voice, we can shine a light on the darkness of family and domestic violence in a way that ripples through the community to create long lasting healing and social change.
An art exhibition at the end of an 8-week program will be the platform that connects a women’s self-expression with the community. As a fund-raising opportunity it will encourage others to connect and contribute to this shared healing journey

Breaking the Map : Kathryn Morgan and Eliza Maartensz.
“Open a space for decolonial countermapping on Dharawal country using a methodology and device we have been developing.”

 Eliza and I have been developing a methodology and device to facilitate the disruption of ‘national amnesia’ through counter-mapping Dharawal country. We have been studying decolonising practice under Wiradjuri lecturer Matte McConnell as part of our architecture master’s at UTS. We propose to hold a series of workshops and exhibitions as part of our Architectural Masters using archival material to “thicken” maps which we see as part of colonial myth making. Through cooperation with Indigenous and non-Indigenous community we want to use our methodology to help surface truth while reducing the cultural burden on Indigenous people.

Sarah Nicholson: Complete writing of Revolutionary Minds manuscript by completing research in University of Edinburgh archives.

Revolutionary Minds is about the story of the radical spirit of a group of bohemian creatives and intellectuals who met in Melbourne in the 1910’s: unionist William Paisley Earsman, industrial lawyer Christian Jollie Smith, author Katherine Susannah Prichard and her husband, Gallipoli war hero, Hugo Throssell. This historical work follows the rise and fall of their hopes for a utopian global revolution, their loves, their creatives successes, their thwarted ambitions and their devastating losses and failures. Despite the tragedies and bitter disappointments in the lives of these Communist activists, their passion, hard work and determination to leave the world a better place than they had found it, created a profound social legacy. The seeds they planted in their campaigns for workers’ rights, for recognition of Australia’s First Nations people, for free education, and against racism and military conscription continued on and bore the fruit of wins by progressive campaigns in subsequent decades.

 Nicole Stojanovska :Idea is for funny web series about Italian girl, family chaos and life in Vollongong that make everyone laugh and say, ‘This is us!’

My name Baba Vesna and I am make application because my granddaughter, Nicole (instead to learn cook and make baby) has waste time write comedy series about Italian and Macedonian peoples of Vollongong. Grandaughter half-Italian, and good side is half-Macedonian like Baba, so she know very well the people she write series about. She partner with local production company (TEN ALPHAS) for bring script from page to screen.

Series is called ‘Gia’ and is set in Vollongong, which is city full of people just like Baba. People here come from everyvhere – Italy, Macedonia, Greece, and even some people born here who listen Jimmy Barne and go Bunnings for Sausage sizzle when can stay home cook Macedonian sausage instead.