The New South Wales Local Government Cultural Awards celebrate council cultural success. Award winners were announced on the evening of 6 May 2011. Here you can browse all nominated and winning projects for 2011. To view photos from the Awards Evening, please visit EventPix.

Featured Projects

  • Central NSW Museums Website and Brochure

    The Mudgee Press - The first modern hay baler introduced to the Canowindra district by Athol Brown in 1938. Lucerne as a baled product meant it could be moved to a stationary chaff cutter near an adjacent rail head. Courtesy Canowindra and District Historical Society Museum

    The Central NSW Museums website and brochure have been produced as part of a joint initiative of Orange,Cabonne and Blayney Councils, with funding support from Arts NSW. The website and brochure…

  • Spatial Stories

    Spatial Stories - youth arts piece Photo: Simon Dallinger

    AlburyCity commissioned 3 artists to develop works based upon sustainability. The artists visited Albury and conducted workshops with the community in the development of their works. The project…

  • Read Aloud in Canterbury

    Children and parents at the Read Aloud program held at Lakemba Library in October 2010

    A new and exciting early literacy program has recently begun at Lakemba Library. Read Aloud is a partnership project between our library and the Canterbury City Community Centre and promotes early…

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Featured Videos

  • Medicine for Robots Live @ The Loft july 2010.wmv
  • Reflections: Through Storytelling
  • Documentary Part 2: Auburn Centre for Community - A place of welcome and connection
  • Campbelltown Arts Centre - Minto Waterhole - Film 2 - Slide
  • Campbelltown Arts Centre - Minto Waterhole - Film 1 - Walk
  • Cross Currents Highlight HD.mp4
  • Campbelltown Arts Centre - Get The Picture - film project 2010
  • Campbelltown Arts Centre - Edge of Elsewhere 2010 - ABC TV Feb 2010
  • Abaker Athum - Neighbourhood Stories
  • Documentary Part 1: Auburn Centre for Community - A place of welcome and connection
  • Neighbourhood Stories St Marys Behind the Scenes
  • Count Me In 2010 Review
  • Sydney Hills Shakespeare in the Park Festival - Romeo and Juliet Trailer

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Featured Photos

  • Hawkesbury City Council gave away 12 'Governor Macquarie' Roses during 2010. In 2009 a new rose was developed as a permanent reminder of the Bicentenary event and as a ‘lead’ to communicate information about it and Governor Macquarie. The rose was planted in Council’s gardens and by the general public. The Rose Society of NSW supported the idea and a well regarded rose breeder, Trevor Grant, resided in the Hawkesbury LGA. He was willing to be part of the project, providing a rose that was ready for market. Communication of the bicentenary rose and its proposed name with Swane’s Nurseries, led to it committing to commercialisation and growing up in time for 2010. Winners of the 'Governor Macquarie' Rose for the months of January, February and March were presented with their roses at the official launch of the rose on 14 April 2010 by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of New South Wales.
  • An iBIMS™ customer
  • Cup and saucer, handpainted. Signed Vande AMP Australia (Mosman Library Local Studies Collection)
  • Stories Unfold - participant showing her artwork to a volunteer. Photo taken by Melanie Corner.
  • To preserve the local history of the former Auburn Bowling Club site, Council developed a permanent memorabilia exhibit at the entry of the new centre. Photograph from the 1980s shows a member of the Auburn Bowling Club teaching a local Chinese social group how to play bowls.
  • Migrant Stories participant Vicky Krigas with family and friends in the early 70s
  • First Art Prize project for the Wollondilly Cultural Advisory Group - Christmas Card Competition 2010.
  • Detail of panel #2 primarily created by the Gosford 50+Leisure and Learning Centre
  • Adam Hill, Stolen, Milk Crates
  • Participants in the “Earth as Art: How I Got Here” project at the Launch of the Exhibition.
  • The final collaborative work the studnets created with professional artists Jennifer Forster and Dianne Tarr. The work is now hanging in the foyer at Griffith High School.
  • The crowd in reflective mood during a reading by performance poet Emilie Zoey Baker, as part of the Writers on Stage event during the Write aorund the Murray Festival.
  • This hand held application immerses the visitor in the sights and sounds of the Macquarie era while strolling the streets of Parramatta in the 21st century

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The Blog

  • Awards and Forums for Museums and Galleries

    20 July, 2011

    Museums & Galleries NSW is presenting a range of opportunities to develop, support and promote regional, community and public museums and galleries across NSW.

  • New LGSA Project Manager for Arts and Culture

    20 July, 2011

    A new Project Manager for Arts and Culture has commenced with the Local Government Association of NSW and the Shires Association.

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Organised By

  • Local Government Association of NSW, Shires Association of NSW

Sponsors

  • Essential Energy
  • accessibleArts. Arts + Disability NSW
  • Arts NSW