The Creative Business Summit 2025
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The Creative Business Summit 2025
South Coast Arts is working in partnership with The Creative Business Hub to develop THE No1 CREATIVE BUSINESS CONFERENCE on the NSW SOUTH COAST Connect, learn and evolve. Elevate your creative business and life. Artists, designers, photographers, writers, performers, makers & creators Running a creative business or generating an income from your talents can be challenging. We want to focus on creating, making, designing, performing – but we need business skills too. The Creative Business Summit is here to help […]read more
Industry Mixer Events
The Other Side – a movement for all things creative. Tap into the collective energy, join with creatives, makers, musicians and performers from across our region, hosted in some of the South Coast’s most unique venues. These are spaces for ideas, experience-sharing, and connections that inspire a collaborative and creative community. If you’re just starting out, or looking for ways to strengthen your practice…let’s explore The Other Side together. Join us at the Shellharbour Airport Terminal for a trip into […]read more
LOL Comedy Workshops
If you attended one of our LOL Comedy Workshops during the 2024/25 Summer school holidays and would like to be kept up to date with future performance opportunities, please complete the form below. read more
Artist in Residencies
Artist incubator The Imaginarium, Shellharbour Shellharbour Council is currently seeking expressions of interest from emerging or early-career artists to apply for a new short-term residency program based in The Imaginarium, a creative space in Shellharbour Village. The Incubator Artist Residency provides emerging artists with the dedicated space and time to cultivate new work, explore ideas and develop their practice. Incubator residencies run for four weeks and are open to artists and creative practitioners working in any form. Artists will receive […]read more
Funding Opportunities
Australia Council for the Arts – Arts Projects: Individuals and Groups This program aims to fund a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences.Grants between $10,000 and $50,000 are available. Supported activities must last no longer than two years from the proposed start date. The 2022-23 funding round dates are: Round 1: Opened 20 December 2022 and closed 7 March 2023, 3pm AEDT (for projects beginning after 1 June […]read more
Anna Glynn – Regional Futures Exhibition
Award winning Shoalhaven artist, Anna Glynn creates work investigating the connection between humans, history, nature, land, place, physical and the ephemeral. Anna’s work will be a part of the Regional Futures exhibition at the; Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 24 June to 24 September 2023. ‘Regional Futures’ is a two year project that invites artists to respond the question, ‘what does the future look like in our region’? Anna was chosen to represent the south coast with her work spanning the […]read more
MusicNSW Appoints Regional Coordinator for Far South Coast & Southern Tablelands
MusicNSW is delighted to announce the appointment of five regional-based team members. The regional MusicNSW team will work collaboratively to lead regional music development across the state, with Sam Rees focusing across the far South Coast and Southern Tablelands regions. Following a search that began in November 2022, five music professionals now join the MusicNSW team with a remit to deliver development opportunities and work to expand touring circuits across regional NSW. The newly-created roles have been made possible thanks […]read more
Position Vacant
Communications and Fundraising Officer Position Vacant We are seeking an experienced part-time Communications and Fundraising Officer to join our dynamic new organisation. South Coast Arts (NSW) Inc, established in 2022, is the peak body and support agency for arts and cultural development on the south coast of NSW, including Shellharbour, Kiama and Shoalhaven local government areas. This position will work closely with the Executive Director to develop and implement a strategic and innovative marketing strategy and manage our fundraising activities […]read more
Call to Artists
Sculpture in the Valley returns in 2023 Entries now open. Artist site walk through details below. Sculpture in the Valley 2023 invites all artists to join us for a site walkthrough between 9am-1pm on Friday May 19, to view our stunning Exhibition venue and to meet our new Director and Curator. Sculpture in the Valley is one of the State’s major sculpture exhibitions and we welcome you to enter now. This year, the total prize money has been increased to […]read more
Regional Futures Symposium
Symposium There will be a day long symposium on Saturday 22 July, 9.30am-4pm at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre This artist-led symposium brings together experts & critical thinkers across different sectors, community members and activists to discuss and grapple with the question, ‘What does the future look like in your region?’ The program includes: a keynote address by Festival Director, Lindy Hume; panel and roundtable discussions; an invitation to break bread with First Nations & Somalian communities.the Discussion topics include: […]read more