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SOAPBOX
CCDNSW is a crucial partner in the internship program offered by the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. It is a huge loss to our program to have CCDNSW no longer available to contribute to our postgraduate training in cultural research.
Ann Deslandes
Rant number 109
CCDNSW is a crucial partner in the internship program offered by the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. It is a huge loss to our program to have CCDNSW no longer available to contribute to our postgraduate training in cultural research.
Ann Deslandes
Rant number 108
Don't forget to keep up to date with CCDNSW's campaign here: finger on the pulse. You can also download letters for Minister Judge and read the Questions on Notice, and catch up on Sunday's Sun Herald story.
mountainsgirl
Rant number 107
CCDNSW was planning to get together the artists who work with young offenders in juvenile justice centres in NSW. These artists work with the very ones who can benefit most from cultural development within their enclosed communities.This opportunity is now denied the young people.I can't believe it!
judy bourke
Rant number 106
In my experience, ARTSNSW is the most hypocrtical, self obsessed State Government Department in NSW. Now, that is saying something.
They have no understanding of what actually works on the ground. Staff have no bloody idea, yet walk around dictating approaches without any experience of practice.
Get some good staff
Rant number 105
Scott O'Hara (artshub) provided a good background to the decision by CCDNSW to announce that it has to close its doors and stop providing services.
The role of ArtsNSW in this is deplorable and it is very poor that the organisation has been denied the right to meet the Minister. SHAME on ArtsNSW
Susan
Rant number 104
Meanwhile, Garrett & Feds are currently consulting on a National Cultural Policy (.com.au). The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing.
"It is our governments responsibility to support any organisation that will encourage [COMMUNITY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT] in our communities" (refer Rant 101)
Schmoebe
Rant number 103
CCDNSW (Vic) did an amazing workshop in Newcastle in August 2009. One of the feedback comments was "Fantastic, life changing". The information shared and learned has made a difference to local cultural practices. CCDNSW is an essential service.
Mardi.
Rant number 102
It is our governments responsibility to support any organisation that will encourage the arts in our communities. Creating is what makes the sole content and I believe every person should have the opportunity to be creative. CCDNSW has been a wonderful support for people who make those opportunities
April Keogh
Rant number 101
Errmmm, well, can't expect that funding saved on this preventative healthcare won't otherwise now be devolved to support ever ailing physical and socio-emotional/ mental health care systems? They need all the help they can get, but never as much as the Arts; just like humans these sectors service
LoneDragonfly- Linden NSW
Rant number 100
How Laughable Is This? For a brief minute but, I thought we WERE in the 21st C, where 'soft' integral infrastructure did count for SOMETHING!!
is it STILL not possible that we can get ourselves away from the oxygen tank of govt funding?
Patrons!! Miners? Philanthropists? Hello?
Shame-job.
Phoebe Coyne- Fremantle WA
Rant number 99
Community Cultural Development was stated as not a priority by Arts NSW, as a feedback on decline of funding Multicultural Arts Officer in Illawarra.
Opera and Symphony are National pride but whoever decides on priorities should not sacrifice community cultural development.
Irina Bruckner
Rant number 98
I am very angry about this. It rankled that the diploma and training was discontinued and now this. What is going on with this government? Who is going to provide this service to the community arts in NSW now?
Not the highbrow or establishment art community funders thats for sure.
Carol
Rant number 85
Good to see that Sylvia Hale, Greens MP and spokesperson for the Arts has released a statement in support of CCDNSW. Click here to read it.
mountainsgirl
Rant number 84
How tragic - what a loss. I have had so much benefit from this organisation - and their tremendous vision. With all this talk about "social inclusion" from the government - how can they let down communities in this way? We will lose momentum in our arts practice and it will take years to rebuild.
Kel
Rant number 83
Is de-funding a bad strategy by ArtsNSW to devolve CCD responsibility to local councils? NSW has lost its peak state CCD body operating independently from all 3 tiers of government. We absolutely need an independent CCD peak body! How can OZCO watch the State do this & fail to lead on this issue?
roaring 2
Rant number 82
Roar! How tragic to allow CCDNSW to tumble and fall. As the only State Organisation to support and provide a framework for community arts in NSW it is failing the people that community arts projects aim to reach. Just when the evidence mounts as the value of the arts in creating healthy communitie
Tiger Viv
Rant number 81
ArtsNSW and the Australia Council you have defunded the peak body for Community Cultural Development in NSW. It begs the simple question, please explain to the public why?
sufi
Rant number 80
Another valuable community cultural development organisation in the brink of biting the dust, first it was QCAN and now CCDNSW. Community cultural development and community arts is not a dirty word - it connects us and gives people a sense of place. The loss of CCDNSW will leave a massive void.
Joyce Louey, CAN SA
Rant number 79
Community arts are a necessity not a luxury - it broadens the mind, stimulates emotional,visual, and sensory parts of the brain. - It helps in communication skills, motor skills - building up a sense of community, belonging and self worth. Used by many, many people
Just Alcye
Rant number 78
community cultural development makes art that makes communities, where in many cases, projects focus on process, on the art being the focal point or language that brings a human aspect into play. this art is not corporate art, it is the art that binds communities artfully.
melissa
Rant number 77
Arts NSW should be shut down not CCD - can anyone list one thing Artsnsw have done to help arts in NSW over the past 5 years? - empty galleries in the marginal electorates of western Sydney, NOTHING for regionally based artists, ignorance of Aboriginal artists in Sydney.
first time liberal voter (NSW only)
Rant number 76
the work of CCDNSW and all the artists and communities it advocates and supports simply cannot be measured in cold terms - the work is heart, soul, imagination, social change. Creative practice enriching the whole community - it is vital -wake up those in ivory towers and bring back the visionaries!
creative spirit
Rant number 75
State and Fed. Govt can say they give money 'all the time' to 'the arts' because they fund (short-term) projects - but when it comes to resourcing the (quiet achieving) infrastructure on a continuous basis, they are shocking!
Miss Cynic
Rant number 74
An appalling decision by NSW in an Australia that moves further and further to the christian, moralist, regulated right.
Zane Trow
Rant number 73
I am dismayed to hear that CCDNSW may be winding down. As a practising artist and artsworker for almost 20 years, this is the one arts organisation I felt had a personable, and yet, extremely professional face. If lost, a vaccuum will form above the place where it once sat. This is clearly a mistake
Bronwyn Tuohy
Rant number 72
Cutting funding to CCD defies belief. The need to connect communities creatively has not diminished. 'Isolation' and 'dislocation' are on the increase.
A government genuinely interested in building communities would be increasing funding to CCD not removing it!
Jane S
Rant number 71
Cultural development & the community artists are vital to connecting with our communities Relevant to maintain supporting agent, for the artists sake and future cultural development, in this rapidly growing technological age,of non-personal interaction. what is the threat to the funding bodies?
Victoria Monk
Rant number 70
I find it unbelievable that in the 21st century, with all the work on creativity, community connection and the importance of this to social change & the issues that increasingly challenge society,..
that the govt etc is so misguided that it can't see the catylst funding and leverage of CCD! >not<
ellen
Rant number 69
Cutting funding to the organisations that develop our culture, create links between previously fragmented bodies and help us develop a community identity is just another example of the short sightedness of the current government. Its time for a change.
kate dunn
Rant number 68
Once again the plight of the artist and community well being is in the hands of unimaginative administrators...
Kalyna Micenko. Chair- Port Adelaide Artists Forum
Rant number 67
I am pissed-off that the Australia Council once again shows its ignorance of the enormous value community artists provide to the wellbeing of their communities through arts-based projects.
These 'Cinderellas' of the arts world are the glue that binds communities in time of need and great anguish.
Bob Daly- Board member of CANSA
Rant number 66
Hopefully we will discuss this sad news at the cultural partnerships group meeting in shellharbour tomorrow. We represent cultural workers and practitioners from helensburgh to the Victorian border and west to the southern highlands and the snowy mountains. get this message out loud and clear.
judy bourke
Rant number 65
So very sad to hear the news that CCDnsw joins the ranks of important community services to be loosing their funding.
This is a very short sighted decision, as a very small amount of funding did SO MUCH to increase communication and collaboration for arts workers in local government and beyond.
Faith Wieland
Rant number 64
Ann Deslandes
Rant number 109
CCDNSW is a crucial partner in the internship program offered by the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. It is a huge loss to our program to have CCDNSW no longer available to contribute to our postgraduate training in cultural research.
Ann Deslandes
Rant number 108
Don't forget to keep up to date with CCDNSW's campaign here: finger on the pulse. You can also download letters for Minister Judge and read the Questions on Notice, and catch up on Sunday's Sun Herald story.
mountainsgirl
Rant number 107
CCDNSW was planning to get together the artists who work with young offenders in juvenile justice centres in NSW. These artists work with the very ones who can benefit most from cultural development within their enclosed communities.This opportunity is now denied the young people.I can't believe it!
judy bourke
Rant number 106
In my experience, ARTSNSW is the most hypocrtical, self obsessed State Government Department in NSW. Now, that is saying something.
They have no understanding of what actually works on the ground. Staff have no bloody idea, yet walk around dictating approaches without any experience of practice.
Get some good staff
Rant number 105
Scott O'Hara (artshub) provided a good background to the decision by CCDNSW to announce that it has to close its doors and stop providing services.
The role of ArtsNSW in this is deplorable and it is very poor that the organisation has been denied the right to meet the Minister. SHAME on ArtsNSW
Susan
Rant number 104
Meanwhile, Garrett & Feds are currently consulting on a National Cultural Policy (.com.au). The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing.
"It is our governments responsibility to support any organisation that will encourage [COMMUNITY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT] in our communities" (refer Rant 101)
Schmoebe
Rant number 103
CCDNSW (Vic) did an amazing workshop in Newcastle in August 2009. One of the feedback comments was "Fantastic, life changing". The information shared and learned has made a difference to local cultural practices. CCDNSW is an essential service.
Mardi.
Rant number 102
It is our governments responsibility to support any organisation that will encourage the arts in our communities. Creating is what makes the sole content and I believe every person should have the opportunity to be creative. CCDNSW has been a wonderful support for people who make those opportunities
April Keogh
Rant number 101
Errmmm, well, can't expect that funding saved on this preventative healthcare won't otherwise now be devolved to support ever ailing physical and socio-emotional/ mental health care systems? They need all the help they can get, but never as much as the Arts; just like humans these sectors service
LoneDragonfly- Linden NSW
Rant number 100
How Laughable Is This? For a brief minute but, I thought we WERE in the 21st C, where 'soft' integral infrastructure did count for SOMETHING!!
is it STILL not possible that we can get ourselves away from the oxygen tank of govt funding?
Patrons!! Miners? Philanthropists? Hello?
Shame-job.
Phoebe Coyne- Fremantle WA
Rant number 99
Community Cultural Development was stated as not a priority by Arts NSW, as a feedback on decline of funding Multicultural Arts Officer in Illawarra.
Opera and Symphony are National pride but whoever decides on priorities should not sacrifice community cultural development.
Irina Bruckner
Rant number 98
I am very angry about this. It rankled that the diploma and training was discontinued and now this. What is going on with this government? Who is going to provide this service to the community arts in NSW now?
Not the highbrow or establishment art community funders thats for sure.
Carol
Rant number 85
Good to see that Sylvia Hale, Greens MP and spokesperson for the Arts has released a statement in support of CCDNSW. Click here to read it.
mountainsgirl
Rant number 84
How tragic - what a loss. I have had so much benefit from this organisation - and their tremendous vision. With all this talk about "social inclusion" from the government - how can they let down communities in this way? We will lose momentum in our arts practice and it will take years to rebuild.
Kel
Rant number 83
Is de-funding a bad strategy by ArtsNSW to devolve CCD responsibility to local councils? NSW has lost its peak state CCD body operating independently from all 3 tiers of government. We absolutely need an independent CCD peak body! How can OZCO watch the State do this & fail to lead on this issue?
roaring 2
Rant number 82
Roar! How tragic to allow CCDNSW to tumble and fall. As the only State Organisation to support and provide a framework for community arts in NSW it is failing the people that community arts projects aim to reach. Just when the evidence mounts as the value of the arts in creating healthy communitie
Tiger Viv
Rant number 81
ArtsNSW and the Australia Council you have defunded the peak body for Community Cultural Development in NSW. It begs the simple question, please explain to the public why?
sufi
Rant number 80
Another valuable community cultural development organisation in the brink of biting the dust, first it was QCAN and now CCDNSW. Community cultural development and community arts is not a dirty word - it connects us and gives people a sense of place. The loss of CCDNSW will leave a massive void.
Joyce Louey, CAN SA
Rant number 79
Community arts are a necessity not a luxury - it broadens the mind, stimulates emotional,visual, and sensory parts of the brain. - It helps in communication skills, motor skills - building up a sense of community, belonging and self worth. Used by many, many people
Just Alcye
Rant number 78
community cultural development makes art that makes communities, where in many cases, projects focus on process, on the art being the focal point or language that brings a human aspect into play. this art is not corporate art, it is the art that binds communities artfully.
melissa
Rant number 77
Arts NSW should be shut down not CCD - can anyone list one thing Artsnsw have done to help arts in NSW over the past 5 years? - empty galleries in the marginal electorates of western Sydney, NOTHING for regionally based artists, ignorance of Aboriginal artists in Sydney.
first time liberal voter (NSW only)
Rant number 76
the work of CCDNSW and all the artists and communities it advocates and supports simply cannot be measured in cold terms - the work is heart, soul, imagination, social change. Creative practice enriching the whole community - it is vital -wake up those in ivory towers and bring back the visionaries!
creative spirit
Rant number 75
State and Fed. Govt can say they give money 'all the time' to 'the arts' because they fund (short-term) projects - but when it comes to resourcing the (quiet achieving) infrastructure on a continuous basis, they are shocking!
Miss Cynic
Rant number 74
An appalling decision by NSW in an Australia that moves further and further to the christian, moralist, regulated right.
Zane Trow
Rant number 73
I am dismayed to hear that CCDNSW may be winding down. As a practising artist and artsworker for almost 20 years, this is the one arts organisation I felt had a personable, and yet, extremely professional face. If lost, a vaccuum will form above the place where it once sat. This is clearly a mistake
Bronwyn Tuohy
Rant number 72
Cutting funding to CCD defies belief. The need to connect communities creatively has not diminished. 'Isolation' and 'dislocation' are on the increase.
A government genuinely interested in building communities would be increasing funding to CCD not removing it!
Jane S
Rant number 71
Cultural development & the community artists are vital to connecting with our communities Relevant to maintain supporting agent, for the artists sake and future cultural development, in this rapidly growing technological age,of non-personal interaction. what is the threat to the funding bodies?
Victoria Monk
Rant number 70
I find it unbelievable that in the 21st century, with all the work on creativity, community connection and the importance of this to social change & the issues that increasingly challenge society,..
that the govt etc is so misguided that it can't see the catylst funding and leverage of CCD! >not<
ellen
Rant number 69
Cutting funding to the organisations that develop our culture, create links between previously fragmented bodies and help us develop a community identity is just another example of the short sightedness of the current government. Its time for a change.
kate dunn
Rant number 68
Once again the plight of the artist and community well being is in the hands of unimaginative administrators...
Kalyna Micenko. Chair- Port Adelaide Artists Forum
Rant number 67
I am pissed-off that the Australia Council once again shows its ignorance of the enormous value community artists provide to the wellbeing of their communities through arts-based projects.
These 'Cinderellas' of the arts world are the glue that binds communities in time of need and great anguish.
Bob Daly- Board member of CANSA
Rant number 66
Hopefully we will discuss this sad news at the cultural partnerships group meeting in shellharbour tomorrow. We represent cultural workers and practitioners from helensburgh to the Victorian border and west to the southern highlands and the snowy mountains. get this message out loud and clear.
judy bourke
Rant number 65
So very sad to hear the news that CCDnsw joins the ranks of important community services to be loosing their funding.
This is a very short sighted decision, as a very small amount of funding did SO MUCH to increase communication and collaboration for arts workers in local government and beyond.
Faith Wieland
Rant number 64
CCDNSW is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the NSW Government through Arts NSW