Community Engagement

Involvement in music and the arts has proven benefits for mental health and emotional well-being, so this is a really special program. Each year, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra make dreams of being centre stage with a world class orchestra a reality for a lucky few.

The Community Centre concert series enabled Adelaide Symphony Orchestra to enrich and create many lasting impacts on the lives of South Australians who face a range of seemingly insurmountable barriers to attend mainstage concerts.

Bell Shakespeare has proudly partnered with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company supported by Wesfarmers Arts as they work on an educational cultural language program that includes the development and presentation of a full-length adaptation and translation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Noongar language.

The Australian Ballet and NurseWatch partnered to host special dance workshops so senior people can positively engage in ballet.

OUR VOICES is a collaborative, community based project that will take place over a 6 week period suitable for teachers, choir leaders and singers alike.

WASO is hitting the road this October and November with a touring party of over 70 musicians to share a complete live symphony orchestra experience in Esperance and Albany.

Registrations fill fast as The Australian Ballet once again pirouettes into Western Sydney for the company’s third free, annual outdoor performance, Ballet Under the Stars, presented in Penrith on Saturday 6 October 2018.

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is lives deep in the heart and community of all Tasmanians. In keeping with this community ethos, the TSO believes that all Tasmanians should have the chance to experience the joy that only live orchestral music can bring.

Sydney Dance Company identified a growing need to provide high-quality dance programs that are accessible to the broader community, but that also have a direct benefit to the health and well-being of individuals with mobility difficulties.

Since 2016, Sydney Theatre Company’s Connected program has combined drama approaches with English language learning for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. The program is delivered in partnership with organisations including Asylum Seekers Centre, Australian Red Cross and MTC Australia.

What better way to savour summer than with spine-tingling music under the stars? And what’s more, it’s free!

OperaQ’s A Night with Opera Queensland a new, expansive regional tour is offering something unique to 12 regional communities, with a special all-star show blending moments of shining operatic splendour with theatricality, backstage humour and showbiz sass, all performed at close range in some of Queensland’s most unique venues.

Queensland Ballet will be presenting a great program of Seniors Week classes in various locations around the state. The classes are proving extremely popular, with some already sold out.

Roll up! Roll Up! It’s all happening under — and outside — the big top as Circus Oz builds capacity, engages communities, develops artists and promotes access for regional Australians, as well as enabling First Nation’s artists’ development in circus.

New Australia Council data tool- How does your region compare to national averages?

Original work created with local artists celebrates community and stories around Tumbulgum Hall

Circus Oz’ Deadly Elders Circus is a finalist in VicHealth Awards.

A new national report released by the Community Council of Australia (CCA) has revealed that in many fundamental areas of Australian life we are heading in the wrong direction and identifies a number of key influences that can strengthen our wellbeing including the role of the arts and creativity.

Cassandra Lake, Executive Manager, Community Engagement for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, speaks to AMPAG about their successful Hospital Orchestra Project (HOP).

In 2015 the MPAs increased their nationwide direct reach across three key areas.

Often there are two cultures that exist side by side inside a symphony orchestra. There is a player culture that is borne from the many years of training, ethos and experience that each of its musicians brings. Then there is a management and marketing culture that is concerned with steering the orchestra to where opportunities for audience and brand development are seen to exist writes Music Australia's Graham Strahle.

Unlike many community engagement programs, Opera Queensland targets adults in two programs it runs, not solely school children.

It's been a busy week for the West Australian Ballet, having spent a long weekend in Albany with Bboy champion Pepito, as well as bringing world-renowned prima ballerina Madeleine Eastoe to Perth for a masterclass.

A personal recollection by Simon Rogers, Manager of Artistic Planning, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, on how the orchestra went about developing a new recording for the Hush Foundation in a collaboration that extended its reach and forged new partnerships.

West Australian Ballet is gearing up this week for the first of its two annual community matinees, sponsored by Lotterywest.

​Every day in Australia almost seven people die by suicide—and it is shocking statistics like this that brought together some of our finest musicians in a fundraising concert in Sydney (10 September), marking World Suicide Prevention Day.

Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) and Sibelco Australia received the 2015 Premier’s Reconciliation Award at a ceremony in Brisbane during National Reconciliation Week.

Queensland Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s program has had positive physical, social, cognitive and emotional benefits for participants affected by Parkinson’s disease, according to research undertaken by QUT and The University of Queensland.

Phantom of the Opera is just the tip of the iceberg for the State Opera of South Australia’s regional ambition.

Around 500 singers from western Sydney will be performing on Saturday, 1 November at the Sydney Opera House, as part of Opera Australia’s Community Choirs Project.

Bangarra starts its biggest ever regional tour of Australia on 17 September, performing Stephen Page’s Kinship double bill in Darwin, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Rockhampton and Cairns, as well as spending time on country with remote Indigenous communities.

On Thursday 28 August Bangarra Dance Theatre joins forces with the Sydney Convicts, Australia’s first gay rugby union club, for a performance at the opening ceremony of the Bingham Cup.

During 2014 Bangarra collaborated with Beyond Blue to produce this clip for the 'Stories for Keeping Strong' series.

Adelaide Railway Station will be host to a musical extravaganza this Friday 15 August.

Sydney Dance Company’s Artistic Director, Rafael Bonachela, has choreographed a new large-scale dance routine that will be performed by thousands in Sydney, London and Glasgow.

Opera Queensland is calling all filmmakers to register their interest in documenting the company’s Project Puccini which gives hundreds of Queenslanders the opportunity to perform in the chorus of a new production of Puccini's La bohème.

Many of Circus Oz's workshop programs focus on younger people, often children who are traumatised or who have fallen through the cracks of existing institutions can feel happy, motivated and inspired doing circus. While circus is fun, and collaborative, rather than competitive, the discipline necessary to develop skills seems to have positive effects on children's lives.

The company has a full youth program, including the long-running Youth Express. Belvoir partners with youth support organisations such as Key College: Youth off the Streets, MYC (Marist Youth Care), Twenty10 and Exodus Youth to give young people access to a professional theatre company and their artists.

​In 2013 STC is partnering with NRMA Motoring and Services to create a unique piece of theatre with social impact.

A first in Australia, Queensland Ballet is implementing Dance for PD in 2013. Originally developed in 2001 in New York by the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Dance for PD program has achieved significant results worldwide.

​OperaQ is currently working on an exciting regional arts initiative 'Project Puccini', which will get hundreds of Queenslanders performing in an opera. They are looking forward to announcing the details of this project and how communities can get involved in 2014.

The Young Aboriginal Women's Program was developed by The Australian Ballet and the Wannik Dance Academy at Mooroopna Secondary College in regional Victoria. Students of the Wannik Dance Academy engage in a specialist dance program, which is combined with academic studies.

Orchestra Victoria's On The mOVe, Education Program evolved in response to a demonstrated and clearly articulated need from regional instrumental music teachers for contact with specialist professional musicians. Many gifted students do not reach their potential as musicians and discontinue learning their instrument due to lack of access to specialist teachers.

In July 2012 celebrated Aboriginal soprano, playwright and composer Deborah Cheetham and her Short Black Opera Company (SBOC) undertook a six-day residency in Portland, Victoria.