The Lock-Up Cultural Centre is now calling for submissions for the 2011 Residency Program. The residency program is a core focus of the centre's cultural activity with a multi-disciplinary focus. For the past four years, the program has played host to visual artists, writers, poets, film-makers, performers, designers and architects and actively encou...  More...

Postgraduate Diploma & Masters of Community Cultural Development courses - Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. The course aims to provide an intensive learning experience for artists/animateurs from all art forms, who have a commitment to social justice and to the role of art as a process for intervention. The Victorian College...  More...

An overview of the literature surrounding the nature of work in the cultural industries, as it has permeated policy-making, public debate, and practice across many sub-sectors within the arts, and the culture sector more generally. For example, a quote from the article: "...it is fair to say that artists have often played it both ways, wanting, indeed...  More...

The Activate website is an online guide to managing community art projects and an online space for arts events in Fairfield. Activate aims to develop skills and knowledge within the community about the process of managing community cultural development (CCD) projects. The website provides guidance to the questions that many community organisations ...  More...

The Fullbright scholarship promotes and supports educational and cultural exchange between Australia and America. Read through previous Australian citizen scholars and consider your eligibility. The next round of applications opens on 1 June 2010 for the 2011 Scholarship Period.  More...

Creative Industries Guide: Creative, Cultural and Digital Industries Guide for the West Midlands Region | David Parish | A useful and readable 'Creative, Cultural and Digital Industries Guide' has been published and is available free of charge online. This creative business guide was written by David Parrish, author of the book 'T-Shirts and Suits: ...  More...

Fairfield City Council’s Community Cultural Development Grant program aims to encourage and support the creative based initiatives of artists and communities. The awarded projects must address Fairfield City Council’s priorities, which have been developed from Council’s Cultural Plan and State of the Community Report. One off grants of up to $4000 are...  More...

In 2002 the Creative Communities Network undertook an audit of local government involvement in arts and cultural activities. The audit report, the LGA Policy Manual and the Creating Communities Kit (with guidelines, policy story sheets and good practice story sheets) are all available to download.  More...

Sadly, due to funding issues, CCDNSW is to close its doors June 30, 2010. Keep your finger on the pulse of the cultural community in the CCDNSW News section. Here you can upload stories about opportunities, announcements, employment, new resources, projects and funding rounds. Share your News stories by uploading them here, and if you have stories abo...  More...

Sadly, due to funding issues, CCDNSW is to close its doors June 30, 2010. This fact sheet is a guide to utilising community cultural development (CCD) processes with culturally diverse communities and raises issues to consider when planning and implementing a CCD project. In planning a CCD project, it is imporant to consider ways to be inclusive of ...  More...

As governments around the world begin to recognize the contribution of creative industries to economic growth and employment, there has been a growth in statistics and mapping exercises in order to give public officials the information they need to create targeted public policies to support the sector. This article explores the importance of cultural ...  More...

Arts Nexus, based in Cairns, provides a clear and short definition of CCD  More...

Developed by the Australia Council, this is a free downloadable guide for organisations, communities and artists involved in collaborative arts projects. Community cultural development projects involve a number of professional artists and community members in their planning, management and implementation. When the artworks that result from such proj...  More...

Developed by the Australian Council for the Arts this is a useful bibliographical resource on community cultural development in Australia for CCD workers, communities, organisations and government  More...

"reCollections: Caring for Collections Across Australia" (2005) has been written by practicing conservators and is intended to provide a sound guide for the preventive care of cultural items. Active conservation treatment of cultural material should only be undertaken by, or on the advice of, a trained conservator. Before relying on any of the materia...  More...