ARTS
You can use the categories to the right to explore particular topics. You’ll also find inspiring stories about some of the wonderful things community groups do with that funding. We also share a selection of media stories, where FRRR or a member of our staff has been featured. For any media enquiries, email Julie Weldon or call 0423 110 802.
Celebrating more than 30 years of helping communities thrive
27 Feb 2025 – Beyond Empathy (BE) is creating pathways for young people, fostering their creative talents and providing them with sustainable opportunities in the arts sector.
Beyond Empathy creates youth arts pathways via stronger social enterprise
27 Feb 2025 – Beyond Empathy (BE) is creating pathways for young people, fostering their creative talents and providing them with sustainable opportunities in the arts sector.
New AV system gives life to Natimuk’s Hall
25 Jun 2024 – The Arapiles Community Theatre (ACT) received a $5,000 grant from FRRR through the Nutrien Ag Solutions Community Grants program to support the purchase of a comprehensive and permanent AV system…
Kyabram’s Tastes & Tunes Festival
07 Feb 2024 – A Gardiner Foundation Community grant funded the entertainment component of the Kyabram Development Committee’s Tastes & Tunes Festival.
Engawala Art Centre to take root
15 Sep 2023 – A small grant to the emerging Engawala Art Centre in a remote area outside Alice Springs is making a big impact, according to the local committee.
Making Dongara multicoloured
22 Apr 2022 – The Dongara Patchwork Club meet in the WA fishing town of Port Denison, which is located almost four hours north of Perth. Every three years, the club hosts a ‘Hanging…
Gwalla railway mural and art trail enhancements
28 Jan 2021 – The need for the diversification of industry has been well known to the Northampton community for many years, given the heavy reliance on agriculture. Drought and unpredictable seasons have seen…
Tenterfield and the beat of the bush
09 Dec 2020 – When a popular city-based summer school music program made plans to bring the beat to the bush and put on a show alongside it, the whole community of Tenterfield NSW…
Merrigum Primary’s Song Room
25 Nov 2020 – In partnership with Merrigum Primary School, The Song Room, an organisation that delivers integrated music lessons in school delivered a six-month music program to students from Foundation to Year 6.…
JUTE keeps Indigenous storytelling alive
16 Dec 2019 – With the support of a $15,000 ANZ Seeds of Renewal grant, JUTE was able to take its 2019 show, The Longest Minute to ten North Queensland schools in very remote…