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First Nations Commissioning Fund Round 2 recipients

14 Jun 2023

The latest outcomes from the First Nations Commissioning Fund Round 2:

  • Proudfoot Productions - $70,000 (plus $10,000 to commission new music) to deliver Proudfoot and Friends, a multi-platform project for pre-schoolers including a live music show with real time animated characters.
  • *Munjmba-ja - $66,400 (plus $60,000 for an industry placement) to deliver Our Stories, Our Voices, Our People: a professional development program of exhibitions, residencies, business development and masterclasses for Sunshine Coast based practitioners. 
  • Alethea Beetson - $150,000 over two years (plus $10,000 to commission new music) to deliver Meet Your Maker, a new performance by Blak Social that employs Indigenous storytellers across dramaturgy, directorship, design and film to stage a live performance.
  • Andrew Toby - $150,000 over two years (plus $10,000 to commission new music) to deliver the world debut of Deeyamithadda, a new mainstage, multi-artform contemporary/traditional fusion performance.
  • *Yumpla Nerkep Foundation trading as Straight from the Strait - $10,000 for new music commissioning (plus $90,000 towards an industry placement over two years) to deliver the premiere season of ‘Straight from the Strait, 'a First Nations musical-theatre work which will incorporate traditional and contemporary music, languages and choreography.
  • Jessie Lloyd - $50,000 to deliver Aunties Recording Project which will record the stories and songs of Indigenous women across Queensland who over the age of 50 years.
  • *Carol McGregor - $125,940 over two years (plus $90,000 for an industry placement over two years) to deliver Past, Present, Future: CAIA community - a conversation with First Nations artists that participated in the Queensland College of Art Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art program.
  • *Raymond D Blanco - $80,000 (plus $35,000 towards an industry placement) to deliver Calling Country, the Opening Ceremony of Shine on Gimuy, an annual multi-arts First Nations cultural festival held over ten days in Cairns.
  • *Ngalmun Lagau Minaral TSI Corp, trading as Moa Arts - $95,800 (plus $73,000 for an industry placement over two years) to deliver Step Up, a series of high impact, one-on-one printmaking workshops leading to Australian art fairs, American and European exhibitions.
  • Adam James - $160,000 over two years (plus $10,000 to commission new music) to deliver The Great First Nations Songbook, a concert-length live performance of exciting new jazz arrangements drawn exclusively from the canon of black Australian music.

* Denotes artists and arts organisations who received both FNCF and Industry Placements funding. 

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