Touring Queensland Fund round 2 recipients 2023

25 Oct 2023

Touring Queensland Fund – Round 2

• Musical Theatre Australia - $98,040 (plus $57,869 for an industry placement) to tour the award-winning Queensland musical A Girl's Guide to World War. This project sees the Sunshine Coast-based company Musical Theatre Australia undertake its first Queensland tour.
• Flipside Circus Ltd - $134,327 to undertake four tours including remote residencies during 2023 and 2024 targeting communities in the Southwest, Central West, Central, North Queensland and the Gulf. The tour will build on the successes of Flipside’s residency programs and expand to include the premiere of a new work developed with and for, regional/remote communities.
• Dr Keith Armstrong - $100,000 to tour the Carbon Dating Exhibition to seven galleries in 2024 and 2025. The exhibition will showcase the outcomes of a long-term, community-driven, multidisciplinary art project that explores our relationship with Australian native grasses. Through artworks, online resources and public programs the exhibition will investigate the communities' relationships with these overlooked plants, providing important ecological insights and encouraging ‘Care for Country.’
• Institute of Modern Art - $8,522 to support the Queensland leg of 12-venue national tour of immersive exhibition The Interior by Natalya Hughes with Museums and Galleries Queensland. The tour incorporates public programs including an artist talk, a tufting workshop and a mural professional development opportunity.
• HIT Productions - $100,000 to present a three-week Queensland tour of the musical play The Sunshine Club. Written & directed by Noonuccal Nuugi man, Wesley Enoch AM, the play includes three mainstage theatre performances, three free concert performances in Aboriginal Communities in outback Queensland, one outdoor concert at Camden Park Station (Longreach), and five workshops.
• Tia Gostelow - $47,550 for the Head Noise National Album Tour which will present nine shows on the east coast, six in Queensland, delivering engaging full-band performances. Digital marketing and PR will engage audiences and grow audiences across these live performance locations.
• JUTE Theatre Company - $100,000 plus $60,000 industry placement for JUTE to stretch its touring wings with three diverse projects building the company’s strategy for regional leadership; touring an exceptional new First Nations story to SEQ and regional touring venues; touring a regionally grown new work cross-regionally (Gympie, Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns) and touring a First Nations artist-led work into five remote communities.
• Topshelf Productions - $45,530 to tour Yirinda, a collaboration between Butchulla Songman, Fred Leone and innovator Samuel Pankhurst. Yirrinda combines ancient Aboriginal language with modern production to invoke the sounds of thousands of generations of story and culture whilst emerging as something entirely new. This project sees Yirinda touring across regional Queensland with their new work.
• Shock Therapy Arts - $71,651 to tour Pat Malone’s Magic Garden, a new Queensland-made show for children and families throughout Queensland. The show is an original stage show, featuring distinctly Australian vernacular, characters, and animals.
• Dr Susan Davis - $64,385 to tour the 'Wild flowering by Design' exhibition and explore contemporary responses to our botanical and wildflower heritage, profiling works by Queensland artists working across the art and design spectrum. This project will be complemented by a local engagement model in each location, featuring capacity building and presentation opportunities.
• Human Symphony Pty Ltd – $54,290 to produce Mzaza’s Queensland tour of its theatre/music show, The Birth and Death of Stars (BADOS). An award-winning Queensland-based six-piece band, Mzaza will perform BADOS in Ipswich, Cleveland, Logan, Rockhampton, Yeppoon, Gympie, Stanthorpe and Townsville as well as delivering 14 community music workshops and two open tech sessions.