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Touring Queensland Fund recipients 2023

6 Jan 2023

Touring Queensland Fund – Round 1a 

  • *Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra - $87,000 plus $60,000 Industry Placement for Camerata Live, classical music performances to communities in North Queensland and Sunshine Coast with an education program delivered in partnership with multicultural events, local councils, schools, and aged care providers.
  • *Dead Puppet Society Ltd - $76,288 plus $60,000 Industry Placement for tour of ISHMAEL, a critically acclaimed visual theatre production touring to Bundaberg, Cairns, Townsville.   
  • Flying Art Alliance Inc - $74,521 for 'Reframe': Touring Exhibition of the 2022 Queensland Regional Art Awards collaborating with QMF’s Music Trials, Opera Queensland, QSO concerts and local arts organisations in Charleville, Longreach, Blackall, Moranbah, Cairns.
  • JUTE Theatre Company – $72,137 for Dare to Dream Safer Communities Tour for First Nations people to five Cape York schools in Mossman, Mapoon, Lockhart, Normanton, Weipa.
  • Ms. Melissa Western - $90,582 for 2023 touring program including the Western Queensland circuit of Dirty Fame Flash Candles Club, a North Queensland tour of The Roaring Twenties, ongoing touring of 1954: Ella, Etta, Eartha, and scoping of a multi-year project in Innisfail Tambo, Canungra, Magnetic Island, Innisfail, Proserpine, Roma, Charleville, Barcaldine, Longreach, Windorah, Quilpie and Thargomindah.
  • *RAVA Productions - $100,000 plus $39,466 Industry Placement for The Wind in the Willows theatre production tour to 16 northern and western Queensland locations delivering school term performances, workshops and twilight community shows for children, their teachers and families in Townsville, Charters Towers, Mackay, Hughenden, Julia Creek, Mount Isa, Boulia, Winton, Longreach, Barcaldine, Aramac, Emerald, Capella, Proserpine, Wandoan, Dalby.
  • Red Chair - $99,743 for The COMPASS Project of 10 micro-tours of mixed musical acts to venues in Brisbane, Cleveland, Coolum Beach, Ipswich, Kingston, Tugun, Eudlo, Eumundi, Pomona, Toowoomba, Gladstone, Beaudesert, Goondiwindi and Agnes Water.
  • Ms Roz Pappalardo - $72,246 for All Fired Up - a Queensland-wide mainstage tour of the musical production, with community dance workshops in Surfers Paradise, Logan, Toowoomba, Redlands, Gladstone, Bundaberg, Mackay, Charters Towers, Port Douglas.
  • *Shake & Stir Theatre Co - $100,000 plus $60,000 Industry Placement for regional schools tour of productions Terrortorial, Fractured Fables, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Great Shakes, 1984 and Animal Farm with associated Q&A sessions and masterclasses in Aroona, Coomera, Elanora, Labrador, Nambour, Yaroomba, Yatala, Beerwah, Bundaberg, Cairns, Hervey Bay, Mackay, Noosa, Rockhampton, Toowoomba, Townsville, Gladstone, Maryborough, Yeppoon, Ayr, Mareeba, Roma, Childers, Chinchilla, Miles, Monto, Mossman, Nanango, Proserpine, Rosedale, Sarina, Tully, Cloncurry, St George, Augathella, Barcaldine, Blackall, Charleville, Mitchell, Morven, Mount Isa, Tambo, Winton. 
  • Shock Therapy Arts - $100,000 for touring costs related to in-school touring as well as venue tours in New Farm, West End, Spring Hill, Calamvale, Coorparoo, Spring Hill, Ashgrove, Cleveland, Yandina Creek, Wellington Point, West End, Holland Park, Kippa-Ring, Noosaville, Park Ridge, Beaudesert, Yeppoon, Alexandra Hills, Bahrs Scrub, Ferny Grove, Sunnybank, Redlynch, Mossman, Cairns, Rockhampton, Scarborough.  
  • *The Little Red Company - $19,289 plus $53,737 Industry Placement for the Lovely Day Tour featuring new musical work regionally and catering for older audiences in Charters Towers, Cairns, Innisfail, Ayr, Collinsville, Mackay, Gladstone, Maryborough, Caloundra.

  

* Denotes artists and arts organisations who received both Touring Queensland Fund and Industry Placements funding.   
 

Photo: Festival of Small Halls, 2019. Photo: Tim Roberts Photography, courtesy Festival of Small Halls

 

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