$1.3 million distributed in latest Arts Vic funding round

Community radio stations, choreographers, installation artists and cultural exchange among those to benefit.

11 Dec 2013

Richard Watts

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Victoria’s Minister for the Arts, Heidi Victoria, today announced the results of the latest Arts Victoria funding round, which will see $1.3 million injected into the state’s independent arts sector.

The funding, the first round of the new VicArts Grants program, will support 86 projects and directly benefit more than 2,200 Victorian artists.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts