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First Nations storytellers receive funding boost

Performing arts in QLD receive major boost as recipients of two funding streams announced.

9 Feb 2022

Celina Lei

Performing Arts

Image: Silence presented by Karul Projects at the Brisbane Festival 2020, courtesy of the company and artists. Photo: Simon Woods.

The Palaszczuk Government has cemented its commitment to First Nations arts organisations through the announcement of the first recipients of the First Nations Pathways Fund, which injects a total of $2.6M into the state over 2022–2025.

The program provides capacity building support for five emerging First Nations performing arts companies over four years: The Pryce Centre for Culture and Arts (Cairns), Karul Projects (Gold Coast), Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (North Stradbroke Island), Nintiringanyi Indigenous Corporation (Cairns) and Grace Lillian Lee Productions (Cairns).

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.