Country Arts SA recognises that we are living and creating on First Nations Lands and we are committed to working together to honour their living cultures.
With the help of a Country Arts SA Quick Step grant, the Streaky Bay Family Day Carers celebrated Families Week in Streaky Bay from Monday 13 May to Friday 17 May. The Family Day Carers approached the Streaky Bay Childrens Centre to auspice the successful Quick Step grant application to Country Arts SA for $932.
Many of the weeks activities focused on exposing young people in the community to the powerful benefits of art. On Wednesday 8 May, three artists from the Tjutjuna (Ceduna) Aboriginal Arts and Culture Centre delivered acrylic paints and clay workshops to aproximately 60 children.
The main objectives of the workshops were to:
The children learned through touching, moving, listening, seeing, and hearing, experiencing many ways to express themselves.
Throughout the week children were encouraged and supported by their peers, families and support workers in a variety of activities across creativity, play, learning and interaction with others. Dance workshops with popular BBoy Dreaded (Greg Potticary) were also offered to all children in the district aged 5 years and under.
The celebration of Families Week in Streaky Bay has established and reinforced partnerships and collaborations in the community, bringing together many differeing organisations and promoted building community capacity. Stakeholders involved in Families Week were:
If you have any feedback or suggestions for a similar event in 2014 please contact
Ali Hein on (08) 8626 1680.
For advice on funding and support for arts projects contact:
Jayne Holland
Arts officer, Western Eyre
p: (08) 8626 1049
m: 0427 601 159
To find out more about Country Arts SA support and funding for regional communities and artists click here
Country Arts SA recognises that we are living and creating on First Nations Lands and we are committed to working together to honour their living cultures.