Indigenous Languages and Arts - Open Competitive Grant Opportunity 2025

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Indigenous Languages and Arts - Open Competitive Grant Opportunity 2025

Tender ID: 571209

Tender Details

Organisation:

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

Tender #:

GO7243

Status:

Closed

Publish Date:

30 October 2024

Closing Date:

25 November 2024

Tender Description

The ILA Program supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to express, preserve and maintain their cultures through Indigenous languages and arts activities.

Grant funding allocated through the ILA program supports activities that:

Conserve, revitalise and sustain Indigenous languages by:

Supporting the use of spoken language in everyday life by facilitating language practise in a range of contexts through culturally appropriate learning and teaching activities.
Supporting community members to improve their language knowledge and skills and build capacity in the sector by providing language learning and teaching pathways that include opportunities to gain formal qualifications in learning and teaching an Indigenous language.
Recording, preserving and making available Indigenous languages using digital technology in an innovative and culturally appropriate way.
Facilitating the use of Indigenous languages in everyday life by producing and providing access to language materials used in activities that facilitate the transmission of language, enabling community to enjoy, learn, use and teach their languages.

Create, promote and celebrate Indigenous cultural expression by:

Developing, producing, presenting, exhibiting or performing a diverse range of traditional and contemporary Indigenous art forms which could include dance, theatre, film, literature, music and traditional Indigenous arts and crafts.
Promoting and celebrating Indigenous art forms and providing access to arts activities that enable community to enjoy, connect and take pride in their cultures.

Location

Western Australia : Gascoyne : Goldfields/Esperance : Great Southern : Kimberley : Mid West : Peel : Perth Metropolitan : Pilbara : South West : Wheatbelt
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Barkly : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin : Top End
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania