The Castlemaine State Festival will go ahead next March celebrating the arts and culture of central Victoria in a specially curated program encouraging community connections with local artists and artforms.
The Festival this week announced the recipients of its COVID-19 artist relief commissions program, We Are Here, focused on offering financial support to local regional performing and projection or visual arts projects.
Central Victorian artists Jessie Boylan, Andrée Cozens & Mark Penzak, Furze Brothers and commonplace productions, Hermione Merry & Helen Mathwin, Brodie Murray, Cameron Robbins and Wide Open Road artist collective will each receive a share of the $15,000 grant pool to develop and create their performing, projection or visual arts productions. Read more about this in the Castlemaine Mail, Friday September 4, 2020