Are you an emerging or established artist, cultural worker or simply interested in learning more about working effectively in community-engaged contexts? Following the success of the 2016 professional development program GENERATE, FCAC is pleased to offer a continuing 10-part series in 2017. Following feedback from participants, the program has been revised with new and continued workshops, aiming to: •Build skills and capacities across sectors in working effectively with communities •Further best practice in arts management, partnership brokerage and cultural competency •Support new networks and opportunities for professional experience

Victoria’s first Creative State Summit 29-30 June, 2017

Hot Arts for Cool Kids: Explore, Bang, Create, Sew, Sculpt, Draw, Enjoy

Artists with a refugee or asylum seeker background are invited to apply to exhibit in Home, which will be staged in November 2017 by the City of Greater Dandenong's Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre. Home presents works that celebrate the important contribution that refugee and asylum seekers make to the cultural and social fabric of Australia.

A selection of Indigenous paintings and works on paper by local emerging artists from Baluk Arts Aboriginal Art Centre in Mornington reflecting country, connection, history and culture.

Melbourne Theatre Company is proud to launch the NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program. The result of a $4.6 million investment in Australian writers funded by the visionary donors of MTC’s Playwrights Giving Circle and MTC, this innovative five-year program introduces the most rigorous playwright commissioning and development process ever undertaken by the Company.

Josh Brnjac is hosting a Business Network Evening to coincide with 'Coast to Coast: Through the Eyes of the Young' at Cube 37.

ROOM TO MOVE - EMBEDDING CRITICALITY IN DANCE MAKING 18 May 2017 - 01 December 2017 LAST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH FROM JUNE TO NOVEMBER

MELBOURNE, 1 JUNE 2017 — Arts Centre Melbourne’s Gallery 1 will be transformed into The Kiln, a space for artists and arts workers to gather this winter from June to August for a program of discussions, masterclasses, networking events, residencies, readings, forums and training.

Regional Arts Victoria’s Connecting Places program delivers high quality arts experiences to community venues across the state. The offerings in the program aim to be accessible, technically appropriate and affordable for community groups.

Arts Access Victoria, the state's leading arts and disability organisation, recently launched ARTfinder, a searchable listing of inclusive and accessible arts and cultural programs across Victoria.

The Australia Council for the Arts offer Career Development grants from $5,000 to $25,000 to individual artists, arts workers and groups of artists.