IS THERE NO PLACE THAT IS SAFE? NO TEMPLE THAT IS SACRED? WHAT LIVES MATTER? ...
Outer Urban Projects
VIGIL: A Creative Work Examining Safety, Race, Gender and Terror
GOAL
$50,000
australia > VIC > metro
01/11/2024 > 30/11/2025
FIELD OF INTEREST
- Arts and culture
- Social inclusion and justice (human rights)
TARGET POPULATION
- Asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and people from CALD backgrounds
- Women and girls
PROJECT SUMMARY
IS THERE NO PLACE THAT IS SAFE? NO TEMPLE THAT IS SACRED? WHAT LIVES MATTER?
A HUSBAND KILLS HIS WIFE
ANOTHER VIGIL FOR A DEAD WOMAN
ANOTHER DEATH IN CUSTODY
PROTEST
VIGIL is an experiential and communal work being created by Outer Urban Projects. VIGIL brings together an exceptional creative team of writers, dance artists and a community ensemble to examine the intersection of public and private safety with race, gender and terror in the streets of a modern city – Naarm/Melbourne. It is a multi-authored work that is imagined from the minds of unique creatives, with verbatim elements provided by the community ensemble and an electro-acoustic sound design that underpins a choric score.
The company’s creative and community heartland is Naarm’s/Melbourne’s outer northern suburbs. The Black Lives Matter movement has connected Black people and people of colour globally. The epidemic of sexual assault and femicides has been exposed by family prevention and the MeToo movements. Global violence, often fuelled by racism divide our own communities in Melbourne. These acts of public and private terror have provided the catalyst to create the work VIGIL.
PROJECT OUTCOMES
This project brings with it an arsenal of outer northern community and artistic engagement, audience development, robust partnerships and donors.
Banksia Gardens Community Services (BGCS) is a key partner on VIGIL. BGCS is a vibrant community organisation in the heart of Broadmeadows, home to people from dozens of cultural backgrounds. More than 30 groups are based at our Centre, which was used by more than 80,000 people in 2019. This partnership is a vital link to OUP directly engaging and giving a creative voice to large numbers of community members who experience high levels of race and gender -based violence, terror and notions of safety.
"VIGIL sees us partner with Outer Urban Projects in a ground–breaking way. With community members as participants with lived experience in a community performance ensemble, as professional artists, as community advisors, as audiences.”
– Gina Dougall - CEO Banksia Gardens Community Services
"The intersection of gender and race- based violence, terror and notions of safety is deeply pertinent to our communities. This company’s reputation for community engagement, inclusion, collaboration, artistic leadership and new audience development in the north is well deserved and highly regarded."
- Nuray Jarkan - Youth Services Manager Merri-Bek City Council
"With very strong curriculum alignment potential existing in the conceit, VIGIL promises teachers and students a strong educational resource to support school-based explorations of recently mandated units around consent, respectful relationships and cultural identity through English and Performing Arts subject domains."
- Claire Wearne - Between The Lines Education Partner
Outer Urban Projects
Outer Urban Projects, founded in 2012, is a vital player in the Australian community arts and cultural development and performing arts sectors. We have forged a dynamic intergenerational performing arts company that collaborates with emerging artists and their communities in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne. Many in these communities experience a range of complex issues and systemic disadvantage. We deliver an artistic program that is ambitious in reach. It provides quality long-term artistic activity, employment, social engagement and mentoring opportunities to young artists and art workers whose talent and career pathways would otherwise be ignored. Our work reflects the complex face of contemporary Australia and challenges the architecture of access in the Australian arts industry.
BUDGET BREAKDOWN
TOTAL BUDGET: $350,000
FUNDING
| Funding source | Amount |
|---|---|
| Creative Victoria (confirmed) | $30,000 |
| Australia Council (confirmed) | $70,000 |
| Brian Davis Charitable Foundation (confirmed) | $20,000 |
| ArtsHouse Melbourne City Council (confirmed) | $20,000 |
| Private donors (confirmed) | $30,000 |
| Creative Australia Plus One (confirmed) | $50,000 |
| Merr-bek City Council Arts and Culture (unconfirmed) | $10,000 |
| Private donors (unconfirmed) | $50,000 |
| Ticket sale (unconfrimed) | $20,000 |
| Funding gap (unconfirmed) | $50,000 |
EXPENSES
| Expense item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Artists (15 writers, actors, choreographer, dancers) | $180,000 |
| Set, lighting, sound, score | $30,000 |
| Education and Community Development & Outreach Team | $40,000 |
| Production costs and producing staff | $60,000 |
| Marketing, publicity and education collateral | $25,000 |
| Community participants stipend | $15,000 |
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