Latest News
- Creating Impact: A development initiative for emerging cultural leaders
- JUMP 2011 - Call for Applications
- Blog launched for Starburst Regional Mentoring Program
- Two new state partners for JUMP mentoring program
- Are you a YAQ member?
- Youth Arts Queensland tweets!
- Become our friend on facebook
Creating Impact: A development initiative for emerging cultural leaders
Are you an arts practitioner 30 years of age or under? Do you initiate ideas, create opportunities and successfully run arts projects in your local community? Join us and explore your leadership potential!
YAQ in partnership with Volunteering Qld have developed an exciting new initiative for Queensland’s emerging cultural leaders. To find out more, visit our workshop section!
Back to topJUMP 2011 - Call for Applications
Applications are now open for JUMP, the Australia Council’s national mentoring program for young and emerging artists.
Be mentored by a leading professional of your choice; work with them on a funded creative project; and access national networks, online profiling and professional development.
JUMP is open to artists aged 18-30, who are the first five years of their professional practice across a range of artforms.
Back to topBlog launched for Starburst Regional Mentoring Program
Over the past couple of months, our Marketing Assistant Courtney O’Connor has been collating profiles of young arts practitioners who were successful in applying to the Regional Mentoring Program Starburst. Find out what the Starburst participants are up to and which creative projects they are working here.
Back to topTwo new state partners for JUMP mentoring program
Youth Arts Queensland (YAQ) has announced CarriageWorks and Melbourne Fringe, as its new state partners in the delivery of JUMP, the national mentoring program for young and emerging artists.
CarriageWorks in NSW and Melbourne Fringe in VIC, join inaugural state delivery partners Carclew Youth Arts in SA and Propel Youth Arts WA, to respond to the local needs of program applicants and support quality 10- month mentorship experiences.
Back to topNavigation Arts Business Training in Brisbane, September 13 - 16
YAQ's Navigation Arts Business Training is a training course for young people wanting to kickstart their careers in the arts and cultural industries. This TAFE accredited course covers grant writing, working with community, project planning and budgeting, marketing, design essentials, making presentations /pitching and OH&S / risk management. Best of all, if you are 30 years of age or under, you may be eligible to receive the training for free!
Back to top2009 YAQ Annual Report
YAQ’s 2009 Annual Report is now available online. Click here to download the publication.
Back to topAre you a YAQ member?
We’d like to remind all our members that YAQ memberships fall due on 30 June 2010. We’d like all of you to take this opportunity to renew your membership, or if you are not yet a member of YAQ – think about becoming one! As a member of YAQ, you can promote your work in our fortnightly e-newsletter, receive letters of support, YAQ can act as your auspicing body and of course you can have a say in the peak body for youth arts in Queensland! Renew your membership today!
Back to topYouth Arts Queensland tweets!
We could no longer resist - B , Lucy and Caro have now joined Twitter and are updating our followers on what’s going on at YAQ, upcoming events and whatever else rocks our world. Also on Twitter are Transit Lounge Caboolture and JUMP , our new national mentoring program for young and emerging artists. Follow us and stay in the loop!
Back to topBecome our friend on facebook
We’re on facebook! Become a member of our group and add your gigs to our wall. Our facebook is there to connect you with other YAQ members and to inform you about upcoming YAQ events. We’ll see you online!
Back to topLast updated: 2 September 2010
YAQ and its programs receive financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative. YAQ receives additional support from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, through the Opportunities for Young and Emerging Artist initiative for JUMP, the national mentoring program for young and emerging artists.
