Projects
We work with our six contributing councils, community groups and artists to develop programs and projects creating opportunities for artists, arts workers and communities to engage, connect and create. If you are a maker or cultural organisation in our area reach out to connect with us about how we can support your next creative project or how you can get involved.
Current & Ongoing
An ongoing to project of residency opportunities across the STA Region.
PAINT THE TOWN The latest Street Art festival to hit Australia. Rolling out in Wollondilly, Wingecarribee, Upper Lachlan & Goulburn Mulwaree.
Exhibitions for STA Members
A new arts and cultural hub for the STA region.
STA Screen
Screen equipment hire and regular screenings across the STA region.
Every Friday evening on social media STA catches up with a local artist in their studio.
Woven Together
First Nations weaving workshops with Mob and schools across the STA region. Weave with Ronnie anytime at STA kids online
Tuesdays during school term in Yass. Everyone welcome regardless of singing ability or experience. BOOK YOUR SPOT NOW
Artist-led activities to keep your creative kids happy anytime. Find quality kids classes, workshops and events.
STA Paparazzi are our team of Media Associates that capture arts programs across our region. Request a STA Paparazzi for your next event.
An annual community grant program that supports grass roots arts projects. See CASP highlights.
STA is committed to waste reduction through creativity and an ongoing partnership with Wollondilly Council.
Documentary Films by local makers with Brian Rapsey
Film making workshops culminating with the Champions of Change Film Festival
A network and collegial group for community theatre groups across our region. Learn more about the Dress Circle
Monthly on Mondays ‘Round the Mixing Desk
A regular and fun online meeting of musical minds to talk music, share info and collaborate. 5pm Every last Monday (Jan-Nov). Register Now
Turn your scrap fabric into a community resource. The perfect addition to any celebration or gathering.
Creative opportunities and experiences across regional NSW from the Regional Arts Network.
Build the holiday of your dreams at Creative South.
Annual Festival of Art and Light. May 2022
Listen in at Highland FM, on the third Friday of every month as STA Executive Director Rose Marin joins host Adam Stokeld, for Lyrics @ Lunch 12-2pm. Great music, Arts news and friendly chat.
STA staff, board and community share a favourite thing. Art, books, music, plants, photos, textiles, clothes, tools, ornaments – so much to be grateful for.
Enjoy an eclectic mix of styles and genres at an open mic poetry event where everyone is welcome. Last Sunday of the Month (Currently via STA ZOOM). Check for the next session
An ongoing fringe festival of community led events.
2022 Projects
Connects performance poets and young people through online workshops and performances. Groups in Bowral and Binalong
20 & 21 Apr LEONARD’S BEAUTIFUL PICTURES Magical films from the NFSA’s Corrick Collection presented with a live music and foley score. BOOK NOW
Regular Professional Development for Creatives
Skill up and build capacity. Not the art making but just as important. FREE for STA Members. Check the current offering.
A revitalisation of Upper Lachlan through art, creativity and innovative street scaping.
Public Art in Crookwell and coming soon to Taralga.
2021 (Completed)
Dance for Wellbeing is therapeutic dance and movement program for people living with disability. Currently available in Picton.
7pm 11 Sept – Sydney Sacred Music Festival online concert with Mark Brooker & Riccardo Barone from Young Regional School of Music.
5 distinct residency opportunities across the Southern Highlands & Tablelands of regional NSW.
A range of innovative projects and funding programs that will directly inject money into our local creative economies.
STA Paparazzi: The Captured Moment
An exhibition of the group’s imagery, some captured at the training weekend and some from events attended since.
Spend a Sunday evening with Wombat’s long-running bimonthly poetry event on the last Sunday of every second month. Not continuing due to COVID.
The fair may be over but there are still wonderful works available for purchase. View the online gallery.
Why not head to Young for a weekend of art for the Young Art Trail on the 20-21 March 2021.
An introduction to painting with watercolours on the banks of the Wollondilly River at the Waterworks in Goulburn as part of their first ever Makers and Designers Market.
Workshops with Hilltops Artist in Residence Louise Adams.
More than 20 Artists open their Studio’s. An opportunity for you to meet the artist, enjoy their space and appreciate their work.
2020
with Kalkadoon artist Ronnie Jordan as part of the Goulburn 2020 program.
Freya Jobbins show you how to get inspired by unwanted materials like small plastic toys and other discarded objects to create our own sculptures.
Enter the Waste to Art exhibition and Competition. Open until the 12 September. Exhibition opens on the 28 September.
Illuminate Wollondilly Waste to Art Exhibition and Competition, which is inspiring people to think differently about waste, litter and over consumption through creative thinking.
A joint project with History Goulburn and Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Watch out for COVID safe options in 2021 for unrealised programs.
A hands on two day creative workshop delivered by STA turning waste into art.
Previous Projects
The “Bee Aware” project is unique in that it combined environmental education with hands-on art making. The project increased awareness of the vital role Native Australian Solitary bees perform in the environment.
Can arts practices help with fitness, and get us moving, connecting and progressing with our fitness journeys? Studies have shown that engaging in arts activities can have tremendous advantages for health and well-being.
Great Southern Line Anzac Project
Three commemorative public artworks are located at the railway stations at Picton, Moss Vale and Goulburn. The artworks commemorate the war service of railway workers of the Southern Tablelands who enlisted in WW1 and returned to work on the Great Southern Line after the war.
Twenty workshop participants gathered Saturday morning at Murrumburrah’s Old Court House to learn about the importance of connecting habitats for wildlife and to create artworks that reflect on the diversity of habitat ‘corridors’ and the wildlife using them.
An event for the history books, the tireless efforts of Goulburn’s cultural leaders will culminate on the weekend in one huge arts extravaganza. The 150th Oratorio will took place in November 2013 on St Saviours Common.
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