Projects
We work with our six contributing councils, community groups and artists to create 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
The STA Paparazzi are fast becoming a familiar sight at events and programs in our region.
This exhibition documents a selection of the group’s imagery, some captured at the training weekend and some from events attended since.
STA Top Spots is a grant program that funds a community led fringe program of events – the Top Spots festival.
A range of innovative projects and funding programs that will directly inject money into our local creative economies.
Maisie’s Choir was instigated by Southern Tablelands Arts following a successful funding application in 2014 for a creative ageing project for older people in the Yass Valley.
Dance for Wellbeing is therapeutic dance and movement program for people living with disability available in Goulburn and Picton. You can also participate via Zoom.
STA SCREEN community screenings
Regular movies in Goulburn and Young with another pop up locations across our region.
Every Friday evening on social media STA catches up with a local artist in their studio.
STA Media Associates cover and document arts events and content across our region for use by STA and our community. Find out more.
Request an STA Media Associate to attend your next event.
Connects performance poets and young people through online workshops and performance opportunities.
We have commissioned some great artists from across the region to create anytime activities to keep the kids creative and engaged. We also have a great events section to help you find family friendly workshops and events.
A revitalisation of Upper Lachlan through art, creativity and innovative street scaping.
Have your say and let Upper Lachlan Council know how much you love the new street art and parklet.
The STA Country Arts Support Scheme is an annual grant that supports grass roots arts projects in our community. Submissions open in the last half of next year for projects happening over next calendar year. See all the Projects funded by CASP for 2021
Join Binalong’s long-running bimonthly poetry event on the last Sunday of every second month
Be in the room or attend via ZOOM.
Spend a Sunday evening with Wombat’s long-running bimonthly poetry event on the last Sunday of every second month (currently via Zoom). Free open mike event. Must be family friendly.
2021
Join Kirsten Jeffcoat for an introduction to painting with watercolours. The workshop will be held on the banks of the Wollondilly River under the trees at the Waterworks in Goulburn as part of their first ever Makers and Designers Market.
Upcoming workshops with Hilltops Artist in Residence Louise Adams. Louise works in a variety of mediums from whimsical wire horse and figurative sculptures to vibrant, abstract acrylic paintings. Her residency in Young includes three workshops in Wire, Eco Dyed paper and Drawing.
Why not head to Young for a weekend of art for the Young Art Trail on the 20-21 March 2021.
A fun anytime project led by Al Phemister. With a few tips and a little inspiration start turning waste into art.
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.
2019
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.
