Townsville City Council Annual Arts Awards
2009
Rewarding excellence and creativity
The annual Townsville City Council Arts Awards was held on Friday 20 March, with a glamorous and entertaining evening recognising Townsville individuals and organisations that have made a significant contribution to our cultural life during the previous year. Award categories include Visual Arts, Writing, Theatre, Dance, Multimedia, Music, Event of the Year, Production of the Year, and Limelight Award.
The 2009 winners were:
| Limelight award in memory of Stan Newman |
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Production of the year |
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Dr Linda Ashton
Public Acknowledgement: Katelyn Aslett
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Dance North for Remember Me
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| Dr Ashton, who has been involved in numerous public art projects over the past 10 years is a lecturer from James Cook University and has been instrumental in the Toddler Totem Trails with the Rotary Club of Mundingburra. |
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This dynamic new Australian work by Dancenorth with renowned composer Iain Grandage merges film, live music, theatre and dance to create a work of great tenderness and nostalgia that documents a lifestyle of weekly dance that has largely disappeared from modern Australian life. |
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| Event of the Year |
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Visual Arts award |
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Australian Festival of Chamber Music |
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Threads of Habitat exhibition
Public acknowledgement: Dr Sylvia Ditchburn
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| The Australian Festival of Chamber Music is the largest Festival dedicated to chamber music in Australia. Entering its 19th year, the AFCM has developed an international reputation for its world-class artists and innovative programming across a large range of chamber music styles. |
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Threads of Habitat brought world-class textile art to Townsville. In collaboration with La Luna Youth Arts, it staged workshops that involved 48 members of Fibres and Fabrics, who then shared their skills with children and adults.
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| Theatre award |
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Writing award |
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Tropic Sun Theatre Company |
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Arminelle Fleming
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| Tropic Sun has been nominated for its outstanding season of diverse plays – FUTZ, Love’s Labour Lost and Three Blokes and their Barbies. The company has also toured northern Australia, partnered with JCU’s School of Creative Arts, and took part in the International Theatre Festival in Korea. |
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Arminelle Flemming writes and develops scripts and directs productions. She has been involved with La Luna Youth Arts for nine years. Her work focuses on issues and trends impacting on young people and she is dedicated to helping youths access the creative arts. |
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| Multimedia award |
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Music award |
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La Luna Youth Arts - LOL
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Elle Graham
Public acknowledgement: Shiftlock
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LOL was a by-youth, for-youth production on the many and modern ways that high-school students communicate with each other and the appropriateness of each medium. LOL combined live theatre with digital film segués to allow scene transitions. It is the first stage of a three-part collaboration with Lifeline Community Care and Xstrata Copper. The production, which was free of charge, encouraged personal and creative expression, teamwork, setting and reaching goals, and valuing others.
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Elle is a member of the Barrier Reef Orchestra, NQOMT and the Townsville Choral Society stage orchestras. Nationally Elle has been invited to take part in the Queensland Conservatorium and the Australian Youth Orchestra programs. She is currently performing in All Shook Up and the forthcoming Boy From Oz. Elle is in Year 12 at Townsville Grammar School, where she mentors and trains young percussionists and is about to perform in The Wind in the Willows. |
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| Dance Award |
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Extensions Youth Dance
Public Acknowledgements: Raul de la Paz, Chocolate Salsa
Joan Whyte, Barrier Reef Cloggers
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| Extensions Youth Dance Company combined with La Luna Youth Arts to present a cabaret show, Le Chat Noir. The production involved 38 members of Extensions and six drama students from La Luna, all aged 13 to 21. All three performances were sold out. |
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