Room to Create

As any arts and cultural organisation knows, space is a vital resource.  City of Yarra is committed to supporting the arts through providing affordable space for not for profit arts and cultural organisations.

Room to Create recognises the arts and cultural organisations which are housed in Council buildings across Yarra. These seven diverse groups contribute to making Yarra the vibrant, creative, and involved community that it is.

Council is proud to support the following Room to Create tenants:

Ausdance 
Ausdance (Vic) services the largest dance community in Australia. Victoria hosts a vibrant dance culture with several contemporary dance companies, hundreds of studios and a myriad of independent artists producing work in the state. Victorians prove to be keen to learn, with the Ausdance (Vic) office daily fielding enquiries from the public who are seeking dance classes and training in all dance styles.

Ausdance aims to promote awareness and understanding of, and access to, dance throughout Australia.

Dancehouse 
Australia's premier centre for contemporary dance, combining research, training and performance.
Situated in the Melbourne suburb of North Carlton, Dancehouse provides continuity, support and synergy to the development of contemporary dance practice and artists.
Working with independent artists and dance companies, arts organisations, community groups and funders, Dancehouse works as an incubator for new dance work, interdisciplinary practice and international exchange. It nourishes dance artists in their ongoing development as professionals and presents enduring and unexpected dance experiences for audiences.

Multicultural Arts Victoria 
Multicultural Arts Victoria is Victoria's peak arts organisation promoting cultural diversity in the arts. MAV is a membership based organisation representing individuals, groups and communities across all art forms; music, dance, theatre, film and TV, visual arts and new media.
Our vision is to foster cultural diversity and respect through the promotion, enhancement and celebration of multicultural arts in Australia.

Richmond and Burnley Historical Society 
The Society comprises a group of people interested in the history of the Richmond and Burnley areas. They maintain their own local studies collection organised and run by volunteers. New members and/or information are welcome. Currently the collection is open Sunday afternoons.

Visionary Images  
Visual Art + Social Change
Visionary Images (VI), a youth arts studio based in Richmond, utilises contemporary communication media, art, design and technology as tools for artistic intervention, exchange, accessibility and cultural determination with disadvantaged or disengaged youth.

VI is at the forefront of artists collaborating with marginalised youth and industry in the use of traditional advertising, media and public space to offer a powerful alternative expression for under-represented youth. Through active partnership development with a range of government, community, arts, and business partners, VI provides its members with the resources, support and access to professional expertise, innovative technology and exhibition opportunities that are otherwise out of their reach.

Women’s Art Register 
The Women’s Art Register is an archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources, both old and new, documenting Australian women artists, their images and their writings. A diverse range of media and art disciplines, including craft, design, photography, installation are represented in the archive, as well as various styles and all eras from the Victorian period.
Established 1975, the WAR is a resource of national significance and is maintained and managed by volunteers.

Yarra Sculpture Gallery  
The Yarra Sculpture Gallery is located at Abbotsford. It is the home of the Contemporary Sculptors Association (CSA), which is an artist run initiatives who has developed and manages the Yarra Sculpture Gallery.

The Contemporary Sculptors Association Inc. was founded in 1997 as a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting contemporary sculpture, and to extending and developing the role it plays in the Australian community. The Association's overall aim is to work with individual artists, government and professional organizations, the commercial sector and the community to expand public awareness of contemporary sculpture and to stimulate the growth of sculpture as a professional practice.

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Further information

Arts & Cultural Services
c/o Richmond Town Hall,
333 Bridge Rd, Richmond
Telephone 9205 5029
Email info@yarracity.vic.gov.au

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