Entries for the 2011 Music in Communities Awards Now Open!

Theme: Local Links – Community Music Connects the Dots

$10,000 prize pool

The Awards salute, celebrate and reward Australia’s most effective and well-connected community music organisations.

Entries are now being accepted for the 2011 Music in Communities Awards. We’ve set this year’s theme in recognition that the best community music making does not happen in isolation. It depends on effective networking, collaboration and cooperation.

This year we are celebrating and rewarding creative and inspiring connections, partnerships and relationships that music groups have nurtured in and beyond their local community.

The Awards are open to all forms of music groups including choirs, bands, orchestras, ukulele groups and drum circles; as well as community and volunteer organisations delivering and supporting music programs in communities; local Councils; schools and individuals.

• Does your music group collaborate with a local organisation to do things you couldn’t have done on your own?
• Have you formed a partnership with your local council?
• Have you negotiated funding or support through a non-arts related government agency to develop projects with social outcomes?
• Has your group shown some ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking when seeking to form partnerships and build relationships?
• Does your group have a mutually beneficial relationship with a local school?

If you can answer ‘yes’ to any one of those questions we’d love to hear about it! You’ll be in with a chance to take your share of $10,000 for your group.

Entries are accepted online at www.musicincommunities.org.au Go here to read more about the awards, read case studies of previous award winners and view the terms and conditions and the entry instructions.

Entries close on Monday 24th October 2011 so hurry and enter now!