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Monday, 21 November 2022
2022 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards – winners announced
The winners are: Marrugeku (Group Award, $90,000); Eryn Jean Norvill (Individual Award, $60,000); Deirdre O’Brien (Facilitator’s Prize, $25,000)
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Tuesday, 04 October 2022
Meet the 2022 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows
Nine creatives from around Australia will each receive an unrestricted, tax-free grant of $160,000 over two years. Find out who they are.
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Wednesday, 18 May 2022
2022 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellows Announced
The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund are pleased to announce that the 2022 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships have been awarded to Adam Davids, Estelle Lucas and Jamal Elsheikh.
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Tuesday, 15 March 2022
2021 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards – winners announced
The winners are: All the Queens Men (Vic), Australian Digital Concert Hall (Vic), Blakdance (Qld), Clare Watson (WA), Erin Milne (Vic), James Berlyn (WA), Jenny M Thomas (Vic), Speak Percussion (Vic).
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Friday, 04 February 2022
Applications now open for Social Impact Leadership Australia - Victoria and Tasmania
Monday, 24 January 2022
Vale Sidney Baillieu Myer AC
Mr Myer, Co-Founder and Past President of The Myer Foundation, died at his home on 22 January 2022, aged 96.
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Thursday, 07 October 2021
Meet the 2021 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows
Nine creatives from around Australia will each receive an unrestricted, tax-free grant of $160,000 over two years. Find out who they are.
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Friday, 27 May 2022
$2 million in collaborative grants for innovation in youth unemployment announced
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Post COVID-19 Innovation and Collaboration Grant Round
Grants to support innovative, collaborative initiatives in the social and/or arts sectors focusing on quality employment outcomes for young people and/or older women experiencing disadvantage.
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Monday, 28 June 2021
Supporting capacity of organisations in Victoria’s bushfire-impacted communities
The Sydney Myer Fund has partnered with the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal to build the capacity of local organisations playing a central, coordinating or networking role in the recovery of Victorian communities...
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Friday, 23 July 2021
Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships 2022 opens
The Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships 2022 program has opened for applications today, seeking exceptional leaders with breakthrough solutions to Australia’s most pressing social and environmental problems and the capacity to bring them to fruition.
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Monday, 11 October 2021
Partnership with Creative Victoria delivers career-building support
The Sidney Myer Fund partnered with the Victorian Government to boost the 2021 Creators Fund round to be the largest to date. The recipients have now been announced.
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Tuesday, 13 April 2021
2020 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards – winners announced
The winners are Metro Arts (Qld), Kylie Bracknell (WA), Sally Chance (SA), Second Echo Ensemble (Tas), Andrew Ford (NSW), Robin Fox (IVic), Sean Pardy (NT) and The Street Theatre (ACT).
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Thursday, 27 May 2021
Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellows for 2021 announced
The 2021 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships have been awarded to Rebecca Scott OAM, Dr Martin Butson and Max Burt.
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Tuesday, 09 February 2021
Asialink Medal awarded to Carillio Gantner AC and Ziyin Wang Gantner
Carrillo and Ziyin Gantner were awarded the Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop Asialink Medal in recognition of their contribution to advancing Australia’s engagement with Asia through arts and culture.
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Friday, 12 February 2021
ACMI reopens with a new work by Gunditjmara artist Vicki Couzens
Support from Sidney Myer Fund has enabled ACMI to commission a new work by Gunditjmara artist Vicki Couzens as part a major renewal project. Visitors to ACMI’s new permanent exhibition, The Story of the Moving Image, which opened in February...
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