WHAT IS FRONT UP?

Front Up founded by Ability Options is the first disability-led Arts and Cultural program based in Western Sydney.

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ARTiST CALL OuT

Call for Western Sydney artists with mental health concerns and/or disability to join our Discover 18' starting on June 27

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ABOUT FRONT UP

Front Up is a new disability-led Arts and Cultural Program. An exciting initiative created by Ability Options in memory of the late founder Greg McIntyre OAM.

Front Up offers participants access to multi-layered professional arts and cultural education, as well as linking participants with existing NSW Government education programs and services.

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Explore

The Explore programs offer an introduction into the Arts for people with creative abilities and interest in the Arts. We will also be offering a Kids Explore and Youth Explore programs.

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Discover

The Discover program is designed for people who have had some elementary arts experience and are interested in expanding their knowledge and skills within multi-art forms.

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Emerge

The Emerge program is for experienced and emerging artists. This program will expand your practice working with leading professional artists and create a portfolio of work for future opportunities.

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EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

PILOT PROGRAM

Emerging artists at the Front Up Hub. Left to Right-Front Row-Digby Webster and Emily Dash. Back Row - William BIL Anderson JNR, Kate Burton, Rebecca Sciroli, Rosalind Stanley, M. Sunflower.
EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

AT THE ART GALLERY OF NSW

Front Up emerging artists from the Emerge Pilot Program 2016; Emily Dash, Rebecca Sciroli and William BIL Anderson JNR, exploring art with guidance from the Art Gallery of NSW artist educators.
EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

WORKSHOPS FRONT UP HUB

Two of the collaborating artists from the Emerge Pilot Program 2016, Rosalind Stanley and Digby Webster share ideas and examples of their work at the Front Up Hub in Seven Hills.
EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

PILOT PROGRAM

The Emerge team at the Art Gallery of NSW. Session facilitated by professional lead artists Liam Benson and Sarah-Vyne Vassallo. The artists spent three days exploring the artworks in three exhibitions: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Manifesto and Eko Nugroho: Lot lost.
EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

PILOT PROGRAM

Artists from the Emerge Pilot Program 2016 at the Cutaway in Barangaroo, taking in the large scale of the exhibition space where their collaborative work created in response to the exhibits at the Art Gallery of NSW will be installed.

ARTiST CALL OuT | DISCOVER

START DATE: Wed 04 July 2018
END DATE: Wed 12 September 2018
TIME: 10am - 2pm
LOCATION: 9 - 11 Rowley St, Seven Hills NSW 2147

Call for Western Sydney artists with mental health concerns and/or disability.

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ARTiST CALL OuT | EMERGE

START DATE: Tue 12 June 2018
END DATE: Tue 04 September 2018
TIME: 10am - 2pm
LOCATION: 9 - 11 Rowley St, Seven Hills NSW 2147

Call for Western Sydney artists with mental health concerns and/or disability.

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Front Up is a new innovative community program with a Hub based in Western Sydney that offers participants access to multi-layered professional arts and cultural education, as well as linking participants with existing NSW Government education programs and services.

The three programs offered titled Explore, Discover and Emerge, will all aim to build confidence and self-esteem within participants, with the ultimate goal of assisting them to find pathways to access communities, further education, future employment and volunteer opportunities within the arts industry.

While the Front Up Arts and Cultural Program has been created and will be supported by Ability Options, who have pledged a 10 year commitment, the cost of running these programs is intensive. To be able to continue to provide and maintain a creative Hub, materials and range of disability-led programs for participants, we will rely greatly on the generosity of donations, funding grants and volunteers.

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WHAT IS FRONT UP?

ARTiST CALL OuT

ABOUT FRONT UP

Explore

Discover

Emerge

EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

PILOT PROGRAM

EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

AT THE ART GALLERY OF NSW

EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

WORKSHOPS FRONT UP HUB

EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

PILOT PROGRAM

EMERGE ARTISTS 2016

PILOT PROGRAM

ARTiST CALL OuT | DISCOVER

ARTiST CALL OuT | EMERGE

SUPPORT US

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