Calling all creatives – the writers, the poets, the dancers, the crafters.
Logan City Council has introduced a new program to deliver community-based activities to help locals prepare for or recover from disaster impacts or emergencies.
The city’s lifestyle chair, councillor Tony Hall, said the creative sector could strengthen the fabric of communities during difficult times.
“Creative recovery programs can help to bring people together to make sense of their experience and open opportunities for sharing and connection,” he said.
The program is open to Logan-based musicians, poets, writers, dancers, film makers and crafters.
Participants will receive training from an agency dedicated to embedding culture and creativity into disaster management systems around Australia, called the Creative Recovery Network.
Council said the program would create activities like the 2015 Bridging Flagstone project, which involved students from Flagstone Community College working with the Creative Recovery Network to create a community sculpture – a bench adorned with the word “Happy” in memory of the 2013 floods in the area.
There are 15 fully funded places available for locals to undergo training at Logan Art Gallery between Friday 31 May and Sunday 2 June.
Expressions of interest in the project close at 2pm on Friday 26 April.
Successful artists will be notified in early May.
Applications can be made by lccqld.com/CreativeFacilitator
