JUMP
Make Your Artistic Match with JUMP in 2012!

Are you a young Australian artist on the cusp of a great career? You’re producing excellent work in your artform, and know where you’re headed - but do you have the expert advice to match? JUMP can make sure that you do!

Form a mentoring relationship with a professional artist of your choice and join a diverse national network of program participants and alumni making their mark on the industry.

Applications for the 2012 JUMP program are now open! Young and emerging artists from across Australia are invited to make their artistic match and apply.

Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, JUMP identifies and promotes excellence in artistic practice for artists aged 18 – 30 who are in the first five years of their professional career.

Potential applicants should identify a leading arts professional of their choice to help them accelerate their career through a one-on-one mentoring relationship. As Australia’s largest artist mentoring program, in 2012 JUMP offers its highest number of mentorship places yet, with up to 80 positions available nationally.

Updated FAQs and 2012 application forms are now available from the JUMP website jumpmentoring.com.au. You can also join the JUMP facebook page or follow JUMP on Twitter twitter.com/JUMPmentoring.

Applications close 28 October 2011.

Want to Know More? Attend an Info Session!

So you’re interested in applying for JUMP? You’ve browsed the website and read the FAQs, and you’ve got a few more questions?

CarriageWorks will be holding three info sessions in NSW about the 2012 JUMP program in September 2011.

Here, we’ll provide a step-by-step guide to preparing your application, demonstrate the various resources on our website, and answer your questions about being a mentee or mentor in the JUMP program.

Please RSVP to jump@carriageworks.com.au to help us plan seating etc, and advise us of any accessibility requirements.

Lismore
Thur 1 Sept, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Lismore Regional Gallery, 131 Molesworth Street, Lismore

Sydney
Sat 3 Sept, 1pm - 2pm
Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh

Newcastle (This Is Not Art Festival)
Fri 30 Sept, 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Renew Newcastle Church, 3 Morgan Street, Newcastle

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY SHOW
To celebrate World Environment Day, our friends at Music For Trees are hosting an epic event featuring world renowned environmentalist Dr Jane Goodall, and a host of other cool environmental thinkers. The event will be supported by a fab musical lineup, spread over two great venues!

DATE Sunday 5 June
TIME 4pm - 12pm
LOCATION Red Rattler and Camelot in Marrickville

DR JANE GOODALL AT CARRIAGEWORKS
In celebration the United Nations’ Year of the Forest, the Dr Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is presenting an exhibition at CarriageWorks. The exhibition Saving our Forests: The Trees of Life features over 25 Australian artists including Carlos Barrios, Peter Griffin, Alan Jones, Denise Lithgow, Justin Perason, Claire Waring and Greg Wilson.

Dr Jane Goodall will be opening the exhibition on World Environment Day, Sunday 5 June. The opening is a ticket event, tickets go on sale Wednesday 25 May here. Funds raised from opening night tickets and artwork sales will be invested into the JGI forestation programs in Africa.

DATE Saturday 4 - Saturday 18 June
LOCATION Bay 19, CarriageWorks
TIME Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday 9am - 1pm, Closed Sundays

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