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Support us »INVEST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYDNEY’S INDEPENDENT ARTS SECTOR – HELP US GIVE THE GIFT OF SPACE. Queen Street Studio is embarking on an audacious journey to find and purchase a permanent home by 2013. To achieve this goal we aim to raise $1,500,000 by the end of 2013. The money raised will be used for the deposit on the purchase of our own building in which we can deliver a full range of services to Sydney’s independent arts community. The space will have;
We need your help to kick-start this project so we can deliver an accessible independently-owned and managed arts facility that will be a one-stop shop for independent artists in Sydney. What we have achieved so far . . .Queen Street Studio is a non-profit organisation and registered charity servicing Sydney’s arts community. Beginning with a small but beautiful studio facility in Queen Street, Chippendale in 2005, the organisation has grown and now manages a multi-disciplinary arts space in previously vacant buildings on the site of the old Carlton United Brewery – donated by Frasers Property – for two years. We will also shortly take over the management of Heffron Hall in Darlinghurst till 2013. Through our studio spaces we provide subsidised hire and free space through residency programs to performing and visual artists, as well as skills and professional development workshops and peer-to-peer training programs. We have been nominated in the Sydney Business Awards for the past three years, have strong partnerships with the City of Sydney, Frasers Property Australia, are funded by Arts NSW, City of Sydney, have relationships with Ausdance, UTS, Critical Path, The Performance Space as well as a number of corporate supporters and stakeholders. Our CommunitySydney is teaming with independent artists. They create theatre, dance, exhibitions, public art, publications and much more. They work in their kitchens, in their sheds, in cafes and whatever space they can find and afford. Since opening our doors in 2005 we have provided affordable rehearsal space to approx 25,000 artists, including: Chunky Move, Griffin Theatre Company, Ausdance NSW, Australia Council for the Arts, Legs on The Wall, Company B, Wendy Houston, The Fondue Set, Big hART, Sue Healey and Company, de Quincey and Co, Stalker and many more . . . We have provided, worked, received in that time:
Your impactYour donation to the Queen Street Studio Building Fund brings us ever closer to achieving the goal of purchasing our own building in which we can deliver a full range of services to Sydney’s independent arts community.
Our PromiseWe commit to you that every dollar donated to this fund will be spent in pursuit of these objectives. We will provide you with regular updates on our progress and we certainly look forward to inviting you to the facility’s opening! How to make a donationDonations to the QSS BUY A BUILIDNG FUND can be made at any level and all contributions over $2 are fully tax-deductible. You can also choose to donate a specific amount (see below). In the coming months your donation will have a smart little graphic and it'll tell you where your money is going. You will see the new QSS building appear before your very eyes.
To donate you can deposit cash directly into the Queen Street Studio Donations Fund. Name: Brand X Productions Inc Donations Fund Or you can pay via credit card through eway, which will be available shortly. Make sure you let us know WHO YOU ARE so we can, firstly thank you and secondly send you a tax receipt. Please contact Sam Chester for more information on 0400 098 988 or email sam@queenstreetstudio.com |
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