Feral Arts

storytelling since 26 Aug 2008

Biography 28 Communities 104 Projects 202 Stories

Feral Arts

Feral Arts is a cultural development company working in digital media. We work with communities and other partners to make better use of their cultural assets - stories, histories, networks - enhancing their creativity and sustainability.

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Communities this user is involved in

ArtHorizone

ArtHorizone, a regional art and environment online network, encourages the recording of environmental art stories, links regional arts and...

Artists in Residence

The Artist in Residence Initiative (AIR) is a unique partnership between the Australia Council and State and Territory arts agencies and education...

Arts and Health Stories

Arts and Health Stories is a growing online community of artists and health professionals from across Australia committed to integrating the arts...

Arts On The Map

The Australia Council supports the work of Australian artists - across the country and around the world! Explore the 200 companies currently...

Brisbane Histories

There are lots of great examples of history and heritage projects right across Brisbane. Too often though the outcomes of this important work sits...

CDEI

The Community Development Engagement Initiative (CDEI) targets 17 Local Government Areas across Queensland which were hardest hit by the flood and...

Center for Health Equity

The Center for Health Equity provides a new and hopeful approach to the public's health. The Center works to eliminate social and economic barriers...

Creative Brisbane

Brisbane City Council is dedicated to fostering an innovative and creative community and to providing opportunities for everyone to participate in...

Creative Recovery Arts Corps

Introducing Creative Recovery - Video (2 min) Queensland was hit hard by the natural disasters in the summer of 2010/11. With artists playing an...

Digital Communities Alliance

Digital Communities aims to assist marginalised communities across Australia to make the most of the opportunities on offer when the national...

Digital Landcare

Around the world thousands of Landcarers are contributing their time and resources to making the world a more sustainable place. Digital Landcare...

Disseminate

Disseminate is an action-based evaluation, research and publishing project to collect and share resources for the arts and health sectors. It...

Every Voice

Every Voice creates an opportunity for ordinary people to share their views about issues that matter and affect our future and be heard!....

Global Rivers

Global Rivers is a digital media project designed to engage communities across the world to create cultural content inspired by significant rivers...

Gulf Coast

Inclusive Brisbane

Main Street Project

Main Street Project is a grassroots cultural organizing, media justice and economic development initiative working to help rural and urban...

Making Connections

Making Connections is a community for sharing news, stories and information highlighting opportunities and challenges for building a healthy...

Mountain Reporter Network

The Mountain Reporter Network is a digital storytelling and community journalism project taking place in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky,...

Neonatales

NeonaTales is an innovative online network supporting storytelling, communication and collaboration in the neonatal sector. Neonatales connects...

Pollinate

Pollinate is an online community working to grow the arts sector - from the ground up! Pollinate is a platform for artists working with...

Queersland Histories

Queersland Histories is part of the LGBT History Action Group at Queensland Association for Healthy Communities (QAHC). The LGBT History Action...

Rural America

Rural America supports storytelling and collaboration for people and organizations devoted to building a stronger, more vibrant rural America....

Rural Strategies

The Center for Rural Strategies is the host and coordinator for testing and development of the PlaceStories system in the US. The Rural Strategies...

Rural Voices

Rural Voices is an online community for rural women, and rural people more broadly, to connect with eachother and share stories about their lives,...

Unearthed

A collection of stories from mining communities everywhere!!!

Westpac Foundation StoryBank

Go to the Westpac StoryBank Website. The Westpac Foundation is a charitable trust investing in not-for-profits run by community leaders who have...

Westpac Group StoryBank

Go to the Westpac StoryBank website Westpac Group StoryBank is a unique digital storytelling and communications system that enables Westpac staff...

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Featured AIR Stories

A collection fo featured Artist in Residence Program stories from across the country.

Big Story Country

A collection of great arts stories from regional Australia

National Arts and Health Policies

Thank you to all of you who contributed to the response to National Cultural Policy Discussion Paper by Deborah Mills on behalf of the Arts and...

National Arts & Health Policy Forum

A National Arts and Health Policy Forum will be held in Canberra on Wednesday 27th June 2012. The Forum will bring leading artists, health...

Why the Arts are important to Health

Your contributions will help paint the big picture and demonstrate the need for national arts and health policies that includes all that is being...

REMNANT/EMERGENCY Artlab

REMNANT/EMERGENCY Artlab is a two year project that involves a team of Professional Creatives working to promote environmental research and...

All Arts on Map Stories

This is a catchall project for story publishing in Arts on the Map

Featured Stories

This project features a growing collection of recent Community Development Engagement Initiative highlights from across the State.

Aqui Es Donde Nos Encontramos Training Workshop

This is a project for the Center for Health Equity PlaceStories workshop, in Louisville Kentucky.

Eye-Pic

Eye Pic ask primary school children to take photographs of what makes them smile in their suburb, in their family and in themselves. Using the...

Art Bites Connect

A series of networking events....

Arts Queensland Sector Morning Tea

ps-project-8330-4yjsf@stories.placestories.com Arts Peak Bodies and Organisations were invited to come along to a presenation of the Creative...

Creative Recovery - Toolkit

A project to gather and share all the resources to support artists to develop and deliver Creative Recovery projects in your community.

Creative Recovery - Ipswich

Ipswich has been chosen as one of three pilot Queensland communities to lead the Creative Recovery Arts Corps project. Ipswich was hit hard by...

Creative Recovery Cassowary Coast

The Cassowary Coast has been chosen as one of three Queensland regions to lead the Creative Recovery pilot project. Cassowary Coast was hit hard...

Creative Recovery - Queensland

There are some incredible stories from right across the State about the things artists have done to help Queensland communities recover from the...

Creative Recovery - Lockyer Valley

The Lockyer Valley has been chosen as one of three Queensland pilot communities to lead the Creative Recovery Arts Corps project. The region was...

Regional Landcare Facilitator Project

The Regional Landcare Facilitator (RFL) program is an initiative of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry. This four year program...

Postcards for World Environment Day

Celebrate World Environment Day (WED) on Sunday 5 June by publishing a postcard about your favourite place on Earth. WED is an annual event that...

Landcare Groups in Queensland

G'day, Landcare Queensland wants to create a map of all the landcare groups in Queensland to put on our website so that Queenslanders can find...

WyCare

WyCare is the network of Landcare Groups in Wyong Shire, Central Coast of NSW

SEQ Flood Damage Reports

A project for landholders in South East Queensland to document damage that has occurred to the natural environment as a result of the 2011 floods....

Murray NRM Awards 2009

All the Murray CMA Landcare Award winners from 2009!

Clarence Landcare

Welcome to our Clarence Landcare Inc. (CLINC) Placestories Page...this is not our new Website, our web page address is www.clarencelandcare.com.au...

Crops Not Coal Campaign

From the bush to the cities Australians are increasingly concerned about our future food security. Some of our most productive and sustainable...

City Country Day

The Dalrympe Landcare Committee has run its first City Country Day, successfully taking 55 townspeople from Charters Towers onto three different...

Central Tablelands Landcare

CTL has an NLP CS project "engaging rural communities" and is making a PlaceStory to report some of these, including: - Microscopes provided to...

Mourya Training

placestories from a training workshop

Landcare Legends

Muster Showcase

The Muster Showcase displays a range of stories created by participants from six regional PlaceStories training workshops conducted in October and...

'Blueprint for the Bush' Monto Conference Workshop

This project is for participants at a PlaceStories training workshop funded by 'Blueprint for the Bush'. This workshop was held in conjunction with...

Regional - Case Studies and Project Updates

Regional Community Cultural Development (CCD) programs address a range of social and cultural challenges faced by those living outside metropolitan...

Ageing - Case Studies and Project Updates

Australia has an ageing population and life expectancy is increasing. Recent demographic data indicate that 12 per cent of the population is now...

Disability - Case Studies and Project Updates

A number of community organisations in all states and territory around Australia work specifically in the Arts and Disability sector. In general,...

Education - Case Studies and Project Updates

The arts, education and health are three braided strands that give strength to each other - each being normal, natural and necessary for human...

Environment - Case Studies and Project Updates

The field of Arts and Environment provides an umbrella for the diversity of artistic and cultural practices - both in and around environment ...

Mental Health - Case Studies and Project Updates

Arts and mental health is an important and growing field, addressing the rising rates of mental illness both in Australia and internationally. Arts...

Multiculturalism - Stories and Project Updates

Arts and Multiculturalism looks at ways to use arts participation as a way of engaging those marginalised by ethnic or racial identity. Many urban...

Young People - Case Studies and Project Updates

This project has a growing collection of stories and updates from projects linking young people and the arts and health sectors.

Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Now is the time to influence the future directions of the Murray Darling Basin, and the impact on individuals, communities, culture and identity of...

Wellington and Dubbo PlaceStories

Wellington and Dubbo PlaceStories training

2011 Flood Stories

This is a collection of stories about people's experiences in the 2011 floods. You can add your own story by clicking - Share Your Flood Story -...

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Gulf Coast

A collection of stories about the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the Gulf of Mexico, United States.

Ekka 2011 - your Brisbane flood stories

Share your photos, videos and stories from the Brisbane floods in January 2011. The best stories added to this group will be on display at the...

Ekka 2011 - Brisbane Flood Stories

Berea College Trip to Egypt

Celebrating Queensland Prems!

You would never guess that these children were all prematurely born! PIPA (Preterm Infants' Parents Assoc - Qld) is gathering stories from...

Celebrating Milestones

Your baby has lots of challenges and achieves many goals everyday. Some steps are only small but many are major in babies' lives. Make stories to...

Community Events

Here are some highlights from Neonatal events from around the country. Join the project and create a postcard to promote your next event. Or...

Just Hatched!

This project is where you might like to herald the arrival of your newborn infant. Congratulations on the birth!

Neonatal Care

The Neonatal Care project has stories about those special neonatal techniques and lots of tips for caring for your child. Some of the stories...

Milestones

This project celebrates all the development Milestones of your baby. These big days are especially significant for children born prematurely. From...

Year 2 Blue - Term 2 2012

Some sample animations created by the student in Year 2 Blue.

Brisbane Visual Arts Community

This project brings together art and craft groups with the objective of establishing a community art centre where the members can share meeting,...

150 Years of Education at Fortitude Valley State School

The year 2011 marked 150 years since the first National School opened its doors near the corner of Ann & Brunswick streets, in Fortitude Valley,...

Australia Council Showcase

A collection of stories for presentation at the IFACCA Conference in 2011

Westpac New Farm Community Involvement

Stories about our community involvement 2011

Stopping Predatory Lending

With the support of the Kellogg Foundation, the Southwest Rural Policy Network has been part of a coalition effort led by the Southwest Center for...

Latest Postcards

A project to gather all the test postcards that new PlaceStories users create.

National Roundtable Meeting: Towards a National Sector Development Initiative

The Community Partnerships Committee would like to invite you to participate in a online discussion on 20 April as they wrap up discussions...

Floating Land 2011

Go to Floating Land Webcast Page Presented as a ten-day event, Floating Land brings people from across the Asia Pacific including visual and...

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National Cultural Policy Forum

On 13th of October the Key Producer Network hosted a Forum at the Sydney Opera House to discuss the new National Cultural Policy. The forum was...

Palestine Australia Partnership Development

creating partnerships in Arts and Education

GET CONNECTED

GET CONNECTED is a call out to the leaders in the Community Arts and Cultural Development (CACD) sector in Australia to connect online. The project...

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Saigon Sea of Remembrance - LK. Anh Tuan

This Exhibition brings together 35 works depicting life in Vietnam before and after the war. The memories of escape, life in the refugee camp, and...

real2real

Tutti is collaborating with UK disability led Film Festival Oska Bright on bringing four members of their team to South Australia in 2011...

Get Your Policies Here!

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All Things Money

There are lots of great opportunities for community arts and cultural development projects. If you've heard about an interesting funding program -...

Updates from Field

the latest

New Models New Money - A Foundation for the Artist

Contribute to the debate and help refine the concept of A Foundation for the Artist, outlined in 'New Models New Money' by creating a digital...

Regional Arts Broadband Forum

GO TO THE WEBCAST PAGE NOW! This Project is about getting the arts and cultural sector on the agenda of the NBN Project. It follows on from the...

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RADO Workshop - Launceston 2010

This is a project for the RADO's attending the Launceston Workshop prior to and following on from the Junction's Conference.

the stitchery 2010

Pacific Youth Voices online magazine

Pacific Youth Voices exists to be a voice for the issues, achievements and advocacy of South Pacific young people. It is supported by the...

Sunshine Coast Stories

We are inviting people to create and share stories from the Sunshine Coast as part of our NeoGeography - creative placemaking project. This...

Natura estorias

Colecao de diferentes estorias sobre a Natura em projetos de parceria com comunidades fornecedoras. Este projeto tem o proposito de mostrar como a...

Changing Habitats

This is a network for all delegates, speakers and artists who are attending the up and coming YPAA Symposium in Brisbane June 8-10, 2010. We are...

The Creative Peoples Collective Inc.

The Creative Peoples Collective Inc. is a non-profit Org aimed at creating and promoting pathways for young people to participate and have a voice...

Sound Mirrors

Leah Barclay's installation Sound Mirrors was selected as one of four national projects for the Australia Council's HELM-Arts Mentoring Award....

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HELM Arts

Healthy Environment Leadership Mentoring (HELM) is a twelve-month arts and environment project funded by the Australia Council for the Arts. Four...

Digital Stories and Reminiscence

A pilot digital story and reminiscence project to enable older Australians and their families to share their individual stories and life experiences.

KP-11 Workshop Project

A test project for the Key Producers to try out the Pollinate community

Terminus Nightclub

Share your memories of the old Terminus Nightclub down in the Valley during the 80s and early 90s. Located: (249 Brunswick Street, Fortitude...

Farm Safety Awareness - Your Stories

Up until now the education practices of Farm Safety have not worked. The idea that an accident can happen to anyone at anytime has not been...

Rural Women on the Map

What are the big issues effecting your community? This project is creating a map of the big topics for rural communities across the State,...

Building the Women - QRWN State Conference - 2010

The 2010 QRWN State Conference will be held at Charleville Racecourse just opposite Charleville airport on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th September...

Collinsville Queensland – PlaceStories Workshop

Welcome to Collinsville, a small Coal mining community approx 80klm west of Bowen, North Queensland. The Collinsville Connect Telecentre was the...

Bowen Queensland - PlaceStories

This project is based on stories from women, from all walks of life in Bowen North Queeensland.Our thanks to: Bowen Neighbourhood Centre, Cross...

Workshop Project

Project for postcards created

QRWN Sample Stories

Stories by participants in the Goomeri and Brisbane PlaceStories Workshops.

Rural Reports on Policy & Programs

Organization and network members of the Rural Policy Network report on a variety of programs and policy activities from throughout rural America.

Rural Policy - A PlaceStories Workshop

A group of people from rural policy networks attended a workshop in northern Virginia to hone their digital storytelling skills using PlaceStories....

2011 Gathering

The 2011 National Rural Assembly in St. Paul, Minnesota, is taking place June 28-30 , 2011. This PlaceStories project has been created to share...

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Africa Link: A Global Education Partnership

This pilot project links Mnarani Primary School near the Indian Ocean in Kenya with US schools. Africa Link is an effort to create direct...

"A Past Era"

Welcome to a collection of PostCards from a time long gone...

NFDHS - Digital Postcard Collection

As part of our involvement in the Brisbane Digital Histories project, New Farm and Districts Historical Society is gathering digital postcards of...

New Farm State School Photo Collection

- Did you go to New Farm State School? - Do you have any old photos you would like to add to an online school history? We are collecting...

Workshop Postcards - Day 2

A collection of postcards by all the workshop participants on Day 2 of Art Bites

Art Bites Workshop

Some sample stories from the Brisbane City Council Art Bites workshop.

Homelessness

Westpac Group and Mission Australia have formed a strategic partnership that aims to address family homelessness and help deliver more affordable...

Organisational Mentoring

As a company that is about to celebrate 200 years of existence, we believe we can offer some insights into what creates a sustainable organisation....

Social Enterprise Business Mentoring

The Westpac Group is providing Social Enterprises with business mentoring support from employees who have experience running a business or writing...

Featured Organisations

A project for selecting the organisations fiunded by the Westpac Foundation that are being featured on StoryBank

Funded Organisations