| Dear Members, We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2020 Lorrie Gardner UNIMA Australia Biennial Scholarship! You can get all the information at https://www.unima.org.au/grants/ or read the details below. We realise the deadline for applications is quite soon, so if you have a project/course in mind but need more time to put your application/support documents together, please let us know (contact Sue Wallace from the scholarship committee at spuppet@ozemail.com.au). Application Information Guidelines Closing date: Tuesday 31st March, 2020 Scholarship amount: Up to $2,500 AUD Projects must start no earlier than May 1st 2020. Successful applicants will be notified by Saturday 25th April, 2020. Please send your application to the General Secretary, Kay Yasugi at secretary@unima.org.au. She will forward them to the current scholarship committee: Joanne Foley, Philip Millar and Sue Wallace. About the Scholarship Lorrie Gardner of Gardner’s Puppet Theatre was a longstanding and active member of UNIMA Australia. She was President for 3 years until illness forced her to retire in 2004. In 2005 Lorrie Gardner bequeathed a substantial contribution to the fund and the renaming of the scholarship fund is to honour not only her financial contribution but her artistic contribution as an outstanding puppetry practitioner, teacher and colleague. The Scholarship Fund has been created through the individual contributions of members, and supported by further donations from the Gardner family. Purpose of the Scholarship The purpose of the scholarship is to assist the development, evolution and growth of Australian puppetry arts & culture by benefiting UNIMA Australia Inc. members. All activities, projects and situations must be puppetry oriented. The Scholarship is offered to individual puppetry practitioners to further develop their puppetry practice. Scholarship Guidelines The scholarship can be used toward tuition costs or travel expenses to attend training institutions, workshops, appropriate festivals, etc. or to work with a specialist teacher. It can also be used towards the costs of bringing a specialist teacher to work with an individual member or group of members or for any other activity that the scholarship committee deems worthy. It cannot be used for production costs or capital purchases. Who is eligible? Applicants must be Australian citizens or Permanent Residents. Applicants must have been continual financial members of UNIMA Australia for a minimum of 2 years up to the closing date of the application. In the event of a group application, all members of the group must be UNIMA Australia Inc. members (with at least one participant being a continuous financial member for 2 years at the time of application). Members of UNIMA Australia Inc. executive and scholarship committee members are not eligible to apply during their terms of office. How to apply 1. Check your eligibility. If in doubt about the length of your membership contact the UNIMA Australia Membership Secretary, Katherine Hannaford, by email to membership@unima.org.au. 2. Check that the proposed project meets the guidelines. If in doubt contact Sue Wallace from scholarship committee (spuppet@ozemail.com.au) 3. Clearly articulate your proposal in writing in a maximum of 2 pages. If you are applying to attend a course or festival include source material about the course or festival e.g. festival program, web site link, course brochure etc.If you are applying to work with a specialist teacher/artist please check with the scholarship committee if you need to include a CV for that artist. Provide a 1 page CV for each member applying highlighting information relevant to this application. Provide a project budget detailing the Scholarship proponent. Acquittal Successful applicants must submit a report of their scholarship project no later than 6 weeks after completion of the project. Visual illustration should be attached, including photos, drawings &/or video . This report will be published on-line and/or in print and also circulated to members. Reports must be sent by email to the General Secretary, Kay Yasugi at secretary@unima.org.au Previous Recipients of the Lorrie Gardner Scholarship: 2010 RECIPIENT: TIM DENTON (AboutFace Productions) Tim travelled to Vermont, USA, to take part in Peter Schumann’s Bread & Puppet Theater’s Residential Apprenticeship Program – An intensive 5 week experience. 2011 RECIPIENT: LANA SCHWARCZ Lana was invited to be one of three emerging Artists at the 2011 National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Centre in Waterford, Conneticut (USA). It was a 2 week experience of Artist development. (Photo shows here shadow work for her show, ‘Small Talk’. Photo by Richard Termine). 2012 RECIPIENT: BETH MCMAHON (the indirect Object) Beth underwent specialist training with Puppeteer, Film maker and Marionettiste Yvette Edery in Los Angeles, USA. She learned about new creative techniques for Theatre and Film. 2013 RECIPIENT: LAUREN REDPATH Lauren did a summer internship with Phantom Limb Company in New York City, USA. She learened more about their puppet making process while gaining perspective about her own practice, and challenging herself creatively in an unfamiliar landscape. 2014 RECIPIENT: JHESS KNIGHT Jhess used her scholarship to complete her Diploma in Professional Puppetry at the London School of Puppetry (LSP) in the UK, and also attend the Fifth Annual “Festival des Marionettes aux Estampes”, a Puppetry festival in the south of France. 2015 RECIPIENT: MICHAEL BEVITT (the indirect Object) Michael used his scholarship towards developing the experimental work “For the Love of an Orange” for the Prague Quadrennial Makers Exhibition and working with internationally acclaimed Object Theatre Specialist, Stéphane Georis, in Belgium. (Photo: Gabriel S. Partington and Michael Bevitt performing ‘For the Love of an Orange’. 2016 RECIPIENT: KATHERINE HANNAFORD Katherine went to Beyond the Sock – A Puppetry for Film and Television Workshop in Denton, Texas USA. 2018 RECIPIENT: FIONA FINLEY (The Drama Studio) Fiona had a 2 day private workshop with puppeteer Kay Yasugi (Pupperoos) to learn various puppetry skills (including shadow puppetry, marionettes and rod puppets) in order to practically apply them in both classes and productions at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre in Wollongong, NSW |
