The New South Wales Local Government Cultural Awards celebrate council cultural success. Award winners were announced on the evening of 2 May 2008. Here you can browse all nominated and winning projects for 2008. To view photos from the Awards Evening, please visit EventPix.

Featured Winning Projects

  • Anna leads the highly successful Dragon Tales storytelling session with 0-3 year olds in Hurstville City Library.

    Dragon Tales - storytime!

    Dragon Tales is a lapsit program in Mandarin for 0-3 year olds with parents or carers. Babies and…

  • The 'Exploring Pompeii' exhibition on display at the International Grammar School, Sydney. The exhibition was developed with the awareness that there were few resources on Pompeian history in the public domain for school students.

    Exploring Pompeii

    Staff of the St George Regional Museum worked with Pompeian specialist, Jaye Pont, and long-term…

Featured Projects

  • Hands on lace making demonstation.

    Legacies in Lace

    The project Legacies and Lace combined history and traditional arts and created an atmosphere that…

  • Local writers and presenter Irina Dunn, from L-R back: Suzanne Leal, Rina Huber, Sherry Chan, Brook Emery, Irina Dunn, Michael Jones, Margaret Bradstock, Len Green, Mark Mahemoff; L-R front: Agnes Walder, Jan Latta, Adrian Robinson.

    Local Writers Word Festival

    The Woollahra Library’s Local Writers Word Festival is a day long festival which takes place on a…

Organised By

  • Local Government Association of NSW, Shires Association of NSW

Sponsors

  • Country Energy
  • accessibleArts. Arts + Disability NSW
Cultural Awards 2008 Winners Announced

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Blog

  1. May 29, 2008

    "Cities must trade in cultural cringe for a growing sense of confidence in our distinctiveness. They must try to be somewhere, not anywhere in the extended global sprawl of electronic suburbia. Cities must wilfully believe that the unique combination of events that may fuse here is just as compelling as those that may fuse somewhere else. Cities need to involve their people in making and remaking their own mythology, and create something that is truly unique." Marcus Westbury

  2. May 21, 2008

    'We must now give greater recognition to culture as a contributor to truly sustainable development that respects people and environments, and serves the cause of dialogue and peace. In this way we shall be able to recover the sense of our joint commitment to promoting “the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind”.' Koïchiro Matsuura - Director-General of UNESCO. PDF Here

  3. April 17, 2008

    "Writing about culture is like trying to catch a butterfly with a pin" ... Miriam Lyons on bigger picture cultural change.