Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation
21 November 2024
Over $200,000 in Grants to the performing arts were announced last, 21 November 2024, to a packed audience of theatre practitioners and supporters by Peter Lowry AM, President of the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation in the Seaborn Library, Neutral Bay, the Foundation’s headquarters.
Established by Dr Rodney Seaborn AO OBE in 1986 to support the performing arts, the Foundation has since donated well over $2 million to assist groups and individuals develop and produce worthwhile projects. The Foundation’s significant record of supporting the performing arts includes seed-funding the Actors Benevolent Fund’s COVID Emergency Fund during the pandemic. Its Performing Arts Library and Archive is a valuable resource in its preservation of the wide-ranging and significant stories of Australia’s theatrical past. It has been listed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Australian Register
Grants cover a wide range of performing arts projects, including:
$40,000 to NORPA, Northern Rivers Performing Arts project re Lismore disaster for bravery, resilience and flood stories
$20,000 to Genesian’s Theatre to continue low-cost entertainment in new theatre space
$20,000 to Luminescence Chamber Singers to engage international creatives to help produce a new Australian work
$20,000 to Pinchgut Opera to enable Faerie Queen to transfer to the Ros Packer Theatre, engaging new audiences
$15,000 to Monkey Baa for Where’s the Green Sheep puppetry and imagination production
$15,000 to Bondi Pavillion to produce puppet theatre from WA for Sydney Festival
$10,000 to Sydney Symphony for an education program for children
$10,000 to the Old Fitz to take Sitting Screaming to a Edinburgh Festival
$10,000 to Ensemble Theatre for an education program for less advantaged children
$10,000 to Hayes Theatre to develop Phar Lap the Musical
$10,000 to singing student Emilia Bertolini for overseas lessons and language tuition
$5,000 for Nautanki Theatre Saray Project to be presented by bAKEHOUSE Theatre
There were two other discretionary grants and scholarships:
$10,000 to Les Tod for a book to accompany a film on the history of local Australian theatre
$14,000 to Sydney Theatre Awards to hold the 2024 Awards ceremony
