Animating Spaces has nothing to do with cartoons, it is a multi-arts project that aims to revitalise and celebrate significant, non-traditional or unusual spaces within 15 regional communities across Queensland over three years. For Creative Communities Director at Artslink Queensland Letitia Norton, Animating Spaces is the result of 18 months of scoping. Her excitement is evident as she anticipates the outcomes from a program she feels justified to call innovative.
Think of it. There’s the idea itself and the mechanics of delivering it, finding the funding partners, negotiating across tiers of government, finding the communities that will benefit, the places and spaces in those communities to celebrate, the artists to animate the spaces and ultimately those community advocates who will take the skills they develop beyond the life of the project. There’s sure to be far more to it than that, and this groundswell of activity is already starting to happen in Redlands, Eudlo, Toowoomba, Hervey Bay and Charters Towers.
