About

Celebrating and Promoting our Art and Culture
createillawarra.com is a site for artists, arts groups and audiences, highlighting regional events, opportunities and links.

We are aiming for broad, arts-based coverage, including visual, performance, music, film, writing and other arts events, relevant to both audiences and practitioners.

Check the site for useful information on Illawarra based artists, products, services and resources, like local workshops, grants and training.

Access details on local arts-based activities… dive with the girls, throw a pot or run away to the circus.

Find a local band, employ a Wollongong artist or collaborate with regional writers.

Contribute to createillawarra.com and promote your art, organisation and events - for free!

Contact us with your local art information.

• list your event or meeting in What's On
• link your site to ours
• advertise an employment vacancy
• promote a competition
• sell a service, product or performance.

Free Web Sites

See your art or organisation on the web for FREE!
As createillawarra also is a Wollongong City Employment Training (WCET) project, you can apply to have a web site promoting your art or organisation. The sites are designed and built by students involved with createillawarra work for the dole project.
Download Application Form


Training and Work for the Dole
Develop your creative technology skills. Involvement is open to anyone, but essentially the project is for unemployed people interested in creative development and technology. You need to meet Work for the Dole (WFTD) requirements and you will probably feel more comfortable if you already have basic computer skills.

Participate and learn about web site design and construction using HTML, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash and be involved in designing and publishing web pages for local community groups and artists.

A Little History
Launched by JJJ's the Sandman at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (IPAC) during Innovation Week, May 2002, the createillawarra.com project evolved through community consultation driven by a number of research reports.

These included Wollongong Cultural Needs Assessment 1996, Cultural Plan: Point of Take-Off (1998-2003), Cultural Industries Audit (Guppy & Associates and National Economics, May 2000) and the Illawarra Artists and Performer Network projects.

Funded through the Regional Assistance Program of the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business through the Illawarra Area Consultative Committee, the project was established in collaboration with Wollongong City Employment and Training.

Originally, createillawarra.com was an on-line database of local arts practitioners and included existing elements such as Links, Resources and Opportunities.

Relaunched in August 2005 following a substantial redesign by WFTD participants, the site has evolved to feature artists and their work, resources, opportunities and training, as well as free website design and publicity opportunities.

Audiences can now access one of the most comprehensive sites on Illawarra arts events and arts products and services.