“Through partnerships, ECA creates opportunities for engagement in arts and cultural activities”
Esperance Community Arts Mission
Esperance Community Arts supports access to arts and culture for everyone.
The Esperance Arts and Culture Trail project reflects this goal by gathering together information about the wide variety of related activities and opportunities available in our community. This booklet, and the accompanying website, begin to capture the diversity and extent of arts and cultural activity in the region. And we know this is not a complete list.
In this sense the ‘Trail’ is so much more than a set of locations to visit. It is a community resource to support further networking and collaboration. It also helps to make visible the importance of this sector for so many of our community members.
The information we have gathered here is a resource for visitors and newcomers to the region, as much as it is for residents. We hope it will encourage people to visit local venues and businesses, connect with local groups and learn about the work of local artists, musicians and performers.
A list of public artworks are included here too, a trail within the trail, representing many community initiatives over many years. There are also two sites of special cultural significance for the Nyungar community listed. These are part of the Mandaboornap story and are located at Cape Le Grand.
With this project we also launch Esperance Community Arts’ new logo, designed by Jennell Reynolds and Kate Hayes. The six coloured figures represent the six Nyungar seasons, an acknowledgment that we live and work on Nyungar Country. These figures also represent and the six core artforms we work with regularly in Esperance (music, dance, writing, visual arts & crafts, theatre and photography & film). Our new logo celebrates the diversity in our community and the value of working together.
Esperance Community Arts’ primary role is to partner with arts groups, individual artists and local organisations on accessible community projects that engage people from a wide range of backgrounds across multiple artforms. Our projects take place in locations all around Esperance and have a focus on health and wellbeing and community development. We work in close partnership with Aboriginal community organisations and with Escare Incorporated.
Esperance Community Arts has consistently promoted the value of arts and culture within our community for 20 years, thanks to core funding provided by state and local government, and to individual project funding. The relationships and networks developed over this time are to the community building work that we do.
We constantly welcome new partnership opportunities and we hope that Esperance Arts and Culture Trail will open the way for a variety of new collaborations and connections.
Thank you to all the arts groups, arts businesses, community organisations and individual practitioners who have contributed to the Trail. We will continue to add listings to the website as our arts network continues to grow.
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