{"id":13707,"date":"2021-11-05T05:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13707"},"modified":"2021-11-05T05:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:25:15","slug":"city-of-newcastle-invests-135000-into-multi-arts-activation-at-landmark-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/city-of-newcastle-invests-135000-into-multi-arts-activation-at-landmark-site\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Newcastle invests $135,000 into multi-arts activation at landmark site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local arts, cultural, and tourism businesses are set to benefit from the opening of a multi-arts activation lead by the Hunter Writers Centre, funded by City of Newcastle in response to COVID-19\u2019s impact on the Newcastle economy.<br \/>\nNobbys-Whibayganba headland cottages will provide studio and exhibition spaces for Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers, musicians, visual and digital artists on weekdays, and host exhibitions and events on weekends.<br \/>\nWith COVID-19 significantly impacting the arts, cultural and creative industries, the Lighthouse Arts project was identified as critical to Newcastle\u2019s post COVID-19 recovery by the City Taskforce, in support of community wellbeing, social and cultural connectedness.<br \/>\nThis unique space for artistic collaboration also celebrates one of the city\u2019s historically significant Indigenous, wartime and maritime sites, Nobbys-Whibayganba, and features an arts trading store showcasing the creative communities of Newcastle, in a bid to increase tourism visitation.<br \/>\nThe Industry Response Package is a component of City of Newcastle\u2019s adopted $5.5 million COVID-19 Community and Economic Resilience Package, to provide direct support to the industries hit hardest by the pandemic.<br \/>\nTo find out more, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lighthousearts.org.au\/\">Lighthouse Arts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local arts, cultural, and tourism businesses are set to benefit from the opening of a multi-arts activation lead by the Hunter Writers Centre, funded by City of Newcastle in response to COVID-19\u2019s impact on the Newcastle economy. Nobbys-Whibayganba headland cottages will provide studio and exhibition spaces for Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers, musicians, visual and digital &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/city-of-newcastle-invests-135000-into-multi-arts-activation-at-landmark-site\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City of Newcastle invests $135,000 into multi-arts activation at landmark site&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}