Horizon Industry Projects
Our Horizon Industry Program builds capacity in our region by providing professional development opportunities locally and connecting artists and communities with a strong national and international context.
Venue Mentorship
Arts industry leader Liz Burcham is working with The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour on building the venue’s capacity and sustainability. With the growth of arts and culture on the Sunshine Coast gathering momentum, The Old Ambulance Station is well placed to play a key role and this mentorship brings a resource to assist with capitalising on this opportunity.
Seedpod
Seedpod Pilot is Punctum’s Queensland based regional residency program, presented in collaboration with the Sunshine Coast Council and Horizon Festival.
Punctum created their Seedpod residency as a safe place for artists to test ideas, undertake experiments, develop new work and take risks in a collaborative environment. The residency program provides artists, producers, and audiences with access to arts professionals, resources, presentation spaces and opportunities for the investigation, development and presentation of live arts. It provides creators with the right conditions to delve into their practice and production within a setting of open critique and honest dialogue with colleagues, technicians, audiences, critics and producers.
Since creating the Seedpod Residency program in regional Victoria, Punctum has worked with over 400 artists working in emerging fields of live performance, many of whom have gone on to work nationally and internationally. Seedpod is one of Punctum’s ways of sharing the future.
Horizon Seekers
In partnership with the University of the Sunshine Coast, the Horizon Seekers program is a hands on skills development and internship where one promising student is selected to work alongside the management team behind Horizon Festival.
First Nations Artists Development
Connecting to Country is a pilot artist development program where five Kabi Kabi and Jinabara artists are mentored to develop new works for showcase at Horizon 2019.
