Big hART explained

Former Name:Big hART
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Formation:1992
Headquarters:Burnie, Tasmania
Location:Australia
Leader Title:Creative Director
Leader Name:Scott Rankin

Big hART is an Australian arts and social-justice company based in Tasmania.

History

Big hART was founded in 1992 by playwright and director Scott Rankin and John Bakes[1] in Burnie, north-western Tasmania,[2] with the aim of countering disadvantage and a spike in crime following mill closures in the town.[3]

Work

The company initiates large scale, long-term community cultural development projects in disadvantaged communities in urban, regional and remote Australia.[4] Projects are task-focused and are to increase social, cultural and economic participation for community members following a three-step model approach.

Projects

Projects by Big hART include, among others:

Awards

Ngapartji Ngapartji

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Scott Rankin . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . 10 Feb 2020. 19 October 2022.
  2. Web site: Lehman . Ros . Big hART's business of art: Marking 25 years of shining a light on hidden stories . ABC News . 15 November 2017 . 19 October 2022.
  3. Web site: Dillon . Netia . Q&A with Scott Rankin, CEO, Creative Director and Founder of BighART . Future Generation . 13 October 2022 . 19 October 2022.
  4. Web site: Big hART's business of art: Marking 25 years of shining a light on hidden stories. Ros Lehman. 16 November 2017. 14 August 2021.
  5. Web site: Museum of the Long Weekend. Screen Australia.
  6. Campbell. Stuart. Ellie. Yijala Yala Project. ABC Pool. 3 December 2012. https://archive.today/20130115021746/http://pool.abc.net.au/media/ellie-stuart-campbell-yijala-yala-project. 15 January 2013.
  7. Web site: Amanda Smith. 22 August 2010. Namatjira. 15 November 2012.
  8. Wright, Peter: Evaluating Big hART's SMASHED project: Building Bridges for Personal, Social and Institutional Change. Perth: Murdoch University, 2011.
  9. Palmer, Dr. David; James, Dr. Diana; Wright, Dr. Peter & Windmill: Suite of Arts and Wellbeing Projects; April 2009 – June 2010. Evaluation Reports, Perth: Murdoch University, 2010.
  10. News: Gary Smith. 16 January 2008. Review: Ngapartji Ngapartji, Belvoir Street Theatre. 10 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120927092057/http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/review-ngapartji-ngapartji/story-e6frev39-1111115327660. 27 September 2012.
  11. Palmer, Dave: Ngapartji Ngapartji: The Consequences of Kindness, evaluation report, Perth: Murdoch University, 2010.
  12. Palmer, Dave & Wright, Peter: 'People now know me for something Positive': An Evaluation of Big hART's work at the John Northcott Estate, Perth: Murdoch University, 2007.
  13. National Library of Australia. Bigh hART. Retrieved 12 November 2012
  14. Palmer, Dave: I'm Only Young But That's How I Will Feel Forever. The Evaluation of Big hART's Lucky Project, Perth: Murdoch University, 2008.
  15. Web site: Anica Boulanger-Mashberg. Tasmanian Times. 2 April 2009. This is Living: arts@work reviews.
  16. Wright, Peter: 'It's Like Thinking With Both Sides of Your Brain'. Big hART's LUCKY Project: An Imaginative Intervention, Perth: Murdoch University, 2008.
  17. News: Yvette Barry. Junk Theory, a floating multimedia artwork. ABC Hobart. 26 March 2009.
  18. Web site: BIG hART. World Summit Award. 3 December 2012. https://archive.today/20130416122126/http://www.wsis-award.org/winner/big-hart-57820100625. 16 April 2013.
  19. Web site: North West & Far West Regions. Rod Ainsworth & Jack Ritchie. 14 August 2021.
  20. Web site: Rhys Graham. Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Faces Etched, Scarred and Engraved Beyond Their Years. 3 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120403010440/http://www.acmi.net.au/remembrance/r2/big_hart/artist_fs.html . 3 April 2012.
  21. Ngapartji Ngapartji One . Ben Hermann . BMA Magazine . 17 July 2012 . 15 January 2013 . Written by Jamieson and Big hART's Creative Director Scott Rankin, the production was awarded the 2008 Deadly Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Film, TV and Theatre... . https://web.archive.org/web/20170302030757/http://www.bmamag.com/articles/exhibitionist/20120717-ngapartji-ngpartji/ . 2 March 2017 . dead .
  22. Web site: 2008 . Sydney Theatre Awards . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210414200014/http://www.sydneytheatreawards.com/history/2008 . 14 April 2021 . live . 19 October 2022.
  23. Web site: Sydney Theatre Awards 2008. Sydney Theatre Awards . 2008 . 17 January 2013.
  24. Web site: Ngapartji Ngapartji . Glynn Nicholas Group . October 2004 . 16 January 2013 .

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