$240,000 for incubator for local dancers

Parramatta City Council, which set up the Parramatta Artists Studios, in Hunter Street, plans another creative initiative, in the CBD, namely, the Connection Artists Place, an arts hub/incubator to be established in the Connection Arcade (near Hungry Jacks). The NSW government has made a grant of $240,000 to cover the costs for the studios for the next three years. The facility will consist of up to five spaces able to be used by individual performing artists and organisations for rehearsals, classes, meetings and creative development demonstrations and showings. “Art facilities in Western Sydney have long lagged behind the Sydney CBD,” said Lord Mayor, Paul Barber, said in The Daily Telegraph.