For Communities
Skills Training
Every community has reserves of talent and potential. The skills training programs that Country Arts WA offers can help your community nurture your volunteers and make the most of your local venues.
Training Workshops for Volunteers
Measure Up!
Regional people interested in knowing more about the technical capabilities of the venues they use to put on performing arts events can sign up for Measure Up!, a program offered by Country Arts WA where a skilled theatre technician will visit your town to assess venues and present skills workshops.
The Measure Up consultant will measure and document the technical facilities of your nominated venue. As part of the written assessment of the venue, the Measure Up consultant can also provide recommendations on technical improvements to each venue to increase the capacity to present performing arts events.
While in your community, Measure Up also offers an optional general workshop on technical and design skills for the performing arts. Everyone is welcome to attend and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions. There is a maximum of 15 participants.
Each Measure Up report is available at the Measure Venue Register for future reference by your community or by other groups such as venue hirers.
- See the reports of places measured up to date at the Measure Venue Register here (this is in our For Artists > Venues section)
Measure Up’s recommendations may also be used to support funding applications to improve your venue and increases community use through initiatives such as Lotterywest’s Community Buildings grant program and other capital works funding schemes.
Contact Us for more information about Measure Up visiting your town.
Measure Up is supported by the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government initiative supporting the arts in regional, remote and very remote/isolated Australia. Country Arts WA manages the program in Western Australia.
Carnamah CEO Tony Nottle in the original projection lounge of the Shire Hall. Photo by Katie Harford.