Allens has a long history of involvement with Australian cultural and sporting organisations.
We are currently supporting:
- AICD Leaders Edge Lunch Series
- CEDA International Lectern Address
- Malthouse Theatre
- Plein Air Painting Prize
- Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Queensland Theatre Company
- Sydney Theatre Company
- Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
- WA Opera: Elektra season partner 2012
AICD (Australian Institute of Company Directors) Leaders Edge Lunch Series
Allens will be sponsoring the AICD Leaders Edge Lunch Series in Perth on 14 March 2012.
The keynote speaker at the lunch will be David Gonski, Chairman of the ASX and Investec. The AICD are Australia's pre-eminent organisation for directors, dedicated to making a difference in the quality of governance and directorship.
CEDA International Lectern Address
Allens is a long-standing member of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) and sponsors a broad range of CEDA activities nationally, including annual dinners, Trustees' briefings and targeted speaker lunches.
One of Allens' most recent involvements with CEDA was the national sponsorship of the World Energy Outlook Lectern Address in May 2011 with guest speaker Jeremy Bentham, Vice President Global Business Environment, Shell. Lunches were held in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane with partners Nic Tolé (view CV), Grant Anderson (view CV) and Andrew Knox (view CV) chairing the presentations respectively in each state.
CEDA provides thought leadership and policy perspectives on the economic and social issues affecting Australia. More than 800 organisations around Australia, from business, government, academic and community organisations, are CEDA members. CEDA holds regular forums and events across Australia, where high-profile speakers discuss the policy challenges facing local, regional and national development.
For more information go to the CEDA website.
Malthouse Theatre
Malthouse foyer
Malthouse Theatre is a company dedicated to the development, production, and promotion of contemporary Australian theatre.
With a strong focus on the development of new work, Malthouse Theatre presents reinvestigations of classic work, reappraisals of the Australian repertoire and the best of new Australian and international theatre-making on its stages.
Allens has enjoyed a productive relationship with Malthouse Theatre for more than 10 years.
Malthouse Theatre is proud to have Allens as a supporter. It looks forward to this support continuing as Artistic Director Marion Potts develops the theatre's vision. As well as a two-season program of shows, Malthouse Theatre has also programmed Things on Sunday. This series is designed to engage audiences with the broader context of theatre by speaking to, and about, a range of cultural concerns in Australia today.
As a key resident of the Ngargee arts precinct on Sturt St in Southbank, Malthouse Theatre at The CUB Malthouse will also be working closely with its neighbours, ACCA and Chunky Move, to offer a full calendar of events to visitors.
For further information, contact Malthouse Theatre:
The CUB Malthouse
113 Sturt Street
SOUTHBANK 3006
Box Office: +61 3 9685 5111
Administration: +61 3 9685 5100
Website: www.malthousetheatre.com.au
Plein Air Painting Prize
RODNEY POPLE
St Mary's Cathedral at 4am
oil on wooden board
113 x 89.5 cm
© the artist
Allens sponsorship of the New South Wales Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize reflects our commitment to Australian art.
The term 'en plein air' refers to the practice of painting outdoors, engaging with nature and recording the transitory effects of light. Although it has a long history in Europe, Australian artists have also established a strong tradition of painting 'en plein air', with the climate and landscape proving conducive to this style. The Impressionists of the late 19th century, including Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts, spent much of their time painting outdoors, while Fred Williams was a great master of landscape painting in the 20th century.
The New South Wales Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, set up in 2008, aims to recognise this great and often overlooked aspect of Australian painting. The exhibition is held in the NSW Parliament building, with the winning work entering the NSW Parliament's permanent collection and the winning artist receiving $20,000.
Allens' sponsorship of the award continues the firm's commitment to supporting Australian artists and encouraging the development of Australian cultural expression. Allens has a significant art collection, developed since the mid-1970s, which contains more than 1000 unique and challenging works by Australian artists and is a significant survey of Australian painting over the past three decades.
Previous winners of the NSW plein art painting prize are Isabel Gomez (Newcastle Ports), Rodney Pople (St Mary's Cathedral at 4am) and Euan Macleod (Murwillumbah X 5).
For more information on The New South Wales Parliament Plein Air Prize, please visit http://www.pleinair.com.au.
To learn more about the Allens art collection, go to http://www.aar.com.au/art/index.htm.
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Taro Izumi, Hide in a Whale's Stomach, Mouse, 2010. Installation View. Asahi Art Square, Tokyo. Courtesy of the artist
Allens is proud to be a major partner of Alternating Currents, a significant group show of contemporary Japanese art that is being presented by the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) and the Japan Foundation.
The exhibition features engaging new work by six contemporary Japanese artists, artist collectives and musicians, encompassing performance, video, installation, sound art and music. Perth is the only Australian city taking part in this major international exhibition, which was launched at PICA on 11 November 2011.
The artists taking part in Alternating Currents have all created new art pieces specifically for the show, responding to the curatorial premise of 'currents' by involving local communities, extending their work beyond PICA's walls or reflecting on the local and global effects of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011.
Their works will, in some cases, encourage the audience to become active participants. Audiences will be prompted to buy and consume a 'local delicacy', experience a giant board game, activate musical boxes and contribute to an international 'conference' on the Reconstruction of Japan.
Participating artists: Yukio Fujimoto, Taro Izumi, Yuko Mori, Nadegata Instant Party, Yoshihide Otomo and Sakiko Sugawa.
Queensland Theatre Company
Bloodland
Allens is proud to be involved as a sponsor of the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) in 2012 and production sponsor for the QTC's indigenous drama piece, Bloodland.
This sponsorship ties together two of the firm's long-standing passions: support of the arts and support of the rights of Indigenous people to tell their story. Our support of the arts has centred on providing young Australian artists with opportunities to take their work to the world stage. Our support of Indigenous Australians has led to the formation of a Reconciliation Action Plan, which, since its inception in 2009, has seen the firm work hand-in-hand with Indigenous businesses, organisations and community groups to help close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The Queensland Theatre Company is the state's major professional theatre company and will present seven mainstage plays in 2012. The Company's Studio Season, which commenced at the beginning of 2011, is programmed to offer diversity to their mainstage theatre plays and push the boundaries of contemporary theatre practice in Brisbane.
Sydney Theatre Company
Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett and John Bell clockwise from top left
Allens has extended its 2010 sponsorship of the Sydney Theatre Company (the STC) to include the 2011 and 2012 season.
Established in 1978, the STC plays a starring role in Australian drama, having fostered the careers of internationally renowned artists including Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett and Rose Byrne. The STC presents an annual 12-play program at its home base, The Wharf, and also at the Sydney Theatre and the Sydney Opera House.
Allens is proud to be involved with the STC, which actively fosters relationships and collaborations with international artists and companies and aims to present a program mix of Australian plays, classic repertoire and international writing.
As the NSW state theatre company, the STC produces a school education program, STC Ed. It also has a new permanent ensemble of theatre-makers, The Residents. These actors are employed full-time by the STC and have a particular focus on the development of theatre while working across all aspects of the STC's program.
STC's current artistic directors, Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, joined in 2008. Productions scheduled for the 2012 season include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, starring Pamela Rabe and Hugo Weaving; Australia Day, which is based on Jonathan Biggins' own experience as an Australia Day ambassador; and Sex with Strangers, which sees Jacqueline McKenzie return to STC in an intergenerational love story that went viral after premiering at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre..
For more information on the 2012 program, contact the STC:
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Box Office T +61 2 9250 1777 E boxoffice@sydneytheatre.com.au |
General Enquiries T +61 2 9250 1700 E mail@sydneytheatre.com.au |
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Edge (2011)
Allens is proud to be a Supporting Partner of the Contemporary Practice for 2012 of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
WAAPA is Australia's premier performing arts academy and boasts alumni such as Hugh Jackman, Frances O'Connor, Marcus Graham and William McInnes.
Allens' support not only helps WAAPA to continue training the most talented performers in the country but also helps continue best practice in producing excellent performances that reach more than 30,000 Western Australians annually. WAAPA in an integral part of the WA community and contributes greatly to the state's creative and cultural capital.
Our partnership is for the Twyla Tharp Dance Project, which will see WAAPA students perform work by renowned New York choreographer Twyla Tharp.
WA Opera: Elektra season partner 2012
Allens is proud to be a Season Partner of West Australian Opera's production of Elektra.
One of Western civilisation's greatest stories of fanatical love and revenge, Elektra was the first collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, an important composer-librettist partnership, and was first performed in Dresden in 1909.
Elektra is a co-production of WA Opera, ThinIce, Perth International Arts Festival and Opera Australia. It is the first time this opera has been presented on stage in Perth.