By Dominique Hennequin
Applications for Casey Council’s arts development funding program close Friday 6 November.
The council is offering three-year grants of up to $10,000 to help local arts organisations operate.
Windmill Theatre Company president Sean van Geyzel said his organisation would “definitely” apply to “keep the company going”.
“We still don’t even really know what the future holds because there’s no clear pathway to coming back,” he said.
If their application were successful, he said the first year of funding would be spent softening the blow of caused by the pandemic shutdown.
“I think in the scheme of things we’re probably in a luckier position than some companies,” Mr van Geyzel said.
“We had just finished our January show, which went really well – who was to know that was basically the last time that we’d have audiences?”
The company was preparing to begin rehearsals for its next show, Bring It On, when theatre around the country was shut down in March.
Now Windmill will go into next year on a tight budget.
“We do what we do for the love of it, but ultimately, need to make sure we don’t just throw money in a hole because we need to be able to come back and be there for people year on year on year,” Mr van Geyzel said.
