Jay Wymarra: AmaJayus – Creative Development
Image courtesy Colin Huber.
Date: August – October 2023
Location: Edge Hill, QLD, 4870
In July 2023, Jay Wymarra was a successful applicant of the Quick Response Grants which allowed him to develop and refine his practice, taking it to national level. Wymarra is a part of The 5Five Presents, an arts incubator in Cairns, nurturing raw untapped talent in Queensland’s Far North Region.
In the creative and media asset development, AmaJayus was brought to life as a new cabaret-style performance, comedy and media one-man-show. The show builds on Wymarra’s comedic and performance skills and experience, and platforms a highly professional new show for touring to major festivals.
Through the success of the funded activity, AmaJayus will feature in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) with 12 confirmed shows across the 8th to the 21st of April 2024. Alongside this, a sneak preview of the show was featured as a part of The 5Five Presents performance event ‘Mixed Grill’ held at Northsite Contemporary Arts.
In a media release about AmaJayus, Jay Wymarra stated, “RAF funding was a modest yet critical mechanism to realise National opportunities, in a very competitive performing arts market, and allow me to aim high for the life of the work. RAF funding has kicked our butts into action, and we’ve now got 12 shows in the Southern hemisphere’s greatest comedy festival.”
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This case study meets the following criteria to a high degree: “increase employment and professional development opportunities for, and raise the profile of, regional and remote artists.”
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Flying Arts Alliance is honoured to acknowledge the Governor of Queensland, Her Excellency, the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM as our Patron. We also acknowledge Mr Tim Fairfax AC and Mrs Gina Fairfax as our Cultural Patrons.
Flying Arts is a not-for-profit organisation inspiring the appreciation, practice and professional development of the visual and media arts as a lifetime interest or career throughout regional and remote Queensland, supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and corporate partners and benefactors.
Flying Arts is the administrator in Queensland of the Regional Arts Fund (RAF), an Australian Government program provided through Regional Arts Australia.