Mosman Council’s Community Grants program is now open to applications for 2024/25. The program provides small grants of up to $4000 to community, not-for-profit organisations, for projects that benefit the Mosman community.

Funding is available for initiatives that enhance the social and mental wellbeing of the Mosman community, help community organisations provide key services, encourage collaboration and partnerships, and align with Council's strategic directions.

Further information, including the Community Grants and Assistance Policy and Guidelines and the online application form can be found on Council's consultation website. 

Applications close 5pm, 7 June 2024.

The Australian Heritage Festival is the nation’s largest community-driven heritage event, an annual celebration of natural, historic and Indigenous heritage. 2024 marks the 44th year of the Festival, with this year’s theme being ‘Connections’.
 
An exhibition celebrating Mosman residents and business owners will be staged as part of the Heritage Festival. Faces in the Crowd: More Mosman Stories is showing at Barry O’Keefe Library from 24 April to 19 May. 
 
The focus is the unique stories of three locals: Les Peterkin, teacher, potter, musician, and namesake of a portrait prize; Harry J. Weston, designer, artist, and teacher who established one of the country’s first commercial art studios; and Elizabeth Reimer, designer, and manufacturer of mid-century costume jewellery. Highly respected by their contemporaries, each established successful businesses, shared their skills, and influenced the development of design and culture in the local and wider community. 
 
The library service is also inviting residents to learn more about homes and historical names in free 30-minute sessions on 16 May. Before Mosman’s houses had identifying numbers, many had names, each with a story to tell about the house or its owners. 
 
One of the most common enquiries Mosman Library Service’s local studies team receives is from residents wanting to know if their house had a name, be it in the Victorian era when figures in classical mythology and ship names were popular; the Federation period with names of Australian flora and Indigenous words trending; or post-World War I, with houses often named after battlefields in France and Gallipoli. Bookings essential; call 9978 4101. 
 
The Australian Heritage Festival is organised, promoted, facilitated, and led by the National Trust. 

Anzac Day, a national day of commemoration held on 25 April, marks the Gallipoli landings in 1915 and honours military veterans and service personnel.

Commemorative ceremonies for 2024 in Mosman include:

Anzac Sunday Service

Sunday 21 April, 3–4pm, Mosman War Memorial, The Crescent

A commemorative service hosted by the Mosman RSL sub-Branch to remember the brave men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice at Gallipoli and all wars since.

Anzac Dawn Service

Thursday 25 April, 5.30–6.30am, Old Parade Ground, Best Avenue, Georges Heights

The service is hosted by the Mosman RSL sub-Branch, and includes a Catafalque party, wreath laying and the Act of Remembrance. The Anzac commemorative address will be given by Commander Kent Browning RAN (Commanding Officer of HMAS Penguin). All are welcome. Parking will be offered at the car parks on Suakin Drive and Georges Heights Oval. Those wishing to lay a wreath should call 0419 279 337 by Friday 19 April. Contact mosmansb@rslnsw.org.au

The Mosman Youth Art Prize has been running since 1988 when it was founded by Mosman local, internationally-renowned artist Ken Done AM. This year over 300 aspiring artists entered, and 125 were selected as finalists. Their artworks include works on paper, paintings, photography, prints, sculpture, video, knitwear and ceramics. The 2023 Archibald Prize winner Julia Gutman was tasked with the challenge of selecting the prize winners.

On Saturday 6 April close to 500 people celebrated the announcement of the winners at the opening of the 2024 Mosman Youth Art Prize with a street party that overtook the Gallery and Art Gallery Way. There were four art-making workshops including printing with everyday object with Cameron Stead, fan making with Sophie Willison, a collaborative weaving wall with Karen Elias and collage by chance with Emily Galicek. There were also performances by local musicians, a photobooth, a food truck and the chance to draw on two Audi cars supplied by Audi Centre, Mosman. 

The exhibition including all finalists runs until 5 May.

Winners

Tertiary:

First prize: Ziyang Cui – THE MISANTHROPIST MANIFESTO
Second Prize: Jessica Žaknić – Blueprints
Third Prize: Eleanor Harris – Kyoto garden
Highly Commended: Hayley Bennett – Can You See the Birds?

Senior:

First prize: Natalie Hwang – Dreams of King-Sized Beds and Convertibles
Second Prize: Ivy Shen – Requiem for Sisyphus
Third Prize: Olivia Salmond – Cardinal Contradictions
Highly Commended: Amelia Herrmann – Cutting Ties

Junior:

First prize: Pei Fu Zhao – Strive Towards Destiny 
Second Prize: Xiyao Chen – Surprise
Third Prize: Elizabeth Moodey – The Fat Dudes
Highly Commended: Alex Sanders – Cat Chitters

Other prizes:

Susan Rothwell AM Award: Camille Murray (Senior) – Crossroad 
Mosman Art Society Award (with thanks to Art Smart): Stella Janssens (Tertiary) – The Imposter
Australia Watercolour Institute Award: Rachel Chen (Tertiary) – Reconstructing the “School of Athens”
Members of Mosman Art Gallery: Sophia Li (Tertiary) – Grandfather 
Members of Mosman Art Gallery: Sabrina Cao (Senior) – The Contradiction of the Gaze
Members of Mosman Art Gallery: Libby Devereux (Junior) – Contorted Irregularity

_{Photo credit Jacquie Manning}

Council’s draft (revised) MOSPLAN Delivery Program 2022-2026 including the revised 2022-2032 Long Term Financial Plan and the draft 2024-2025 Operational Plan, Budget and Fees and Charges are currently on exhibition. The documents are available here, and can also be viewed at Council’s Customer Service Centre and at Barry O’Keefe Library. 

Submissions on the draft documents will be received by Council up until Sunday 12 May. Make your submissions by regular mail, email to council@mosman.nsw.gov.au or via the online submission form.  

Entries are open for the 2024 Mosman Youth Awards in Literature. 

Students can submit a piece of poetry or a story for the chance to win a share of prizes collectively worth $2000. 

Starting in 1993, the awards ran as a community-led initiative until the end of 2009, after which responsibility passed to Mosman Library Service. 

The competition is supported by sponsorships from local individuals and organisations and judged by an independent panel of writers. 

Students’ submissions are due by 31 May, with winners to be announced during a presentation evening in August at Barry O’Keefe Library. 

Find more details on the Library website.