Sydney Lunar Festival Chinatown Lanterns

A total fee of $5,000 plus GST is payable to artists whose concepts are selected for the Chinatown Lanterns exhibition. All designs will be subject to the City of Sydney’s rigorous assessment to determine feasibility before the development process is started.

The project fee will be payable in 2 instalments:

1. Shortlisted designs: $2,000 plus GST (paid on submission of concept design images).
2. Refined designs: $3,000 plus GST (paid on submission of refined design images).

Winning designs will be adopted by the City of Sydney to produce the Chinatown Lanterns. The project will be paid for and managed by the City of Sydney.

Artists may be invited to participate in events and presentations held as part of the exhibition.

There is no entitlement to reimbursement of any costs or expenses further than the project fee.

Proposals will be evaluated in line with the following criteria:

• creative approach
• innovation and interactivity of lantern concept
• relevance to the celebration of Sydney Lunar Festival and the Chinatown precinct, and demonstration of artist’s connection to Sydney’s Chinese Australian community
• calibre and experience of the artist/team
• likely quality of audience experience.

The review process to select the successful projects will be in 3 stages:

• Stage 1 – an open call for proposals from artists, creatives and producers to lodge a proposal for a rabbit lantern.
• Stage 2 – concept development for shortlisted applicants.
• Stage 3 – final selection of successful applicants.

Stage 1: Sunday 26 June 2022 at 11.59pm Sydney time.

Stage 2: Shortlisted project proposals due July 2022.

Stage 3: Selected artists notified August 2022.