Help MCO bring a bold new horn concerto to life by Andrew Ford OAM, written for soloist Carla Blackwood.

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Led by celebrated violinist Sophie Rowell, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra is Victoria's leading professional chamber orchestra — a pint-sized powerhouse delivering 70+ performances yearly with uncompromising artistry. The MCO hosts performances at Melbourne Recital Centre, an annual festival in Daylesford, and extensive chamber, education and outreach programs that tour Victoria and beyond.

Image credits: Agatha Yim/Principals

Help us provide free accommodation, equipment, residencies, recording and practical support to independent Australian musical artists.

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Lazy Thinking is a not-for-profit organisation providing free support and resources to independent and emerging Australian musical artists. We run artist residencies, an artist accommodation network, a DIY equipment program and a record label, alongside practical education and live music programs, all designed to make independent music more sustainable.

Image credits: Felipe Giestas

Help Circus Oz travel 16,000 km from Collingwood to New York, bringing bold Australian circus to the world stage.

About Circus Oz

Australia’s legendary circus company, blending breathtaking acrobatics, comedy, and live music with a rebellious, playful spirit.

Image credits: Photo: Rob Blackburn

Help transform unwanted cosmetics into new artist materials, turning discarded colour into something creative, useful and unexpected.

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Kimi Santos is a visual artist, educator and enthusiastic material meddler. Her practice moves between painting, mixed media and experimental reuse, with a particular fascination for colour and the unexpected things it can come from. She enjoys turning overlooked materials into something curious, tactile and worth looking at twice.

Image credits: Image: Kimi Santos / Paint Again, 2026. Original photography by Kimi Santos

Outback Theatre for Young People (OTYP) engages with young people from regional and remote communities to create distinctive contemporary outcomes through collaborative processes.

About Outback Theatre for Young People

Based in regional NSW, we connect young people in remote areas with professional artists to develop outcomes connected to place and community. 

Image credits: Photo taken by Alyson Evans. Featuring Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal and young dancers from Wilcannia

Kedala Boya Wanginy will be an email & social media campaign to engage new donors to Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company & consolidate current supporters.

About Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company

Yirra Yaakin (‘Stand Tall’ in Noongar Language) Theatre Company creates, presents, and celebrates First Nations’ theatre, performance, and stories. 

Image credits: Photo: Dana Weeks

Every child deserves the opportunity to learn, create and be inspired. The School Access Fund supports schools with transport and education program costs.

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ACMI is your museum of screen culture. Watch, play, make and discover the universe of screen-based art, films, TV and videogames. Visit us in Melbourne’s Fed Square, online and on tour. ACMI attracts visitors through exhibitions, screenings and festivals. We are a globally recognised hub that connects people, communities, technology and ideas to shape our futures.

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Help us spark creativity in Ballarat by empowering regional youth through inclusive, transformative dance and storytelling.

About Modern Motion Dance Co. 

Modern Motion Dance Co. uses inclusive, expressive dance to empower communities and inspire social change through bold, creative movement.

Image credits: Photo: Kerry Herschell

For 30 years, Platform Arts has backed artists and ambitious ideas in Geelong. Now we need to invest in the next 30 years.

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Platform Arts, based on Wadawurrung Country in Djilang/Geelong, focuses on the development of artistic practice and ideas, leading to presentation as contemporary arts experiences. We curate a multi-artform program of exhibitions, performances, publications and events that respond to themes and provocations we believe are urgent for our times.

Image credits: Christo Crocker

We wish to commission new works generated by our unique buildings, natural environment and interdisciplinary residency program.

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Harrigans Lane CoLab gives artists the time, space and freedom to take creative risks, collaborate across disciplines and develop ambitious new work in dialogue with place. Building on the award-winning Piano Mill, HLC is creating a sustainable philanthropic fund to unlock extraordinary opportunities for artists and audiences into the future.

Image credits: GoldenLab Creative

Drawing upon the often-invisible labour of dancers—a powerful reminder that dancers are not separate from the workforce, but an integral part of it.

About Chunky Move

Chunky Move creates bold, visually striking and genre defying dance works. These works are experiments that merge the body with other forms, explore new ideas and materials and respond to different spaces and contexts.

Support the next phase of Ensemble Offspring’s acclaimed Hatched Academy as it expands into a dynamic Composer & Performer Intensive.

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Ensemble Offspring is Australia’s leading new music group, standing at the forefront of musical innovation for over 30 years. Led by renowned percussionist Claire Edwardes OAM, the ensemble unites the country’s most fearless and virtuosic instrumentalists. Together, they champion living and marginalised voices through kaleidoscopically varied performances of Australian music.

Image credits: Oliver Miller

Support an Australian-Indonesian musical exchange bringing musicians together to learn, collaborate and create new experimental music.

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The Seno Ensemble is a new music group of regionally based artists dedicated to bridging together Indonesian and Australian cultures through innovative musical collaboration. The ensemble creates work that is at once ancient and immediate, sacred and playful, a reflection of Indonesia’s evolving cultural identity in conversation with contemporary Australia.

We’re raising funds to deliver Making Tracks — a Training and Development program for emerging First Nations circus artists and arts workers.

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Na Djinang Circus is a First Nations contemporary circus company creating a powerful voice for Blak Australian circus nationally and internationally. Through research, articulation and agitation, we bring Indigenous Cultural knowledge and contemporary circus together, making work that moves beyond the theatre into public spaces and communities, inseparable from the people and places it grows from.

Image credits: Tiffany Garvie

Double the tickets and bring busloads of regional kids to experience live arts and culture.

About The Country Arts Foundation

Increasing access and strengthening regional communities in South Australia through the arts.

Image credits: Photo: Onyx Productions

A touring programme that takes high-quality live music into regional communities, working with local halls, artists, and professional touring artists.

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Transcending differences in generation, nationality, and gender, the bonds created through the arts have helped nurture the natural environment of the Woodford site for almost 40 years. Through diverse initiatives, Woodfordia continues to bring smiles to people's faces, strengthen connections, and grow towards a brighter future for all.

Image credits: WOODFORDIALTD_Festival of Small Halls_Anakie_Wendy Silvester

ACCA commissions and empowers extraordinary artists, presenting bold ideas that engages all audiences and shapes Australia’s contemporary art future.

About Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) 

ACCA plays a critical role investing in our artistic communities, leading the cultural conversation and setting the agenda for contemporary art.

Image credits: Image: Opening night, ‘Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis’ 2024, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Photograph: Casey Horsfield.

Our campaign will help build awareness about the benefits of co creative dance for young people, working towards professional presentation in a leading Australian arts centre

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Ausdance ACT is the peak body for dance in the ACT, led by Executive Director Dr Cathy Adamek. We deliver accessible, diverse programs across genres, engaging dance makers, educators, studios, performers, and participants. A member-based not-for-profit charity, we contribute to federal advocacy through Ausdance National and are funded by artsACT.

Image credits: YDF24 Opening Piece Photo Helen Fletcher Canberra Streets

Patch Theatre will establish The Glimmer Society - a brand new curated donor circle supporting the early creative development of new work.

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Patch Theatre creates visually captivating performances for 4-8 year olds, exploring how children see the world. Our works place children at the centre of the performance, promoting imagination, wonder and discovery.

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ALTER is an Austral/Asian collaboration. Design and dance collide in a double-bill exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange.

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Liz Lea is an award winning internationally recognised dance artist, choreographer and producer. Over three decades she has created and presented groundbreaking, accessible dance theatre. She lives and works on Ngunnawal land, directs the BOLD and DANscienCE Festival and The Stellar Company and works as an Audio Describer in Australia and the UK.

Image credits: Liz Lea Creates

Raising funds for this years major show

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Vulcana Circus will deliver a targeted matched fundraising campaign to support Cashless & Care-Free, a new site-responsive contemporary circus work exploring the invisible, unpaid and gendered labour of care. The campaign will invite supporters to directly contribute to artist fees, accessibility measures, and participation support for community members involved in the project.

Image credits: Chloe Callistemon

We are raising funds to support the creation of a stunning new one woman show celebrating the act of ageing.

About Liz Lea Creates

Liz Lea Creates is a project based collective working across Australia and Asia.

Image credits: Liz Lea; image credit: O&J Wikner Photography

We are fundraising to replace the canopy (ceiling) of the 116-year-old Melba Spiegeltent, the much-loved venue that has been part of Melbourne's arts community for sixteen years.

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Circus Oz is one of the world's original contemporary circuses and one of Australia's most iconic, irreverent cultural exports born in Melbourne in 1978. Circus Oz makes contemporary circus that entertains, inspires and challenges the widest possible audience with spectacle and intimacy, comedy and jaw-dropping skills. Proudly artist-led. Fiercely independent.

Image credits: Rob Blackburn

Help complete Father Joe's 50-year Bangkok story - exposing trafficking while celebrating community resilience. Please support our impact documentary.

About James Lingwood

With 25+ years in film & TV, James Lingwood is an award-winning Producer/Director, creating acclaimed documentaries, commercials & high concept films.

Image credits: Photo: James Lingwood

Support one of Victoria's longest-running choreographic platforms: commissioning three new dance works in PIECES' 21st year.

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Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI) exists to explore adventurous and experimental contemporary dance that resonates between local and global culture, empowering a community of artists — our company and the independent dance sector who make work at WXYZ Studios — to create performances audiences experience as transformative.

Image credits: From left to right: Image supplied from 'DanceRites' 2020 NITV, John Salisbury, Gregory Lorenzutti

Are you uplifted by the sound of united voices? Do you want the world to recognise Western Sydney as the cultural changemaker we know it is? Then don’t let Western Sydney’s flagship choir, River City Voices, be silenced!

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River City Voices is the flagship symphonic choir for the City of Parramatta and Western Sydney. Since 2018 River City Voices has been providing a platform for artists and communities in Western Sydney to develop and present the public performance of large-scale classical and contemporary choral works. We showcase music and art that is innovative, stylistically diverse, culturally relevant and locally responsive for our diverse and unique audiences. Over the years we have grown to encompass 70 choristers, associated musicians, conductors, administrators, volunteers and more that meet weekly; where we create music and community. We are Western Sydney's choir.

Image credits: Grant Leslie

MAGNT seeks donors to support the conservation of a beautiful storycloth, created using a no longer practiced Balinese textile tradition.

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MAGNT is the NT's premier cultural and scientific institution with collections that place the region's art, history and culture, and natural history in an Australian and international context. Managing research, interpretation and collection development across seven sites, we connect people to the stories of the Northern Territory.

Image credits: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Temple hanging (tabing), MAGNTCollection SEA 02491. Photographer Mark Sherwood.

Stand with First Peoples artists as they paint brighter futures for themselves beyond the criminal legal system by making a tax-deductible donation. 

About The Torch

The Torch is a First Peoples-led charity that provides art, cultural & arts industry support to First Peoples with lived experience of incarceration.

Image credits: Parole, 2025, BJ (Wiradjuri people)

Our workshop was lost, but our Busy Bees kept going! This AusArt Day, every donation will be doubled to help us rebuild, recover and keep the show on the road.

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Based in an old factory on Gadigal land, Sydney, Belvoir is one of Australia’s most celebrated and beloved theatre companies. Our mission is to make and share brilliant theatre that leads the way for our artform, our stories, and our communities.

Duprada’s 2027 NT tour showcases original classical and contemporary works choreographed by NT artists Lynne Hanton, Erin Selleck, Miriam Nicholls and Leisa Jackson.

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Founded in 1984 by Artistic Director Lynne Hanton OAM, Duprada Dance Company is a classically trained ballet company based in Australia's Northern Territory. Maintaining residences in Darwin and Alice Springs, the company delivers professional classical and contemporary dance performances, enriching regional arts while fostering pre-professional talent.

Image credits: Deborah Cleverly

A digital storytelling campaign from Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre designed to inspire a wide base of support, from longtime theatre lovers to curious newcomers.

About Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre

Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre is Australia's leading actor's ensemble. We produce bold, contemporary theatre and champion new Australian writing.

Image credits: Lucy Ansell (performer); James Reiser (photographer)

Help remove financial barriers so more young Australians can find their voice, fulfil their potential and experience the joy of singing.

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Gondwana Choirs is Australia’s national youth choral organisation, creating exceptional opportunities for young people to give voice to contemporary Australia. Through world-class training, performance, touring and new Australian music, our programs empower young singers from across the country, fostering artistic excellence, cultural leadership, connection and lifelong confidence.

Image credits: Gondwana Choirs