Help BlakDance to give First Nations dancers careers not gigs. Double your donation – your gift to BlakDance on AusArt Day is 100% matched.

About BlakDance

BlakDance empowers First Nations dancers and choreographers to tell their stories and share their culture through dance.

Image credits: Photo: Joseph Mayers

Elevate disabled and d/Deaf artists by causing a Commotion. Every donation supports our development program and secures Undercover Artist Festival’s future.

About

Access Arts is Queensland’s leader in disability arts, creating opportunities for disabled and d/Deaf artists to develop, create and present work locally and nationally. Undercover Artist Festival is Australia’s disability-led arts festival, championing artistic excellence, inclusion and leadership through the Festival and development program, Commotion.

Support Tale of the Firebird in the final stages of creation ahead of a planned premiere season at Edinburgh Fringe 2026!

About The Freestyle Orchestra

The Freestyle Orchestra - genre-defying interdisciplinary ensemble where each musician has parallel skills in contemporary circus and movement arts. 

Image credits: Photo: Andrej Grilc

West Space supports timely work by artists in Australia.

About West Space

West Space is a leading independent contemporary art gallery in Naarm (Melbourne).

Image credits: Andrea Illés, 'no rock no flower', evolutive durational performance, West Space, 2025. Photography by Kenneth Suico.

Help us refresh The Australian Muslim Review with new branding and digital media assets!

About

The Australian Muslim Review is Australia’s first digital literary space dedicated to the review of books written by Australian Muslim authors. We invite writers and readers from around Australia to share their literary thoughts on works published by Australian Muslim authors and writers through short form critique.

Image credits: Mirela Cufurovic, image created using Canva

Do you care about having an exceptional choir delivering innovative, authentic programs telling local stories on your doorstep?

About River City Voices

River City Voices is at the forefront of choral music practice through integrating artistic excellence, community engagement and creative programming.

Image credits: Photo: Grant Leslie

A campaign to fund NAVA’s First Nations Policy 2024–2029 and establish the Deputy Director, First Nations Policy and Advocacy.

About NAVA

NAVA is the sole national peak body for the visual arts, craft and design in Australia, advocating for a vital, sustainable, and ethical industry. 

Image credits: Image: Emily Johnson

We are turning 30! Help us organise the best party of the year to celebrate writing, books and storytelling.

About

We are a community of writers and storytellers committed to developing and celebrating the diverse literary culture of the NT. We support, develop and showcase vibrant writing and storytelling in the Northern Territory – celebrating the unique contribution of NT stories and storytellers to Australia’s cultural identity.

Image credits: Oliver Eclipse

If Fringe has ever inspired you, entertained you, or given you a sense of belonging, this is your chance to invest in its future.

About Darwin Fringe

The biggest platform for emerging, independent and experimental artists in the NT, Darwin Fringe is your community arts Festival with bite.

Image credits: Photo: Kacie Austin - Flowpyre capturing Territorylesque by Darwin Divine Dancers

*BreathingSpace* is the amount of time that Frontyard could survive without further income, based on current expenses. Let's expand it!

About

A Not-Only-Artist Run Initiative. Frontyard is a pro-active, flexible space for practical skills-sharing, community cultural engagement and critical research. Our aim is to challenge, facilitate and nurture collaborations between people with a passion for culture and to build a more resilient and sustainable independent arts community for the future.

Image credits: Heather Contant

Be part of the Saltwater Freshwater journey—help artists share culture, deliver workshops, and inspire future Aboriginal leaders.

Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance

About Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance empowers First Nations artists, supporting the Annual Festival to celebrate Aboriginal culture and creativity.

Image credits: Photo: Jay Black, And The Trees Photograpy

Raising funds to help with operational costs for invisible art space exhibitions and events

About

invisible art space is an artist-run art gallery in Balmain (White Bay, Sydney) featuring immaterial, digital, experimental arts

Image credits: Photo and projection by Kath O'Donnell

The UnionDocs Collaborative Studio (CoLAB) NYC will span 8 months, inviting a select group of 12 media artists to come together for a unique opportunity.

About

Grace Tan is a Gadigal-based filmmaker working across fiction and documentary with a queer and poetic cinematic lens. Her work has screened internationally and locally at festivals such as Canneseries, BFI Flare, Antenna Documentary, MIFF, Raindance and Fantastic Fest. A UNSW and AFTRS graduate, she is currently developing episodic and long-form narrative.

Celebrate Australian music and help raise funds for Aussie Music Workers doing it tough.

About

Support Act is the music industry’s charity, providing crisis relief, mental health and wellbeing support to musicians, managers, crew, music workers and organisations across all genres of music. We deliver this through short term financial support; funeral support; mental health prevention, education and training programs; and the Support Act Wellbeing Helpline.

Image credits: Georgia Ginnivan

This book has the attention span of an unleashed, juvenile Labrador named “Boof” who's just discovered an unattended sausage in the Snag Rodeo™.

About

Skylar Vanderwrak is ND (multi-flavoured), a mother of boys, a dog whisperer, a pattern decoder extraordinaire, and a philosopher operating mostly out of her own lunchbox. Feral, deeply observant and allergic to societal nonsense, she has squirrel-brain energy by day and slips sideways into astral-planet territory by night. She learned early how to adapt. She learned slightly later when not to.

Image credits: Skylar Vanderwrak

Donate now to help Footscray Community Arts finish their new Outdoor Performance Space with accessible pathways and the re-Indigenisation of green space in Melbourne’s West.

About Footscray Community Arts (FCA)

Footscray Community Arts (FCA) is an independent arts precinct focused on sharing stories. We believe creativity strengthens community, and our communities strengthen creativity

Image credits: Between Us - Footscray Community Arts 2022. Image by Gianna Rizzo.

Support Demi Kromidellis' first solo exhibition at Horsham Regional Art Gallery by donating towards essential materials.

About Demi Kromidellis

Demi Kromidellis' work questions whether she is able to truly connect to the weight her ethnicity holds as a third-generation Australian. She applies an archival approach to themes of cultural loss, displacement, death and immortality through the use of photographs, oral histories, handwritten text and inherited objects.

Image credits: Image: Demi Kromidellis

Fuel transformation through art! Every donation to Milk Crate Theatre amplifies unheard voices and strengthens Australia’s cultural landscape.

About Milk Crate Theatre

Milk Crate Theatre is a leader at the intersection of impact and the arts, effecting real social change through the power of performance. 

Image credits: Photo from Natural Order by David Molloy

Help us give voice to the silenced stories of refugees who came to Australia by boat.

About The Seasick

The Seasick graphic novel will make a unique contribution to Australia’s cultural life by sharing the voices and stories of people who are often overlooked or misunderstood. Its visual and accessible format will reach a wide audience, including younger readers and those with limited English. Alongside its artistic value, the project aims to encourage greater compassion and understanding of migration and to challenge negative ideas about refugees and asylum seekers.
 

Image credits: Image: Elaheh Mahdavi

From their South West Sydney homegrounds, CuriousWorks nurtures future art makers and cultural leaders. Help us continue this work.

About CuriousWorks

CuriousWorks is a contemporary multi-arts and community arts and cultural development organisation based in South West Sydney. 

Image credits: Photographer: Elias Nohra

Australian Dance Party (ADP) celebrates site-specific practice and the unique relationship between movement and the natural surrounds of Canberra.

About Australian Dance Party

Australian Dance Party is a unique contemporary dance company based on Ngunnawal Country Canberra, creating bold, site-specific performances.

Image credits: Australian Dance Party_Photographer - Creswick Collective_Dancer - Jahna Lugnan

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

About

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.

Your AusArt Day gift empowers girls with confidence, skills & professional opportunities through Flamenco—12 hours of giving.

About Compañía Pepa Molina 

Empowering the next generation of female artists: Flamenco training, mentorship & pathways for young women in Western Sydney.

Image credits: Photo: Dom O'Donell

Champion diverse voices! Support Encounter’s ThisGen Fellowship 2026—our Plus1 campaign launches Oct 23, aiming for $50k by Dec 5.

About Encounter

Encounter is a Boorloo-based international theatre co creating bold performance works that disrupts, challenges perspectives& sparks urgent dialogue.

Image credits: This Gen Fellowship 2024, Encounter Theatre & Why Not Theatre Photo Credit: Satchen Lucido

A magical ballet of friendship and love set in the Australian bush during the historic gold rush celebrating our unique flora & fauna.

About Simonne Smiles

Director & choreographer Simonne Smiles blends the elegance of classical ballet with diverse artistic forms creating  compelling narrative works. 

Image credits: Photo: Regula Annick Mc Dowell

Chamber Music Adelaide's video campaign features artist interviews demonstrating how support creates breakthrough moments and sustainable chamber music careers.

About Chamber Music Adelaide (CMA)

Chamber Music Adelaide supports over 150 musicians through commissioning, member development, and programming in intimate spaces.

 

Image credits: Photo: Jason Mildwaters

Na Djinang Circus are raising funds to deliver Making Tracks — a Training and Development program for emerging First Nations circus artists and arts workers.

 

About Na Djinang Circus

Na Djinang Circus is a First Nations-led company creating bold contemporary circus that shares the stories, voices and perspectives of Indigenous people.

Image credits: Photo: Tiffany Garvie

A national online initiative connecting First Nations young people, mentors and dance educators through fundraising, cultural learning and creative engagement.

About

The ELLA Foundation is a First Nations-led arts organisation creating opportunities for young Indigenous people through dance, mentoring, scholarships and cultural leadership programs.

Image credits: Jack of Hearts Photography and Noni Carrol Photography

In 2026, Experimenta celebrates its 40th year, and continues to inspire audiences through art driven by ideas and exploring technology.

About Experimenta

Experimenta stands at the forefront experimental practice.We present contemporary art driven by ideas and technology to help us understand our future.

Image credits: Matthew Sleeth, A Drone Opera, 2015. An Experimenta Commission. Photograph by Lucy Spartalis.

Help bring two landmark works by Klaus Moje home to Canberra Glassworks, where his legacy lives on through the artists making here today.

About

Canberra Glassworks is a working studio where artists transform glass through fire, heat, hand tools and extraordinary skill. Built on a culture of experimentation, knowledge-sharing and making, it supports artists to develop their practice while keeping specialist skills alive and passing them between generations.

Help Zen Zen Zo bring Blushing - a dynamic new physical theatre work traversing connection in a post-pandemic world -  to new audiences in 2026!

About Zen Zen Zo

Zen Zen Zo is a Magandjin-based physical theatre company, challenging and delighting audiences with innovative contemporary theatre for 3 decades. 

Image credits: Blushing 2025 photographed by Georgia Haupt

Welcome to AusArt Day! Join Australian Baroque as they discover the best time to listen to Baroque music.

About Australian Baroque

Australian Baroque is a national ensemble and early music initiative, formed at its core by WA-based artists.

Image credits: ARTSHOOT Media for Australian Baroque