We're raising funds to award 10 Going Pro scholarships to emerging visual artists across Australia.

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Art Career Academy helps visual artists build sustainable, fulfilling careers on their own terms. Co-founded by artist Tom Gerrard and business coach Claire Bradshaw, we run Going Pro, Momentum community and BenchTalk podcast, interviewing 200+ artists over 10 years.

Help Fremantle Press create a new home, a hub for the stories that inspire, connect and move us.

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Fremantle Press is a not-for-profit Australian independent publisher, championing new and emerging voices, and sharing their stories with readers worldwide. It has launched diverse, award-winning, and bestselling careers, including Indigenous writers and artists. We connect the emerging writing community to readers of all ages, with the stories of our people and this place.  

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YOUNG VOICES. BIG IMPACT. A youth-led campaign for 2027 AKIN regional songwriting workshops.

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The House That Dan Built is a Sydney-based not-for-profit music organisation dedicated to supporting girls and women to find their voice - to be heard, to connect, and to share joy. Through music education, community-led songwriting, and professional development, we create pathways for emerging female artists across NSW.

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Help preserve, discover and share Canberra's stories, ensuring future generations can connect with the people, places and ideas that shape our city.

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Canberra Museum + Gallery and ACT Historic Places preserve the stories, collections and cultural assets that shape the identity of the nation's capital. Through its collections, exhibitions, learning programs and heritage sites, GMH connects communities with Canberra's past, present and future.

A vibrant celebration of iconic Australian illustration, raising vital funds to keep the Cyril Callister Museum’s stories alive and thriving.

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Own a piece of Australian nostalgia and support the Cyril Callister Vegemite Museum. To celebrate Vegemite’s 103rd birthday, renowned illustrator Peter Viska has generously donated 20 limited-edition signed prints to help raise funds for our volunteer-run museum. Peter is best known for bringing Australian childhood humour to life in classics including Far Out, Brussel Sprout! and All Right, Vegemite! Only 20 available: $150 + GST. A special piece of Australian art. A very practical way to help secure the museum’s future.

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Help keep creativity accessible, inclusive and close to home for communities across Melbourne's outer east.

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Burrinja Cultural Centre brings visual arts, live performance, festivals and creative learning opportunities to Melbourne's outer east. Donations through AusArt Day will help us provide accessible arts experiences, support artists and create opportunities for people of all ages to connect, participate and thrive through creativity.

WAYTCo is fundraising to provide productions and scholarships for our young members in 2028.

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For over forty-years, WA Youth Theatre Company has created inspiring performing arts pathways for young Western Australians and nurtured generations of artists. Through high-quality training and productions members gain confidence, critical thinking and collaboration skills, and become part of a vibrant community of peers. The impact is lifelong.

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Help six First Nations artists create bold new dance theatre driven by street dance, skateboarding, vogueing and roller skating.

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Ghenoa Gela is a Torres Strait Islander artist from the Koedal (Crocodile)–Aubaith Clan and Wagadagam, Mualgal-Poid, Aragan, Samsep and Peidu clans. She creates platforms for First Nations artists and stories to thrive, grounded in sea, story and sovereignty. Works include My Urrwai, Fragments of Malungoka and GURR ERA OP.

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SNO will be hosting an online exhibition of drawings by Australian sculptor Lyndon Dadswell (1908-1986).

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SNO, founded in 2005, is a gallery and research centre curating Concréte nonobjective formalist abstract art nationally and internationally.

The Loft Gallery Campaign will transform a historic industrial space into a sustainable, contemporary exhibition venue supporting artists, audiences and cultural experiences.

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Seaworks is a not-for-profit maritime precinct in Williamstown, where heritage, arts and culture come together. Set on Melbourne's working waterfront, Seaworks preserves significant maritime history while providing unique spaces for exhibitions, festivals, creative industries and community events, inspiring visitors through storytelling, creativity and connection to Victoria's maritime past.

Studio1 gives Brisbane's independent dance and body-based artists room to grow. Go behind the scenes and help fund what's next.

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Studio1 is Queensland's only dedicated home for independent dance and body-based practice. Through The Workroom Program — Studio1's year-round platform for artist development, research and exchange — more than 30 South East Queensland artists annually are given the time, space and support to explore, develop and test new work, strengthening Brisbane's performance ecology and building sustainable, thriving careers for independent artists.

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Your donation will help support equitable access for extraordinary talent across regional NSW

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The Talent Development Project empowers exceptional young musicians to launch sustainable careers, offering world-class mentorship and training that would otherwise be out of reach. We build the skills, confidence, and artistry of musicians aged 13-25, amplifying the next generation of Australia’s performing arts talent.

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This AusArt Day, adopt a puppet! Become a Puppet Parent and help bring stories to WA families, from just $75.

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Founded in 1981 in Fremantle, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is Western Australia’s longest-running theatre company and a recognised leader in puppetry nationally and internationally. Each year, the company presents seasons in Perth and tours regionally, nationally, and abroad, engaging more than 200,000 people in the joy of storytelling through puppetry.

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Help young Tasmanians find their voice. Your gift brings singing opportunities to young people in every corner of the state.

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Festival of Voices brings people together through the joy of singing. Australia's largest singing festival and lutruwita / Tasmania's longest-running winter festival, it welcomes every voice each July, from first-time singers to the world's finest artists, through concerts, workshops, mass singalongs and free community events in Hobart and across the state.

Be a Future Dreamer and stand with First Nations artists as they envision a new future for themselves

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The Torch is a First Peoples-led not for profit that provides cultural and arts industry support to First Peoples with lived experience of incarceration. The Torch centres the role of art and culture in supporting First People artists to paint new pathways for themselves beyond the criminal legal system.

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Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia

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Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia

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Help award-winning Australian singer-songwriter and cellist Alice Hurwood record and produce her next album.

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Australian singer/songwriter and cellist Alice Hurwood creates intimate folk-pop that shimmers with emotional depth. Blending angelic vocals with atmospheric cello lines, Alice crafts songs that feel delicately powerful, inviting listeners into spaces shaped by vulnerability and warmth.

Support NAVA’s advocacy, First Nations leadership and work to improve conditions for artists and arts workers.

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The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is a Membership organisation which brings together the many voices of the contemporary arts sector to improve fundamental conditions of work and practice, through advocacy, education and the Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design..

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.

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An all-ages circus show celebrating Australia’s greatest public space, Under The Big Cabana is the newest creation from Glitter Martini.

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Glitter Martini is a South East Queensland modern circus company, passionate about producing circus shows are joyful, inviting, and appealing to the general public. They produce shows in festival environments, theatres, and in unusual/unexpected spaces.

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We've been frugal but can't afford a Flugel!

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Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO) is Victoria’s leading provider of ensemble music education for young people aged 8 to 25 years of age. Established in 1967, we continue to grow our community on a reputation for excellence, supporting young musicians to reach their potential, in creative and inspirational learning environments.

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Help FLUXUS give one successful Opera Lab project a supported development week with professional performers, culminating in a public showing.

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The FLUXUS Opera Lab nurtures and develops new Australian opera and operatic hybrid works through mentorship, collaboration and financial support. Through ‘Opera in a Day’, its annual Opera Lab mentorship and grant program, and the further development of new work, FLUXUS is building an essential pipeline connecting Australian creatives to the stage.

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Help young Australians turn their ideas into films, find their voice and share their stories on the big screen.

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REELise empowers young Australians aged 12–24 to create short films that spark positive social change. Through filmmaking, digital storytelling, skills development and the REELise Film Festival, we amplify youth voices, build creative confidence and connection, and give emerging storytellers a platform to share the issues and ideas that matter most.

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Support Ngurragabu [From the last night / next / tomorrow] as it premieres early next year— help bring this major new work to audiences while supporting the development of an emerging First Nations artist.

 

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Marrugeku is Australia’s leading Indigenous intercultural dance theatre company, based in the remote town of Broome, Northwestern Australia and the urban centre of Carriageworks, Sydney. Marrugeku is dedicated to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians working together to develop new dance languages that are restless, transformative and unwavering.

 

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Donations are vital to our support for artists. Your contribution—big or small—enables artists to make and share new work, within an environment of artistic freedom.

About West Space

West Space is an independent, non-profit contemporary arts organisation in Naarm (Melbourne), established by artists in 1993. As a vital incubator for timely artistic work, we commission groundbreaking new work by artists across the continent, investing in rigorous, experimental and socially engaged practice.

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Donations will be used to acquire new artworks by Central Victorian artists, for the enrichment of local residents and visitors.

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Central Goldfields Art Gallery - Maryborough, Victoria, is situated on the traditional lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung. First opened in 1996, in an historic former Fire Station built in 1861. The Gallery is owned/operated by the Central Goldfields Shire Council and relies solely on donations to acquire artworks.

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Help us add steps connecting our deck to our beautiful outdoor space, creating easier access for community activities and events.

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Creative Hearts Co. is a social enterprise and vibrant arts hub based in Brookwater, Queensland. We exist to make arts and culture accessible, bring people together and create community impact. Through exhibitions, workshops, creative programs and partnerships, we support creatives, celebrate diverse stories and foster connection, belonging and opportunity.

Raising funding to support the inclusion of one more artist to Interplay 2027.

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Nexus Arts presents contemporary art which explores, promotes and celebrates cultural diversity.

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FREEDOM is an immersive, multi-disciplinary arts project curated by Lisa Behan for Creatives Inc. The project addresses the heavy realities of domestic violence and coercive control, transforming experiences of trauma into a powerful collective reclamation of feminine liberty. The project is created to highlight women's strength, regional creative practitioners, and the broader community.

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Creatives Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation incorporated in 2015, initially established to bring music to the streets in a unique, engaging way. From the outset, GC Creative Inc. has focused on advocacy and community development, working to build a strong cultural presence across Southern Queensland. Our vision is to accelerate collaborative partnerships with local organisations, businesses, artists, and communities, enriching people’s lives through the arts, culture, and heritage.

Help Flinders Quartet launch the next generation of string quartet musicians and build FQ Sessions into Melbourne's home for string quartets.

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For 26 years, Flinders Quartet has pushed the string quartet forward in Australia, commissioning new works, mentoring the next generation of musicians and composers, and touring regional and outer-metropolitan communities. The result is chamber music built to reach people regardless of geography, education, income, age or gender.