A living, breathing, evolving performance installation by artists Jumaadi and Michael Toisuta exploring migration, displacement and the environment.

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Performing Lines produces provocative contemporary performance by Australia’s most audacious independent artists. They curate a portfolio of work that is propelled by pressing questions and new ways of seeing the world. Their purpose is to ensure that the breadth and plurality of Australia’s creative potential is represented and celebrated.

Image credits: Image of Jumaadi by Pikaler Creative Studio

Help STRUT bring a little more dance to WA by supporting the independent artists, audiences and communities who make us move.

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A choreographic centre based in Boorloo/Perth, STRUT nurtures and sustains a thriving community of diverse dance artists and connects them with audiences to share their work. For over 20 years, STRUT has provided our members with the training, opportunities and belief they need to build ambitious, creative lives.

Image credits: Subliminal Drift (2023) by Laura Boynes. Commissioned by STRUT Dance and the Fremantle Biennale for SIGNALS 23. Photo by Rebecca Mansell.

Help us bring Stalin’s Piano and So Much Myself into their next life.

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Sonya Lifschitz, Ukrainian-Australian pianist, and composer Robert Davidson together create new storytelling approaches, weaving melodies from speech with virtuoso piano and archival footage. Their work has featured in the Lincoln Center, Barbican, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Darwin and Brisbane Festivals, amongst many others.

Music for Canberra presents the 82nd annual Canberra Carols by Candlelight. Help us keep Canberra singing by supporting this much-loved free community tradition and the local musicians who bring it to life.

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Music for Canberra is a not-for-profit organisation connecting people through music. Through choirs, youth orchestras, community ensembles and inclusive programs for people living with disability, we create opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to make music together, connect, grow and experience the lifelong benefits of music.

Image credits: Kylie Gibson

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.

Image credits: Alan Moyle

Your support will help unearth and nurture the voices of fiction and non-fiction writers, poets and creatives writing from the edges.

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We are a constellation of writers and readers drawn to the luminous, telling our stories from the edges. Our passion is to support and publish emerging writers from diverse backgrounds. If someone writes well and has a story to tell, we believe they should be heard! But we’re more than publishers: we offer a nurturing community for writers through coaching, workshops and reading events.

Every emerging circus artist needs support to participate, and a place to perform. Help CircoBats create both, through scholarships, community workshops and performances across South Australia.

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A South Australian not-for-profit community circus school dedicated to ensuring high quality and accessible circus experiences are available to artists and performers of all ages and abilities. Based on Kaurna land in Adelaide. We believe circus should be accessible to everybody, and performed everywhere.

Keep our physical space thriving and providing vital opportunities for South Australian artists.

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The Mill brings together artists, creatives and businesses to collaborate, create, and inspire one another - all while being supported through expert guidance and artistic programming.

Image credits: Neasan McGuinness

Your donation will help empower women, girls, and non-binary people to build confidence, create change, and strengthen communities across Australia.
 

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WOW - Women of the World Australia is a powerful, community-driven movement that celebrates gender equality, diversity, and the achievements of women/girls and gender diverse people through an annual program of Festivals & Events. Originating in Brisbane, the Australian branch advocates for intersectional inclusion and centers the voices of First Nations and regional women. WOW actively works alongside UN Women Australia to back gender equality. Through story, music and the arts, WOW empowers women across Australia.

Image credits: Photo: Katie Bennett

Affinity Quartet Unlimited Academy responds to a gap in Australia’s chamber music training, fostering the talent of aspiring string quartets.

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Founded at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2015, the internationally awarded Affinity Quartet is a growing organisation whose work encompasses national and global concert touring of innovative programs, new commissions, recording, teaching and mentorship to create lasting impact for musicians and audiences.

Trans Book Festival will return in late 2027 for a third year of trans literary excellence.

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Trans Book Festival (TBF) is the only writers’ festival in the southern hemisphere focused on uplifting and celebrating trans and gender diverse (TGD) literary excellence.

Image credits: Teague Leigh

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

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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

Support a new major film work co-created by Bellambi's public housing community as they face major redevelopment, relocation and removal.

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BE is a community arts organisation with a 20 year history of co-producing long-term collaborative arts projects with communities & emerging arts leaders living under recurring trauma, hardship and in places often considered disadvantaged.

Help carry a bathhouse made from wrecked cars into its next life, sustaining the artists, young people and cultural relationships that make 'waynapuni pools' possible.

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Benjamin Paul is an artist, educator and industrial designer based in Lutruwita/Tasmania. His participatory works bring people together through shared making, public ritual and place. Since 2024 he has developed 'waynapuni pools' with young Palawa people and cultural leaders, transforming wrecked Falcons and Commodores into places for bathing, ceremony and collective rest.

A curator-run initiative supporting collective learning, experimentation and exchange across Sydney’s independent arts community.

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CARRRY is a curator-run initiative creating spaces for curators, artists and arts workers to learn, experiment and work together. Through exhibitions, zines, workshops, public programs and shared resources, CARRRY explores curating as a collective practice built around exchange, experimentation, care and the people who make cultural work possible.

After two big nights at Melbourne Fringe, help us create more poets.

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Monthly Poet Live helps people write a poem when they don’t think they can. It is the live side of monthlypoet.com, which has published over 230 poets worldwide. Our Melbourne Fringe show drew a remarkable response. Your donation covers touring costs to bring it to more venues, festivals and libraries

Image credits: Raphael Kaleb

Our 2026 AusArt Day is produced by five young artists who are each creating short clips based on their lived experience of Quantum Leap programs.

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Quantum Leap Australia is a contemporary dance company dedicated to the artistic development of young people through the collaborative, curious and rigorous creation of original work.

Image credits: Olivia Wikner, O&J Wikner Photography

Help us support our 3 Ongoing Artists: Stevie Battese, Iris Blazely and Nancy Mauro-Flude, as they embark on the creation of their respective works for our 2027 festival.

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The Unconformity is an arts organisation that explores new cultural commodities on the wild and mountainous western fringe of Lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia.

Image credits: Overflow by Bridget Baskerville

On AusArt Day in Wagga Wagga on October 22 we are bringing women together in a Storytelling Night launching the Fundraising Campaign for our new project, The Crossing Place

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Voices of Women is an award-winning creative storytelling and performance program for women, and by women. It was created to empower diverse, multicultural and First Nations women to work together, and with writers, actors and musicians to celebrate and share their stories.

Image credits: Voices of Women/State Library SA

Funds raised will purchase new artworks by living artists, ensuring the TAMA Collection remains dynamic, inclusive, and reflective of contemporary practice.

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Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia) is a public regional art gallery founded in 1968. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, we have been committed to exhibiting and collecting textile art since the 1970s. We engage local and visiting audiences through exhibitions, education programs, and community projects.

Help bring two Australian short films to life—Creative Australia matches every dollar you give 1:1 on AusArt Day!

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After successfully producing the short film 'Tick Tock', Lithgow film co-op words2screen™ is taking two new character-driven stories—'A Sweet Farewell' and 'Maddie and Paul'—from page to screen, connecting regional Australian film from the Central Tablelands with national and global audiences.

Image credits: Bryan Cutts

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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McClelland is a place to gather, explore bushland, encounter extraordinary art and sculpture, enjoy lunch and discover something unexpected.

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McClelland is a not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to presenting inspiring exhibitions and public programs, while caring for its beautiful sculpture park and bushland setting on Bunurong Country. It honours the legacy of Harry and Nan McClelland by fostering creativity, connection and enjoyment for all.

Image credits: Rachel Isaacs

Help us fund our 2027 season and keep ambitious, compassionate indie theatre alive in Hobart

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Bad Company Theatre produces bold, contemporary theatre with compassion. We support emerging and established Tasmanian artists through ambitious indie productions, emphasising skill development, freedom to play and safe, ethical practice. Our work has received recognition at the Tasmanian Theatre Awards, including a special award for accessibility and inclusion.

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.

Art of Courage is an immersive theatre play exploring Ukrainian identity, courage, war, memory, culture and human connection.

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Art of Courage is an immersive theatre play exploring Ukrainian identity, courage, war, memory, culture and human connection.

A photographic and painted portrait series exploring LGBTQIA+ people, identities and lived experiences across Australia.

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Karim Konrad is a Sydney-based visual artist and photographer working across photography, painting and mixed media. His work explores the body, movement and identity. He was a 2025 Head On Photo Awards Semi-Finalist and was selected for the City of Sydney’s 2026 Art & About Street Banner Gallery.

Support DRILL Performance’s youth dance programs and help build confidence, connection, & emotional intelligence that help our communities prosper.

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DRILL is Nipaluna/Hobart’s youth dance company where young people aged 9-15 take active roles as the makers of our performance work. DRILL facilitates collaborations with inspiring professional and emerging artists in the studio, on stage and in our schools, providing holistic artistic and social skills development, creating resilience and building confidence while creating performance work.

Image credits: Katie Palmer

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

Help us create a Mentorship Program that supports ceramicists and potters through paid, artist-led, knowledge sharing, and creative development.

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The Australian Ceramics Association is Australia’s national peak body for ceramics, supporting over 1,550 members and 400 print subscribers nationally and internationally. Since 1956, TACA has strengthened the ceramics community through publications, events, exhibitions, education, and online learning. The Journal of Australian Ceramics reaches audiences through print, digital, and international distribution.

Image credits: Diamando Koutsellis

Be part of Belloo’s next decade of bold Australian performance: invest in untold stories, mentorship, intercultural exchange and community connection.

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Belloo is a female-led, award-winning contemporary performance company creating bold, interdisciplinary work across theatre, installation and digital forms. Through long-term collaboration, intercultural exchange and process-led creation, we blend text, movement and design to create original, dynamic work that connects artists and audiences across cultures and contexts.

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.