Cinema doesn’t end when the credits roll. We need your support to keep film culture alive.

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Senses of Cinema is an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of film. Founded in late 1999, we have made uncompromising film criticism free and accessible to global audiences for nearly three decades. After 119 editions, we have garnered the interest, enthusiasm and respect of readers worldwide.

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Help fund three months of Good Nights operations, building a stronger, more sustainable future for live music in regional WA.

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Good Nights is an independent live music organisation bringing intimate, high-quality music experiences to regional Western Australia. Since 2015, Good Nights has connected hundreds of artists with audiences through unique shows in community halls, galleries, gardens, heritage buildings and unique spaces across WA.

The Thursday Group (TTG) aims to strengthen Melbourne's physical theatre and theatre-making community by offering extensive and accessible workshops. We need support!

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The Thursday Group is an ensemble-based theatre company grounded in collaborative devising. We create original theatrical performances and deliver weekly workshops teaching Suzuki training and investigating ensemble devising. Our ensemble builds and creates resilience in the physical theatre community and develops groundbreaking works reflecting urgent stories of our time.

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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

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.

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Help bring CYT's 2027 season to life. We're back onstage with over 35+ opportunities for professional, emerging and young artists.

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Canberra Youth Theatre is a home for bold new works created in collaboration with young people, emerging artists, and professional creatives. Creating theatre with, by, and for young people is at the core of what we do — helping them find their voice, build skills, and create work of outstanding quality.

MOVE like you. CONNECT in shared time and space. CREATE with agency. BELONG to each other and in the world.

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Since 2019, Great Southern Dance has contributed to Southern Lutruwita/Tasmania and national arts sector cultural vibrancy through contemporary dance. Across performance, choreography, film, design, place, and community, we ask: What emerges when we move with and for one another, attending to the relationships and more-than-human worlds that shape us?

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Every donation feeds into Dancenorth’s intricately interwoven programs, supporting us to 1) Make and tour exciting new work from the heart of regional North Queensland; 2) Support independent artists to find their voice, hone their practice and stay curious; and 3) Connect the community to dance, themselves and each other.

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A major champion of the arts in North Queensland, Dancenorth Australia balances a dynamic regional presence with a commitment to creating globally celebrated contemporary dance. Dancenorth is an epicentre of cultural change, empowering and supporting a diverse range of independent dance artists, while alchemizing regional and minority communities through movement.

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Support a spin-off webcomic of ‘World of Darwin’, a project series involving character personifications of the Australian towns and cities.

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Ifa is an emerging Indonesian-Australian artist born and bred in Darwin, Larrakia Country. With a distinct passion for character design and storytelling, her work explores nostalgia, place and identity.

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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.

Support Operantics’ 2027 Hayes Theatre Co debut with Così fan tutte, investing in exceptional emerging Australian artists and accessible, high-quality opera.

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Operantics is an independent Sydney opera company creating affordable opportunities for audiences to experience high-quality opera performed by Australia’s best emerging artists. Since 2015, we have brought artists and audiences together through productions that give exceptional Australian performers opportunities to develop their craft and build sustainable careers.

For AusArts Day 2026, ATYP is fundraising to support an ensemble of 50 young performers, who will take to the stage for the premiere of an award-winning First Nations play. Funds will support costuming and rehearsal costs for the ensemble, championing the voices of the next generation in an urgent new play about climate resilience. This ambitious new play will be brought to life on Gadigal land in Walsh Bay by a predominantly young, First Nations-led creative team. The scale of the work emphasises the autonomy and power of its young performers, foregrounding the next generation as active custodians rather than passive inheritors of crisis.

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ATYP is the leading national youth theatre company, dedicated to empowering young people through productions, workshops, and national development programs. We nurture the next generation of storytellers, presenting to a diverse audience and redefining what “youth” theatre looks like.

Image credits: Photography: Clare Hawley, 2022

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

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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.

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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.

Create a space for artists to share their voice with vital upgrades to one of Australia’s only print galleries.

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Megalo Print Studio offers a collective space to think with your hands and to discover new ways of seeing. Established in 1980, Megalo has grown from a small collective of politically engaged artists into Australia’s leading centre for printmaking, a place where community access and artistic innovation come together.

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Celebrate Tantrum’s legacy and help secure our future: providing transformative arts experiences and breaking down barriers for another 50 years.

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For 50 years, Tantrum Youth Arts has been creating bold, inclusive arts experiences for young people, adults with disability, and early-career artists in the Hunter. We believe everyone has the right to play, and use theatre and creative programs to amplify young voices, and champion equitable access to the arts.

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Springboard Opera is putting on its final staged show of 2026, and we want your support to make it a success.

About Springboard Opera

Springboard Opera is quickly becoming a well-recognised organisation in the Brisbane arts scene. With a growing following of audiences and artists, existing to create differently – they aren’t a stuffy opera company! Springboard Opera works to support local emerging artists through creating paid opportunities for them to develop their craft in Brisbane. They are innovating deliberately and transforming the opera idea by bringing a fresh perspective to an art form that has a rich history. They want to make opera for all performers and audiences; striving to remove barriers to access and participation.

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This project will bring together children’s authors directly to the Hilltops NSW to deliver high-energy literary experiences to rural students.

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The CKT Speakers Agency is an Australian literary booking agency dedicated to bringing together schools, libraries, and festivals with children’s authors and illustrators. Operating across regional and national communities, CKT delivers author and illustrator visits, interactive workshops, and literary events designed to spark the imagination in young audiences.

I am raising funds to create new ceramic works, develop my Saggar firing practice, and share this ancient technique with audiences in Australia.

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I am an Iranian-Australian ceramic artist based in Adelaide, with over 10 years of experience in ceramics. In my practice, I focus on wheel-thrown vessels, glazing and the ancient Saggar firing technique. I combine traditional ceramic processes with contemporary forms, materials and experimental firing methods.

Transforming my signature hand-dyed silk into sculptural forms, exploring how colour, movement and material can bloom beyond the wearable.

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Gliese 504 re-imagines fabrics and garments by using hand-dyeing. Gliese 504 works with a large variety of dyeing techniques including ice-dye, classic tie-dye, shibori tieing techniques and reverse tie-dye. All dyes are made here locally in Melbourne by us using Procion and RIT dyes.

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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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Help bring Sinatra e De Maria Bis! to Adelaide Fringe 2027 - a reimagined cabaret celebrating Sinatra, family and storytelling.

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Hey, I'm Emma De Maria! I'm an emerging South Australian artist and the founder of Lost Words Collection, an independent creative company dedicated to telling meaningful stories through theatre and film. As a performer, writer and producer, I'm passionate about creating work that brings people together, celebrates remarkable lives and sparks conversation long after the curtain comes down.

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Supporting artists and artisans while documenting, celebrating and sharing the skills, stories and knowledge that form Australia’s living heritage.

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Heritage Hands celebrates traditional, specialist and increasingly rare creative practices, the people who practise them, and the skills and knowledge they carry. Through photography, storytelling, exhibitions, festivals, workshops and intergenerational programs, Heritage Hands keeps these practices visible, valued and shared with future generations.

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Help write the next chapter.

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Hunter Writers’ Centre is a not-for-profit incorporated association serving the stories, writers, and storytellers of the Hunter region. With a core focus on writing and storytelling, our programs include writer and artist residencies, exhibitions, and an arts store at the Lighthouse Arts precinct on Whibayganba-Nobbys headland

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Help us translate 17 of the best speculative stories created by Australian authors, and promote them throughout the Chinese World.

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“Best Australian Speculative Fiction: Short Stories 2026” Chinese Edition is a pilot project bringing 17 Australian authors to the Chinese World. Published in digital and print formats, this unique collection promotes Australian sci-fi, fantasy and horror stories to Chinese readers globally, showcasing original, refreshing, innovative and diverse Australian literary talents.

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Support Ten Days on the Island to develop the creative kindling found in communities across Lutruwita/Tasmania for Festival 2027.

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Our mission is to connect people to Lutruwita/Tasmania, and to each other, through transformative art experiences that strengthen communities and spark imagination. We champion access to high quality arts experiences though commissioning bold new work. We believe a strong arts ecology builds belonging, supports wellbeing and helps communities thrive.

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Jacob Boehme’s IMIGO is booked to premiere in 2027. Help fund its final development to Step Up to the Stage.

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Moogahlin Performing Arts is a nationally and internationally recognised leading First Peoples company. We’re a not-for-profit, committed to develop, produce, and present new works that are by, with and for our communities. Our flagship, Yellamundie Festival, based in Redfern, has supported the development of 45 works by First Peoples creators.

Help veterans reconnect through the Arts. Your gift powers free workshops, exhibitions and the Festival of Veterans Arts (FOVA).

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ANVAM is the only arts institution in Australia dedicated to the wellbeing of the Veteran Community. We deliver non-clinical, person-centred arts engagement for veterans and families of every experience level through our annual Festival of Veterans Arts (FOVA), exhibitions, performances and community events, and platforms for Veteran Artists to tell their stories, their way.

With One Voice is a national network of inclusive community choirs which brings communities together to experience joy and connection.

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Since 2008 Creativity Australia has been reducing the mental health impacts of loneliness and isolation through the benefits of group singing. Our 26 With One Voice choirs are inclusive, supportive communities which bring people together to experience joy and connection.

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.

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.

Empower diverse communities to make and share art for a fairer, more habitable world.

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Darwin Community Arts (DCA) is a multi-arts Community Arts and Cultural Development organisation based on Larrakia Country/Darwin, NT. For over 45 years, DCA has built inclusive, accessible and decentralised creative spaces that support grassroots artistic practice, cultural exchange and community connection. Through venues, partnerships and outreach across the NT, DCA empowers diverse communities to make and share art for a fairer, more habitable world.

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