Find a project you love. Back a project you love. Make Art Happen this AusArt Day
AusArt Day is a nationwide, sector-wide fundraising initiative designed to mobilise artists and arts organisations to raise funds for their work and creative ambitions on a single, powerful day. AusArt Day itself may be over but there's still time to Make Art Happen with many projects still accepting donations.
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Backbone Youth Arts: Boost Backbone's Building
Help us transform Backbone Youth Arts' venue space to give emerging artists an upgraded, accessible and low-cost home for their creative practice.
Upswell Publishing: Take a chance on poetry!
Australia is the home to a remarkable array of poets. I'm enthusiastically looking to recruit new readers for their books!
CARRRY: CARRRY: Curating Together
A curator-run initiative supporting collective learning, experimentation and exchange across Sydney’s independent arts community.
Dots+Loops: Help Make Adventurous Art Happen
Support Dots+Loops’ flagship biennial festival NONSTOP and our emerging artists Fellowship Program this AusArt Day!
Sarre & Simons: PRIMETIME The Musical: concept album
South Australian writers Sarre & Simons are fundraising to record and launch the concept album for their new musical PRIMETIME
Shepparton Art Museum: SAM VAN
The SAM Van brings hands-on art experiences to kids in rural and regional communities across Victoria's Goulburn Valley.
Country Arts Foundation: Double the Tickets for Regional Kids
Fill venues with joy and laughter from regional kids, supporting tickets and transport to art galleries, live performances and workshops.
Lost Words Collection: Sinatra e De Maria Bis!
Help bring Sinatra e De Maria Bis! to Adelaide Fringe 2027 - a reimagined cabaret celebrating Sinatra, family and storytelling.
A_PART LIVE Performance Series: A_PART LIVE Performance Series
In 2026, A_PART successfully presented its first LIVE program in Kombumerri and Bundjalung countries (Gold Coast and Byron Bay). This campaign is to support A_PART LIVE_02 IN 2027.
At The Edges Publishing: Constellations: literary magazine for emerging voices
Your support will help unearth and nurture the voices of fiction and non-fiction writers, poets and creatives writing from the edges.
Broad Encounters: Bring The Last Salon to Life
Help take The Last Salon from creative development to rehearsal and its first public pilot presentation.
Chloe Wigg Art: Adapted
Adapted explores function gained / identity lost when Assistive Technology is prescribed, and how art helps fight medicalisation and regain ownership.
Christopher Gurusamy: Christopher Gurusamy
Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia
Australian Plays Transform: Erin Thomas Regional Playwrights Fund
Support regional playwrights to develop new Australian plays, strengthen their practice and form connections across the wider Australian theatre sector.
The 1812 Theatre: Restore the 1812: Put Theatre in Lights
The 1812 Theatre will restore the presence of its Ferntree Gully façade with a spectacular illuminated, eight-metre-wide Art Deco-inspired marquee.
Affinity Quartet: Affinity Quartet Unlimited Academy (AQUA)
Affinity Quartet Unlimited Academy responds to a gap in Australia’s chamber music training, fostering the talent of aspiring string quartets.
PBS 106.7FM: Turn It Up! Amplifying Australian Music
Support PBS to champion Australian music through knowledgeable, human curation, helping people discover emerging, independent and otherwise underrepresented Australian artists.
WOW Australia: WOW 2027
Your donation will help empower women, girls, and non-binary people to build confidence, create change, and strengthen communities across Australia.
Newcastle Writers Festival: Become Part of the Story
Your gift helps Newcastle Writers Festival support wellbeing, inspire young readers and spark the conversations that shape our city.
Mackay Poetry Slam: Promoting Regional CQ QLD Poets
Your support of Mackay Poetry Slam helps us raise funds to send our two Australian Poetry Slam, CQ HEAT winners, to the QLD State Finals.
Fremantle Press: Be Part of the Stories That Move Us
Help Fremantle Press create a new home, a hub for the stories that inspire, connect and move us.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory: Support conservation of unique Balinese storycloth
MAGNT seeks donors to support the conservation of a beautiful storycloth, created using a no longer practiced Balinese textile tradition.
APHIDS: Support APHIDS make new work
We want to keep APHIDS artist run, artist centred and support our artistic community
Nawras Jabbar -Visual Artist: Empowering Human Stories Through Art
Raising funds to create and exhibit evocative figurative artworks that capture profound human emotions and resilience.
Metro Arts: ART STARTS HERE
Metro Arts emboldens artists to push boundaries, generate new ideas, create powerful work - WITH SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
Canberra Youth Theatre: New Stories, Young Voices for 2027
Help bring CYT's 2027 season to life. We're back onstage with over 35+ opportunities for professional, emerging and young artists.
Art in Abundance: Fund Open Studios: Art in Abundance: Fund Open Studios
Margaret River Region Open Studios: Art in Abundance funds the coaching, mentoring and support to help 150 regional artists thrive.
Tantrum Youth Arts: 50 Years of Impact
Celebrate Tantrum’s legacy and help secure our future: providing transformative arts experiences and breaking down barriers for another 50 years.
Thursday’s Child Theatre: Bring Mary Stuart to the Stage
Help bring the Melbourne premiere of Schiller’s bloody, seductive political thriller Mary Stuart to the stage.
Homophonic!: Homophonic! 2027 Midsumma season!
Homophonic! is fundraising for our 2027 Midsumma season at Gasworks in Port Melbourne.
Uncle Mark Brown - Dreaming Spirit: Three Cultures, One Country
Support Bunurong-led collaboration through visual art, storytelling and performance, connecting Bunurong, Māori and Indian cultural practitioners.
Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios: Keep Lane Cove's Creative Hub Thriving
For over 50 years we've brought art and creativity to our community. This AusArt Day, help refresh our ceramics studio.
We acknowledge the many Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and honour their Elders past and present.
We respect their deep enduring connection to their lands, waterways, and surrounding clan groups since time immemorial. We cherish the richness of First Nations peoples’ artistic and cultural expressions. We are privileged to gather on this Country and to share knowledge, culture and art, now and with future generations.