Find a project you love. Back a project you love. Make Art Happen this AusArt Day
AusArt Day, Thursday 22 October, 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. Scroll down to view this year's projects
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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
Rhiannon: ‘Phoenix’ Album Creation and Collaborations
‘Phoenix’ is Rhiannon’s self-written, self-produced Alt-R&B album, featuring BigYuki, Javier Santiago, Sam Barsh and Adam Deitch, celebrating authentic female-led artistry.
Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: ARCO 2027: HIP for ALL
In 2027, ARCO brings Historically Informed Performance concerts, regional tours, community workshops, world-premiere albums and a national Beethoven youth celebration.
Marrugeku: Ngurragabu
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.
Small Ripples Theatre: Gold Mountain Wives 金山婆 Original Musical
Support Gold Mountain Wives, a new Australian musical bringing overlooked stories of migration, resilience and belonging to the stage.
Gemini Creative Arts: Bring Fun Home to The Arts Theatre!
This is an Adelaide first! Fun Home is a central piece of queer theatre that needs to be seen where all stellar Adelaide premieres come - The Arts Theatre. Help us stage this important musical where it deserves to be!
Kate Shaw: Studio & Community Workshop Space
A purpose-built studio converted from an existing shed, grounding a 20+ year practice in large-scale acrylic pour and resin works exploring geology and landscape. Beyond the studio's primary role as a working art space, it will host community workshops in drawing, colour and process.
Perth Symphony Orchestra: Raise Your Baton!
Too few women lead from the podium. Raise Your Baton changes that by putting a baton in her hand.
River City Voices: River City Voices - Amplify Our Voices!
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!
Arts North West: ARTS NORTH WEST CONNECT - Fund the Connection
Fund the Connection and help Arts North West bring regional creatives together to meet, share ideas, collaborate and create new opportunities.
The Theatre Guild: Help the Theatre Guild Play On
The Theatre Guild has been creating bold, accessible theatre in Adelaide since 1938 - currently unfunded and keeping the intimate and unique Little Theatre alive.
Restless Dance Theatre: Restless Dance Theatre: Enough
Restless Dance Theatre is creating Enough a powerful new work by Artistic Director Michelle Ryan, placing disabled and neurodivergent artists at the centre of a conversation about identity, belonging, self-worth and what it means to live authentically.
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.
Performance Space: Bring Ride or Die to Liveworks
Journey through first loves, road trips, coming out and death, with a car transformed into confession booth, shrine and grave.
Bayside Art Therapy: BAT ART WORKSHOPS : The Acceptance Canvas
Reaching more people to hold their hands as they walk with the magic of Art Therapy
Proto-Productions: The Next Generation of Artisan Filmmakers
Celebrating human-led art. Celebrating Australian stories. Celebrating all forms of visual media.
Access2Arts: Access2Arts - Access4All
Help us increase access and visibility for disabled artists by supporting Access2Arts.
Thomas Laue: Bells for Peace in Motion
Help bring live peace-themed bell music, new collaborations and participatory performances to schools, communities and public audiences across Australia.
Utp: Fan Mail to Utp
Fan mail to Utp is an ode to the work we do, from our Board and community.
Screenworks: Screenworks: Amplify Regional Screen Stories
Help regional Australian screen storytellers develop their craft and build careers, wherever they create from. Donate and amplify their stories.
Feast Festival: Fund the Feast
Every gift backs LGBTQIA+ artists and keeps South Australia's queer festival ambitious, accessible, and proudly ours.
Southern Cross Soloists: Be smart, and support live music.
In the age of AI, human creativity matters more than ever. For 12 hours, your gift keeps virtuosic music-making human.
Monthly Poet Live: Fund More Monthly Poet Live Events
Help us open live poetry writing to people who've never called themselves poets, and keep it going beyond Fringe.
Windmill Production Company: Wag the tale with Windmill
Valerie, Windmill’s new work driven by toddlers’ imaginations and inspired by a local four-legged hero launches this AusArt Day.
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.
Bukjeh: One Last Lullaby
Support the development of One Last Lullaby, Bukjeh’s Palestinian theatre and documentary work, exploring motherhood, displacement, memory, loss and the care rituals of care we carry from homeland.
Adelaide Fringe: Fringe for everyone!
Your donation, DOUBLED, directly supports artists, venues, and audiences - covering the costs of making Fringe shows more accessible for everyone.
Christopher Gurusamy: Christopher Gurusamy
Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia
Homophonic!: Homophonic! 2027 Midsumma season!
Homophonic! is fundraising for our 2027 Midsumma season at Gasworks in Port Melbourne.
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art: 30 for 30: Double Happiness Club
Join 4A’s Double Happiness Club: donate $30, bring a friend, and double the support for the next generation.
Chamber Music Adelaide: Ten Years On. The Future Sounds Good.
As On the Terrace turns ten, help Chamber Music Adelaide continue to connect South Australians through shared, intimate music experiences.
Passage Gallery: Keep Passage Open
Help Passage remain free, open 24 hours and able to commission ambitious new work by Australian artists.
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.