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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Christopher Gurusamy: Christopher Gurusamy
Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia
Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation: Shape the future of the Arts
Support Adelaide Festival Centre in a way that suits you, helping ensure extraordinary arts experiences remain accessible for everyone.
Sorour: Art, Hair and Belonging
Support an independent artist exploring identity, belonging, migration and citizenship through painting, hair stitching and mixed media.
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.
PAC Australia: Inaugural First Nations Presenter Training Program
The First Nations Presenter Training Program, in partnership with arts leader Angela Flynn, to develop First Nations performing arts programmers.
CKTFest Hilltops: CKTFest Hilltops
This project will bring together children’s authors directly to the Hilltops NSW to deliver high-energy literary experiences to rural students.
FiammaK FISCHES Foundation: FISCHES Foundation
Deploy blockchain to attach to visual and digital art material. The digital shield systemising loyal Content Management System artist's catalogue.
Beyond Empathy: InOut
Support a new major film work co-created by Bellambi's public housing community as they face major redevelopment, relocation and removal.
Sarah Barton and Liz Burke: Stella: I Am Not Your Inspiration
A feature documentary about the life of comedian and disability activist Stella Young.
Support Cashless and Carefree: Support Cashless and Carefree
Raising funds for this years major show
Art of Courage Ukraine: Art of Courage - Melbourne Season
Art of Courage is an immersive theatre play exploring Ukrainian identity, courage, war, memory, culture and human connection.
Poetry Sydney: Sydney Poetry Picnic
Support the Sydney Poetry Picnic, a celebration of community, creativity and the poetic voices that shape Sydney and New South Wales.
The Cannery Arts Centre: Upgrade our Print Room!
We are seeking support to revive our Print Room, an important space within our regional arts centre.
Lazy Thinking: Artist Support
Help us provide free accommodation, equipment, residencies, recording and practical support to independent Australian musical artists.
Seaworks Williamstown: Redevelopment of the Loft Gallery
The Loft Gallery Campaign will transform a historic industrial space into a sustainable, contemporary exhibition venue supporting artists, audiences and cultural experiences.
Support Act: AusMusic T-Shirt Day
Celebrate Australian music and help raise funds for Aussie Music Workers doing it tough.
JUTE Theatre Company: Three Dresses - from page to stage
Help JUTE Theatre Company bring Wanda Gibson’s award-winning children’s book Three Dresses from page to stage.
Eternal River: Listening Before the Opera
Eternal River is a major new work, inviting voices traditionally left at the edges of opera into its creation.
CircoBats: Circus for everybody, everywhere
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.
Regional Arts WA: Get Me There: Regional Artists Travel
Help WA regional artists pack their bags! We're funding trips that turn creative ideas into bigger opportunities; near, far, everywhere.
Frontyard Projects: Finding (and Funding) *BreathingSpace*
*BreathingSpace* is the amount of time that Frontyard could survive without further income, based on current expenses. Let's expand it!
Canberra Museum + Gallery: Invest in Canberra's Story
Help preserve, discover and share Canberra's stories, ensuring future generations can connect with the people, places and ideas that shape our city.
Regional Youth Orchestra NSW: Supprort Regional Youth Orchestra NSW
Support Regional Youth Orchestra NSW and help talented young musicians from regional communities access exceptional orchestral experiences, mentorship and performance opportunities.
Band Together Foundation: Band Together Appeal: Give Children Music!
Help us put instruments in children's hands and tutors in their schools, so no child misses out on music.
Hermannsburg Potters: Support Hermannansburg Potters Build Their Future
We're building a new fit-for-purpose art centre for Western Aranda artists, big enough to hold our dreams.
Flinders Quartet: FQ Pathways, mentoring the next generation
Help Flinders Quartet launch the next generation of string quartet musicians and build FQ Sessions into Melbourne's home for string quartets.
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.
Storyvox: The Electric Love Fest Project
Australian Giant Cuttlefish - spectacular, fascinating, very groovy - help us bring their unique story of wonder, vulnerability and hope to the world.
Canberra Glassworks: Klaus Moje Projekt
Help bring two landmark works by Klaus Moje home to Canberra Glassworks, where his legacy lives on through the artists making here today.
BlakDance: Give to the future of First Nations dance – BlakDance Giving Day
Help BlakDance to give First Nations dancers careers, not gigs.
Compañía Pepa Molina: Double the Impact for Emerging Flamenco Artists
Empowering emerging Western Sydney Flamenco artists through professional mentorship, live music training and performance opportunities — from studio to stage.
Sprung Dance Theatre: Support Sprung Dance Theatre's annual event
Dis-Co Ball: Sprung's annual celebration of people with Disability in the Northern Rivers
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.