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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StorySALOON: Championing writers, growing audiences
StorySALOON brings Australian short stories onto the stage—and to readers and listeners across Australia.
Canberra Contemporary: Show Up + Show Off | Artist Skills and Development
Support the next generation of artists in Kamberri/Canberra by helping us deliver a range of professional development opportunities.
Ballarat International Foto Biennale: I ♥ Foto: See the World Differently
Help young Victorians see the world through photography. Your donation supports free photography experiences for regional students.
St Martins Youth Arts Centre: School of War: Support the Rebellion
St Martins is raising funds to bring School of War from development into full production.
George Kellis: HIDE/OUT: Development of LGBTQIA+ Horror Screenplay
Support a culturally urgent Australian LGBTQIA+ Horror confronting forgotten Queer history, prejudice, vulnerability and the search for love.
Ifa Shiddiq: World of Darwin: Spin-off Webcomic
Support a spin-off webcomic of ‘World of Darwin’, a project series involving character personifications of the Australian towns and cities.
The Lighthouse Toowoomba: Lighthouse, Camera, Action!
Help regional Queensland kids read, write and create with confidence.
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.
Maya Dove: "Desirable, Considering" by Maya Dove. Development Workshop.
Help take 'Desirable, Considering' into its next stage of professional development.
Linden Hyatt: Voices from the Writers in the Park Archive
Help bring extraordinary voices from Australia’s literary past back to life through a new podcast drawn from the Writers in the Park archive.
Australian Vocal Ensemble - AVÉ: Behind Every New Song
Discover what it really takes to bring a new Australian song cycle to life and help make the next one possible.
Ausdance ACT Youth Dance Festival 2026 The Metaverse: A day on the road with a Youth Dance Festival Mentor
Our campaign will help build awareness about the benefits of co creative dance for young people, working towards professional presentation in a leading Australian arts centre
Skylar Vanderwrak: Blasted into a Faultline
This book has the attention span of an unleashed, juvenile Labrador named “Boof” who's just discovered an unattended sausage in the Snag Rodeo™.
WA Youth Theatre Company: Give the Stage!
WAYTCo is fundraising to provide productions and scholarships for our young members in 2028.
Tent City: A New Face: Build a Tent for Tent City
Build a Tent for Tent City and help amplify lived experiences of homelessness through inclusive theatre, storytelling and community connection.
ActNow Theatre: Celebrating 20 Years of ActNow Theatre
2027 marks 20 years of social justice theatre projects and championship of marginalised artists and their communities on Kaurna Yerta.
Choral Institute Melbourne (chime): 25th World Choir Games Participation
Chime is raising funds to represent Australia at 2027 World Choir Games in Austria for the 25th anniversary celebrations. As the only Australian choir to compete at the inaugural World Choir Games in 2000 and a Gold Medal-winning choir at the 2024 Games in Auckland, we are proud to continue our tradition of international excellence by competing in the prestigious Champions Section
Open Space Contemporary Arts: Art for Everyone, Everywhere: Support OSCA
Bring participatory art projects to life! Support OSCA to connect artists and communities in creativity. Make art accessible for everyone.
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.
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!
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!
REELise Incorporated: Back the Next Generation of Storytellers
Help young Australians turn their ideas into films, find their voice and share their stories on the big screen.
Studio1 Micro Arts Precinct: Champion Brisbane's Independent Dance Artists
Studio1 gives Brisbane's independent dance and body-based artists room to grow. Go behind the scenes and help fund what's next.
LAPUNYAH ART GALLERY: Lapunyah Art Gallery Friends of Lapunyah Registration Day
Become a Friend of Lapunyah and help support the Arts programs offered by LAG Inc. to the Western Downs community.
Karim Konrad: We Are Seen
A photographic and painted portrait series exploring LGBTQIA+ people, identities and lived experiences across Australia.
Burrinja: Burrinja: Creativity Close to Home
Help keep creativity accessible, inclusive and close to home for communities across Melbourne's outer east.
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.
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.
Support Cashless and Carefree: Support Cashless and Carefree
Raising funds for this years major show
Support Act: AusMusic T-Shirt Day
Celebrate Australian music and help raise funds for Aussie Music Workers doing it tough.
New England Bach Festival: Young Musicians Program 2027
Enable young musicians to attend the Festival with subsidised tickets and participate in workshops and masterclasses with NEBF’s guest artists.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company: Boya Winyang Yanginy (Money New Giving)
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company will engage with existing & new donors through social media, emails, & phone to maximise support for Blak theatre in WA.
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.