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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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.
BlakDance: Give to the future of First Nations dance – BlakDance Giving Day
Help BlakDance to give First Nations dancers careers, not gigs.
Sunari Sooriaaratchi: Let These Paintings Be Seen: The Work of Sunari Sooriaaratchi
Please help me show these works which have been created in the aftermath of family violence and workplace assault.
Harrigans Lane CoLab: Invest in place inspired art music
We wish to commission new works generated by our unique buildings, natural environment and interdisciplinary residency program.
Sunshine Coast’s Regional Gallery, Caloundra: Give Creativity a Future
Help make art happen by supporting creative opportunities across the Sunshine Coast’s region for the next generation of artists.
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
Sydney Film Festival: SFF Admit All
SFF Admit All is an initiative designed to remove barriers and welcome more diverse audiences to engage with the Festival.
James Batchelor and Collaborators: Notes of Self
Support the next chapter of Notes of Self as it tours internationally, connecting audiences of all ages through movement, imagination and shared discovery.
Always Good Nights: Good Nights: It's More Than Music
Help fund three months of Good Nights operations, building a stronger, more sustainable future for live music in regional WA.
Burrinja: Creativity Close to Home: Burrinja: Creativity Close to Home
Help keep creativity accessible, inclusive and close to home for communities across Melbourne's outer east.
Canberra Choral Society: Voices in the House
Support a new Sally Whitwell choral work celebrating 75 years of Canberra Choral Society and Old Parliament House’s centenary.
Feast Festival: Fund the Feast
Every gift backs LGBTQIA+ artists and keeps South Australia's queer festival ambitious, accessible, and proudly ours.
Sydney Non Objective Contemporary Art Projects: SNO Publications: Lyndon Dadswell DRAWING$ Fundraiser
SNO will be hosting an online exhibition of drawings by Australian sculptor Lyndon Dadswell (1908-1986).
Metro Arts: ART STARTS HERE
Metro Arts emboldens artists to push boundaries, generate new ideas, create powerful work - WITH SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
We Bleed The Same: KINSHIP
This is a vital Australian story about Stolen Generation survivor/ Wiradjuri woman, Brenda Matthews, forcibly removed from her Aboriginal birth parents & happy home at 2 years old & then forcibly removed from her much loved white family at 7 years of age. It’s a powerful story of resilience, love, loss, heartache & reconnection.
words2screen™: A Pair of Shorts!
Help bring two Australian short films to life—Creative Australia matches every dollar you give 1:1 on AusArt Day!
Utp: Fan Mail to Utp
Our love language is words of affirmation, but we also love to pay artists... Support for Utp is support for diverse artists. Your donation helps make art that reflects the diversity and complexity of this country.
KXT/bAKEHOUSE - KXT ON BROADWAY: Thankyou KXT!
We're celebrating the artists who shaped KXT over the past 10 years - and securing opportunities for the next generation.
Alice Hurwood: Help Alice Hurwood record an album!
Help award-winning Australian singer-songwriter and cellist Alice Hurwood record and produce her next album.
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.
Nexus Arts: One More Artist, One More Story: Interplay 2027
Raising funding to support the inclusion of one more artist to Interplay 2027.
KINGS Artist-Run: Helping Artists Thrive
KINGS supports the presentation of critical and experimental projects through a dedicated mentorship model at pivotal points in artists’ journeys.
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.
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.
Chloe Wigg Art: Adapted
Adapted explores function gained / identity lost when Assistive Technology is prescribed, and how art helps fight medicalisation and regain ownership.
Clown Doctors Australia – Arts in Health: The Art of Healthcare Clowning
Celebrating healthcare clowning as an artform that brings creativity and joy to children, older people and healthcare professionals in hospital.
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.
Book Links - Centre for Children's Literature: AusArt Giving Day
Help us bring free writing and illustrating workshops to Queensland children.
Australian Centre for the Moving Image: ACMI School Access Fund
Every child deserves the opportunity to learn, create and be inspired. The School Access Fund supports schools with transport and education program costs.
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.
Regionial 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.
FLING Physical Theatre: 25 Champions of FLING
This AusArts Day, 25 Champions will help celebrate 25 years of FLING and shape the next chapter of regional dance.
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.