Music Theatre Projects' motto is creating works/creating work, and they have a slate of stories, projects and programs that need support for them to be realised.

About Music Theatre Projects

Music Theatre Projects Ltd is a not-for-profit umbrella organisation established to nurture creative development and production.

GEN // MUSE commissions emerging women composers, spotlighting Abigail Lui’s new work in our 2026 International Women’s Day tour.

About Muses Inc

Muses Inc champions music by women through performances, commissions, and outreach, amplifying female voices in classical music.

A feature documentary about the life of comedian and disability activist Stella Young.

About

Writer/Director Sarah Barton and Producer Liz Burke made the feature documentary Defiant Lives (2017) about the rise and fight of the disability rights movement. They join forces once again for this new documentary about comedian and disability activist Stella Young.

Help bring two landmark works by Klaus Moje home to Canberra Glassworks, where his legacy lives on through the artists making here today.

About

Canberra Glassworks is a working studio where artists transform glass through fire, heat, hand tools and extraordinary skill. Built on a culture of experimentation, knowledge-sharing and making, it supports artists to develop their practice while keeping specialist skills alive and passing them between generations.

Help Christ Church Camerata bring exciting orchestral music to Newcastle in 2026, from candlelit Vienna to romance, First Nations and jazz.

About Christ Church Camerata

Christ Church Camerata is a chamber orchestra based at the iconic Christ Church Cathedral in Newcastle, NSW, playing music from baroque to present.

Agatha – a disabled orphan at Vivaldi’s Ospedale della Pietà in Venice – wrote music that nobody alive has ever heard ... until now.

About Australian Chamber Choir

“A professional choir at the top of its game” (Limelight magazine), the ACC sings in cities, regional centres and on Australian Digital Concert Hall

Increase access and visibility for disabled artists by supporting Access2Arts — Access4All : Arts4All

About Access2Arts

Creating a future where d/Deaf and disabled people thrive within an inclusive arts ecology.

WE’RE ALMOST THERE! HELP US BRING 'SECRET OF THE RAFT' TO THE STAGE.

About

Founded in 2011, by Artistic Director Louise Howlett, ReAction Theatre creates ambitious, innovative performance across theatre, multimedia and devised practice. Our work centres collaboration, embodied storytelling and diverse voices. Recent work includes 'La Souris blanche' at La Mama theatre, Melbourne and The Street Theatre, Canberra, and 'Secret of the Raft', a French-English bilingual immersive reimagining of Géricault’s iconic 'Raft of the Medusa' painting.

Individuals will be encouraged to become 'Festival Friends' and credited as such in media campaigns.

About Lemony S Puppet Theatre

Lemony S Puppet Theatre is an award-winning independent company making contemporary puppet theatre for adult and family audiences. 

Help us get our skates on to support the development of one of our biggest shows yet – Mama Does Derby.

About Windmill

Windmill creates original theatre for young audiences, tours it across Australia and takes it to the world.

Your AusArt Day gift empowers girls with confidence, skills & professional opportunities through Flamenco—12 hours of giving.

About Compañía Pepa Molina 

Empowering the next generation of female artists: Flamenco training, mentorship & pathways for young women in Western Sydney.

KINGS supports the presentation of critical and experimental projects through a dedicated mentorship model at pivotal points in artists’ journeys.

About

KINGS Artist-Run is a contemporary arts organisation supporting emerging and early-career creative practitioners, delivering an annual suite of exhibitions, performances, publishing initiatives, and curatorial outcomes. Established in 2003 as an experimental video site, KINGS continues to be communally driven by a volunteer collective of artists, writers, performers, curators and academics.

AMEB's campaign aims to help more Australians experience the amazing things that happen through learning music.

About Australian Music Examinations Board

AMEB is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to inspiring music education across Australia

Join us in the Forest of Goodwill campaign – raising $5.7M to protect 500 acres of Woodfordia’s land in trust for future generations.

About Woodfordia Inc.

Woodfordia Inc. is a vibrant community-driven organisation dedicated to celebrating life through creative events and festivals.

Support the publication of diverse voices from our adult all-abilities community in Darwin in the form of a published anthology and launch. 

About Sophie Benkemoun and travel maker press 

Sophie Benkemoun is a multi-disciplinary creative who founded travel maker press in 2022. 

Victoria Park Centre for the Arts is growing our support and capacity-building for artists from all backgrounds and creative practices.

About

The Victoria Park Centre for the Arts is an arts organisation that hosts contemporary art exhibitions, and community and cultural projects. Running since 1994, our vision is to be a vibrant and energetic art centre, fostering a community that embraces the arts as part of daily life.

Dance is for everyone — but it’s not always accessible to everyone. Restless Dance Theatre is changing that.

About Restless Dance Theatre

For over 30 years, Restless Dance Theatre has been running inclusive dance classes for disabled and neurodivergent people. But recent changes to the NDIS have left some of our participants unable to pay for classes. We’re fundraising to keep our programs accessible to everyone.

Independent, curator-led art fair showcasing emerging and overlooked artists with ambitious, critically engaged practice.

About NotFair

NotFair was founded in 2010 to showcase independent artists who often do not fit the commercial mould and are overlooked and under-recognised.

Help us fund our 2027 season and keep ambitious, compassionate indie theatre alive in Hobart

About

Bad Company Theatre produces bold, contemporary theatre with compassion. We support emerging and established Tasmanian artists through ambitious indie productions, emphasising skill development, freedom to play and safe, ethical practice. Our work has received recognition at the Tasmanian Theatre Awards, including a special award for accessibility and inclusion.

Celebrating human-led art. Celebrating Australian stories. Celebrating all forms of visual media.

About

Proto-Productions is an upstart production company of fresh-faced students and graduate filmmakers. Through powerful visuals, moving stories, and partnering with media artisans from across the continent, we are working to realise the native potential of the Australian film industry. We have a simple ethos—Fully Collaborative. Fully Human.

Support Bunurong-led collaboration through visual art, storytelling and performance, connecting Bunurong, Māori and Indian cultural practitioners.

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Uncle Mark Brown is a Bunurong Elder, contemporary artist and founder of Dreaming Spirit. His practice brings together visual art, storytelling and cultural learning, creating opportunities for connection to Country, cultural understanding and respectful collaboration.

For AusArts Day 2026, ATYP is fundraising to support an ensemble of 50 young performers, who will take to the stage for the premiere of an award-winning First Nations play. Funds will support costuming and rehearsal costs for the ensemble, championing the voices of the next generation in an urgent new play about climate resilience. This ambitious new play will be brought to life on Gadigal land in Walsh Bay by a predominantly young, First Nations-led creative team. The scale of the work emphasises the autonomy and power of its young performers, foregrounding the next generation as active custodians rather than passive inheritors of crisis.

About

ATYP is the leading national youth theatre company, dedicated to empowering young people through productions, workshops, and national development programs. We nurture the next generation of storytellers, presenting to a diverse audience and redefining what “youth” theatre looks like.

Arts Upper Hunter's grants program (CASP, Micro Grants) needs a bigger cash pool, so more of these local-led community events can happen in 2026.

About Arts Upper Hunter

Since 2003 Arts Upper Hunter has provided opportunities, advice, advocacy and grants to the people of the region.

Support the next chapter of Notes of Self as it tours internationally, connecting audiences of all ages through movement, imagination and shared discovery.

About

James Batchelor and Collaborators are a creative team led by choreographer James Batchelor, working between Australia and Europe. Across performance, research and education, they create ambitious choreographic encounters shaped by attention, imagination and movement. Their practice explores how dance connects people, histories and ideas, with a particular focus on intergenerational exchange and transmission.

Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company will engage with existing & new donors through social media, emails, & phone to maximise support for Blak theatre in WA.

About

Yirra Yaakin produces award-winning theatre that tells First Nations’ stories and supports the next generation of emerging storytellers. We celebrate and nurture Aboriginal culture and support the development and employment of Aboriginal artists. Our audiences are both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal and we pride ourselves on the diversity of our audience members across the state.

Fuel the Future of Cabaret — One Cup at a Time. Help take Caffeine Fiend to the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

About Charlee Watt 

Charlee Watt is a multi-award-winning cabaret artist, vocalist, writer, and producer from Port Lincoln, South Australia.

A campaign uniting voices and growing safe spaces across Australia through creative campaigns, film, theatre, and community development.

About Bukjeh

Bukjeh is an arts collective rooted in the belief that stories, culture and art have the power to build connection, belonging, and understanding. 

Support SLC's huge 2026 program: creation of our new major show VISTA, exciting national and international touring, and emerging choreographer season of ESCALATOR - all donations matched dollar-for dollar.

About Stephanie Lake Company

Stephanie Lake Company is one of Australia’s leading contemporary dance companies, celebrated for its inventive choreography and electrifying performances on stages worldwide.

Help bring extraordinary voices from Australia’s literary past back to life through a new podcast drawn from the Writers in the Park archive.

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Linden Hyatt is a writer, editor and arts organiser whose work spans fiction, memoir, literary history and archival research. A former Director of Sydney Writers’ Festival and co-organiser of Writers in the Park, he is currently developing Voices from the Writers in the Park Archive, a book and podcast project.

CDoc screens year-round documentary programs and supports regional filmmakers, fostering cultural exchange and nurturing community connection.

About Castlemaine Documentary Festival (CDoc)

The annual Castlemaine Documentary Festival, affectionately known as CDoc, is held over three nights and two days. This mid-winter weekend event of films and parties remains the centrepiece of many Festival events run throughout the year. 
 

Help bring three online conferences for independent creatives to life, showcasing Australian creatives and exploring the future of creative work.

About

Futureative is creating events to support independent creatives on their mission to build sustainable careers. Through Front Row, our creative publication, and online conferences in development for 2027, we explore creative practice, reaching audiences and sustaining careers, to help creative people start, finish & launch their breakthrough project.

AusArt day donations raising funds in celebration of Triple R's support for music, arts, and community.

About Triple R (3RRR)

Triple R (3RRR) is Australia's most inflential not-for-profit, independent, community radio station promoting music, arts and community life.