Help us translate 17 of the best speculative stories created by Australian authors, and promote them throughout the Chinese World.

About

“Best Australian Speculative Fiction: Short Stories 2026” Chinese Edition is a pilot project bringing 17 Australian authors to the Chinese World. Published in digital and print formats, this unique collection promotes Australian sci-fi, fantasy and horror stories to Chinese readers globally, showcasing original, refreshing, innovative and diverse Australian literary talents.

Do you remember your first live music experience? The one that cracked your world open — the lights, the sound, the feeling that anything was possible. That’s the moment The Push exists to give every young Australian. Give A Gig Day helps us make it happen — creating safe and affordable music experiences that change lives. Your support on 23 October will give a young person their first live music experience — and a story they’ll tell for the rest of their life. Give a gig. Because every young person deserves that first gig feeling.

About The Push

The Push is Australia's leading youth music organisation.

Help bring Les Thomas’s third album 'I Remember Everything' to life — songs of solidarity, justice and memory need you.

About Les Thomas

Les Thomas is a Melbourne songwriter and storyteller whose award-winning songs of solidarity, justice and memory connect deeply with audiences.

Help us open live poetry writing to people who've never called themselves poets, and keep it going beyond Fringe.

About

Monthly Poet Live turns audience members into contributors, not just listeners, opening poetry to people who wouldn't normally think of themselves as poets. Staged at Melbourne Fringe 2026, it builds on the monthly Monthly Poet program, giving newcomers a first taste of writing before they ever join the wider community.

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!

About

Gemini Creative Arts is an Adelaide-based queer theatre company founded by Sarah Williams. We create bold, ambitious theatre that champions local talent, diverse voices and queer stories. Gemini provides professional opportunities for emerging artists while creating inclusive, imaginative work that challenges expectations, builds community and connects meaningfully with audiences.

Science Write Now is an online magazine of creative writing inspired by science. We will fundraise for The Little Things, our first print edition.

About Science Write Now (SWN)

The SWN team comprises Founding Editors Jessica White and Amanda Niehaus and Managing Editor Taylor Mitchell, as well as a slightly extended family of university interns and, very recently, high-school-aged writing and editing mentees. Over ten themed editions to-date, we have published 200 pieces of writing, supporting emerging and established writers from around the world. 

Your support for the Emerging Writers' Festival goes directly to ensuring that the artists we develop, platform, and inspire are being compensated fairly for their creativity.

About the Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF)

EWF is one of Australia’s most established and well-respected literary festivals. We exist to develop, nurture and promote new writing talent.

With One Voice is a national network of inclusive community choirs which brings communities together to experience joy and connection.

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Since 2008 Creativity Australia has been reducing the mental health impacts of loneliness and isolation through the benefits of group singing. Our 26 With One Voice choirs are inclusive, supportive communities which bring people together to experience joy and connection.

Help us keep donation-based burlesque, dance and drag classes open to people facing financial barriers.

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Canberra Burlesque Academy is a First Nations and disabled-led performing arts school. We run donation-based burlesque, dance and drag classes, mentor emerging artists and put on shows that give people a chance to take the stage as themselves.

Support Demi Kromidellis' first solo exhibition at Horsham Regional Art Gallery by donating towards essential materials.

About Demi Kromidellis

Demi Kromidellis' work questions whether she is able to truly connect to the weight her ethnicity holds as a third-generation Australian. She applies an archival approach to themes of cultural loss, displacement, death and immortality through the use of photographs, oral histories, handwritten text and inherited objects.

Nautanki Theatre is inviting supporters to help keep the stage alive by funding voices and narratives that need to be heard.

About Nautanki Theatre

Nautanki Theatre is at the vanguard of championing voices and creating contemporary theatre infused with South Asian content and aesthetics since 2012

Seed funding for transitioning to a new charity structure for the venue.

Lazy Thinking

Based in a converted Butcher’s Shop in Dulwich Hill in the Inner West of Eora/Sydney, Lazy Thinking is an award winning music venue and not for profit organisation committed to supporting and promoting independent musical artists of Eora/Sydney and Australia at every stage of their career.

 

Funds raised will purchase new artworks by living artists, ensuring the TAMA Collection remains dynamic, inclusive, and reflective of contemporary practice.

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Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia) is a public regional art gallery founded in 1968. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, we have been committed to exhibiting and collecting textile art since the 1970s. We engage local and visiting audiences through exhibitions, education programs, and community projects.

The program from Folk Alliance Australia (FAA) supports a range of exciting small folk music and cultural projects assisting artists and organisations around the country.

About Folk Alliance Australia (FAA)

Folk Alliance Australia (FAA) is the Umbrella organisation for Folk Music. A membership organisation support, advocate and deliver services for diverse ranges of folk music

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

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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.

Double the tickets and bring busloads of regional kids to experience live arts and culture.

About The Country Arts Foundation

Increasing access and strengthening regional communities in South Australia through the arts.

The Creative Spark Fund allows artists, makers, and creatives to thrive through vital resources, mentorship, and community support.

About Rundle Collective

Rundle Collective is a vibrant, inclusive Adelaide studio supporting emerging and established artists, makers, and small creative businesses.

Empowering emerging Western Sydney Flamenco artists through professional mentorship, live music training and performance opportunities — from studio to stage.

About

Compañía Pepa Molina is a Western Sydney-based not-for-profit Flamenco dance company creating pathways for emerging artists through performance, mentorship and professional development. Led by internationally acclaimed Flamenco artist Pepa Molina, the company champions the evolution of Flamenco in Australia while connecting diverse communities through dance, music and cultural exchange.

Help ARCO launch the first Australian recording and first HIP worldwide of Louise Farrenc’s incredible Nonet, paired with Beethoven’s stunning Septet.

About the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra

The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (ARCO) brings music to life through vibrant, historically informed performance (HIP).

Centre for Stories’ AusArt Day campaign will use digital storytelling to spark empathy and raise funds.

About Centre for Stories

Centre for Stories is a not-for-profit in Boorloo using storytelling to amplify underrepresented voices, build connection, and foster inclusion.

Help complete Father Joe's 50-year Bangkok story - exposing trafficking while celebrating community resilience. Please support our impact documentary.

About James Lingwood

With 25+ years in film & TV, James Lingwood is an award-winning Producer/Director, creating acclaimed documentaries, commercials & high concept films.

As On the Terrace turns ten, help Chamber Music Adelaide continue to connect South Australians through shared, intimate music experiences.

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Chamber Music Adelaide supports musicians to do what they do best, whether historical music or new interpretations of chamber music - we help them create experiences that transcend style or genre and thrive on closeness and connection. We support artists to present world-class performances in intimate settings.

A national online initiative connecting First Nations young people, mentors and dance educators through fundraising, cultural learning and creative engagement.

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The ELLA Foundation is a First Nations-led arts organisation creating opportunities for young Indigenous people through dance, mentoring, scholarships and cultural leadership programs.

Donate to Craft + Design Canberra and the artists who grow through making every day. 

We are fundraising to replace the canopy (ceiling) of the 116-year-old Melba Spiegeltent, the much-loved venue that has been part of Melbourne's arts community for sixteen years.

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Circus Oz is one of the world's original contemporary circuses and one of Australia's most iconic, irreverent cultural exports born in Melbourne in 1978. Circus Oz makes contemporary circus that entertains, inspires and challenges the widest possible audience with spectacle and intimacy, comedy and jaw-dropping skills. Proudly artist-led. Fiercely independent.

2027 marks 20 years of social justice theatre projects and championship of marginalised artists and their communities on Kaurna Yerta.

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ActNow Theatre is an award-winning social justice theatre company based on Kaurna Yerta. Championing historically marginalised communities is at the heart of everything that we do, and our spaces are stomping grounds for First Nations, Global Majority, LGBTQASB+ and Disabled artists and communities.

In the age of AI, human creativity matters more than ever. For 12 hours, your gift keeps virtuosic music-making human.

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Southern Cross Soloists is one of Australia’s leading chamber music ensembles, renowned for virtuosic performances, innovative programming and artistic excellence. Based in Brisbane, the ensemble brings together exceptional Australian musicians and acclaimed guest artists, presenting inspiring concerts, collaborations and festivals that celebrate classical music while connecting with diverse audiences.

This campaign raise money to sustain and grow a progressive literary culture in Australia.

About Overland

Overland has been showcasing brilliant and progressive fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art since 1954.

Help Australian Theatre For Young People (ATYP) transform The Popsy into a 55-seat black box theatre, empowering young artists to experiment, collaborate, and create.

About Australian Theatre For Young People (ATYP)

ATYP is the national youth theatre company, connecting young people with the professional theatre industry locally, regionally and nationally.

Help us support our 3 Ongoing Artists: Stevie Battese, Iris Blazely and Nancy Mauro-Flude, as they embark on the creation of their respective works for our 2027 festival.

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The Unconformity is an arts organisation that explores new cultural commodities on the wild and mountainous western fringe of Lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia.

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.

Na Djinang Circus are raising funds to deliver Making Tracks — a Training and Development program for emerging First Nations circus artists and arts workers.

 

About Na Djinang Circus

Na Djinang Circus is a First Nations-led company creating bold contemporary circus that shares the stories, voices and perspectives of Indigenous people.