Help bring CYT's 2027 season to life. We're back onstage with over 35+ opportunities for professional, emerging and young artists.

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Canberra Youth Theatre is a home for bold new works created in collaboration with young people, emerging artists, and professional creatives. Creating theatre with, by, and for young people is at the core of what we do — helping them find their voice, build skills, and create work of outstanding quality.

The Theatre Guild has been creating bold, accessible theatre in Adelaide since 1938 - currently unfunded and keeping the intimate and unique Little Theatre alive.

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Since 1938, the Theatre Guild has been making, staging and celebrating theatre in Adelaide. From Shakespeare to Australian premieres, we champion bold ideas, new talent and the joy of making something together. Unfunded, our goal is keeping the Little Theatre alive while it desperately needs some love, care and attention.

Art of Courage is an immersive theatre play exploring Ukrainian identity, courage, war, memory, culture and human connection.

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Art of Courage is an immersive theatre play exploring Ukrainian identity, courage, war, memory, culture and human connection.

All in is St Martins’ campaign to transform our rehearsal room into an inclusive, acoustically sound, flexible space.

About St Martins

St Martins is a leading Australian company collaborating with young people to create bold, contemporary theatre.

Help us put 200 books into young hands, inspiring children to read, imagine, create and begin writing stories of their own.

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Storyfest is a Queensland-based children’s literacy charity connecting young people with the transformative power of stories. Through writers’ festivals, regional programs and year-round initiatives, Storyfest brings Australian authors, illustrators and storytellers directly to young readers, inspiring a love of reading, nurturing creativity and ensuring stories are accessible to every child.

Celebrate dance, creativity,  and community - Your gift makes social connection possible through the joy of dance.

About Dance for Parkinson's Australia (DPA) 

Dance for Parkinson's Australia (DPA) envisions healthy creative and connected communities activated through the power of dance. 

Inspire the next generation. Help provide opportunities for students to attend Sydney Theatre Company productions and develop their love for theatre.

About Sydney Theatre Company (STC) 

Sydney Theatre Company (STC) has been a major force in Australian drama since its establishment in 1978.

Support the development of One Last Lullaby, Bukjeh’s Palestinian theatre and documentary work, exploring motherhood, displacement, memory, loss and the care rituals of care we carry from homeland.

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Bukjeh is a Palestinian-led arts collective founded by Aseel Tayah. Through theatre, storytelling, music, film and food, we bring people together across cultures and generations. Working with First Nations, refugee and migrant communities, we create space for stories of home, displacement, belonging and the futures we imagine together.

Support one of Victoria's longest-running choreographic platforms: commissioning three new dance works in PIECES' 21st year.

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Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI) exists to explore adventurous and experimental contemporary dance that resonates between local and global culture, empowering a community of artists — our company and the independent dance sector who make work at WXYZ Studios — to create performances audiences experience as transformative.

This AusArt Day, help 100 Story Building give more young people experiencing disadvantage the opportunity to write, create and share their stories. Through creative writing programs led by authors, illustrators and storytellers, young people build confidence, literacy, creativity and belonging and discover the power of their own voice.

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100 Story Building is the home of story making and creative discovery for children and young people. Our mission is to ensure all children and young people, particularly those facing disadvantage, can build literacy, confidence, creativity and a sense of belonging through the power of storytelling.

Support our world-class 2026 season: local, national and international tours; new commissions; and opportunities for South Australian artists.

About Lewis Major Projects

Lewis Major Projects presents surprisingly real dance works in multiple mediums to diverse audiences across the world.

This AusArt Day, adopt a puppet! Become a Puppet Parent and help bring stories to WA families, from just $75.

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Founded in 1981 in Fremantle, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is Western Australia’s longest-running theatre company and a recognised leader in puppetry nationally and internationally. Each year, the company presents seasons in Perth and tours regionally, nationally, and abroad, engaging more than 200,000 people in the joy of storytelling through puppetry.

After 40 years of making great theatre, Belvoir needs some TLC. Donate on AusArt Day to help repair our beloved building.

About Belvoir

Based in an old factory on Gadigal land, Sydney, Belvoir is one of Australia’s most celebrated and beloved theatre companies.

 Celebrate Teena, art-dog and muse. Join us for a joyous, dog friendly farewell to a life that inspired many.

 

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From museums, to TEDx talks and morning TV, Teena's unique charm opened hearts everywhere she went. Teena was a muse, a collaborator, and a dear friend to David, with whom she formed an unforgettable artistic duo that brought joy, connection, and a touch of mischief to many. 

Support The Australian Voices as we commission new Australian composers and share their music through live performance and film.

About The Australian Voices

The Australian Voices are a world-class choir championing new Australian choral music through over 500 commissioned works across three decades.

Werribee Historical Society has to move.  We want to help make that happen.

About Essence

Essence is an independent theatre company based in Wyndham that actively creates, connects with and supports local arts individuals/groups.

Support young musicians from the WA Young Artists Chamber Music Program in their pursuit of musical excellence and collaboration.

WA Young Artists Chamber Music Program (WAYACHAMP)

Established in 2011, the WA Young Artists Chamber Music Program (WAYACHAMP) offers chamber music engagement for young musicians aged 9-17, fostering excellence, advancing skill development, and inspiring artistic exploration.

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.

Trans Book Festival will return in late 2027 for a third year of trans literary excellence.

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Trans Book Festival (TBF) is the only writers’ festival in the southern hemisphere focused on uplifting and celebrating trans and gender diverse (TGD) literary excellence.

Western Edge artists chat about our community arts practice while cooking a meal together to raise funds for capacity-building initiatives.

About Western Edge

Western Edge: where young artists from Melbourne’s west tell their own stories, with their own voice, in their own way.

Outback Arts aim to prepare this one-of-a-kind facility to be a beacon for performing arts in remote NSW.  

About Outback Arts

Outback Arts is a non-profit regional arts and cultural development organisation in far western NSW, with a theatre based in Coonamble. 

Inspired by the land, spirit and Indigenous cultures of regional NSW, we use arts and creativity to empower young people.

About Moorambilla Voices 

A multi-arts program for children and youth in remote and regional New South Wales.

The 1812 Theatre will restore the presence of its Ferntree Gully façade with a spectacular illuminated, eight-metre-wide Art Deco-inspired marquee.

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The 1812 Theatre is a vibrant community theatre in Upper Ferntree Gully, entertaining Melbourne audiences for more than 75 years. Presenting six major productions annually alongside youth theatre, workshops and community activities, 1812 provides an inclusive, welcoming space for volunteers, performers and audiences to experience and participate in live theatre.

Support a spin-off webcomic of ‘World of Darwin’, a project series involving character personifications of the Australian towns and cities.

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Ifa is an emerging Indonesian-Australian artist born and bred in Darwin, Larrakia Country. With a distinct passion for character design and storytelling, her work explores nostalgia, place and identity.

This fundraising campaign will help Australian Book Review continue to support freelance writers and the wider Australian literary community.

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Australian Book Review (ABR) supports Australian writers, reading and cultural criticism through its monthly print and online magazine, publishing critical and creative writing of the highest standard.

For over 50 years we've brought art and creativity to our community. This AusArt Day, help refresh our ceramics studio.

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Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios is a not-for-profit creative hub on Sydney's Lower North Shore, established in 1972. We present changing exhibitions by emerging and established artists, run classes and workshops for all ages across our ceramics, printmaking and art studios, and host artist-in-residence programs.

Give to the Brandenburg, and you support excellence in musicianship, education for our youngest audiences, and experience for emerging artists.

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The Brandenburg are international leaders in the presentation and fearless exploration of music on period instruments with a focus on Baroque and early music. Our experiences are excellent, passionate, uniquely Australian, and presented in enlivening and unexpected ways. Our ensemble of specialist musicians from across the country enchant audiences everywhere.

Peter Day is creating 3 abstract sculptures for exhibition at the Venice Biennale, 2026, depicting Benthic Foraminifera in glass, limestone and bronze.

About Peter Day

Peter Day has been making art professionally for over 45 years. He has made 200 works of public art and his personal works have been shown in over thirty solo shows and grace many public and private collections in Australia and overseas.

 

Umbrella holds one of regional Australia’s most significant contemporary art archives. Your support helps us make these resources accessible.

About Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts

Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts is an independent platform for bold, contemporary and experimental arts on Gurambilbarra / Townsville.  

Welcome to AusArt Day! Join Australian Baroque as they discover the best time to listen to Baroque music.

About Australian Baroque

Australian Baroque is a national ensemble and early music initiative, formed at its core by WA-based artists.

Celebrate culture, connection, and Country by helping Canberra Museum + Gallery (CMAG) acquire Maree Clarke’s 'Reed Necklaces' 2025.

Canberra Museum + Gallery (CMAG)  

CMAG helps locals and visitors explore Canberra’s creative heart, history, and stories—preserving them to the highest museum standards.

An Indigenous-led exchange between Western Desert Martu and Kalahari desert Ju/'hoansi people. “Reciprocally sharing stories, following our own path”.

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Camera Story is a not-for-profit arts organisation supporting remote First Nations artists to create and share culturally led stories through film, photography and digital media. Working across regional and remote Western Australia, we centre cultural authority, artist leadership and community impact, connecting First Nations voices with national and international audiences.