Help JUTE Theatre Company bring Wanda Gibson’s award-winning children’s book Three Dresses from page to stage.

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JUTE Theatre Company is a Cairns/Gimuy-based theatre company creating, producing and touring new Australian theatre from regional Queensland. Since 1992, JUTE has championed regional artists, stories and audiences through main stage productions, new work development, artist pathways, youth and community programs, and sector-building initiatives including DARTS and RASN.

Image credits: Wanda Gibson

Every donation feeds into Dancenorth’s intricately interwoven programs, supporting us to 1) Make and tour exciting new work from the heart of regional North Queensland; 2) Support independent artists to find their voice, hone their practice and stay curious; and 3) Connect the community to dance, themselves and each other.

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A major champion of the arts in North Queensland, Dancenorth Australia balances a dynamic regional presence with a commitment to creating globally celebrated contemporary dance. Dancenorth is an epicentre of cultural change, empowering and supporting a diverse range of independent dance artists, while alchemizing regional and minority communities through movement.

Image credits: Dancenorth Australia

Become a Friend of Lapunyah and help support the Arts programs offered by LAG Inc. to the Western Downs community.

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Lapunyah Art Gallery Inc is a volunteer only NFP organisation which manages the Lapunyah Art Gallery in the Chinchilla Cultural Precinct. We are supported by the Western Downs Regional Council through a yearly Service Agreement to run arts and culturally based events within the council owned Lapunyah Art Gallery space. Our activities include: showing exhibitions (local artists and groups, touring exhibitions, gallery theme exhibitions, arts and crafts competitions), holding workshops for all age groups and abilities, mentoring artists, selling local art merchandise and supporting other arts and crafts organisations in our community.

Image credits: Helen Dennis

Support GUAM Pep Talks, connecting established artists with students and emerging creatives through inspiring conversations, mentorship, and career insights.

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Griffith University Art Museum is committed to innovative research and experimentation to encourage appreciation and understanding of art and its societal role. The Museum organises exhibitions, educational and public programs to offer enjoyment and encourage inquiry, research and experimentation, while building and maintaining the University’s art collection for future generations. Situated in one of Australia’s oldest art schools, the Museum stimulates active learning about art and the creative process through research, teaching, publishing and dialogue among communities of Griffith University students, faculty, artists, scholars, alumni, and the wider public.

Image credits: GUAM Pep Talk, Dylan Mooney. 2026. Photo: Patrick Lester.

Support an independent artist exploring identity, belonging, migration and citizenship through painting, hair stitching and mixed media.

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Sorour is an Iranian-Australian multidisciplinary artist living and working on Canaipa, Queensland. Her practice explores identity and belonging through mixed-media and hair stitching. Drawing on personal experience and local environments, she transforms familiar materials into works that consider visibility, displacement and the complex process of finding where we belong.

45 Keepers. 4 communities. 7 years. 1000's of Sunshine Coast stories. Help us create a permanent digital home for the Keeper Project.

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For more than 24 years, Red Chair has worked alongside independent artists and communities to bring new work to life. At the heart of our work is connection: between artists and audiences, between creative practice and place, and between people coming together to share live experiences. The Keeper Project is a long-form, socially engaged public art project that unfolds in everyday spaces, inviting communities to see their surroundings in new ways. The project places local artists into a temporary role as “Keepers” – observers, collectors, makers and storytellers embedded within the life of a place.

Image credits: Cooper Brady & Lindy Storee Smith

An all-ages circus show celebrating Australia’s greatest public space, Under The Big Cabana is the newest creation from Glitter Martini.

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Glitter Martini is a South East Queensland modern circus company, passionate about producing circus shows are joyful, inviting, and appealing to the general public. They produce shows in festival environments, theatres, and in unusual/unexpected spaces.

Image credits: Darcie Rae

A generous supporter will match every dollar raised this AusArt Day, up to $10,000, for AFCM Pathways.

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The Australian Festival of Chamber Music brings the world's finest musicians to Cairns-Gimuy each July. Your donation fuels our AFCM Pathways Program, which gives emerging Australian musicians and composers masterclasses, mentorship and performance opportunities year-round, building the next generation of chamber music talent.

Image credits: Paul Furse / Frontrow Foto

Be part of Isabella Gerometa’s new arrangement for Muses Trio’s Her Australian Songbook, celebrating iconic songs by Australian female pop artists, ready for studio recording and national touring 2027.

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Isabella Gerometta is an Australian composer and conductor. She has prepared and directed choruses for a number of events with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, working alongside internationally recognised conductors such as Simone Young and Alondra de la Parra. She has also co-directed a number of concerts for The Australian Voices, including Everyday Requiem in collaboration with Expressions Dance Company in 2018.

Muses Trio is an acclaimed ensemble dedicated to celebrating music composed by women, performed by women since 2013. Through compelling performances, recordings and collaborations, the trio champions women’s voices across generations. In 2025, Muses Trio was honoured with the APRA AMCOS Luminary Award for its contribution to Australian art music.

Help take The Last Salon from creative development to rehearsal and its first public pilot presentation.

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Broad Encounters creates bold immersive theatre that puts audiences at the heart of the action. Since 2018, more than 176,000 people have stepped inside our worlds across Australia. This AusArt Day, we’re inviting audiences to help bring our newest immersive work, The Last Salon, to life.

Image credits: Anna Kucera

In 2026, A_PART successfully presented its first LIVE program in Kombumerri and Bundjalung countries (Gold Coast and Byron Bay). This campaign is to support A_PART LIVE_02 IN 2027.

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A_PART is an artist-run arts movement based in Kombumerri Country/Gold Coast, providing a conduit and outlet for artists and communities, enabling meaningful exchange and creation within and between Indonesia, Australia + the World. A_PART is also home to the artistic projects of founder Juliet Widyasari Burnett.

This is your invitation! Back Queensland artists, build ambitious creative pathways, and help shape a thriving independent arts future.

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Yeah Nah Theatre is an independent theatre company founded by regional Queensland artists, now working and creating in Magandjin. We’re committed to producing stories that are honest, engaging, and unapologetically alive. Dedicated to supporting and growing the local arts community, we champion experimentation, dialogue, and meaningful experiences onstage and beyond.

Image credits: Jasmine Prasser

Elevate disabled and d/Deaf artists by causing a Commotion. Every donation supports our development program and secures Undercover Artist Festival’s future.

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Access Arts is Queensland’s leader in disability arts, creating opportunities for disabled and d/Deaf artists to develop, create and present work locally and nationally. Undercover Artist Festival is Australia’s disability-led arts festival, championing artistic excellence, inclusion and leadership through the Festival and development program, Commotion.

Your donation will help empower women, girls, and non-binary people to build confidence, create change, and strengthen communities across Australia.
 

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WOW - Women of the World Australia is a powerful, community-driven movement that celebrates gender equality, diversity, and the achievements of women/girls and gender diverse people through an annual program of Festivals & Events. Originating in Brisbane, the Australian branch advocates for intersectional inclusion and centers the voices of First Nations and regional women. WOW actively works alongside UN Women Australia to back gender equality. Through story, music and the arts, WOW empowers women across Australia.

Image credits: Photo: Katie Bennett

Support Dots+Loops’ flagship biennial festival NONSTOP and our emerging artists Fellowship Program this AusArt Day!

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Dots+Loops is Australia’s post-genre music and arts series, inclusively exploring the spaces in between a traditional classical concert, an underground club gig, and an experimental art show. We take exciting, adventurous and thought-provoking live art of all kinds, and present it in relaxed, accessible urban spaces. Combined with a passion for community, social equity, and quality over quantity, our shows culminate in a unique performance experience, which has been consistently applauded by critics, audiences and performers alike.

Image credits: photo by Reuben Fenemore

A touring programme that takes high-quality live music into regional communities, working with local halls, artists, and professional touring artists.

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Transcending differences in generation, nationality, and gender, the bonds created through the arts have helped nurture the natural environment of the Woodford site for almost 40 years. Through diverse initiatives, Woodfordia continues to bring smiles to people's faces, strengthen connections, and grow towards a brighter future for all.

Image credits: WOODFORDIALTD_Festival of Small Halls_Anakie_Wendy Silvester

Funds we seek will help bring project specific cultural assets home to the regions and to civic national institutions.

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For five decades Paul J Ryan's photography has been his primary art form along with film, publishing, sound recordings and installations to provide civic engagement activities across north Australia, metropolitan Sydney, Melbourne and internationally.

Image credits: Photograph: Paul J Ryan

Supporting artists and artisans while documenting, celebrating and sharing the skills, stories and knowledge that form Australia’s living heritage.

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Heritage Hands celebrates traditional, specialist and increasingly rare creative practices, the people who practise them, and the skills and knowledge they carry. Through photography, storytelling, exhibitions, festivals, workshops and intergenerational programs, Heritage Hands keeps these practices visible, valued and shared with future generations.

Image credits: Heritage Hands - Alicia Mora. Photograph: Melissa Hoedel

Help us bring free writing and illustrating workshops to Queensland children.

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Book Links Qld Inc. is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting children's and young people's literature. For many years, we have connected children, families, educators, authors and illustrators through events, resources, competitions, mentoring and other programs.

5 emerging women composers reimagine new chamber arrangements of iconic songs by Australian artists, mentored, workshopped and recorded by Muses Trio, ready for national touring in 2027.

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Muses Trio is an acclaimed ensemble dedicated to celebrating music composed by women, performed by women since 2013. Through compelling performances, recordings and collaborations, the trio champions women’s voices across generations. In 2025, Muses Trio was honoured with the APRA AMCOS Luminary Award for its contribution to Australian art music.

Image credits: Natalie Nicolas

Help us raise $15,000 to deliver INCUBATOR in 2027—supporting emerging playwrights to write bold new Australian work.

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Playlab Theatre develops, publishes and produces contemporary Australian plays. We champion playwrights through dramaturgy, process pathways and education, connecting bold new stories with audiences and classrooms nationwide. In 2026, we celebrate 10 years of producing live theatre—supporting the next wave of local storytellers from page to stage.

Image credits: Jake Lodder

FREEDOM is an immersive, multi-disciplinary arts project curated by Lisa Behan for Creatives Inc. The project addresses the heavy realities of domestic violence and coercive control, transforming experiences of trauma into a powerful collective reclamation of feminine liberty. The project is created to highlight women's strength, regional creative practitioners, and the broader community.

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Creatives Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation incorporated in 2015, initially established to bring music to the streets in a unique, engaging way. From the outset, GC Creative Inc. has focused on advocacy and community development, working to build a strong cultural presence across Southern Queensland. Our vision is to accelerate collaborative partnerships with local organisations, businesses, artists, and communities, enriching people’s lives through the arts, culture, and heritage.

In 2027, ARCO brings Historically Informed Performance concerts, regional tours, community workshops, world-premiere albums and a national Beethoven youth celebration.

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The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra specialises in historically informed performance (HIP) of late 18th- to early 20th-century orchestral and chamber music repertoire on period instruments and is at the forefront of the HIP scene, staying abreast with the latest research and developments around the world by collaborating with key guest musicians and musicologists. Under the co-artistic direction of Rachael Beesley and Nicole van Bruggen, the orchestra has been highly praised as “rich, impassioned, and faultlessly realised ... a thrilling example of HIP with all the right strings attached” (The Age).

Discover what it really takes to bring a new Australian song cycle to life and help make the next one possible.

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Australian Vocal Ensemble (AVÉ),brings together Katie Noonan, Hannah Fraser, Louis Hurley and Andrew O’Connor to commission, perform, record and tour new Australian vocal music using the text of Australian poets and authors. Since 2021, AVÉ has commissioned over 60 new works and shares contemporary Australian music with audiences nationally.

Your support of Mackay Poetry Slam helps us raise funds to send our two Australian Poetry Slam, CQ HEAT winners, to the QLD State Finals. 

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Along with the official Slam competition, Mackay Poetry Slam creates and supports opportunities for regional QLD poets to share their words with their world. Thank you for supporting regional voices.

Image credits: Miki Ponting-Boyd

Help PARKER Contemporary improve the gallery, from stronger exhibition walls to essential behind-the-scenes infrastructure, creating greater possibilities for years to come

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Located in Brisbane’s Fish Lane Arts Precinct, PARKER Contemporary presents printmaking and papermaking as vital, evolving forms in contemporary art. The gallery works with emerging and established artists who push image, object, process and materiality in new directions, creating memorable exhibitions, thoughtful conversations and lasting connections between compelling art, audiences and collectors alike.

Image credits: Gallery Director & Founder, Emily Parker at PARKER Contemporary. Photo credit: Russell Shakespeare.

Raising funds for this years major show

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Vulcana Circus will deliver a targeted matched fundraising campaign to support Cashless & Care-Free, a new site-responsive contemporary circus work exploring the invisible, unpaid and gendered labour of care. The campaign will invite supporters to directly contribute to artist fees, accessibility measures, and participation support for community members involved in the project.

Image credits: Chloe Callistemon

Sound of Our Place is a community-led commissioning project, contributing to a growing collection of community voices from across Queensland.

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Topology are established leaders in musical creativity in Australia, prolific creators of new original work, expert collaborators across genres and art forms and award-winning music educators. The quintet experiments with surprising combinations of music genres, theatrical staging and cross artform collaborations to create thought-provoking music experiences.

Image credits: Paulina Eaborn

UMI Arts' fundraising is to support artists development and foster community engagement.

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UMI Arts is an incubator for artists for the Far North Queensland region including the Torres Strait. We play a vital role in the preservation and maintenance of First Nations culture and arts for over 20 years.

Image credits: Veronica - Blueclick Photography

Help make art happen by supporting creative opportunities across the Sunshine Coast’s region for the next generation of artists.

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Sunshine Coast’s Regional Gallery in Caloundra presents exhibitions, public programs and learning experiences that connect communities with art and artists. The Gallery supports creative development, celebrates local and national practice, and helps people of all ages experience, understand and participate in contemporary art.

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.

Image credits: Somerset Storyfest/Aaron Skinn

Help us bring Stalin’s Piano and So Much Myself into their next life.

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Sonya Lifschitz, Ukrainian-Australian pianist, and composer Robert Davidson together create new storytelling approaches, weaving melodies from speech with virtuoso piano and archival footage. Their work has featured in the Lincoln Center, Barbican, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Darwin and Brisbane Festivals, amongst many others.