Find a project you love. Back a project you love. Make Art Happen this AusArt Day
AusArt Day 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. AusArt Day itself may be over but there's still time to Make Art Happen with many projects still accepting donations.
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Corrugated Iron Youth Arts: Give to the Next Gen Now
Invest in life-changing creative opportunities for young Territorians. Together, we can shift headlines from crime into creativity, joy and possibility.
Ifa Shiddiq: World of Darwin: Spin-off Webcomic
Support a spin-off webcomic of ‘World of Darwin’, a project series involving character personifications of the Australian towns and cities.
Tracks: Radically Local Performing Arts
Tracks is deeply rooted in the NT arts landscape. Water us regularly to help our creative ecosystem flourish!
Darwin Community Arts: Art for a Fairer World
Empower diverse communities to make and share art for a fairer, more habitable world.
Brown's Mart: Brown's Mart Phone-a-thon
Answer the call for the Arts at Brown’s Mart this AusArt Day. Your donation will be matched $ for $
NT Writers Centre: Cake and Balloons
We are turning 30! Help us organise the best party of the year to celebrate writing, books and storytelling.
Duprada Dance Company: Sunsets & Soliloquies: Territory Touring 2027
Duprada’s 2027 NT tour showcases original classical and contemporary works choreographed by NT artists Lynne Hanton, Erin Selleck, Miriam Nicholls and Leisa Jackson.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory: Support conservation of unique Balinese storycloth
MAGNT seeks donors to support the conservation of a beautiful storycloth, created using a no longer practiced Balinese textile tradition.
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation: Beyond the Fair
Back First Nations artists, stories and culture. Support DAAF Foundation and ensure remote artists can generate meaningful income with pride.
Arafura Music Collective- New Art Music Commissions: NT Perspectives - New Art Music Fund
Support Bach Bounce! as Brandenburg No. 3 reimagined through urban dance, igniting an intergenerational, high-energy wave of Territory-made artistic brilliance.
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre: Put money where your art is
Arts and culture bring communities together. Art inspires us, challenges us, preserves our stories, and, most importantly create spaces where everyone can belong. These experiences don't happen by chance, they happen when communties choose to support them.
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.
SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre 'The Letters': Write the future with SLIDE
Help SLIDE bring The Letters to life, connecting generations through dance, storytelling, memory and the voices of young artists.
iZZY iBiS (Brendan Penzer): iZZY iBiS New Body of Work
Contribute to the creation of a new body of work by iZZY iBiS to be exhibited in 2028.
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.