Find a project you love. Back a project you love. Make Art Happen this AusArt Day
AusArt Day, Thursday 22 October, 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. Scroll down to view this year's projects
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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.
guymorganartist: STUDIO CLEARANCE
Come and say hello, buy a personally signed book or just have a chinwag about the state of the world.
Ararat Gallery TAMA: Grow the TAMA Collection
Funds raised will purchase new artworks by living artists, ensuring the TAMA Collection remains dynamic, inclusive, and reflective of contemporary practice.
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.
Linden Hyatt: Voices from the Writers in the Park Archive
Help bring extraordinary voices from Australia’s literary past back to life through a new podcast drawn from the Writers in the Park archive.
Creatives Inc: FREEDOM: Revolution Joy!
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.
OZNZ Encaustic CONNECT: OZNZ Encaustic Inaugural Art Exhibition
Support towards gallery fees and logistics costs for encaustic artists to participate in an encaustic-only exhibition in September 2027, in the Blue Mountains NSW.
photo access: Colour Darkroom fundraiser
This AusArt Day, support photo access's fundraising campaign to secure colour darkroom printing in Canberra.
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.
Upswell Publishing: Take a chance on poetry!
Australia is the home to a remarkable array of poets. I'm enthusiastically looking to recruit new readers for their books!
Circus Oz: The loved Melba Spiegeltent needs support
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.
Canberra Glassworks: Klaus Moje Projekt
Help bring two landmark works by Klaus Moje home to Canberra Glassworks, where his legacy lives on through the artists making here today.
Guildhouse: Catapult Creativity
Catapult Creativity will funds for Guildhouse’s flagship Catapult Mentorship Program, enabling South Australian artists to access transformative, paid, artist-led mentorships.
Red Chair – The Keeper Project: Keep a Keeper: Digital Library
45 Keepers. 4 communities. 7 years. 1000's of Sunshine Coast stories. Help us create a permanent digital home for the Keeper Project.
Flinders Quartet: FQ Pathways, mentoring the next generation
Help Flinders Quartet launch the next generation of string quartet musicians and build FQ Sessions into Melbourne's home for string quartets.
Branch Nebula: New Vision City – Indigenous Street Styles
Help six First Nations artists create bold new dance theatre driven by street dance, skateboarding, vogueing and roller skating.
Sarah Barton and Liz Burke: Stella: I Am Not Your Inspiration
A feature documentary about the life of comedian and disability activist Stella Young.
Always Good Nights: Good Nights: It's More Than Music
Help fund three months of Good Nights operations, building a stronger, more sustainable future for live music in regional WA.
Monthly Poet Live: Help Us Take the Show on Tour
After two big nights at Melbourne Fringe, help us create more poets.
Tamar Dolev: Pink Salad animation
PINK SALAD will be a vibrant animation, by artist Tamar Dolev and filmmaker Katrina Mathers, blending documentary, family and flavour.
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Sounding the Horn: A Concerto for MCO
Help MCO bring a bold new horn concerto to life by Andrew Ford OAM, written for soloist Carla Blackwood.
Green Music Australia: Building Climate Action Through Music
Help artists take climate action by providing the resources, opportunities and support they need to create change through music.
PAC Australia: Inaugural First Nations Presenter Training Program
The First Nations Presenter Training Program, in partnership with arts leader Angela Flynn, to develop First Nations performing arts programmers.
Speculative Insight: Level up for 2027
Help Speculative Insight pay authors more in 2027.
Harrigans Lane CoLab: Invest in place inspired art music
We wish to commission new works generated by our unique buildings, natural environment and interdisciplinary residency program.
Louise King Cello Dreaming: Cello Dreaming Solo Album New Works
Eight new works. One cello. Twelve hours. $2,000. Help me make some musical magic happen!
Temperance Hall: Join the Temperance Hall Society
Our vision for Temperance Hall is working; sustaining it requires a collective.
At The Edges Publishing: Constellations: literary magazine for emerging voices
Your support will help unearth and nurture the voices of fiction and non-fiction writers, poets and creatives writing from the edges.
Tent City: A New Face: Build a Tent for Tent City
Build a Tent for Tent City and help amplify lived experiences of homelessness through inclusive theatre, storytelling and community connection.
Dancenorth Australia: One Donation, Three Programs.
Every donation feeds into Dancenorth’s intricately interwoven programs, supporting artists, audiences and the community.
Support Act: AusMusic T-Shirt Day
Celebrate Australian music and help raise funds for Aussie Music Workers doing it tough.
Tracks: Radically Local Performing Arts
Tracks is deeply rooted in the NT arts landscape. Water us regularly to help our creative ecosystem flourish!
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.