Help us create a Mentorship Program that supports ceramicists and potters through paid, artist-led, knowledge sharing, and creative development.

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The Australian Ceramics Association is Australia’s national peak body for ceramics, supporting over 1,550 members and 400 print subscribers nationally and internationally. Since 1956, TACA has strengthened the ceramics community through publications, events, exhibitions, education, and online learning. The Journal of Australian Ceramics reaches audiences through print, digital, and international distribution.

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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.

Image credits: Overflow by Bridget Baskerville

Every drop counts. Help Tenth Muse turn ripples into waves by supporting a new commission by an emerging composer for our 2027 season

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Tenth Muse Initiative is dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices in classical music and opera, particularly gender marginalised artists and composers who have been historically excluded from the canon. We create space for new stories and artists to be seen, heard, and celebrated.

Help Speculative Insight pay authors more in 2027.

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Speculative Insight is a journal that explores the themes, ideas, and issues found in science fiction and fantasy.

Fuel bold new films from Victoria’s emerging and under-represented storytellers by making 100% tax-deductible contributions through our Production Fund program.

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CINESPACE is a not-for-profit that aims to empower CALD, BIPOC and First Nations filmmakers to create with agency. We collaborate with artists, community and partners to work towards meaningful representation in the Australian film and television industry.

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Support the next generation of artists in Kamberri/Canberra by helping us deliver a range of professional development opportunities.

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Canberra Contemporary is one of Australia’s leading independent contemporary visual arts organisations. Working with artists from Kamberri/Canberra and beyond, we provide opportunities for emerging and established creatives to experiment and exhibit. Exhibitions and related public programs run at Canberra Contemporary in Parkes ACT and Platform, a satellite project space in Manuka ACT.

This project will bring together children’s authors directly to the Hilltops NSW to deliver high-energy literary experiences to rural students.

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The CKT Speakers Agency is an Australian literary booking agency dedicated to bringing together schools, libraries, and festivals with children’s authors and illustrators. Operating across regional and national communities, CKT delivers author and illustrator visits, interactive workshops, and literary events designed to spark the imagination in young audiences.

Fund the Connection and help Arts North West bring regional creatives together to meet, share ideas, collaborate and create new opportunities.

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Arts North West champions creativity and cultural connection across the New England North West. We support artists, communities and organisations to create, participate and thrive. This AusArt Day, your support helps us deliver inclusive arts programs, strengthen regional creative opportunities, and ensure people across our region can experience the transformative power of the arts.

Every child in the ACT should experience the performing arts. Help us subsidise student tickets, provide regional access and transport assistance for disadvantaged schools. 

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Canberra Theatre Centre is Canberra’s premier performing arts venue, providing world-class performing arts and entertainment to the people of Canberra and surrounding regions. We believe the arts are essential to a vibrant, connected and inclusive community, creating opportunities for people to come together, experience diverse stories, and participate in the cultural life of the nation’s capital.

Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia

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Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia

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McClelland is a place to gather, explore bushland, encounter extraordinary art and sculpture, enjoy lunch and discover something unexpected.

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McClelland is a not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to presenting inspiring exhibitions and public programs, while caring for its beautiful sculpture park and bushland setting on Bunurong Country. It honours the legacy of Harry and Nan McClelland by fostering creativity, connection and enjoyment for all.

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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.

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Help award-winning Australian singer-songwriter and cellist Alice Hurwood record and produce her next album.

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Australian singer/songwriter and cellist Alice Hurwood creates intimate folk-pop that shimmers with emotional depth. Blending angelic vocals with atmospheric cello lines, Alice crafts songs that feel delicately powerful, inviting listeners into spaces shaped by vulnerability and warmth.

Help Fremantle Press create a new home, a hub for the stories that inspire, connect and move us.

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Fremantle Press is a not-for-profit Australian independent publisher, championing new and emerging voices, and sharing their stories with readers worldwide. It has launched diverse, award-winning, and bestselling careers, including Indigenous writers and artists. We connect the emerging writing community to readers of all ages, with the stories of our people and this place.  

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For 50 years, generations have called Shopfront home. Give more Young People the chance to experience the magic of Shopfront.

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Shopfront is Sydney’s only cross-art form organisation led by and dedicated to the artistry of Young People. We deliver creative workshops, theatre productions, our flagship emerging artist residency ArtsLab, an annual Youth-Led Conference and have five paid Youth Advisory Panels, and access programs, engaging with over 2,500 Young People annually.

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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!

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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.

Image credits: Fun home _ Alicia McCluskey

Our $10,000 target will directly commission two of the five exciting Naarm/Melbourne choreographers for the third iteration of ESCALATOR in 2027.

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Stephanie Lake Company is one of Australia’s leading contemporary dance companies, celebrated for its inventive choreography and electrifying performances. We employ some of the most outstanding dancers and collaborators in the country, and we are met with international acclaim from critics and audiences alike.

Image credits: Stephanie Lake Company's ESCALATOR 2023, 'BIG WIG SMALL GIG' by Harrison Ritchie-Jones, image by Mark Gambino

Your support will help unearth and nurture the voices of fiction and non-fiction writers, poets and creatives writing from the edges.

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We are a constellation of writers and readers drawn to the luminous, telling our stories from the edges. Our passion is to support and publish emerging writers from diverse backgrounds. If someone writes well and has a story to tell, we believe they should be heard! But we’re more than publishers: we offer a nurturing community for writers through coaching, workshops and reading events.

We're raising funds to award 10 Going Pro scholarships to emerging visual artists across Australia.

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Art Career Academy helps visual artists build sustainable, fulfilling careers on their own terms. Co-founded by artist Tom Gerrard and business coach Claire Bradshaw, we run Going Pro, Momentum community and BenchTalk podcast, interviewing 200+ artists over 10 years.

HotHouse turns 30 in 2027. To celebrate we're bringing back the legendary comedy and cabaret icon 'The Galah Bar'

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For 30 years, HotHouse Theatre has created locally focused, nationally significant work from our home base in Albury Wodonga.

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Jacob Boehme’s IMIGO is booked to premiere in 2027. Help fund its final development to Step Up to the Stage.

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Moogahlin Performing Arts is a nationally and internationally recognised leading First Peoples company. We’re a not-for-profit, committed to develop, produce, and present new works that are by, with and for our communities. Our flagship, Yellamundie Festival, based in Redfern, has supported the development of 45 works by First Peoples creators.

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.

Fund the commission of a new piano trio by Nicole Brady for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.

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Fund the commission of a new piano trio for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.

Image credits: MICMC photo of Orelon Piano Trio – JAMES GRANT PHOTOGRAPHY; photo of Nicole Brady – DAVID BOUD

ALTER is an Austral/Asian collaboration. Design and dance collide in a double-bill exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange.

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Liz Lea is an award winning internationally recognised dance artist, choreographer and producer. Over three decades she has created and presented groundbreaking, accessible dance theatre. She lives and works on Ngunnawal land, directs the BOLD and DANscienCE Festival and The Stellar Company and works as an Audio Describer in Australia and the UK.

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The Ones Who Stay is an independent feature film exploring grief, ambition, family, and the people who shape us.

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Brandt Kakulas & Zach Dakis are Melbourne-based filmmakers and co-founders of Blue Path Studios. After creating and self-distributing their debut film Corked, they are now developing The Ones Who Stay, an ambitious independent feature exploring grief, ambition, family and the people who shape who we ultimately become through love and loss.

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Today is AusArt Day! For one day of giving I am asking you to support my new dance work The Other Side of Half to help bring it to life.

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Deanne Butterworth is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and teacher whose practice is preoccupied with the investigation of movement and how it relates to the physical, emotional, and sonic space in which it is located. A graduate of WAAPA she has shown her work and performed in the works of other choreographers both nationally and internationally since 1995.

CASE is bringing artists and community together to activate sustainable, long-term support for Northern Rivers creative practice.

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CASE is a contemporary visual arts not-for-profit based in the Northern Rivers. Our ambitious program activates sustained arts practice through connection, experimentation and public exchange. By artists, for artists.

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.

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On AusArt Day in Wagga Wagga on October 22 we are bringing women together in a Storytelling Night launching the Fundraising Campaign for our new project, The Crossing Place

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Voices of Women is an award-winning creative storytelling and performance program for women, and by women. It was created to empower diverse, multicultural and First Nations women to work together, and with writers, actors and musicians to celebrate and share their stories.

Image credits: Voices of Women/State Library SA

The Thursday Group (TTG) aims to strengthen Melbourne's physical theatre and theatre-making community by offering extensive and accessible workshops. We need support!

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The Thursday Group is an ensemble-based theatre company grounded in collaborative devising. We create original theatrical performances and deliver weekly workshops teaching Suzuki training and investigating ensemble devising. Our ensemble builds and creates resilience in the physical theatre community and develops groundbreaking works reflecting urgent stories of our time.

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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.

Gasworks is raising $15,000 for our 15 resident artists to celebrate our 40th birthday with a group exhibition Revelry.

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Gasworks is a home for creativity - a vital precinct in Albert Park where people gather for connection and to experience the transformative power of art. Home to 15 resident artist studios, two galleries, two theatres and a café, Gasworks supports artists from entry-level to professional practice across every art form.

Image credits: Gasworks Creative Precinct