Affinity Quartet Unlimited Academy responds to a gap in Australia’s chamber music training, fostering the talent of aspiring string quartets.

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Founded at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2015, the internationally awarded Affinity Quartet is a growing organisation whose work encompasses national and global concert touring of innovative programs, new commissions, recording, teaching and mentorship to create lasting impact for musicians and audiences.

Support Canberra's Luminescence Children's Choir - your gift today funds bursaries, camps, new music and tours for young singers!

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The Luminescence Children's Choir is a treble choir for singers aged 10 - 17. Led by artistic director AJ America and composer/pianist Sally Whitwell, the ensemble offers young people holistic and high quality musical experiences and creates a safe and creative space for young singers to express themselves, all while fostering enduring friendships and a life-long love of music and the arts.

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Homophonic! is fundraising for our 2027 Midsumma season at Gasworks in Port Melbourne.

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Homophonic! is a leading voice in celebrating LGBTQIA+ voices in new classical music and composition. With over 65 commissions by Australian LGBTQIA+ composers since 2011, Homophonic! continues to celebrate, uplift, and meaningfully record our queer cultural history through outrageously good music.

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Help six First Nations artists create bold new dance theatre driven by street dance, skateboarding, vogueing and roller skating.

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Ghenoa Gela is a Torres Strait Islander artist from the Koedal (Crocodile)–Aubaith Clan and Wagadagam, Mualgal-Poid, Aragan, Samsep and Peidu clans. She creates platforms for First Nations artists and stories to thrive, grounded in sea, story and sovereignty. Works include My Urrwai, Fragments of Malungoka and GURR ERA OP.

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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

We're building a new fit-for-purpose art centre for Western Aranda artists, big enough to hold our dreams.

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The Hermannsburg Potters are a dedicated group of Western Arrarnta artists creating vibrant handmade ceramic pots that encompass collective and individually lived histories in their distinct Country. The Hermannsburg artists continue a 30-year legacy, sculpting and painting their visual histories and contemporary settings, speaking to their cultural beliefs, traditions and values.

Image credits: Photo by Bec Capp. Image courtesy of Hermannsburg Potters

Your donation, DOUBLED, directly supports artists, venues, and audiences - covering the costs of making Fringe shows more accessible for everyone.

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Adelaide Fringe is Australia's biggest open-access arts festival, transforming South Australia every February and March. Fringe works to remove barriers for artists and audiences: funding First Nations, diverse and emerging artists, bringing regional and disadvantaged communities to the front row, and supporting accessibility initiatives so everyone can experience the festival.

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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Music for Canberra presents the 82nd annual Canberra Carols by Candlelight. Help us keep Canberra singing by supporting this much-loved free community tradition and the local musicians who bring it to life.

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Music for Canberra is a not-for-profit organisation connecting people through music. Through choirs, youth orchestras, community ensembles and inclusive programs for people living with disability, we create opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to make music together, connect, grow and experience the lifelong benefits of music.

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Enable young musicians to attend the Festival with subsidised tickets and participate in workshops and masterclasses with NEBF’s guest artists.

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The New England Bach Festival is Australia’s only Bach festival, a biennial celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach and his enduring legacy. Held in Armidale, NSW since 2003, it brings together leading national and regional musicians through concerts, workshops, and community events, including commissioned new music by contemporary New England composers.

Image credits: New England Bach Festival Ensemble Apsley Tim Scott

MidnightSun Publishing proudly joins AusArt Day, raising vital funds to support diverse, boundary-pushing Australian literature and amplify local creative voices.

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MidnightSun Publishing was founded on a simple belief: that bold, original stories deserve to be heard. Working with both emerging and established authors, we are drawn to manuscripts that challenge, entertain, unsettle and inspire. At MidnightSun Publishing, we have published novels for adults, YA fiction and children's books.

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Eternal River is a major new work, inviting voices traditionally left at the edges of opera into its creation.

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At the heart of Second Echo Ensemble (SEE) are the artists who make and perform the work. Some live with disabilities, and some do not. We have toured our work internationally and are committed to reimagining how art is made, who can make it and where it happens.

Image credits: Second Echo Ensemble performing Relâche-The Last Dance on Earth on 27 February 2025 at Odeon Hobart. Photograph taken by Jesse Hunniford.

A curator-run initiative supporting collective learning, experimentation and exchange across Sydney’s independent arts community.

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CARRRY is a curator-run initiative creating spaces for curators, artists and arts workers to learn, experiment and work together. Through exhibitions, zines, workshops, public programs and shared resources, CARRRY explores curating as a collective practice built around exchange, experimentation, care and the people who make cultural work possible.

For 40 years, Melbourne Writers Festival has been a meeting place for art to be shared, stories to be told and creativity to thrive. Countless connections and special memories have been made through attending MWF events. With your support, we can continue creating a festival that nurtures community, platforms voices and makes unforgettable moments possible. This AusArt Day, we’re raising funds to increase the ability MWF has to directly support artists and uplift Victoria's literary community.

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One of Australia's most loved literary institutions, Melbourne Writers Festival brings writers and readers together to be inspired, challenged and thrilled by an intelligent, rousing and diverse program of events celebrating books and ideas. Since 1986, we have entertained hundreds of thousands of readers as the flagship annual writers festival of our UNESCO City of Literature. MWF ignites conversations across Melbourne and inspires curiosity and connection.

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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.

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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.

Believe in Australian art and support the creation of new artworks for TarraWarra Biennial 2027.

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From 31 July to 14 November 2027, TarraWarra Museum of Art presents the tenth TarraWarra Biennial, This Hand of Mine, curated by Dr Mikala Tai. Exploring superstition, ritual, intuition and belief, the exhibition features major new commissions by leading Australian artists, transforming the museum into a site of discovery, reflection and wonder.

 

Please help me show these works which have been created in the aftermath of family violence and workplace assault.

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My art is an inutitive process using colour on canvas or fabric to convey emotion, that is a personal response to love, loss, grief, trauma, joy, confusion and every other emotion that makes up my experience of being human in this moment in time. I am seeking funding to be able to exhibit the works I am am creating now and have created this year. I graduated with Bachelor of Fine Art 8 years ago, however I have only now started to focus fully on my own practice, having spent much of the last 8 years supporting other artists to exhibit their work, teaching and raising children. I thank you for your support.

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Help bring live peace-themed bell music, new collaborations and participatory performances to schools, communities and public audiences across Australia.

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Dr Thomas Laue is a carillonist, music educator and trustee. For 14 years, he has collaborated with instrumentalists, singers, including First Nations musicians and diplomatic missions in Australia. An international prize-winning performer, composer and arranger, he curates and performs bell music connecting communities through peace, remembrance and shared artistic experience.

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Help keep creativity accessible, inclusive and close to home for communities across Melbourne's outer east.

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Burrinja Cultural Centre brings visual arts, live performance, festivals and creative learning opportunities to Melbourne's outer east. Donations through AusArt Day will help us provide accessible arts experiences, support artists and create opportunities for people of all ages to connect, participate and thrive through creativity.

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.

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Help artists take climate action by providing the resources, opportunities and support they need to create change through music.

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Green Music Australia is an independent non-profit helping the music industry take practical climate action. We equip artists and industry workers with the skills, resources and platforms to lead change, supporting a thriving music sector and a just, liveable future.

We are turning 30! Help us organise the best party of the year to celebrate writing, books and storytelling.

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We are a community of writers and storytellers committed to developing and celebrating the diverse literary culture of the NT. We support, develop and showcase vibrant writing and storytelling in the Northern Territory – celebrating the unique contribution of NT stories and storytellers to Australia’s cultural identity.

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Support a culturally urgent Australian LGBTQIA+ Horror confronting forgotten Queer history, prejudice, vulnerability and the search for love.

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Based in Tarntanya (Adelaide), George Kellis (he/him) is a neurodivergent writer, working professionally as a Social Worker. Obtaining his Diploma of Screen from the Adelaide College of the Arts, as well as Introduction to Filmmaking with the Mercury and AFTRS, George’s writing has advanced in international screenplay competitions including Austin Film Festival. A passionate advocate and member of the Department for Human Services LGBTIQA+ Minister’s Advisory Council, George’s writing showcases his unique lived experiences with authentic, underrepresented characters.

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A children’s album written in English and Spanish, featuring original songs that celebrate Latin American heritage and Australia’s multicultural spirit.

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Valeria Alonso is a Latin American Australian artist, performer and creative producer. Founder of Dancing with Miss Val and El Ritmo Productions her work brings together music, dance, Spanish language and cultural storytelling to create joyful, inclusive experiences for young audiences and families, celebrating connection, creativity and cultural diversity.

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.

Building a stronger, more connected creative sector on the Central Coast through collaboration, artist development and future planning.

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Central Coast Music & Arts (CCMA) is an independent not-for-profit organisation working to develop, promote and advocate for a thriving contemporary music and arts sector on the NSW Central Coast. Established in 2020, CCMA provides strategic leadership, professional development, advocacy, live music activation and industry connection for artists, music workers, venues and creative businesses.

Help us bring culture, creativity and LGBTQIAPN+ pride together for a celebration of connection and belonging.

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Euphoria Foundation is a community-led LGBTQIAPN+ not-for-profit building stronger communities through connection, belonging, education and preventative wellbeing. Through initiatives including the 314 Movement and community arts programs, we create inclusive spaces where people can connect, celebrate identity and feel they belong.

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Help us bring more circus to Ipswich in 2027, creating opportunities for young people, audiences and Queensland circus artists.

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Circus Ipswich is a community circus organisation bringing the joy, creativity and artistry of circus to Ipswich. We create welcoming opportunities for children, young people, emerging artists and communities to learn, create and perform, while championing circus as a legitimate art form. Through participation, performance and events, we build confidence, connection and belonging.