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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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.
Richie Valentino: Green for All
An animated film which explores social difference, impossible love and the exposure to a living entity that connects them all.
Australian Vocal Ensemble - AVÉ: Behind Every New Song
Discover what it really takes to bring a new Australian song cycle to life and help make the next one possible.
Perth International Jazz Festival: Swing Into Action with Perth International Jazz Festival
Help Perth International Jazz Festival keep ticket prices down, support local artists and plan for the future.
Sydney Film Festival: SFF Admit All
SFF Admit All is an initiative designed to remove barriers and welcome more diverse audiences to engage with the Festival.
Victoria Park Centre for the Arts: Revitalise and Transform Our Arts Centre
Victoria Park Centre for the Arts is growing our support and capacity-building for artists from all backgrounds and creative practices.
The Art House, Wyong: The Magic of Theatre
To provide access to the theatre for every child on the Central Coast and help reverse the decline of arts education in schools.
Circus Ipswich: Bring More Circus to Ipswich
Help us bring more circus to Ipswich in 2027, creating opportunities for young people, audiences and Queensland circus artists.
Brink Productions: Brink's 30th Anniversary Fund
Brink turns 30. This AusArt Day, help fund our next 30 and see your donation doubled.
Na Djinang Circus: Making Blak Circus Artists
We’re raising funds to deliver Making Tracks — a Training and Development program for emerging First Nations circus artists and arts workers.
The Home Stretch: Deep. Funny. Piano. Gay.: Tracking. Mixing. Master.
Deep. Funny. Piano. Gay. will provide support for tracking, mixing and mastering of Brendan Maclean's 3rd album with quality equipment and industry professionals.
Playlab Theatre: Support You Local Storytellers!
Help us raise $15,000 to deliver INCUBATOR in 2027—supporting emerging playwrights to write bold new Australian work.
Vacant Assembly: Funding The Occupy Residency 2027-2028
Raising funds for artists to occupy more space: studio space, materials, exhibitions and public engagement.
The Australian Ceramics Association: The Australian Ceramics Mentorship Program
Help us create a Mentorship Program that supports ceramicists and potters through paid, artist-led, knowledge sharing, and creative development.
FLING Physical Theatre: 25 Champions of FLING
This AusArts Day, 25 Champions will help celebrate 25 years of FLING and shape the next chapter of regional dance.
Collingwood Yards: Continuing Haring’s Legacy: Art for Everyone
Collingwood Yards shares its ethos of “art for everyone” through supporter Pandora Kay’s firsthand experience of Keith Haring’s practice.
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!
Futureative: Bring our creative conferences to life
Help bring three online conferences for independent creatives to life, showcasing Australian creatives and exploring the future of creative work.
Art of Courage Ukraine: Art of Courage - Melbourne Season
Art of Courage is an immersive theatre play exploring Ukrainian identity, courage, war, memory, culture and human connection.
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA): Support NAVA’s work for artists
Mackay Poetry Slam: Promoting Regional CQ QLD Poets
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.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company: Boya Winyang Yanginy (Money New Giving)
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company will engage with existing & new donors through social media, emails, & phone to maximise support for Blak theatre in WA.
AMEB Ltd: Music Education Without Barriers
Help regional, remote and First Nations music teachers take part in transformative professional learning opportunities and strengthen their communities.
Perth Symphony Orchestra: Raise Your Baton!
Too few women lead from the podium. Raise Your Baton changes that by putting a baton in her hand.
Burrinja: Creativity Close to Home: Burrinja: Creativity Close to Home
Help keep creativity accessible, inclusive and close to home for communities across Melbourne's outer east.
Fremantle Press: Be Part of the Stories That Move Us
Help Fremantle Press create a new home, a hub for the stories that inspire, connect and move us.
Milk Crate Theatre: StoryLab: Storylab: Your Support. Their Story. Centre Stage.
StoryLab empowers people with lived experience of homelessness, disability and mental health challenges to explore, develop and share their stories creatively.
WestWords: Booktober: Make Room for More Stories
Read what you love and help young people across Western Sydney and regional NSW find their voice through stories.
Patch Theatre: The Glimmer Society
Patch Theatre will establish The Glimmer Society - a brand new curated donor circle supporting the early creative development of new work.
Speculative Insight: Level up for 2027
Help Speculative Insight pay authors more in 2027.
Performance Space: Bring Ride or Die to Liveworks
Journey through first loves, road trips, coming out and death, with a car transformed into confession booth, shrine and grave.
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF): CIAF 2027 Superhighway Fund: The Blue Highway
Help CIAF artists cross the Blue Highway to Hong Kong — carrying Queensland First Nations art to new shores.
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.