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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Regional Arts NSW: 80 Years / 80 Gifts
Be one of 80 supporters for our 80th birthday and help keep arts & culture in regional NSW thriving
Affirming Access: Create, Connect, Belong
Help us create free, inclusive arts experiences where LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent and disabled people can create, connect and belong.
The Thursday Group: Help Physical Theatre Thrive in Melbourne
The Thursday Group (TTG) aims to strengthen Melbourne's physical theatre and theatre-making community by offering extensive and accessible workshops. We need support!
Festival of Voices: A Voice for Every Young Tasmanian
Help young Tasmanians find their voice. Your gift brings singing opportunities to young people in every corner of the state.
Access Arts - Undercover Artist Festival: Cause a Commotion - Undercover Artist Festival
Elevate disabled and d/Deaf artists by causing a Commotion. Every donation supports our development program and secures Undercover Artist Festival’s future.
Thomas Laue: Bells for Peace in Motion
Help bring live peace-themed bell music, new collaborations and participatory performances to schools, communities and public audiences across Australia.
Creative Hearts Co.: Help Us Step Into the Outdoors
Help us add steps connecting our deck to our beautiful outdoor space, creating easier access for community activities and events.
Utp: Fan Mail to Utp
Our love language is words of affirmation, but we also love to pay artists... Support for Utp is support for diverse artists. Your donation helps make art that reflects the diversity and complexity of this country.
Newcastle Writers Festival: Become Part of the Story
Your gift helps Newcastle Writers Festival support wellbeing, inspire young readers and spark the conversations that shape our city.
The Awesome Black Foundation: The Voices Rising Fund
Supporting Blak creators and shaping opportunities for community
CASE: CASE AusArt Day Fundraiser – Sustaining Northern Rivers Artists
CASE is bringing artists and community together to activate sustainable, long-term support for Northern Rivers creative practice.
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre: Adopt A Puppet
This AusArt Day, adopt a puppet! Become a Puppet Parent and help bring stories to WA families, from just $75.
REELise Incorporated: Back the Next Generation of Storytellers
Help young Australians turn their ideas into films, find their voice and share their stories on the big screen.
Regionial Youth Orchestra NSW: Supprort Regional Youth Orchestra NSW
Support Regional Youth Orchestra NSW and help talented young musicians from regional communities access exceptional orchestral experiences, mentorship and performance opportunities.
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.
Lost Words Collection: Sinatra e De Maria Bis!
Help bring Sinatra e De Maria Bis! to Adelaide Fringe 2027 - a reimagined cabaret celebrating Sinatra, family and storytelling.
Bad Company Theatre: Keeping compassionate theatre alive
Help us fund our 2027 season and keep ambitious, compassionate indie theatre alive in Hobart
Monthly Poet Live: Help Us Take the Show on Tour
After two big nights at Melbourne Fringe, help us create more poets.
Ayda Akbal: On Moving To A Place
What happens when you move somewhere to follow your dreams, only to find that place seemingly falling apart around you?
Golden Thursdays: Acts of Swan Lake
Golden Thursdays is raising funds for its 2027 creative development program: 5 artists across 5 cities build choreographic material towards a major production
A_PART LIVE Performance Series: A_PART LIVE Performance Series
In 2026, A_PART successfully presented its first LIVE program in Kombumerri and Bundjalung countries (Gold Coast and Byron Bay). This campaign is to support A_PART LIVE_02 IN 2027.
PBS 106.7FM: Turn It Up! Amplifying Australian Music
Support PBS to champion Australian music through knowledgeable, human curation, helping people discover emerging, independent and otherwise underrepresented Australian artists.
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.
Art as Healing: Mokuhanga Residency in Japan
Promote the benefits of creativity for mental health by teaching skills learned at a residency in Japan in 2027
Thursday’s Child Theatre: Bring Mary Stuart to the Stage
Help bring the Melbourne premiere of Schiller’s bloody, seductive political thriller Mary Stuart to the stage.
SwaraSynthesis - One World Many Sounds: One World, Many Sounds
Support live music, cultural connection and creative collaboration through SwaraSynthesis performances bringing diverse musical traditions together.
Alice Hurwood: Help Alice Hurwood record an album!
Help award-winning Australian singer-songwriter and cellist Alice Hurwood record and produce her next album.
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.