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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Creativity Australia & With One Voice choirs: With One Voice inclusive community choirs
With One Voice is a national network of inclusive community choirs which brings communities together to experience joy and connection.
Quantum Leap Australia: A Day in the Life of a Quantum Leaper
Our 2026 AusArt Day is produced by five young artists who are each creating short clips based on their lived experience of Quantum Leap programs.
Monthly Poet Live: Help Us Take the Show on Tour
After two big nights at Melbourne Fringe, help us create more poets.
The Awesome Black Foundation: The Voices Rising Fund
Supporting Blak creators and shaping opportunities for community
Restless Dance Theatre: Restless Dance Theatre: Enough
Restless Dance Theatre is creating Enough a powerful new work by Artistic Director Michelle Ryan, placing disabled and neurodivergent artists at the centre of a conversation about identity, belonging, self-worth and what it means to live authentically.
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Bring Baroque Brilliance: Emerging to Extraordinary
Give to the Brandenburg, and you support excellence in musicianship, education for our youngest audiences, and experience for emerging artists.
The 1812 Theatre: Restore the 1812: Put Theatre in Lights
The 1812 Theatre will restore the presence of its Ferntree Gully façade with a spectacular illuminated, eight-metre-wide Art Deco-inspired marquee.
George Kellis: HIDE/OUT: Development of LGBTQIA+ Horror Screenplay
Support a culturally urgent Australian LGBTQIA+ Horror confronting forgotten Queer history, prejudice, vulnerability and the search for love.
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.
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.
Tutti Arts: Unstoppable On Our Terms
Rewriting the expectations our artists have been handed, on their own terms.
Darwin Community Arts: Art for a Fairer World
Empower diverse communities to make and share art for a fairer, more habitable world.
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE SOUND INC: Support Liquid Architecture
On the (radical) edges of sound
Shepparton Art Museum: SAM VAN
The SAM Van brings hands-on art experiences to kids in rural and regional communities across Victoria's Goulburn Valley.
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.
Cyril Callister Museum + Peter Viska: All Right Vegemite
A vibrant celebration of iconic Australian illustration, raising vital funds to keep the Cyril Callister Museum’s stories alive and thriving.
Temperance Hall: Join the Temperance Hall Society
Our vision for Temperance Hall is working; sustaining it requires a collective.
Art Farm Birchs Bay: From Pump Shed to Bird Hide
Transforming an old pump shed into artistic, accessible bird hide and shelter, welcoming all ages and abilities to enjoy art in nature.
The ELLA Foundation: The ELLA Foundation Connect Initiative
A national online initiative connecting First Nations young people, mentors and dance educators through fundraising, cultural learning and creative engagement.
Dancenorth Australia: One Donation, Three Programs.
Every donation feeds into Dancenorth’s intricately interwoven programs, supporting artists, audiences and the community.
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.
Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: ARCO 2027: HIP for ALL
In 2027, ARCO brings Historically Informed Performance concerts, regional tours, community workshops, world-premiere albums and a national Beethoven youth celebration.
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.
KXT/bAKEHOUSE - KXT ON BROADWAY: Thankyou KXT!
We're celebrating the artists who shaped KXT over the past 10 years - and securing opportunities for the next generation.
Nexus Arts: One More Artist, One More Story: Interplay 2027
Raising funding to support the inclusion of one more artist to Interplay 2027.
Melbourne Fringe: Give a Buck. Watch It Double.
Give a Buck to Melbourne Fringe on 22 October and your donation will be matched, doubling your support for independent artists.
New England Bach Festival: Young Musicians Program 2027
Enable young musicians to attend the Festival with subsidised tickets and participate in workshops and masterclasses with NEBF’s guest artists.
SALA Festival Artist Engagement Fund: Give $30 for SALA#30
Create paid opportunities for SA Artists. Help shape artist-led tours and events at SALA#30 in 2027.
Community Music Victoria: Growing Community Music
Spread the social, health and cultural benefits of participatory music through our proven GCM model of locally responsive programs.
Operantics: Support Operantics' Hayes Theatre Co Debut
Support Operantics’ 2027 Hayes Theatre Co debut with Così fan tutte, investing in exceptional emerging Australian artists and accessible, high-quality opera.
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.