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.

Duprada’s 2027 NT tour showcases original classical and contemporary works choreographed by NT artists Lynne Hanton, Erin Selleck, Miriam Nicholls and Leisa Jackson.

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Founded in 1984 by Artistic Director Lynne Hanton OAM, Duprada Dance Company is a classically trained ballet company based in Australia's Northern Territory. Maintaining residences in Darwin and Alice Springs, the company delivers professional classical and contemporary dance performances, enriching regional arts while fostering pre-professional talent.

Image credits: Deborah Cleverly

Golden Thursdays is raising funds for its 2027 creative development program: 5 artists across 5 cities build choreographic material towards a major production

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Golden Thursdays (GT) is a contemporary dance ensemble based in the Northern Rivers region/Bundjalung country led by five artists with diverse lived experiences. GT exists to elevate and centre the choreographic voices, leadership and professional development of neurodivergent and disabled artists through rigorous creative processes and inclusive collaboration.

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Help regional Queensland kids read, write and create with confidence.

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The Lighthouse Toowoomba is a regional creative literacy organisation helping children and young people read, write and create with confidence through exhibitions, workshops, publishing programs and community outreach. Since 2022 we have engaged almost 30,000 people, delivered 1,300+ workshops, and rehomed over 40,000 books across regional Queensland.

Image credits: The Lighthouse Toowoomba

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.

Image credits: Natalie Nicolas

Support development of a new Australian play by Western Sydney playwright Lana Morgan, amplifying the voices and lived experiences of DV survivors.

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Space Jump Theatre is a Gadigal/Sydney-based independent company dedicated to bringing exceptional, underproduced plays off the shelf and onto the stage. We champion Australian work by, about, and for women, amplify underrepresented voices, and create space for artists and audiences to experience stories that challenge, connect, and inspire.

Image credits: SPbyKS (Signature Photography by Kirsty Semaan)

MAGNT seeks donors to support the conservation of a beautiful storycloth, created using a no longer practiced Balinese textile tradition.

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MAGNT is the NT's premier cultural and scientific institution with collections that place the region's art, history and culture, and natural history in an Australian and international context. Managing research, interpretation and collection development across seven sites, we connect people to the stories of the Northern Territory.

Image credits: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Temple hanging (tabing), MAGNTCollection SEA 02491. Photographer Mark Sherwood.

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

Help bring Micro Wave to life – a new festival of emerging art by ten extraordinary Australian artists

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For more than 40 years, Next Wave has been Australia’s leading organisation dedicated to supporting the next generation of artists, curators and producers. We are a place where ideas are tested, where disciplines collide, and where new forms of cultural production take shape.

Image credits: Kickstart 2026–27 cohort. Left to right (from top): Carmen Yih, Tanya Cubric, Kerith Manderson-Galvin, Thang Do, Jag, Kyle Archie Knight, Ari Angkasa, Jina He, Justin Enrico Legaspi (absent: Ming Liew).

Transforming an old pump shed into artistic, accessible bird hide and shelter, welcoming all ages and abilities to enjoy art in nature.

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Transforming an old pump shed into artistic, accessible bird hide and shelter, welcoming all ages and abilities to enjoy art in nature.

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.

Keep our physical space thriving and providing vital opportunities for South Australian artists.

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The Mill brings together artists, creatives and businesses to collaborate, create, and inspire one another - all while being supported through expert guidance and artistic programming.

Image credits: Neasan McGuinness

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.

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.

Image credits: Diamando Koutsellis

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.

This AusArt Day, adopt a puppet! Become a Puppet Parent and help bring stories to WA families, from just $75.

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Founded in 1981 in Fremantle, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is Western Australia’s longest-running theatre company and a recognised leader in puppetry nationally and internationally. Each year, the company presents seasons in Perth and tours regionally, nationally, and abroad, engaging more than 200,000 people in the joy of storytelling through puppetry.

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This is a vital Australian story about Stolen Generation survivor/ Wiradyuri woman, Brenda Matthews, forcibly removed from her Aboriginal birth parents & happy home at 2 years old & then forcibly removed from her much loved white family at 7 years of age. It’s a powerful story of resilience, love, loss, heartache & reconnection.

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I’m a journalist, producer, writer, utilising my skills to share extraordinary stories through photography, film & the power of words. Wiradjuri woman / Stolen Generation survivor, Brenda Matthews has given me permission to work with her to share her story of being forcibly removed from her Aboriginal birth parents & her white parents. This is an important Australian story of resilience, government bungling, hope, love, heartache & one that shows a way forward for all Australians.

Image credits: photo by Liz Deep-Jones

Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia

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Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia

Image credits: GRACIE STEINDL

For every $1,000 raised, one emerging filmmaker will enjoy one years mentoring from an experienced filmmaker in the illawarra across 2027.

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Screen Illawarra is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting, connecting and developing screen practitioners across the Illawarra. We bring together the filmmaking community through networking events, workshops, professional development opportunities and industry connections, we work to strengthen our local screen community and create clearer pathways into the Australian screen industry.

Image credits: Jovan Sekulovski

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.

Image credits: Joe Calleri

Your donation will help support equitable access for extraordinary talent across regional NSW

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The Talent Development Project empowers exceptional young musicians to launch sustainable careers, offering world-class mentorship and training that would otherwise be out of reach. We build the skills, confidence, and artistry of musicians aged 13-25, amplifying the next generation of Australia’s performing arts talent.

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Help young Tasmanians find their voice. Your gift brings singing opportunities to young people in every corner of the state.

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Festival of Voices brings people together through the joy of singing. Australia's largest singing festival and lutruwita / Tasmania's longest-running winter festival, it welcomes every voice each July, from first-time singers to the world's finest artists, through concerts, workshops, mass singalongs and free community events in Hobart and across the state.

Collingwood Yards shares its ethos of “art for everyone” through supporter Pandora Kay’s firsthand experience of Keith Haring’s practice.

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Collingwood Yards is a not for profit arts precinct providing affordable space for artists and cultural organisations. Continuing Keith Haring’s ethos of “art for everyone”, whose heritage-listed mural is painted on the precinct’s wall, Collingwood Yards presents public participatory programs to engage the community in arts and cultural experiences.

Support Ngurragabu [From the last night / next / tomorrow] as it premieres early next year— help bring this major new work to audiences while supporting the development of an emerging First Nations artist.

 

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Marrugeku is Australia’s leading Indigenous intercultural dance theatre company, based in the remote town of Broome, Northwestern Australia and the urban centre of Carriageworks, Sydney. Marrugeku is dedicated to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians working together to develop new dance languages that are restless, transformative and unwavering.

 

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To create a permanent cultural destination at Perth Observatory in the Perth Hills, where contemporary art, nature and the cosmos converge, inspiring creativity, discovery and connection.

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Something extraordinary is taking shape in the Perth Hills—and we invite you to become part of it. Set within the heritage-listed Perth Observatory and surrounded by the natural beauty of the Darling Range, Perth Sky Sculpture Park is creating a unique cultural destination where art, nature and the cosmos converge.

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Help bring Sinatra e De Maria Bis! to Adelaide Fringe 2027 - a reimagined cabaret celebrating Sinatra, family and storytelling.

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Hey, I'm Emma De Maria! I'm an emerging South Australian artist and the founder of Lost Words Collection, an independent creative company dedicated to telling meaningful stories through theatre and film. As a performer, writer and producer, I'm passionate about creating work that brings people together, celebrates remarkable lives and sparks conversation long after the curtain comes down.

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Help us bring free writing and illustrating workshops to Queensland children.

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Book Links Qld Inc. is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting children's and young people's literature. For many years, we have connected children, families, educators, authors and illustrators through events, resources, competitions, mentoring and other programs.

Lifespan Dance 2027 Program will be centred around quality seated dance classes and performances across Perth, regional WA & NSW (Sydney) via studio classes, outreach delivery and unique performance opportunities.

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Lifespan Dance (WA) creates seated (and standing where practicable) dance classes & performances with choreographic connection

Your gift helps Newcastle Writers Festival support wellbeing, inspire young readers and spark the conversations that shape our city.

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Newcastle Writers Festival is one of Australia's leading regional literary festivals. Each autumn, it brings celebrated and emerging writers to Newcastle for conversations, readings, workshops and family events. Most sessions are free. In 2027 the festival marks 15 years of connecting readers, writers and ideas in the heart of the Hunter.

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Support the next phase of Ensemble Offspring’s acclaimed Hatched Academy as it expands into a dynamic Composer & Performer Intensive.

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Ensemble Offspring is Australia’s leading new music group, standing at the forefront of musical innovation for over 30 years. Led by renowned percussionist Claire Edwardes OAM, the ensemble unites the country’s most fearless and virtuosic instrumentalists. Together, they champion living and marginalised voices through kaleidoscopically varied performances of Australian music.

Image credits: Oliver Miller

Margaret River Region Open Studios: Art in Abundance funds the coaching, mentoring and support to help 150 regional artists thrive.

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Margaret River Region Open Studios (MRROS) is Australia's largest open studios event, inviting visitors into 150 working artists' studios across the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River and City of Busselton. Running 16 days each September, MRROS also provides year-round coaching, mentoring and event-time support, helping regional artists build real, sustainable creative careers.

Bring participatory art projects to life! Support OSCA to connect artists and communities in creativity. Make art accessible for everyone.

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Open Space Contemporary Arts is an artist led, SA arts organisation dedicated to the development of socially engaged participatory arts practice in public spaces. Under the guiding principle of 'Art for Everyone Everywhere', we create profound responsive arts and cultural outcomes that that connect communities to artists, ideas and places.