MOVE like you. CONNECT in shared time and space. CREATE with agency. BELONG to each other and in the world.

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Since 2019, Great Southern Dance has contributed to Southern Lutruwita/Tasmania and national arts sector cultural vibrancy through contemporary dance. Across performance, choreography, film, design, place, and community, we ask: What emerges when we move with and for one another, attending to the relationships and more-than-human worlds that shape us?

Image credits: GREAT SOUTHERN DANCE_DANCE COMMONS_ROSIE HASTIE

Support Bunurong-led collaboration through visual art, storytelling and performance, connecting Bunurong, Māori and Indian cultural practitioners.

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Uncle Mark Brown is a Bunurong Elder, contemporary artist and founder of Dreaming Spirit. His practice brings together visual art, storytelling and cultural learning, creating opportunities for connection to Country, cultural understanding and respectful collaboration.

CASE is bringing artists and community together to activate sustainable, long-term support for Northern Rivers creative practice.

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CASE is a contemporary visual arts not-for-profit based in the Northern Rivers. Our ambitious program activates sustained arts practice through connection, experimentation and public exchange. By artists, for artists.

With One Voice is a national network of inclusive community choirs which brings communities together to experience joy and connection.

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Since 2008 Creativity Australia has been reducing the mental health impacts of loneliness and isolation through the benefits of group singing. Our 26 With One Voice choirs are inclusive, supportive communities which bring people together to experience joy and connection.

Support Gold Mountain Wives, a new Australian musical bringing overlooked stories of migration, resilience and belonging to the stage.

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Small Ripples Theatre is a not-for-profit independent company creating original musical theatre that amplifies Asian Australian voices and stories. Its works, including The Best Cabinet Maker and Hidden Tunes, explore culture, identity and social justice through accessible contemporary storytelling, inclusive practice, community engagement and cross-cultural collaboration with underrepresented creative artists.

Image credits: Esther Geng

Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company will engage with existing & new donors through social media, emails, & phone to maximise support for Blak theatre in WA.

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Yirra Yaakin produces award-winning theatre that tells First Nations’ stories and supports the next generation of emerging storytellers. We celebrate and nurture Aboriginal culture and support the development and employment of Aboriginal artists. Our audiences are both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal and we pride ourselves on the diversity of our audience members across the state.

Image credits: Dana Weeks

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.

Help SLIDE bring The Letters to life, connecting generations through dance, storytelling, memory and the voices of young artists.

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SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre is a Darwin-based youth arts organisation creating bold, inclusive contemporary dance theatre with and for young people. Through performance, mentorship and creative development, SLIDE empowers emerging artists, amplifies young voices and connects audiences through stories that reflect contemporary life, community and the Northern Territory

Image credits: Jacob Scott

45 Keepers. 4 communities. 7 years. 1000's of Sunshine Coast stories. Help us create a permanent digital home for the Keeper Project.

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For more than 24 years, Red Chair has worked alongside independent artists and communities to bring new work to life. At the heart of our work is connection: between artists and audiences, between creative practice and place, and between people coming together to share live experiences. The Keeper Project is a long-form, socially engaged public art project that unfolds in everyday spaces, inviting communities to see their surroundings in new ways. The project places local artists into a temporary role as “Keepers” – observers, collectors, makers and storytellers embedded within the life of a place.

Image credits: Cooper Brady & Lindy Storee Smith

Spread the social, health and cultural benefits of participatory music through our proven GCM model of locally responsive programs.

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CMVic supports a vibrant network of facilitators and groups and delivers locally responsive programs that address barriers to participation. We develop leaders who create inspiring, inclusive environments where individuals and communities can explore their creativity. We advocate for everyone to experience the power of participatory music.

Support the next wave of writers to tell the Australian stories that are not already being told.

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The Wheeler Centre is Australia’s only dedicated hub for Books, Writing and Ideas – a place where audiences connect with leading writers and thinkers from across Australia and the world.

‘Phoenix’ is Rhiannon’s self-written, self-produced Alt-R&B album, featuring BigYuki, Javier Santiago, Sam Barsh and Adam Deitch, celebrating authentic female-led artistry.

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Rhiannon is an award-winning Australian musician, songwriter, producer, and mix engineer whose work spans diverse genres and global collaborations. A Berklee College of Music alumna and Recording Academy/GRAMMYs member, she has earned 35+ awards, contributed to acclaimed projects, and collaborated with leading artists while developing her own self-produced music.

Image credits: Lovegreen Photography

Help carry a bathhouse made from wrecked cars into its next life, sustaining the artists, young people and cultural relationships that make 'waynapuni pools' possible.

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Benjamin Paul is an artist, educator and industrial designer based in Lutruwita/Tasmania. His participatory works bring people together through shared making, public ritual and place. Since 2024 he has developed 'waynapuni pools' with young Palawa people and cultural leaders, transforming wrecked Falcons and Commodores into places for bathing, ceremony and collective rest.

Our $10,000 target will directly commission two of the five exciting Naarm/Melbourne choreographers for the third iteration of ESCALATOR in 2027.

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Stephanie Lake Company is one of Australia’s leading contemporary dance companies, celebrated for its inventive choreography and electrifying performances. We employ some of the most outstanding dancers and collaborators in the country, and we are met with international acclaim from critics and audiences alike.

Image credits: Stephanie Lake Company's ESCALATOR 2023, 'BIG WIG SMALL GIG' by Harrison Ritchie-Jones, image by Mark Gambino

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.

A touring programme that takes high-quality live music into regional communities, working with local halls, artists, and professional touring artists.

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Transcending differences in generation, nationality, and gender, the bonds created through the arts have helped nurture the natural environment of the Woodford site for almost 40 years. Through diverse initiatives, Woodfordia continues to bring smiles to people's faces, strengthen connections, and grow towards a brighter future for all.

Image credits: WOODFORDIALTD_Festival of Small Halls_Anakie_Wendy Silvester

Back First Nations artists, stories and culture. Support DAAF Foundation and ensure remote artists can generate meaningful income with pride.

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DAAF Foundation strengthens and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, culture and community. We create world-class platforms like the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair where Indigenous artists can generate meaningful income and share their art and culture. Supporting Art Centres from Australia’s most remote communities, we help ensure First Nations stories, culture and creativity continue to be shared for generations to come.

Image credits: Solomon Booth at Moa Arts booth, Opening Ceremony, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, 2026, Photo by Leicolhn McKellar34

Give a Buck to Melbourne Fringe on 22 October and your donation will be matched, doubling your support for independent artists.

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Melbourne Fringe is Victoria’s biggest multi-arts festival and a champion of independent art and creative risk. We support artists to develop, present and find audiences for bold new work, creating opportunities for thousands of artists each year. Our Festival brings artists and audiences together to discover new ideas, new voices and unexpected experiences.

Image credits: Carlin and Camera

Help us showcase Pilbara artists, share their stories and connect more people with the extraordinary creativity of our region.

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Pilbara Art Collective is a regional creative platform connecting and showcasing artists and creatives across Western Australia’s Pilbara. Through our online marketplace, Art Map, artist stories, events and creative directory, we make Pilbara creativity more visible, accessible and connected while creating opportunities for artists across our vast region.

Visual Artist Ashwe is traveling to make a magazine on the topic of abstract generative art and dark extinction while exploring art practices abroad.

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Visual artist creating the REFLECT INSECT Art magazine

Image credits: Ashwe Myasein

Every emerging circus artist needs support to participate, and a place to perform. Help CircoBats create both, through scholarships, community workshops and performances across South Australia.

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A South Australian not-for-profit community circus school dedicated to ensuring high quality and accessible circus experiences are available to artists and performers of all ages and abilities. Based on Kaurna land in Adelaide. We believe circus should be accessible to everybody, and performed everywhere.

Help us create free, inclusive arts experiences where LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent and disabled people can create, connect and belong.

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Affirming Access is an LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent-led arts organisation creating free, inclusive creative experiences. Through artist-led workshops, exhibitions and community projects, we bring LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent and disabled people together to create, connect and belong, using art to support self-expression, confidence, social connection and wellbeing.

For AusArts Day 2026, ATYP is fundraising to support an ensemble of 50 young performers, who will take to the stage for the premiere of an award-winning First Nations play. Funds will support costuming and rehearsal costs for the ensemble, championing the voices of the next generation in an urgent new play about climate resilience. This ambitious new play will be brought to life on Gadigal land in Walsh Bay by a predominantly young, First Nations-led creative team. The scale of the work emphasises the autonomy and power of its young performers, foregrounding the next generation as active custodians rather than passive inheritors of crisis.

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ATYP is the leading national youth theatre company, dedicated to empowering young people through productions, workshops, and national development programs. We nurture the next generation of storytellers, presenting to a diverse audience and redefining what “youth” theatre looks like.

Image credits: Photography: Clare Hawley, 2022

Every donation feeds into Dancenorth’s intricately interwoven programs, supporting us to 1) Make and tour exciting new work from the heart of regional North Queensland; 2) Support independent artists to find their voice, hone their practice and stay curious; and 3) Connect the community to dance, themselves and each other.

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A major champion of the arts in North Queensland, Dancenorth Australia balances a dynamic regional presence with a commitment to creating globally celebrated contemporary dance. Dancenorth is an epicentre of cultural change, empowering and supporting a diverse range of independent dance artists, while alchemizing regional and minority communities through movement.

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Western Sydney is full of stories the world deserves to hear. This AusArt Day, help Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta bring the next Western Sydney story from page to stage.

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As Western Sydney’s leading professional theatre company, Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta has built a reputation for bold, authentic and culturally diverse storytelling. We champion artists and audiences, creating pathways for new voices to thrive and ensuring the stories of Western Sydney help shape the future of Australian theatre.

Image credits: NTofP_Hearland_TammyDang

Brink turns 30. This AusArt Day, help fund our next 30 and see your donation doubled.

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Thirty years ago, seven young actors took a leap of faith and started Brink. What began with seven people has grown into thirty years of new Australian theatre.

Today, Brink is still taking those risks, on new work, new voices, new stages. That’s why ambitious theatre gets made in South Australia.

Now we’re asking you to back the next thirty years.

Every gift helps build on Brink’s legacy.

Please join us.

DONATE + DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT!

 

Image credits: BRINK_COLLAGE_VARIOUS. Top: When the Rain Stops Falling, photo Jeff Busby / Middle left: Looking for Alibrandi, photo Matt Byrne / Middle centre: A Voice Like Shrapnel, photo Claude Raschella / Middle right: Love Don't Live Here Anymore. photo Claude Rasc

Help preserve community stories and support creative workshops that connect generations through art, music, food and memory.

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Light of Hope Foundation Inc. is a Melbourne community organisation supporting people with disability. Our creative art program offers inclusive, supported workshops where participants build confidence, skills and social connection through painting, drawing and mixed media, in a safe and welcoming space.

Image credits: LightofHopeFoundation_AusArtDay_Marina Naginski

Support the next generation of Kimberley artists

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Tura creates cultural experiences that connect us all in meaningful and surprising ways. Through the art of sound – in its many forms and crossovers within a universe of old and new practice – we explore Australian identity and push the boundaries of expression.

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The 1812 Theatre will restore the presence of its Ferntree Gully façade with a spectacular illuminated, eight-metre-wide Art Deco-inspired marquee.

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The 1812 Theatre is a vibrant community theatre in Upper Ferntree Gully, entertaining Melbourne audiences for more than 75 years. Presenting six major productions annually alongside youth theatre, workshops and community activities, 1812 provides an inclusive, welcoming space for volunteers, performers and audiences to experience and participate in live theatre.

Image credits: Goldie Kaye

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

Support PBS to champion Australian music through knowledgeable, human curation, helping people discover emerging, independent and otherwise underrepresented Australian artists.

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PBS 106.7FM is a community-owned specialist music broadcaster. Since 1979, volunteer announcers have shared deep musical knowledge, championing underrepresented music from Australia and around the world and building communities around a shared love of music.

Image credits: Owelu Dreamhouse at Drive Live 2026 credit - Mauro Trentin @mauro_images

Help us increase access and visibility for disabled artists by supporting Access2Arts.

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Creating a future where d/Deaf and disabled people thrive within an inclusive arts ecology.