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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Kuranda Amphitheatre Society: Amplify the Ampi
Owning our own sound equipment means more live events, lower production costs and greater opportunities for local artists and our community.
Australian National Veterans Arts Museum: Festival of Veterans Arts Giving Day
Help veterans reconnect through the Arts. Your gift powers free workshops, exhibitions and the Festival of Veterans Arts (FOVA).
KINGS Artist-Run: Helping Artists Thrive
KINGS supports the presentation of critical and experimental projects through a dedicated mentorship model at pivotal points in artists’ journeys.
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.
Healing Word Studio: Help Us Revolutionise Our Motion Capture!
Help Healing Word Studio buy a Rokoko Coil Pro: Precise motion capture for 3D hand animation.
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.
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.
Diversity Arts Australia: Every Voice In The Room
Every voice deserves a seat at the table. Your donation breaks geographic barriers, helping culturally and racially marginalised leaders shape Australia’s creative future.
Australian Dance Party: Keep dance alive in the heart of Canberra!
Help keep artists employed, visible, and thriving in Canberra. Every dollar powers the future of the arts in the ACT.
CKTFest Hilltops: CKTFest Hilltops
This project will bring together children’s authors directly to the Hilltops NSW to deliver high-energy literary experiences to rural students.
Megalo Print Studio: Amplify voices through art
Create a space for artists to share their voice with vital upgrades to one of Australia’s only print galleries.
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
Chamber Made: Cultivating Practice: Chamber Made Development Programs
Chamber Made Artist and Artform Development Programs support artists to explore, research, extend and deepen their practice
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.
Cordite Poetry: Cordite Poetry Review
Your support helps us pay the contributing poets, editors and artists in our esteemed journal, Cordite Poetry Review.
Skylar Vanderwrak: Blasted into a Faultline
This book has the attention span of an unleashed, juvenile Labrador named “Boof” who's just discovered an unattended sausage in the Snag Rodeo™.
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.
Dots+Loops: Help Make Adventurous Art Happen
Support Dots+Loops’ flagship biennial festival NONSTOP and our emerging artists Fellowship Program this AusArt Day!
Best Australian Speculative Fiction: Chinese Edition: Best Australian Speculative Fiction: Chinese Edition
Help us translate 17 of the best speculative stories created by Australian authors, and promote them throughout the Chinese World.
The Lighthouse Toowoomba: Lighthouse, Camera, Action!
Help regional Queensland kids read, write and create with confidence.
Kate Shaw: Studio & Community Workshop Space
A purpose-built studio converted from an existing shed, grounding a 20+ year practice in large-scale acrylic pour and resin works exploring geology and landscape. Beyond the studio's primary role as a working art space, it will host community workshops in drawing, colour and process.
Alice Hurwood: Help Alice Hurwood record an album!
Help award-winning Australian singer-songwriter and cellist Alice Hurwood record and produce her next album.
Access2Arts: Access2Arts - Access4All
Help us increase access and visibility for disabled artists by supporting Access2Arts.
UMI Arts - Preserving Culture: UMI Arts - Preserving Culture
UMI Arts' fundraising is to support artists development and foster community engagement.
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.
Talent Development Project: Talent Has No Postcode
Your donation will help support equitable access for extraordinary talent across regional NSW
Euphoria Foundation: Lanterns of Pride
Help us bring culture, creativity and LGBTQIAPN+ pride together for a celebration of connection and belonging.
WA Young Artists Chamber Music Program: WAYACOMP 2026
Established in 2019, WAYACOMP is WA's only competition for young people that is purely dedicated to chamber music. The competition offers exciting cash prizes to students to inspire and reward the efforts of young musicians working together.
Always Good Nights: Good Nights: It's More Than Music
Help fund three months of Good Nights operations, building a stronger, more sustainable future for live music in regional WA.
Band Together Foundation: Band Together Appeal: Give Children Music!
Help us put instruments in children's hands and tutors in their schools, so no child misses out on music.
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.
Tenth Muse Initiative: Drops
Every drop counts. Help Tenth Muse turn ripples into waves by supporting a new commission by an emerging composer for our 2027 season
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.