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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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.
invisible art space: invisible art space running costs fundraiser
Raising funds to help with operational costs for invisible art space exhibitions and events
SPC: Collective Voices for the Future: Collective Voices for the Future
Add your voice to help SPC expand opportunities for emerging artists shaping the future of Australian choral music with us.
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?
Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP): Support ATYP’s Youth Ensemble in 2027
Help provide opportunities for 50 young performers in ATYP’s 2027 premiere production of a new award-winning First Nations play.
Ausdance ACT Youth Dance Festival 2026 The Metaverse: A day on the road with a Youth Dance Festival Mentor
Our campaign will help build awareness about the benefits of co creative dance for young people, working towards professional presentation in a leading Australian arts centre
Open Space Contemporary Arts: Art for Everyone, Everywhere: Support OSCA
Bring participatory art projects to life! Support OSCA to connect artists and communities in creativity. Make art accessible for everyone.
Patch Theatre: The Glimmer Society
Patch Theatre will establish The Glimmer Society - a brand new curated donor circle supporting the early creative development of new work.
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.
Green Music Australia: Building Climate Action Through Music
Help artists take climate action by providing the resources, opportunities and support they need to create change through music.
Tent City: A New Face: Build a Tent for Tent City
Build a Tent for Tent City and help amplify lived experiences of homelessness through inclusive theatre, storytelling and community connection.
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.
Lucy Guerin Inc.: PIECES 2026
Support one of Victoria's longest-running choreographic platforms: commissioning three new dance works in PIECES' 21st year.
Deanne Butterworth: The Other Side of Half
Today is AusArt Day! For one day of giving I am asking you to support my new dance work The Other Side of Half to help bring it to life.
Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO): MYO Needs a Flugel Horn
We've been frugal but can't afford a Flugel!
Affirming Access: Create, Connect, Belong
Help us create free, inclusive arts experiences where LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent and disabled people can create, connect and belong.
Canberra Glassworks: Klaus Moje Projekt
Help bring two landmark works by Klaus Moje home to Canberra Glassworks, where his legacy lives on through the artists making here today.
Shock Therapy Arts: Annual Giving for Interstate Touring
Help us share the Shock Therapy! Your donation brings our award-winning Queensland-grown shows to the rest of the country.
Marrugeku: Ngurragabu
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.
Support Cashless and Carefree: Support Cashless and Carefree
Raising funds for this years major show
Benjamin Paul: Carry 'waynapuni pools' forward
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.
Homophonic!: Homophonic! 2027 Midsumma season!
Homophonic! is fundraising for our 2027 Midsumma season at Gasworks in Port Melbourne.
photo access: Colour Darkroom fundraiser
This AusArt Day, support photo access's fundraising campaign to secure colour darkroom printing in Canberra.
Book Links - Centre for Children's Literature: AusArt Giving Day
Help us bring free writing and illustrating workshops to Queensland children.
Small Ripples Theatre: Gold Mountain Wives 金山婆 Original Musical
Support Gold Mountain Wives, a new Australian musical bringing overlooked stories of migration, resilience and belonging to the stage.
Performance Space: Bring Ride or Die to Liveworks
Journey through first loves, road trips, coming out and death, with a car transformed into confession booth, shrine and grave.
Pilbara Art Collective: Put Pilbara Art on the Map
Help us showcase Pilbara artists, share their stories and connect more people with the extraordinary creativity of our region.
Sorour: Art, Hair and Belonging
Support an independent artist exploring identity, belonging, migration and citizenship through painting, hair stitching and mixed media.
Creatives Inc: FREEDOM: Revolution Joy!
FREEDOM is an immersive, multi-disciplinary arts project curated by Lisa Behan for Creatives Inc. The project addresses the heavy realities of domestic violence and coercive control, transforming experiences of trauma into a powerful collective reclamation of feminine liberty. The project is created to highlight women's strength, regional creative practitioners, and the broader community.
un Projects: Support un Extended's Editor-in-Residence
This campaign supports our un Extended Editor-in-Residence (EiR) initiative, providing emerging arts writers with paid mentorship, commissioning, and publication opportunities, while platforming and reviewing Australian exhibitions.
Regional 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.
Woodfordia Ltd: Festival of Small Halls
A touring programme that takes high-quality live music into regional communities, working with local halls, artists, and professional touring artists.
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.