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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Flinders Quartet: FQ Pathways, mentoring the next generation
Help Flinders Quartet launch the next generation of string quartet musicians and build FQ Sessions into Melbourne's home for string quartets.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory: Support conservation of unique Balinese storycloth
MAGNT seeks donors to support the conservation of a beautiful storycloth, created using a no longer practiced Balinese textile tradition.
Monthly Poet Live: Help Us Take the Show on Tour
After two big nights at Melbourne Fringe, help us create more poets.
Country Arts Foundation: Double the Tickets for Regional Kids
Fill venues with joy and laughter from regional kids, supporting tickets and transport to art galleries, live performances and workshops.
PAC Australia: Inaugural First Nations Presenter Training Program
The First Nations Presenter Training Program, in partnership with arts leader Angela Flynn, to develop First Nations performing arts programmers.
Homophonic!: Homophonic! 2027 Midsumma season!
Homophonic! is fundraising for our 2027 Midsumma season at Gasworks in Port Melbourne.
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.
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.
Sprung Dance Theatre: Support Sprung Dance Theatre's annual event
Dis-Co Ball: Sprung's annual celebration of people with Disability in the Northern Rivers
Harrigans Lane CoLab: Invest in place inspired art music
We wish to commission new works generated by our unique buildings, natural environment and interdisciplinary residency program.
APHIDS: Support APHIDS make new work
We want to keep APHIDS artist run, artist centred and support our artistic community
Muses Trio: GEN MUSE: Her Australian Songbook
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.
Gliese 504 by Stella Cella: Dye in Bloom : Hand-Dyed Silk Studies
Transforming my signature hand-dyed silk into sculptural forms, exploring how colour, movement and material can bloom beyond the wearable.
Luminescence Children's Choir: Support Luminescence Children's Choir!
Support Canberra's Luminescence Children's Choir - your gift today funds bursaries, camps, new music and tours for young singers!
Windmill Production Company: Wag the tale with Windmill
Valerie, Windmill’s new work driven by toddlers’ imaginations and inspired by a local four-legged hero launches this AusArt Day.
Speculative Insight: Level up for 2027
Help Speculative Insight pay authors more in 2027.
Ararat Gallery TAMA: Grow the TAMA Collection
Funds raised will purchase new artworks by living artists, ensuring the TAMA Collection remains dynamic, inclusive, and reflective of contemporary practice.
Little Pine Tree Productions: Little Pine Tree Productions 2027 Season
This fundraising campaign supports the development and delivery of multiple independent productions for our 2027 season. LPT's community events create social connection through music and the arts.
Circus Ipswich: Bring More Circus to Ipswich
Help us bring more circus to Ipswich in 2027, creating opportunities for young people, audiences and Queensland circus artists.
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.
Beyond Empathy: InOut
Support a new major film work co-created by Bellambi's public housing community as they face major redevelopment, relocation and removal.
The Torch Project: Be a Future Dreamer
Be a Future Dreamer and stand with First Nations artists as they envision a new future for themselves
Lazy Thinking: Artist Support
Help us provide free accommodation, equipment, residencies, recording and practical support to independent Australian musical artists.
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.
Griffith University Art Museum: Make Pep Talks Happen
Support GUAM Pep Talks, connecting established artists with students and emerging creatives through inspiring conversations, mentorship, and career insights.
FLING Physical Theatre: 25 Champions of FLING
This AusArts Day, 25 Champions will help celebrate 25 years of FLING and shape the next chapter of regional dance.
SwaraSynthesis - One World Many Sounds: One World, Many Sounds
Support live music, cultural connection and creative collaboration through SwaraSynthesis performances bringing diverse musical traditions together.
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.
Space Jump Theatre Company: WORN by Lana Morgan
Support development of a new Australian play by Western Sydney playwright Lana Morgan, amplifying the voices and lived experiences of DV survivors.
North Australian Festival of Arts: Make More Art Happen in the North!
Help create the next chapter of NAFA, bringing ambitious arts experiences to Townsville and North Queensland.
Sunari Sooriaaratchi: Let These Paintings Be Seen: The Work of Sunari Sooriaaratchi
Please help me show these works which have been created in the aftermath of family violence and workplace assault.
Gasworks Creative Precinct: Revelry: help Gasworks artists celebrate milestone
Gasworks is raising $15,000 for our 15 resident artists to celebrate our 40th birthday with a group exhibition Revelry.
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.