Our workshop was lost, but our Busy Bees kept going! This AusArt Day, every donation will be doubled to help us rebuild, recover and keep the show on the road.

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Based in an old factory on Gadigal land, Sydney, Belvoir is one of Australia’s most celebrated and beloved theatre companies. Our mission is to make and share brilliant theatre that leads the way for our artform, our stories, and our communities.

Help MCO bring a bold new horn concerto to life by Andrew Ford OAM, written for soloist Carla Blackwood.

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Led by celebrated violinist Sophie Rowell, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra is Victoria's leading professional chamber orchestra — a pint-sized powerhouse delivering 70+ performances yearly with uncompromising artistry. The MCO hosts performances at Melbourne Recital Centre, an annual festival in Daylesford, and extensive chamber, education and outreach programs that tour Victoria and beyond.

Image credits: Agatha Yim/Principals

Help artists take climate action by providing the resources, opportunities and support they need to create change through music.

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Green Music Australia is an independent non-profit helping the music industry take practical climate action. We equip artists and industry workers with the skills, resources and platforms to lead change, supporting a thriving music sector and a just, liveable future.

Answer the call for the Arts at Brown’s Mart this AusArt Day. Your donation will be matched $ for $

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Standing on Larrakia land as the Home of Territory Performing Arts, Brown’s Mart delivers a year-round arts program that champions new work and new voices from the Northern Territory. In and beyond our multiple performance spaces we create and present contemporary performance works which engage with many communities and artforms.

Eight new works. One cello. Twelve hours. $2,000. Help me make some musical magic happen!

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Louise King is an award-winning, internationally trained cellist, composer and creative producer with 30+ years’ professional experience. After decades interpreting other composers’ music, she is now developing her own creative voice through cello, looping, electronics, improvisation and composition, inspired by the Sunshine Coast landscapes she has called home for 23 years.

Image credits: Deborah Dorman

Donations are vital to our support for artists. Your contribution—big or small—enables artists to make and share new work, within an environment of artistic freedom.

About West Space

West Space is an independent, non-profit contemporary arts organisation in Naarm (Melbourne), established by artists in 1993. As a vital incubator for timely artistic work, we commission groundbreaking new work by artists across the continent, investing in rigorous, experimental and socially engaged practice.

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Help us raise $5,000 to keep Muddy River Festival free and accessible for everyone in our river community.

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Fuel the Future of Muddy River Festival, a community-led music festival on the banks of the Cooks River. Through live music, hands-on education and community, we bring catchment neighbours together to celebrate this vital waterway, deepen our care for Our Backyard River and discover how we can help it heal.

Image credits: Adelaide Dalton

Support Dots+Loops’ flagship biennial festival NONSTOP and our emerging artists Fellowship Program this AusArt Day!

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Dots+Loops is Australia’s post-genre music and arts series, inclusively exploring the spaces in between a traditional classical concert, an underground club gig, and an experimental art show. We take exciting, adventurous and thought-provoking live art of all kinds, and present it in relaxed, accessible urban spaces. Combined with a passion for community, social equity, and quality over quantity, our shows culminate in a unique performance experience, which has been consistently applauded by critics, audiences and performers alike.

Image credits: photo by Reuben Fenemore

This is your invitation! Back Queensland artists, build ambitious creative pathways, and help shape a thriving independent arts future.

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Yeah Nah Theatre is an independent theatre company founded by regional Queensland artists, now working and creating in Magandjin. We’re committed to producing stories that are honest, engaging, and unapologetically alive. Dedicated to supporting and growing the local arts community, we champion experimentation, dialogue, and meaningful experiences onstage and beyond.

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Sound of Our Place is a community-led commissioning project, contributing to a growing collection of community voices from across Queensland.

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Topology are established leaders in musical creativity in Australia, prolific creators of new original work, expert collaborators across genres and art forms and award-winning music educators. The quintet experiments with surprising combinations of music genres, theatrical staging and cross artform collaborations to create thought-provoking music experiences.

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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.

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Melbourne Opera's Richard Divall artists share video introductions across AusArt Day, inviting donations to fund their next production.

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Melbourne Opera's Richard Divall Program is an open-age program for emerging opera singers of excellence, preparing them for the rigours of the industry to a performance-ready professional standard. Approaching its tenth year it has supported 52 singers. This unique program is a major investment in the future of opera.

Image credits: Photo: Robin Halls

Be part of Isabella Gerometa’s new arrangement for Muses Trio’s Her Australian Songbook, celebrating iconic songs by Australian female pop artists, ready for studio recording and national touring 2027.

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Isabella Gerometta is an Australian composer and conductor. She has prepared and directed choruses for a number of events with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, working alongside internationally recognised conductors such as Simone Young and Alondra de la Parra. She has also co-directed a number of concerts for The Australian Voices, including Everyday Requiem in collaboration with Expressions Dance Company in 2018.

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.

Celebrate Tantrum’s legacy and help secure our future: providing transformative arts experiences and breaking down barriers for another 50 years.

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For 50 years, Tantrum Youth Arts has been creating bold, inclusive arts experiences for young people, adults with disability, and early-career artists in the Hunter. We believe everyone has the right to play, and use theatre and creative programs to amplify young voices, and champion equitable access to the arts.

Image credits: Photo Credit: Eryn Leggatt

We’re raising funds to deliver Making Tracks — a Training and Development program for emerging First Nations circus artists and arts workers.

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Na Djinang Circus is a First Nations contemporary circus company creating a powerful voice for Blak Australian circus nationally and internationally. Through research, articulation and agitation, we bring Indigenous Cultural knowledge and contemporary circus together, making work that moves beyond the theatre into public spaces and communities, inseparable from the people and places it grows from.

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Supporting Blak creators and shaping opportunities for community

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Supporting First Nations musicians and writers to create new work through The Voices Rising Fund which provides funding, mentorship and industry partnerships to recipients.

Image credits: Teresa Tan

Join 4A’s Double Happiness Club: donate $30, bring a friend, and double the support for the next generation.

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For 30 years, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art has championed Asian artists and strengthened cross-cultural dialogue between Australia and Asia through exhibitions, commissions and programs that support emerging voices and the next generation of ideas.

Help bring three online conferences for independent creatives to life, showcasing Australian creatives and exploring the future of creative work.

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Futureative is creating events to support independent creatives on their mission to build sustainable careers. Through Front Row, our creative publication, and online conferences in development for 2027, we explore creative practice, reaching audiences and sustaining careers, to help creative people start, finish & launch their breakthrough project.

Image credits: Steve Palfreyman

This AusArts Day, 25 Champions will help celebrate 25 years of FLING and shape the next chapter of regional dance.

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FLING Physical Theatre is a leading regional performance company based on Djiringanj Land in the Bega Valley NSW. Creating original contemporary performance alongside transformative participation programs, FLING develops artists, builds community and demonstrates that exceptional contemporary performance can be created, experienced and sustained in regional Australia.

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ALTER is an Austral/Asian collaboration. Design and dance collide in a double-bill exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange.

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Liz Lea is an award winning internationally recognised dance artist, choreographer and producer. Over three decades she has created and presented groundbreaking, accessible dance theatre. She lives and works on Ngunnawal land, directs the BOLD and DANscienCE Festival and The Stellar Company and works as an Audio Describer in Australia and the UK.

Image credits: Liz Lea Creates

WE’RE ALMOST THERE! HELP US BRING 'SECRET OF THE RAFT' TO THE STAGE.

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Founded in 2011, by Artistic Director Louise Howlett, ReAction Theatre creates ambitious, innovative performance across theatre, multimedia and devised practice. Our work centres collaboration, embodied storytelling and diverse voices. Recent work includes 'La Souris blanche' at La Mama theatre, Melbourne and The Street Theatre, Canberra, and 'Secret of the Raft', a French-English bilingual immersive reimagining of Géricault’s iconic 'Raft of the Medusa' painting.

Image credits: Aaron Walker Photography

Rewriting the expectations our artists have been handed, on their own terms

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Tutti Arts is a multi-arts incubator where learning disabled and neurodivergent artists create, lead, and thrive. Since 1997, we have opened pathways to professional arts careers, challenged stereotypes about disability, and amplified disabled voices, helping build a more authentic, and diverse arts sector.

Image credits: Photographer and film maker: Daniel Principe

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 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.

Our 2026 AusArt Day is produced by five young artists who are each creating short clips based on their lived experience of Quantum Leap programs.

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Quantum Leap Australia is a contemporary dance company dedicated to the artistic development of young people through the collaborative, curious and rigorous creation of original work.

Image credits: Olivia Wikner, O&J Wikner Photography

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.

Help BlakDance to give First Nations dancers careers, not gigs.

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Help BlakDance to give First Nations dancers careers, not gigs. BlakDance empowers First Nations dancers and choreographers to tell their stories and share their culture through dance.

Image credits: Image: Garabari by Joel Bray Dance, produced by BlakDance, presented at the Sydney Opera House during Sydney Festival 2026. Pictured: Luke Currie-Richardson. Photo: Stephen Wilson Barker.

A generous supporter will match every dollar raised this AusArt Day, up to $10,000, for AFCM Pathways.

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The Australian Festival of Chamber Music brings the world's finest musicians to Cairns-Gimuy each July. Your donation fuels our AFCM Pathways Program, which gives emerging Australian musicians and composers masterclasses, mentorship and performance opportunities year-round, building the next generation of chamber music talent.

Image credits: Paul Furse / Frontrow Foto

The Theatre Guild has been creating bold, accessible theatre in Adelaide since 1938 - currently unfunded and keeping the intimate and unique Little Theatre alive.

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Since 1938, the Theatre Guild has been making, staging and celebrating theatre in Adelaide. From Shakespeare to Australian premieres, we champion bold ideas, new talent and the joy of making something together. Unfunded, our goal is keeping the Little Theatre alive while it desperately needs some love, care and attention.

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Help keep creativity accessible, inclusive and close to home for communities across Melbourne's outer east.

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Burrinja Cultural Centre brings visual arts, live performance, festivals and creative learning opportunities to Melbourne's outer east. Donations through AusArt Day will help us provide accessible arts experiences, support artists and create opportunities for people of all ages to connect, participate and thrive through creativity.

Empower diverse communities to make and share art for a fairer, more habitable world.

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Darwin Community Arts (DCA) is a multi-arts Community Arts and Cultural Development organisation based on Larrakia Country/Darwin, NT. For over 45 years, DCA has built inclusive, accessible and decentralised creative spaces that support grassroots artistic practice, cultural exchange and community connection. Through venues, partnerships and outreach across the NT, DCA empowers diverse communities to make and share art for a fairer, more habitable world.

Image credits: Alyson Evans

Support a culturally urgent Australian LGBTQIA+ Horror confronting forgotten Queer history, prejudice, vulnerability and the search for love.

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Based in Tarntanya (Adelaide), George Kellis (he/him) is a neurodivergent writer, working professionally as a Social Worker. Obtaining his Diploma of Screen from the Adelaide College of the Arts, as well as Introduction to Filmmaking with the Mercury and AFTRS, George’s writing has advanced in international screenplay competitions including Austin Film Festival. A passionate advocate and member of the Department for Human Services LGBTIQA+ Minister’s Advisory Council, George’s writing showcases his unique lived experiences with authentic, underrepresented characters.

Image credits: George Kellis