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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Helpmann Academy: The Help Behind Helpmann
Every emerging creative has a story. Behind every opportunity is someone who helps make it possible.
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.
Collingwood Yards: Continuing Haring’s Legacy: Art for Everyone
Collingwood Yards shares its ethos of “art for everyone” through supporter Pandora Kay’s firsthand experience of Keith Haring’s practice.
Richie Valentino: Green for All
An animated film which explores social difference, impossible love and the exposure to a living entity that connects them all.
Homophonic!: Homophonic! 2027 Midsumma season!
Homophonic! is fundraising for our 2027 Midsumma season at Gasworks in Port Melbourne.
Burrinja: Burrinja: Creativity Close to Home
Help keep creativity accessible, inclusive and close to home for communities across Melbourne's outer east.
Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Busy Bee is back - but this time, we’re rebuilding.
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.
Seno Ensemble: Seno Ensemble: Bridging Musical Worlds
Support an Australian-Indonesian musical exchange bringing musicians together to learn, collaborate and create new experimental music.
invisible art space: invisible art space running costs fundraiser
Raising funds to help with operational costs for invisible art space exhibitions and events
Upswell Publishing: Take a chance on poetry!
Australia is the home to a remarkable array of poets. I'm enthusiastically looking to recruit new readers for their books!
Tura: Support the next 10 years of Sound FX
Support the next generation of Kimberley artists.
Milk Crate Theatre: StoryLab: Storylab: Your Support. Their Story. Centre Stage.
StoryLab empowers people with lived experience of homelessness, disability and mental health challenges to explore, develop and share their stories creatively.
Melbourne Fringe: Give a Buck. Watch It Double.
Give a Buck to Melbourne Fringe on 22 October and your donation will be matched, doubling your support for independent artists.
We Bleed The Same: KINSHIP
This is a vital Australian story about Stolen Generation survivor/ Wiradjuri woman, Brenda Matthews, forcibly removed from her Aboriginal birth parents & happy home at 2 years old & then forcibly removed from her much loved white family at 7 years of age. It’s a powerful story of resilience, love, loss, heartache & reconnection.
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.
Performing Lines: Sampai Tak Sampai
A living, breathing, evolving performance installation by artists Jumaadi and Michael Toisuta exploring migration, displacement and the environment.
Brandt Kakulas & Zach Dakis: The Ones Who Stay - Film
The Ones Who Stay is an independent feature film exploring grief, ambition, family, and the people who shape us.
Sarah Barton and Liz Burke: Stella: I Am Not Your Inspiration
A feature documentary about the life of comedian and disability activist Stella Young.
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.
TarraWarra Museum of Art: Support the landmark 10th TarraWarra Biennial 2027: This Hand of Mine
Believe in Australian art and support the creation of new artworks for TarraWarra Biennial 2027.
Tamar Dolev: Pink Salad animation
PINK SALAD will be a vibrant animation, by artist Tamar Dolev and filmmaker Katrina Mathers, blending documentary, family and flavour.
Springboard Opera: Bring The Medium to Stage!
Springboard Opera is putting on its final staged show of 2026, and we want your support to make it a success.
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.
Continuo Founders’ Fund: Fund the MICMC Piano Trio Commission
Fund the commission of a new piano trio by Nicole Brady for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.
Heartland Chronicles: Civic led arts: Central Queensland
Funds we seek will help bring project specific cultural assets home to the regions and to civic national institutions.
Talent Development Project: Talent Has No Postcode
Your donation will help support equitable access for extraordinary talent across regional NSW
South West Music Regional Conservatorium: Strengthen rural music education
South West Music Regional Conservatorium is arguably the most isolated conservatorium in NSW
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.
Trans Book Festival: Trans Book Festival 2027
Trans Book Festival will return in late 2027 for a third year of trans literary excellence.
Louise King Cello Dreaming: Cello Dreaming Solo Album New Works
Eight new works. One cello. Twelve hours. $2,000. Help me make some musical magic happen!
Central Coast Music & Arts: Central Coast Creative Future
Building a stronger, more connected creative sector on the Central Coast through collaboration, artist development and future planning.
Backbone Youth Arts: Boost Backbone's Building
Help us transform Backbone Youth Arts' venue space to give emerging artists an upgraded, accessible and low-cost home for their creative practice.
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.