A photographic and painted portrait series exploring LGBTQIA+ people, identities and lived experiences across Australia.

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Karim Konrad is a Sydney-based visual artist and photographer working across photography, painting and mixed media. His work explores the body, movement and identity. He was a 2025 Head On Photo Awards Semi-Finalist and was selected for the City of Sydney’s 2026 Art & About Street Banner Gallery.

On AusArt Day in Wagga Wagga on October 22 we are bringing women together in a Storytelling Night launching the Fundraising Campaign for our new project, The Crossing Place

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Voices of Women is an award-winning creative storytelling and performance program for women, and by women. It was created to empower diverse, multicultural and First Nations women to work together, and with writers, actors and musicians to celebrate and share their stories.

Image credits: Voices of Women/State Library SA

Build a Tent for Tent City and help amplify lived experiences of homelessness through inclusive theatre, storytelling and community connection.

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Tent City is an original Rebus Theatre production exploring homelessness through the voices and lived experiences of those who know it firsthand. Blending performance and storytelling, the work challenges stereotypes, builds empathy and invites audiences to listen without judgement while connecting with the people and stories behind the statistics.

Image credits: REBUSTHEATRE_TENTCITY_PAULFURST

Deep. Funny. Piano. Gay. will provide support for tracking, mixing and mastering of Brendan Maclean's 3rd album with quality equipment and industry professionals.

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Funding to professionally track, mix and master Brendan Maclean's 3rd album. The album will be released directly to everyone who contributes to the campaign.

Image credits: Seiya Taguchi

Support Regional Youth Orchestra NSW and help talented young musicians from regional communities access exceptional orchestral experiences, mentorship and performance opportunities.

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The Regional Youth Orchestra NSW (RYO) is an audition-based youth orchestra for talented students from NSW Regional Conservatoriums. RYO provides students opportunities to play with other regional youth musicians and learn from leading conductors, orchestras and artists from Australia and the world.

Image credits: Clarence Valley Conservatorium

Make Regional Art Happen is raising $20,000 to help fund a Small Halls Commission, creating an opportunity for a regional Victorian community and a local artist or creative organisation to come together to develop and present a brand-new work, made in and for their community.

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Regional Arts Victoria backs artists and communities across regional Victoria to make, participate in, and experience creative work

Image credits: It’s No Drama. Photo: Lauren Murphy

Help us keep donation-based burlesque, dance and drag classes open to people facing financial barriers.

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Canberra Burlesque Academy is a First Nations and disabled-led performing arts school. We run donation-based burlesque, dance and drag classes, mentor emerging artists and put on shows that give people a chance to take the stage as themselves.

We've been frugal but can't afford a Flugel!

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Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO) is Victoria’s leading provider of ensemble music education for young people aged 8 to 25 years of age. Established in 1967, we continue to grow our community on a reputation for excellence, supporting young musicians to reach their potential, in creative and inspirational learning environments.

Image credits: Christine Tan

Help write the next chapter.

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Hunter Writers’ Centre is a not-for-profit incorporated association serving the stories, writers, and storytellers of the Hunter region. With a core focus on writing and storytelling, our programs include writer and artist residencies, exhibitions, and an arts store at the Lighthouse Arts precinct on Whibayganba-Nobbys headland

Image credits: Lee Illfield

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.

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The WA Young Artists Chamber Music Program (WAYACHAMP) was founded in 2011 to provide young musicians with an exceptional chamber music education that promotes excellence, skill development, and artistic exploration. Since the program's inception in 2011, over 2500 West Australian students have participated in WAYACHAMP activities, from the Kimberley to the Great Southern. In addition, the program's Works for Us initiative has commissioned five new works by Australian composers. The program invites students to learn, create, collaborate, and perform.

Image credits: Paul Wright

Help bring the Melbourne premiere of Schiller’s bloody, seductive political thriller Mary Stuart to the stage.

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Thursday’s Child Theatre is a Melbourne-based theatre company founded by producer/performer Michaela Bedel and director Rachel Baring. Our critically acclaimed productions include Slut by Patricia Cornelius and Betrayal by Harold Pinter. We stage juicy texts with feminist voices at their heart. Our mission is to delight, ignite debate and spark hope.

Image credits: Sarah Walker

Help us support our 3 Ongoing Artists: Stevie Battese, Iris Blazely and Nancy Mauro-Flude, as they embark on the creation of their respective works for our 2027 festival.

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The Unconformity is an arts organisation that explores new cultural commodities on the wild and mountainous western fringe of Lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia.

Image credits: Overflow by Bridget Baskerville

What happens when you move somewhere to follow your dreams, only to find that place seemingly falling apart around you?

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Ayda Akbal is a Turkish-Australian composer and artist whose work explores culture, identity, and belonging through screen and contemporary music. Named 2025 Australian Emerging Screen Composer of the Year, she has scored The Official Marvel Podcast, orchestrated the Emmy-winning John Candy: I Like Me, and created her artist album Where Do I Belong? Here.

Image credits: Lucy Davidson

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

Support a new major film work co-created by Bellambi's public housing community as they face major redevelopment, relocation and removal.

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BE is a community arts organisation with a 20 year history of co-producing long-term collaborative arts projects with communities & emerging arts leaders living under recurring trauma, hardship and in places often considered disadvantaged.

An animated film which explores social difference, impossible love and the exposure to a living entity that connects them all.

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Progressively created award-winning animated short films under the banner of Valentino Productions since 2014. The films have been showcased, reaching audiences from diverse nationalities, cultures and backgrounds. Through engaging storytelling, I explore themes of equality, compassion, inclusion and the importance of looking out for one another.

Image credits: Green for All.

Help regional Australian screen storytellers develop their craft and build careers, wherever they create from. Donate and amplify their stories.

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Screenworks is a national, member-based not-for-profit supporting screen creatives and crew across regional Australia. For more than 25 years, it has delivered relevant, innovative professional development programs for people at every career stage in every state and territory, helping build a diverse and thriving regional screen sector across the country.

Image credits: Olivia Katz

I am raising funds to create new ceramic works, develop my Saggar firing practice, and share this ancient technique with audiences in Australia.

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I am an Iranian-Australian ceramic artist based in Adelaide, with over 10 years of experience in ceramics. In my practice, I focus on wheel-thrown vessels, glazing and the ancient Saggar firing technique. I combine traditional ceramic processes with contemporary forms, materials and experimental firing methods.

Studio1 gives Brisbane's independent dance and body-based artists room to grow. Go behind the scenes and help fund what's next.

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Studio1 is Queensland's only dedicated home for independent dance and body-based practice. Through The Workroom Program — Studio1's year-round platform for artist development, research and exchange — more than 30 South East Queensland artists annually are given the time, space and support to explore, develop and test new work, strengthening Brisbane's performance ecology and building sustainable, thriving careers for independent artists.

Image credits: Studio1_AusArtsDay_Photographer_GeorgiaHaupt_Dancers_AntonioRinaldi_NatalieAllen

Please help me show these works which have been created in the aftermath of family violence and workplace assault.

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My art is an inutitive process using colour on canvas or fabric to convey emotion, that is a personal response to love, loss, grief, trauma, joy, confusion and every other emotion that makes up my experience of being human in this moment in time. I am seeking funding to be able to exhibit the works I am am creating now and have created this year. I graduated with Bachelor of Fine Art 8 years ago, however I have only now started to focus fully on my own practice, having spent much of the last 8 years supporting other artists to exhibit their work, teaching and raising children. I thank you for your support.

Image credits: Sunari Sooriaaratchi_AUSARTDAY_Sunari Sooriaaratchi

Help us bring more circus to Ipswich in 2027, creating opportunities for young people, audiences and Queensland circus artists.

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Circus Ipswich is a community circus organisation bringing the joy, creativity and artistry of circus to Ipswich. We create welcoming opportunities for children, young people, emerging artists and communities to learn, create and perform, while championing circus as a legitimate art form. Through participation, performance and events, we build confidence, connection and belonging.

StorySALOON brings Australian short stories onto the stage—and to readers and listeners across Australia.

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StorySALOON’s mission is to support Australian writers and showcase the Australian short story. We do this by selecting the best contemporary published short stories, put them on stage to be read by a talented actor to a live audience, record and then edit for podcast. Each short story becomes a unique, beautifully produced episode which can be heard now and into the future

Image credits: Hellene Algie

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

*BreathingSpace* is the amount of time that Frontyard could survive without further income, based on current expenses. Let's expand it!

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A Not-Only-Artist Run Initiative. Frontyard is a pro-active, flexible space for practical skills-sharing, community cultural engagement and critical research. Our aim is to challenge, facilitate and nurture collaborations between people with a passion for culture and to build a more resilient and sustainable independent arts community for the future.

Image credits: Heather Contant

We're building a new fit-for-purpose art centre for Western Aranda artists, big enough to hold our dreams.

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The Hermannsburg Potters are a dedicated group of Western Arrarnta artists creating vibrant handmade ceramic pots that encompass collective and individually lived histories in their distinct Country. The Hermannsburg artists continue a 30-year legacy, sculpting and painting their visual histories and contemporary settings, speaking to their cultural beliefs, traditions and values.

Image credits: Photo by Bec Capp. Image courtesy of Hermannsburg Potters

Writers tell their own stories: how workshops, groups, prizes and scholarships at Writing NSW changed their creative lives.

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Writing NSW is the state’s leading provider of services to writers, including courses, seminars and workshops, writing groups, festivals and events, grants and prizes, and information and advice. A not-for-profit organisation formerly known as the NSW Writers’ Centre, we have been providing quality support to the writers of our state since 1991.

Image credits: NSW Writers' Centre Inc. trading as Writing NSW

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

Supporting artists and artisans while documenting, celebrating and sharing the skills, stories and knowledge that form Australia’s living heritage.

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Heritage Hands celebrates traditional, specialist and increasingly rare creative practices, the people who practise them, and the skills and knowledge they carry. Through photography, storytelling, exhibitions, festivals, workshops and intergenerational programs, Heritage Hands keeps these practices visible, valued and shared with future generations.

Image credits: Heritage Hands - Alicia Mora. Photograph: Melissa Hoedel

In the age of AI, human creativity matters more than ever. For 12 hours, your gift keeps virtuosic music-making human.

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Southern Cross Soloists is one of Australia’s leading chamber music ensembles, renowned for virtuosic performances, innovative programming and artistic excellence. Based in Brisbane, the ensemble brings together exceptional Australian musicians and acclaimed guest artists, presenting inspiring concerts, collaborations and festivals that celebrate classical music while connecting with diverse audiences.

Image credits: Stephen Henry

AusArt Day kickstarts CIMF's fundraising campaign for the 2027 festival - support us now to help bring the festival life!

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Canberra International Music Festival (CIMF) presents an annual celebration of art music, nationally recognised for its exceptional quality, adventurous programming and broad artistic scope. With more than 30 years’ experience commissioning Australian works and championing boundary-pushing repertoire, CIMF has become one of the nation’s leading music festivals.

Believe in Australian art and support the creation of new artworks for TarraWarra Biennial 2027.

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From 31 July to 14 November 2027, TarraWarra Museum of Art presents the tenth TarraWarra Biennial, This Hand of Mine, curated by Dr Mikala Tai. Exploring superstition, ritual, intuition and belief, the exhibition features major new commissions by leading Australian artists, transforming the museum into a site of discovery, reflection and wonder.

 

Help young Victorians see the world through photography. Your donation supports free photography experiences for regional students.

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Ballarat International Foto Biennale brings world-class photography to regional Victoria, connecting artists and audiences through exhibitions, education and public programs. We believe photography can change the way we see ourselves and the world. We champion photography, support artists and create opportunities for people of all ages to experience, explore and engage with it.