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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SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre 'The Letters': Write the future with SLIDE
Help SLIDE bring The Letters to life, connecting generations through dance, storytelling, memory and the voices of young artists.
Daisy Pring: Daisy Pring's sophomore EP 'Messy'
Pop/Rnb artist Daisy Pring is ready to break out of her small town on the South Coast with her second EP 'Messy'. The project will consist of 6 original tracks, all written in Sydney, NSW and will be accompanied by music videos, shot by Sydney based film duo Four:Three.
Metro Arts: ART STARTS HERE
Metro Arts emboldens artists to push boundaries, generate new ideas, create powerful work - WITH SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
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.
Futureative: Bring our creative conferences to life
Help bring three online conferences for independent creatives to life, showcasing Australian creatives and exploring the future of creative work.
Monthly Poet Live: Help Us Take the Show on Tour
After two big nights at Melbourne Fringe, help us create more poets.
Darwin Community Arts: Art for a Fairer World
Empower diverse communities to make and share art for a fairer, more habitable world.
Australian National Veterans Arts Museum: Festival of Veterans Arts Giving Day
Help veterans reconnect through the Arts. Your gift powers free workshops, exhibitions and the Festival of Veterans Arts (FOVA).
Thomas Laue: Bells for Peace in Motion
Help bring live peace-themed bell music, new collaborations and participatory performances to schools, communities and public audiences across Australia.
Skylar Vanderwrak: Blasted into a Faultline
This book has the attention span of an unleashed, juvenile Labrador named “Boof” who's just discovered an unattended sausage in the Snag Rodeo™.
photo access: Colour Darkroom fundraiser
This AusArt Day, support photo access's fundraising campaign to secure colour darkroom printing in Canberra.
WestWords: Booktober: Make Room for More Stories
Read what you love and help young people across Western Sydney and regional NSW find their voice through stories.
OZNZ Encaustic CONNECT: OZNZ Encaustic Inaugural Art Exhibition
Support towards gallery fees and logistics costs for encaustic artists to participate in an encaustic-only exhibition in September 2027, in the Blue Mountains NSW.
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.
Trans Book Festival: Trans Book Festival 2027
Trans Book Festival will return in late 2027 for a third year of trans literary excellence.
Canberra Contemporary: Show Up + Show Off | Artist Skills and Development
Support the next generation of artists in Kamberri/Canberra by helping us deliver a range of professional development opportunities.
Topology Music: Sound of Our Place
Sound of Our Place is a community-led commissioning project, contributing to a growing collection of community voices from across Queensland.
Screenworks: Amplify Regional Screen Stories
Help regional Australian screen storytellers develop their craft and build careers, wherever they create from. Donate and amplify their stories.
Creativity Australia & With One Voice choirs: With One Voice inclusive community choirs
With One Voice is a national network of inclusive community choirs which brings communities together to experience joy and connection.
Australian Dance Party: Keep dance alive in the heart of Canberra!
Help keep artists employed, visible, and thriving in Canberra. Every dollar powers the future of the arts in the ACT.
Australian Book Review: Support Australian Book Review
This fundraising campaign will help Australian Book Review continue to support freelance writers and the wider Australian literary community.
Playlab Theatre: Support You Local Storytellers!
Help us raise $15,000 to deliver INCUBATOR in 2027—supporting emerging playwrights to write bold new Australian work.
Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative: Boomalli 40 Year Anniversary Mural
Help Boomalli create a landmark 100 meter mural celebrating 40 years, continuing our legacy of amplifying NSW Aboriginal art and artists.
Heritage Hands: Living Heritage
Supporting artists and artisans while documenting, celebrating and sharing the skills, stories and knowledge that form Australia’s living heritage.
Access Arts - Undercover Artist Festival: Cause a Commotion - Undercover Artist Festival
Elevate disabled and d/Deaf artists by causing a Commotion. Every donation supports our development program and secures Undercover Artist Festival’s future.
Kate Shaw: Studio & Community Workshop Space
A purpose-built studio converted from an existing shed, grounding a 20+ year practice in large-scale acrylic pour and resin works exploring geology and landscape. Beyond the studio's primary role as a working art space, it will host community workshops in drawing, colour and process.
Tura: Support the next 10 years of Sound FX
Support the next generation of Kimberley artists.
Belloo: Making Theatre Possible
Be part of Belloo’s next decade of bold Australian performance: invest in untold stories, mentorship, intercultural exchange and community connection.
Danza del Arte: Quietly LOUD: Fuelling New Art
A sensory contemporary production where live music, movement & design unite the artists with the audiences in a real magical moment of connection.
StorySALOON: Championing writers, growing audiences
StorySALOON brings Australian short stories onto the stage—and to readers and listeners across Australia.
Vacant Assembly: Funding The Occupy Residency 2027-2028
Raising funds for artists to occupy more space: studio space, materials, exhibitions and public engagement.
Brown's Mart: Brown's Mart Phone-a-thon
Answer the call for the Arts at Brown’s Mart this AusArt Day. Your donation will be matched $ for $
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.