Find a project you love. Back a project you love. Make Art Happen this AusArt Day
AusArt Day 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. AusArt Day itself may be over but there's still time to Make Art Happen with many projects still accepting donations.
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The Wheeler Centre: Support Australia's Future Stories
Support the next wave of writers to tell the Australian stories that are not already being told.
GRID Series: Put the power into GRID
We areraising funds to broaden our activity and reach in order to provide our program to more communities around Austalia.
Green Music Australia: Building Climate Action Through Music
Help artists take climate action by providing the resources, opportunities and support they need to create change through music.
Storyvox: The Electric Love Fest Project
Australian Giant Cuttlefish - spectacular, fascinating, very groovy - help us bring their unique story of wonder, vulnerability and hope to the world.
The Unconformity: Support Our Ongoing Artists
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.
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.
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.
Regional Youth Orchestra NSW: Supprort Regional Youth Orchestra NSW
Support Regional Youth Orchestra NSW and help talented young musicians from regional communities access exceptional orchestral experiences, mentorship and performance opportunities.
CircoBats: Circus for everybody, everywhere
Every emerging circus artist needs support to participate, and a place to perform. Help CircoBats create both, through scholarships, community workshops and performances across South Australia.
Arafura Music Collective- New Art Music Commissions: NT Perspectives - New Art Music Fund
Support Bach Bounce! as Brandenburg No. 3 reimagined through urban dance, igniting an intergenerational, high-energy wave of Territory-made artistic brilliance.
Compañía Pepa Molina: Double the Impact for Emerging Flamenco Artists
Empowering emerging Western Sydney Flamenco artists through professional mentorship, live music training and performance opportunities — from studio to stage.
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.
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).
Lifespan Dance: Lifespan Dance - Artistic & Touring Program 2027
Lifespan Dance 2027 Program will be centred around quality seated dance classes and performances across Perth, regional WA & NSW (Sydney) via studio classes, outreach delivery and unique performance opportunities.
Yeah Nah Theatre: Back the Artists, Build the Stage
This is your invitation! Back Queensland artists, build ambitious creative pathways, and help shape a thriving independent arts future.
NT Writers Centre: Cake and Balloons
We are turning 30! Help us organise the best party of the year to celebrate writing, books and storytelling.
Corrugated Iron Youth Arts: Give to the Next Gen Now
Invest in life-changing creative opportunities for young Territorians. Together, we can shift headlines from crime into creativity, joy and possibility.
Art in Abundance: Fund Open Studios: Art in Abundance: Fund Open Studios
Margaret River Region Open Studios: Art in Abundance funds the coaching, mentoring and support to help 150 regional artists thrive.
Theatre Works: Where Theatre Starts
For forty-six years this building has been the room where Australian theatre starts. Help us keep the door open.
River City Voices: River City Voices - Amplify Our Voices!
Are you uplifted by the sound of united voices? Do you want the world to recognise Western Sydney as the cultural changemaker we know it is? Then don’t let Western Sydney’s flagship choir, River City Voices, be silenced!
Adelaide Fringe: Fringe for everyone!
Your donation, DOUBLED, directly supports artists, venues, and audiences - covering the costs of making Fringe shows more accessible for everyone.
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.
The Mill: Let's Get Physical!
Keep our physical space thriving and providing vital opportunities for South Australian artists.
REELise Incorporated: Back the Next Generation of Storytellers
Help young Australians turn their ideas into films, find their voice and share their stories on the big screen.
Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios: Keep Lane Cove's Creative Hub Thriving
For over 50 years we've brought art and creativity to our community. This AusArt Day, help refresh our ceramics studio.
Lazy Thinking: Artist Support
Help us provide free accommodation, equipment, residencies, recording and practical support to independent Australian musical artists.
The Story Society Bendigo: Let's pay authors a fair rate!
The Story Society wants to pay each visiting author ASA rates and we require your assistance to do so.
Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO): MYO Needs a Flugel Horn
We've been frugal but can't afford a Flugel!
Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP): Support ATYP’s Youth Ensemble in 2027
Help provide opportunities for 50 young performers in ATYP’s 2027 premiere production of a new award-winning First Nations play.
Rhiannon: ‘Phoenix’ Album Creation and Collaborations
‘Phoenix’ is Rhiannon’s self-written, self-produced Alt-R&B album, featuring BigYuki, Javier Santiago, Sam Barsh and Adam Deitch, celebrating authentic female-led artistry.
West Space: Donations commission groundbreaking art
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.