Jacob Boehme’s IMIGO is booked to premiere in 2027. Help fund its final development to Step Up to the Stage.

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Moogahlin Performing Arts is a nationally and internationally recognised leading First Peoples company. We’re a not-for-profit, committed to develop, produce, and present new works that are by, with and for our communities. Our flagship, Yellamundie Festival, based in Redfern, has supported the development of 45 works by First Peoples creators.

Back First Nations artists, stories and culture. Support DAAF Foundation and ensure remote artists can generate meaningful income with pride.

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DAAF Foundation strengthens and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, culture and community. We create world-class platforms like the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair where Indigenous artists can generate meaningful income and share their art and culture. Supporting Art Centres from Australia’s most remote communities, we help ensure First Nations stories, culture and creativity continue to be shared for generations to come.

Image credits: Solomon Booth at Moa Arts booth, Opening Ceremony, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, 2026, Photo by Leicolhn McKellar34

Fossil & Fable is an educational resource enterprise that creates engaging learning experiences through storytelling, illustration, science communication, and creative exploration.

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An educational resource enterprise, focused on providing learning resources to students, parents and families, schools and colleges, and educational institutions such as museums and History Rooms - produce educational resources including the writing, illustration and publication of books, study guides, worksheets, tutoring and skills courses.

Image credits: Patrick Bender, Fossil & Fable (created using Microsoft Co-pilot)

Victoria Park Centre for the Arts is growing our support and capacity-building for artists from all backgrounds and creative practices.

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The Victoria Park Centre for the Arts is an arts organisation that hosts contemporary art exhibitions, and community and cultural projects. Running since 1994, our vision is to be a vibrant and energetic art centre, fostering a community that embraces the arts as part of daily life.

Image credits: Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, Image credit Jae Criddle

Add your voice to help SPC expand opportunities for emerging artists shaping the future of Australian choral music with us.

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Sydney Philharmonia Choirs is Australia’s largest choral organisation and a Sydney Opera House Resident Company. Across six choirs, SPC brings together more than 700 singers each week, while developing emerging composers and conductors through practical artistic pathways, alongside symphonic collaborations, self-presented concerts, regional activity and participatory programs for national audiences.

Chamber Made Artist and Artform Development Programs support artists to explore, research, extend and deepen their practice

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Based on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne, Chamber Made creates original performance works that defy categorisation. Our commitment to collaboration, appetite for innovation, and fascination with intersecting artforms drives everything we do. Interrogating the intersections of music, sound and contemporary performance, our works speak directly to a 21st century Australia enriched by the meeting of cultures. Through artworks, mentorships, internships, residencies and advocacy, we create pathways for a diverse cohort of artists and arts workers. Since 1988, we've produced over 50 original works and presented over 100 performance seasons nationally and internationally.

Image credits: Chamber Made_Little Operations with Rae Howell_Photographer Sarah Walker

Tracks is deeply rooted in the NT arts landscape. Water us regularly to help our creative ecosystem flourish!

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Movement for belonging. Tracks is a multi-disciplinary performing arts company based on Larrakia land in the Top End. We make radically local artistry that celebrates the Northern Territory through People, Place and Spirit. We create intergenerational work reflecting the diversity found in the NT, through western, non-western and traditional forms.

Image credits: Duane Preston

Invest in life-changing creative opportunities for young Territorians. Together, we can shift headlines from crime into creativity, joy and possibility.

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Corrugated Iron is the Northern Territory’s leading youth arts company, playing a crucial role in igniting creativity in al young Territorians. We inspire the NOW generation to take the lead in shaping our artistic program.

Help Gamelan DanAnda launch our Youth Summer School, connecting young Australians with Balinese music, dance, and culture.

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Gamelan DanAnda (GDA) is a Balinese gamelan orchestra based in Melbourne. They mostly perform traditional Gong Kebyar, featuring shimmering cascades, virtuosic rhythms and breathtaking crescendos. With community at their core, they move easily from community gatherings to major festivals. Teaching, preserving and presenting tradition, while fostering wild contemporary fusions.

Image credits: Marisa Mundy

The 1812 Theatre will restore the presence of its Ferntree Gully façade with a spectacular illuminated, eight-metre-wide Art Deco-inspired marquee.

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The 1812 Theatre is a vibrant community theatre in Upper Ferntree Gully, entertaining Melbourne audiences for more than 75 years. Presenting six major productions annually alongside youth theatre, workshops and community activities, 1812 provides an inclusive, welcoming space for volunteers, performers and audiences to experience and participate in live theatre.

Image credits: Goldie Kaye

Help take The Last Salon from creative development to rehearsal and its first public pilot presentation.

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Broad Encounters creates bold immersive theatre that puts audiences at the heart of the action. Since 2018, more than 176,000 people have stepped inside our worlds across Australia. This AusArt Day, we’re inviting audiences to help bring our newest immersive work, The Last Salon, to life.

Image credits: Anna Kucera

Transforming an old pump shed into artistic, accessible bird hide and shelter, welcoming all ages and abilities to enjoy art in nature.

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Transforming an old pump shed into artistic, accessible bird hide and shelter, welcoming all ages and abilities to enjoy art in nature.

Support Centre for Stories to nurture diverse voices, connect communities and keep storytelling thriving in Western Australia.

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Centre for Stories is a not-for-profit literary arts organisation in Boorloo/Perth that uses storytelling to empower underrepresented voices, foster connection, and drive inclusion through workshops, events, mentoring, and professional services.

Image credits: Michelle Chong

For seven years, Arthur has made room for artists, ideas and creative experiments that might otherwise have nowhere to go. This AusArt Day, Arthur and Cass need your help to keep the doors open and the creativity flowing.

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Arthur is a not-for-profit grassroots arts space in Adelaide. More than a venue, it is a third space: somewhere artists can meet, experiment, collaborate, perform, build things, test ideas and see what happens. Arthur was conceived and built by Cass to support the arts community — the people who are not funded, the ideas that are too big, the underground, experimental and innovative. Over the last seven years, Arthur has supported thousands of artists. In the last 12 months alone, more than 2,000 artists have been supported across original live music, dance, visual arts, interactive arts and Adelaide Fringe.

Image credits: Arthur Inc

Help us give more Tasmanians access to the connection, confidence and belonging that creativity brings, regardless of the barriers they may face.

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For nearly 30 years, Kickstart Arts has used creativity to build wellbeing, belonging and social connection across Tasmania. We deliver inclusive workshops, performances, exhibitions and community-led projects, working with artists, young people and diverse communities to remove barriers to arts participation and create opportunities for creativity, connection and positive social change.

Image credits: Millie Crouch

Every voice deserves a seat at the table. Your donation breaks geographic barriers, helping culturally and racially marginalised leaders shape Australia’s creative future.

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Diversity Arts Australia (DARTS) is the national voice for ethno-cultural and migrant racial equity in Australia’s arts and creative industries. Grounded in human rights, social justice and self-determination, DARTS advocates for greater diversity, inclusion and participation, supporting the sector to shape stories, leadership and cultural practices that reflect contemporary Australia.

Image credits: Shifting the Balance Leadership Program Mixer. Photo credit: Benjamin Tiger La for Diversity Arts Australia

Help Fremantle Press create a new home, a hub for the stories that inspire, connect and move us.

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Fremantle Press is a not-for-profit Australian independent publisher, championing new and emerging voices, and sharing their stories with readers worldwide. It has launched diverse, award-winning, and bestselling careers, including Indigenous writers and artists. We connect the emerging writing community to readers of all ages, with the stories of our people and this place.  

Image credits: B Breen

Patch Theatre will establish The Glimmer Society - a brand new curated donor circle supporting the early creative development of new work.

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Patch Theatre creates visually captivating performances for 4-8 year olds, exploring how children see the world. Our works place children at the centre of the performance, promoting imagination, wonder and discovery.

Image credits: Patch Theatre

Support one of Victoria's longest-running choreographic platforms: commissioning three new dance works in PIECES' 21st year.

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Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI) exists to explore adventurous and experimental contemporary dance that resonates between local and global culture, empowering a community of artists — our company and the independent dance sector who make work at WXYZ Studios — to create performances audiences experience as transformative.

Image credits: From left to right: Image supplied from 'DanceRites' 2020 NITV, John Salisbury, Gregory Lorenzutti

Help PARKER Contemporary improve the gallery, from stronger exhibition walls to essential behind-the-scenes infrastructure, creating greater possibilities for years to come

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Located in Brisbane’s Fish Lane Arts Precinct, PARKER Contemporary presents printmaking and papermaking as vital, evolving forms in contemporary art. The gallery works with emerging and established artists who push image, object, process and materiality in new directions, creating memorable exhibitions, thoughtful conversations and lasting connections between compelling art, audiences and collectors alike.

Image credits: Gallery Director & Founder, Emily Parker at PARKER Contemporary. Photo credit: Russell Shakespeare.

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.

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.

Create paid opportunities for SA Artists. Help shape artist-led tours and events at SALA#30 in 2027.

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Since 1998 SALA Festival has presented more than 14,000 exhibitions and events showcasing the work of South Australia’s Living Artists. Complementing the open-access program, SALA pays local artists to deliver our program of SALA-run events. Donations go directly towards creating opportunities for visual artists to earn money through their work.

 

Image credits: Artist Jake Jang and friends, SALA Festival 2026. Photo by Sam Roberts.

Help preserve, discover and share Canberra's stories, ensuring future generations can connect with the people, places and ideas that shape our city.

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Canberra Museum + Gallery and ACT Historic Places preserve the stories, collections and cultural assets that shape the identity of the nation's capital. Through its collections, exhibitions, learning programs and heritage sites, GMH connects communities with Canberra's past, present and future.

*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

Help FLUXUS give one successful Opera Lab project a supported development week with professional performers, culminating in a public showing.

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The FLUXUS Opera Lab nurtures and develops new Australian opera and operatic hybrid works through mentorship, collaboration and financial support. Through ‘Opera in a Day’, its annual Opera Lab mentorship and grant program, and the further development of new work, FLUXUS is building an essential pipeline connecting Australian creatives to the stage.

Image credits: Alan Moyle

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.

After two big nights at Melbourne Fringe, help us create more poets.

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Monthly Poet Live helps people write a poem when they don’t think they can. It is the live side of monthlypoet.com, which has published over 230 poets worldwide. Our Melbourne Fringe show drew a remarkable response. Your donation covers touring costs to bring it to more venues, festivals and libraries

Image credits: Raphael Kaleb

5 emerging women composers reimagine new chamber arrangements of iconic songs by Australian artists, mentored, workshopped and recorded by Muses Trio, ready for national touring in 2027.

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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.

Image credits: Natalie Nicolas

Music for Canberra presents the 82nd annual Canberra Carols by Candlelight. Help us keep Canberra singing by supporting this much-loved free community tradition and the local musicians who bring it to life.

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Music for Canberra is a not-for-profit organisation connecting people through music. Through choirs, youth orchestras, community ensembles and inclusive programs for people living with disability, we create opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to make music together, connect, grow and experience the lifelong benefits of music.

Image credits: Kylie Gibson

This is an Adelaide first! Fun Home is a central piece of queer theatre that needs to be seen where all stellar Adelaide premieres come - The Arts Theatre. Help us stage this important musical where it deserves to be!

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Gemini Creative Arts is an Adelaide-based queer theatre company founded by Sarah Williams. We create bold, ambitious theatre that champions local talent, diverse voices and queer stories. Gemini provides professional opportunities for emerging artists while creating inclusive, imaginative work that challenges expectations, builds community and connects meaningfully with audiences.

Image credits: Fun home _ Alicia McCluskey

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.

Image credits: ©JanelleLow_2026_WestSpace_languagetoreachwith_