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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Australian Plays Transform: Erin Thomas Regional Playwrights Fund
Support regional playwrights to develop new Australian plays, strengthen their practice and form connections across the wider Australian theatre sector.
Muses Trio: GEN MUSE: Her Australian Songbook
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.
LOHF: Cultural Heritage & Creative Education Collection
Help preserve community stories and support creative workshops that connect generations through art, music, food and memory.
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.
Shepparton Art Museum: SAM VAN
The SAM Van brings hands-on art experiences to kids in rural and regional communities across Victoria's Goulburn Valley.
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).
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 $
The Australian Muslim Review: Digital Media
Help us refresh The Australian Muslim Review with new branding and digital media assets!
Linden Hyatt: Voices from the Writers in the Park Archive
Help bring extraordinary voices from Australia’s literary past back to life through a new podcast drawn from the Writers in the Park archive.
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.
Kuranda Amphitheatre Society: Amplify the Ampi
Owning our own sound equipment means more live events, lower production costs and greater opportunities for local artists and our community.
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!
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.
Arts North West: ARTS NORTH WEST CONNECT - Fund the Connection
Fund the Connection and help Arts North West bring regional creatives together to meet, share ideas, collaborate and create new opportunities.
Best Australian Speculative Fiction: Chinese Edition: Best Australian Speculative Fiction: Chinese Edition
Help us translate 17 of the best speculative stories created by Australian authors, and promote them throughout the Chinese World.
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.
StorySALOON: Championing writers, growing audiences
StorySALOON brings Australian short stories onto the stage—and to readers and listeners across Australia.
CARRRY: CARRRY: Curating Together
A curator-run initiative supporting collective learning, experimentation and exchange across Sydney’s independent arts community.
Lost Words Collection: Sinatra e De Maria Bis!
Help bring Sinatra e De Maria Bis! to Adelaide Fringe 2027 - a reimagined cabaret celebrating Sinatra, family and storytelling.
Ensemble Offspring: Hatched Academy: Composer & Performer Intensive
Support the next phase of Ensemble Offspring’s acclaimed Hatched Academy as it expands into a dynamic Composer & Performer Intensive.
Charlee Watt: Charlee Watt: Somebody Groovy
Be part of creating "Somebody Groovy", a new cabaret celebrating the music, women and cultural revolution of the 60's and 70's.
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.
CircusWA: Electrifying the Circus Substation
The Circus Substation is an exciting new site ready to be transformed and electrified by bold performances from emerging storytellers.
Diversity Arts Australia: Every Voice In The Room
Every voice deserves a seat at the table. Your donation breaks geographic barriers, helping culturally and racially marginalised leaders shape Australia’s creative future.
Guildhouse: Catapult Creativity
Catapult Creativity will funds for Guildhouse’s flagship Catapult Mentorship Program, enabling South Australian artists to access transformative, paid, artist-led mentorships.
Vacant Assembly: Funding The Occupy Residency 2027-2028
Raising funds for artists to occupy more space: studio space, materials, exhibitions and public engagement.
Support Act: AusMusic T-Shirt Day
Celebrate Australian music and help raise funds for Aussie Music Workers doing it tough.
Heirlume Productions: Season 2027-2028
Help us raise funds to present Heirlume's next season of theatrical gems
Bayside Art Therapy: BAT ART WORKSHOPS : The Acceptance Canvas
Reaching more people to hold their hands as they walk with the magic of Art Therapy
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company: Boya Winyang Yanginy (Money New Giving)
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company will engage with existing & new donors through social media, emails, & phone to maximise support for Blak theatre in WA.
Karim Konrad: We Are Seen
A photographic and painted portrait series exploring LGBTQIA+ people, identities and lived experiences across Australia.
Ayda Akbal: On Moving To A Place
What happens when you move somewhere to follow your dreams, only to find that place seemingly falling apart around you?
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.