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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Seno Ensemble: Seno Ensemble: Bridging Musical Worlds
Support an Australian-Indonesian musical exchange bringing musicians together to learn, collaborate and create new experimental music.
Broad Encounters: Bring The Last Salon to Life
Help take The Last Salon from creative development to rehearsal and its first public pilot presentation.
Orange Chamber Music Festival Inc.: Orange Chamber Music Festival 2027
In 2027 the Festival will stage more than a dozen events, including featured performances and recitals, countryside excursions, curated dining experiences, a conversation with artists, cocktail gatherings and the new International Gala, showcasing distinguished guest ensembles in a varied performance curated especially by the festival director, Carmen Nieves.
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.
CKTFest Hilltops: CKTFest Hilltops
This project will bring together children’s authors directly to the Hilltops NSW to deliver high-energy literary experiences to rural students.
Chunky Move: MAKE YOUR MOVE
Invest in the next generation of contemporary dance practitioners through studio time, seed funding, professional development and residency programs.
Burrinja: Creativity Close to Home: Burrinja: Creativity Close to Home
Help keep creativity accessible, inclusive and close to home for communities across Melbourne's outer east.
Australian Music Centre (AMC): Australian music for every Australian
Help us grow our collection, support artists, develop new educational resources and make Australian art music accessible for everyone.
BlakDance: Give to the future of First Nations dance – BlakDance Giving Day
Help BlakDance to give First Nations dancers careers, not gigs.
Eternal River: Listening Before the Opera
Eternal River is a major new work, inviting voices traditionally left at the edges of opera into its creation.
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art: 30 for 30: Double Happiness Club
Join 4A’s Double Happiness Club: donate $30, bring a friend, and double the support for the next generation.
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.
HotHouse Theatre: The Galah Bar @ HotHouse's 2027 birthday
HotHouse turns 30 in 2027. To celebrate we're bringing back the legendary comedy and cabaret icon 'The Galah Bar'
Newcastle Fringe Festival: Every Artist Deserves a Stage
Every donation helps an artist take the stage by removing barriers to participation at Newcastle Fringe Festival.
Liz Lea Creates and Maitree House: ALTER - a Virtual Reality experience
ALTER is an Austral/Asian collaboration. Design and dance collide in a double-bill exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange.
Perfomring Lines: Sampai Take Sampai
A living, breathing, evolving performance installation by artists Jumaadi and Michael Toisuta exploring migration, displacement and the environment.
Sunari Sooriaaratchi: Let These Paintings Be Seen: The Work of Sunari Sooriaaratchi
Please help me show these works which have been created in the aftermath of family violence and workplace assault.
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation: Beyond the Fair
Back First Nations artists, stories and culture. Support DAAF Foundation and ensure remote artists can generate meaningful income with pride.
Chloe Wigg Art: Adapted
Adapted explores function gained / identity lost when Assistive Technology is prescribed, and how art helps fight medicalisation and regain ownership.
Regional Arts WA: Get Me There: Regional Artists Travel
Help WA regional artists pack their bags! We're funding trips that turn creative ideas into bigger opportunities; near, far, everywhere.
Megalo Print Studio: Amplify voices through art
Create a space for artists to share their voice with vital upgrades to one of Australia’s only print galleries.
Sarre & Simons: PRIMETIME The Musical: concept album
South Australian writers Sarre & Simons are fundraising to record and launch the concept album for their new musical PRIMETIME
FLING Physical Theatre: 25 Champions of FLING
This AusArts Day, 25 Champions will help celebrate 25 years of FLING and shape the next chapter of regional dance.
Benjamin Paul: Carry 'waynapuni pools' forward
Help carry a bathhouse made from wrecked cars into its next life, sustaining the artists, young people and cultural relationships that make 'waynapuni pools' possible.
Nexus Arts: One More Artist, One More Story: Interplay 2027
Raising funding to support the inclusion of one more artist to Interplay 2027.
Windmill Production Company: Wag the tale with Windmill
Valerie, Windmill’s new work driven by toddlers’ imaginations and inspired by a local four-legged hero launches this AusArt Day.
Regional Arts Victoria: Make regional art happen
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.
Luminescence Children's Choir: Support Luminescence Children's Choir!
Support Canberra's Luminescence Children's Choir - your gift today funds bursaries, camps, new music and tours for young singers!
iZZY iBiS (Brendan Penzer): iZZY iBiS New Body of Work
Contribute to the creation of a new body of work by iZZY iBiS to be exhibited in 2028.
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.
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.
Milk Crate Theatre: StoryLab: Storylab: Your Support. Their Story. Centre Stage.
StoryLab empowers people with lived experience of homelessness, disability and mental health challenges to explore, develop and share their stories creatively.
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.