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Four year funding applications submitted: what next?

After a gruelling application process, the 162 organisations invited to apply for four-year funding from the Australia Council for the Arts have submitted their grant applications. Now they wait anxiously for the results.

13 Nov 2019 12:00

Richard Watts

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Photo credit: Frederic Muller / Shutterstock

The Australia Council’s Four Year Funding program provides multi-year funding for arts organisations. Applications for the latest round, which will support organisations from 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024, were submitted on Tuesday 12 November.

Small to medium arts organisations, their staff and boards must now wait until early April 2020 to find out if their applications have been successful.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts