Indigenous Languages and Arts – Strategic Projects 2025-26

The ILA Program supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to express, conserve and maintain their cultures through Indigenous languages and arts activities.

Grant funding allocated through the ILA Program supports activities that:

• Conserve, revitalise and sustain Indigenous languages by:
  • Supporting the use of spoken language in everyday life by facilitating language transmission and practise in a range of contexts through culturally appropriate learning and teaching activities.
  • Supporting community members to improve their language knowledge and skills and build capacity in the sector by providing language learning and teaching pathways that include opportunities to gain formal qualifications in learning and teaching an Indigenous language.
  • Recording, conserving and making available Indigenous languages using digital technology in an innovative and culturally appropriate way.
  • Facilitating the use of Indigenous languages in everyday life by producing and providing access to language materials used in activities that facilitate the transmission of language, enabling community to enjoy, learn, use and teach their languages.
• Create, promote and celebrate Indigenous community-based arts activities by:
  • Developing, producing, presenting, exhibiting or performing a diverse range of traditional and contemporary Indigenous art forms which could include dance, theatre, film, literature, music and traditional Indigenous arts and crafts.

Promoting and celebrating Indigenous art forms and providing access to arts activities that enable community to enjoy, connect and take pride in their cultures.

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