Funding

Opportunities and awards
Literary prize applications open, participants of The National announced, finalists for Emerging Playwright Commission and more!

Opportunities and awards
Call outs for National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023, plus tourism awards arts winners, and finalists of Deborah Cass Writing Prize,…

Opportunities and awards
Call-outs for Queensland Music Awards plus winners of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, the Poem Forest shortlist, and more!

More than luck: why succession planning matters
Mentoring and internships are embraced in the arts, but succession planning can strengthen these initiatives for sector-wide impact.

Opportunities and awards
New First Nations public art residency and theatre practitioners training grant, over 150 Bundanon artist residents announced and standing ovation…

Can arts funding be self-sustaining?
Inviting the sector to pitch in, new startup ArtsPay envisions the role it could have in paving the way to…

Opportunities and awards
Saatchi launches new emerging artist prize, Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund inviting applications and 2022 William and Winifred Bowness Photography…

First Nations fashion receives over half a million in funding
21 First Nations fashion trailblazers share more than $500,000 from Australia Council’s inaugural Flourish fund.

Can NFTs ‘do good’ for theatre?
Turns out one NFT community has a $10M funding pool, and here is how Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is making…

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