Grants and Funding
Wangaratta Jazz Festival receives funding boost
Jazz music is a hit with the Coalition government, who recently announced they will provide $30,000 funding to the Wangaratta…
Is WAAPA financially unsustainable?
A special report into one of the country’s greatest performing arts school, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, has…
UK arts channel to broadcast live for arts funding
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has suggested the implementation of a new state-subsidised arts channel that will require arts groups…
Melbourne Festival receives tourism funding boost
Following record attendance at last year’s Melbourne Festival, the Victorian Government has announced $75,000 in tourism marketing funding for this…
How to write a grant application
Grants are the linchpin for survival for many artists and no matter what your practice, knowing how to write a…
Music slashed at ANU, TAFEs
ANAM gets funds to ensure its continuity, but elsewhere the future of music education looks bleak.
Protests as Ballarat art school faces closure
State budget cuts have hit the University of Ballarat. The TAFE division of the University's art school is expected to…
Funding coup for Tuggeranong
Canberra’s Tuggeranong Arts Centre has received $2 million from the State Government to transform the centre into a community haven…
ASA concerned over budget cuts to TAFE
Last week’s Victorian budget caused major concern among the TAFE community, with staff cuts and resources slashed from libraries.
Controversy over $20,000 grant for metal band
3AW shock-jock has questioned the artistic merit of death metal, after band OUROBOROS received $20,000 from the Australia Council to…