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A mixed media collage of eight portraits.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 22 to 28 July 2025

Adelaide Fringe poster competition returns, Creative WA Fellowships for young talent plus Lester Prize shortlist and more opportunities.

Image is painting of William Shakespeare and a bust of an Ancient Greek man. Arts, Anger and Advocacy
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Arts, advocacy and anger

When it comes to advocating for the arts, passion can be as destructive as it can be constructive. But there…

A lavishly set up photograph featuring a red velvet sofa and a figure dressed in a blond wind, cut out red velvet costume where the limbs extend like bug claws. Australian Life Photography Competition finalist Chrissie Hall, ‘The bargain of a life: a couch with legs and no breasts’. Opportunities.
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Opportunities and awards

Enlighten Festival callout, SA Arts Leadership Program open, plus finalists across the 2025 National Biography Award, Bowness Photography Prize and…

A textile work of two thin strips in red, pink, brown and light purple, hung on a white wall.
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Opportunities and awards

Regional Arts Fund project grants now open, plus AFCM Pathways Program ensemble and Young Archies winners, and more!

Two small children doing art activities. Regional galleries
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Regional galleries 'not sexy enough' for funding

Disproportionate funding discriminates against regional access to the arts in NSW.

Woman in white dress crouching on floor in shadow, black and white.
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Opportunities and awards

Lifetime Achievement nominations for Queensland performing arts professionals, new poetry in translation prize, music fund recipients and more.

Defunding success in the arts. Crowd gathered at exhibition opening. ADC
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Belly punch to craft sector lacks respect: ADC in potential freefall

The CEO of the 61-year-old craft peak body speaks out about being stripped of federal and state operational funding.

Woman leans on grand piano smiling, where two students sit and look up at her. Strike a Chord.
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Opportunities and awards

This week's opportunities include short film funding in Blacktown and the 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Short Stories Awards, plus a call-out…

street frontage of the Australian Design Centre, ADC
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Australian Design Centre loses state and federal funding, faces uncertain future

‘Without core operational funding it is difficult to see how ADC can continue in its current form,’ the organisation warned.

A woman wearing a large necklace and white tshirt placing her hand on a large artwork of colourful abstract shapes.
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Opportunities and awards

Entries open for Human Rights Essay Competition and MAC yapang Art Prize, plus winner of Penguin Literary Prize and more.

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