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Arts & Culture Funding

18 February 202116 February 2021 Melanie

Funder: Create NSW

Grant Background: The NSW Government is calling for applications from individual artists, arts and cultural workers, practitioners and organisations across NSW for Round Two of Create NSW’s 2020/2021 Arts and Cultural Funding Program.

The NSW Government strongly encourages applications across a wide range of artforms and disciplines, from Museums and History to Contemporary Music, to Aboriginal Arts and Culture and Classical Music, and is committed to funding artistic development across the State, to supporting our First Nations culture, and nurturing all our talented artists. The funding will support the diversity of talent across NSW, which will also deliver great outcomes for our arts and culture economy and for the people of NSW.

Round Two of Create NSW’s 2020/2021 Arts and Cultural Funding Program is now open for Annual Organisation, Project and Creative Koori Project categories.

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Arts & Creative, Children & Youth, Education

Creative Kids

23 October 202019 October 2020 Melanie

Funder: Create NSW

Grant Background: Creative Kids is a $216 million, four-year initiative designed to make it easier for school-aged children and young people to get involved in creative and cultural activities. There are a range of Providers, including artists, cultural practitioners, and arts and cultural organisations across NSW. This program creates opportunities for Providers to reach new audiences and grow business.

Creative Kids encompasses a wide range of eligible activities face-to-face and online, including:

lessons/workshops from drama workshops to language classes and lots more
cultural learning experiences such as Aboriginal cultural learning programs
participation packages such as attendance at a ticketed performance followed by a Q&A with professional artists.

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Regional Arts Recovery Boost

13 October 20207 October 2020 Melanie

Funder: NSW – Regional Arts

Grant Background: Recovery grants are designed to meet the medium-term recovery needs of artists, organisations and communities. Projects in this program should focus on activities that assist in recovery from bushfire, drought, and/or the impacts of COVID-19.

All RAF Recovery projects must be completed by 30 June 2024

The objectives of the Fund are to support and promote participation in, and access to, Australia’s arts and culture in regional and remote Australia by:

Encouraging and supporting sustainable economic, social and cultural development in regional communities;
Developing partnerships and networks which leverage financial and/or in-kind support for specific projects and encourage ongoing collaboration;
Developing audiences and broadening community engagement with the arts; and
Increasing employment and professional development opportunities for, and raise the profile of, regional and remote artists.

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Arts & Creative

Country Arts Support Programme

21 September 2020 Melanie

Funder: Regional Arts NSW

Grant Background: Country Arts Support Program (CASP) is an annual small grants program and is guided by the Arts and Cultural Funding Program’s three major objectives:

grow creative leadership and programming excellence in NSW
strengthen NSW arts and cultural activity that drives community and social benefits
showcase NSW as a leader for strategic arts and cultural governance and strong financial management.

The program aims to support community arts and cultural development in regional NSW through small grants that:

assist locally determined community arts and cultural activities
increase opportunities for regionally based groups to access a diverse range of arts programs
enable communities to explore and express their cultural identities
bring social and economic benefits to the community through training, employment and promotional opportunities
lead to greater awareness and appreciation of cultural diversity
increase the sustainability and resilience of regionally based community arts organisations

Projects including but not limited to:

workshops
arts activities as part of community festivals or events
artist-in-residence programs
public art and design projects
performances
arts and cultural directories
community seminars and forums
exhibitions
other local arts initiatives

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Arts & Creative

Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support

6 March 20201 March 2020 Melanie

Funder: Federal – Communications

Grant Background: Indigenous Visual Arts Industry funding will be provided to organisations for activities that best contribute to delivery of the following Program outcomes:

a professional, viable and ethical Indigenous visual arts industry that features strong participation and provides economic opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
the continued production, exhibition, critique, purchase and collection of Indigenous visual art

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Annual Arts Organisational Funding

26 February 202018 February 2020 Melanie

Funder: Create NSW

Grant Background: Annual Organisation funding is provided on an annual basis to support Arts and Cultural Organisations (including service organisations) to deliver multiple arts and cultural activities throughout a single calendar or financial year. Funding can contribute to any aspect of an organisation’s program.

Funding is available for a wide range of arts and cultural activity, including:

creation of new work, practice-based research or experimentation and professional development
production, exhibition, presenting, publishing or recording, touring and festivals
promotion and marketing, market and/or audience development activity
conservation and/or development of collections and archives (including Aboriginal Keeping Places and the digitisation of collections)
purchase of capital infrastructure and equipment
partnerships, capacity building and sustainability.

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Creative Koori Projects

25 February 202018 February 2020 Melanie

Funder: Create NSW

Grant Background: Creative Koori Projects funding aims to build support for a strong, resilient and exciting Aboriginal arts and cultural sector for NSW. This will be done through embracing the principles of Aboriginal self-determination and putting Aboriginal artists, organisations and communities at the centre of funded cultural and creative activity.

Your intended projects may cover the following elements:

NSW Aboriginal cultural development
contemporary practice
sharing NSW Aboriginal culture the Aboriginal way
promoting NSW Aboriginal culture
strengthening the NSW Aboriginal arts and cultural sector.

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Arts & Cultural Project Funding

24 February 202018 February 2020 Melanie

Funder: Create NSW

Grant Background: Project funding supports excellence, innovation and creativity within the NSW arts and cultural sector. It aims to deliver a dynamic and diverse range of arts and cultural experiences to communities across NSW, contribute to the development of a vibrant and accessible arts and cultural sector, and support the employment and development of professional NSW-based artists and arts and cultural workers.

Funding is available for a wide range of arts and cultural activity, including:

creation of new work, practice-based research or experimentation and professional development
production, exhibition, presenting, publishing or recording, touring and festivals
promotion and marketing, market and/or audience development activity
conservation and/or development of collections and archives (including Aboriginal Keeping Places and the digitisation of collections)
purchase of capital infrastructure and equipment
partnerships, capacity building and sustainability.

Funding is not available under this program for filmmaking, screen production, mainstream animation or film festivals.

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Arts Project Funding

21 August 20192 August 2019 Melanie

Funder: Create NSW

Funding is available for a wide range of arts and cultural activity, including:

creation of new work, practice-based research or experimentation and professional development
production, exhibition, presenting, publishing or recording, touring and festivals
promotion and marketing, market and/or audience development activity
conservation and/or development of collections and archives (including Aboriginal Keeping Places and the digitisation of collections)
purchase of capital infrastructure and equipment
partnerships, capacity building and sustainability.

Funding is not available under this program for filmmaking, screen production, mainstream animation or film festivals.

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