This Month's Featured Grants
Festivals Australia
Applications close: Friday 10 February 2012
Funds Australian regional and community festivals to present quality cultural projects.
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Australia Council Broadband Arts Initiative
Expressions of Interest close: Wednesday 15 February 2012.
The aim of the Broadband Arts Initiative is to provide significant grants for artistic teams to demonstrate the opportunities opened up by the NBN for Australian culture.
Applicants can apply for up to $100,000 for ‘innovative arts projects that utilise next generation high-capacity broadband enabled by the NBN.’
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NAVA Grant: NSW Artists' Grant
Applications close: Wednesday 15 February, 2012
The NSW Artists' Grant has been initiated by NAVA to assist professional visual arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. Funds for the scheme have been made available specifically to encourage visual arts, craft and design practitioners residing in NSW to undertake creative and cost-effective initiatives.
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Australian Artists’ Grant (previously Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant)
Applications Close: Wednesday 15 February 2012
Amount: $500 for individuals, $1,000 for groups. Provides financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work.
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Call for Emerging Visual Artists, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery
Applications close: 17 February 2012
Seeking submissions from emerging artists to exhibit in the 2012 Emerging Artist exhibition. Successful applicants are eligible to apply for the $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award. A broad range of contemporary and traditional works across all mediums is sought from artists from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The focus is on local artists from the cities of Port Phillip and Hobsons Bay but the program is also open to regional and interstate artists. There is no cost to exhibit and no commission charged on sales of work.
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Artstart - Australia Council
Applications close: Friday 2 March 2012
Artstart $10,000. Assistance to recent creative arts graduates to help them establish an arts career.
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The Kirk Robson Awards
Applications close: Friday 2 March 2012
Recognises leadership among young community arts and culture practitioners.
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Ros Bower Award
Applications close: Friday 2 March 2012
$50,000. Honours an artsworker or artist with a proven record of high achievement in the field of community cultural development.
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Community Partnerships | Projects with public outcomes
Applications close: Friday 2 March 2012
Funding for one-off community arts and cultural development projects that must have a public outcome and involve collaborations with a range of cross-sectoral partners.
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Community Partnerships
Applications close: Friday 2 March 2012
Professional development funding for individual artists and arts workers to build their professional capacity as community arts and cultural development workers.
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Indigenous Music Theatre Initiative
Applications close: Monday 12 March 2012
The Australia Council for the Arts is delighted to announce the opening of a new Indigenous Music Theatre Initiative, which will provide support for Indigenous musicians and theatre makers to create and present innovative new music theatre works.
Individual Indigenous artists, as well as groups and organisations which include Indigenous key personnel with creative control are invited to apply for this initiative. Applicants can apply for funding of up to $30,000 towards any singular or multiple stages of development, including creative development of a new work, a second stage development and presentation of a new work.
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Music Nashville Songwriter Residency
Applications close: Monday 12 March 2012
$15,000. Supports a three-monthsongwriter residency in Nashville.
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Music Bound Quick Response Travel Fund
Applications open any time.
Funding: $1000 Funding to help Indigenous music coordinators attend professional development opportunities in Australia. The objective of this program is to support
Indigenous arts workers to have greater access to industry development opportunities.
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Market Development Grant
Applications open any time
The Live on Stage program provides travel support for professional musicians (and their manager/representative) selected to showcase original Australian music at key international music trade fairs and international festivals. The grant is in response to the current global interest and demand in rock/pop and Indigenous music from Australia, and the ongoing growth of a strong and vibrant live music scene.
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Regional Arts Fund (Victoria Only)
Applications close: Tuesday 13 March for Round One 2012 Project Grants.
Do you have an exciting arts project based in a community in regional Victoria? If you are a Regional Victorian and the project starts after July 2012, a Regional Arts Fund grant could get your project off the ground. Regionally-based Victorian organisations and individuals can apply for Project Grants of up to $15,000 for projects involving professional artists that result in a public outcome in the community in which they are based. First-time or previously unsuccessful applicants can also apply for Toe in the Water grants of up to $5,000 for small cultural projects involving professional and regional artists.
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The Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR)
Applications close: Saturday 31 March 2012
Small Grants for Small Rural Communities. Supports community development involving youth; resettlement of immigrants in rural Australia; community infrastructure; and community hardship in drought affected areas. Up to $5000.
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Last Updated 06/02/2012
