Opportunities
Featured Opportunities
Closing date: Dec 1, 2023
Cultural Arts Programs
ACE
Develop technical skills in drawing, painting and printmaking in this twenty-week, full qualification program. Expand your understanding of visual arts and craft practice and connect with your Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity. Phone Natalie on 0403 099166 to express their interest.
Closing date: Dec 4, 2023
Unbound Creativity
Serpentine Community Gallery
All Serpentine Gallery members are encouraged to submit a work that responds to this years final show theme, Unbound Creativity for the galleria group show open over summer.
Closing date: Dec 4, 2023
Community Resilience Grant Program
NRCF
The program will provide grants to support local not-for-profit organisations to continue to provide critical services to individuals and families, and to connect communities to recovery services including housing, food, health and wellbeing, as well as services that provide community connection.
Closing date: Jan 23, 2024
Funding for Emerging Artists
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust
The Cultural Trust offers grants of up to $15,000 to assist talented emerging and early-career artists to take up professional development opportunities, usually overseas, supporting applicants who can demonstrate initiative, exceptional talent, and the ability to convert their ambitions into reality.
All Opportunities
Closing date: Dec 1, 2023
Cultural Arts Programs
ACE
Develop technical skills in drawing, painting and printmaking in this twenty-week, full qualification program. Expand your understanding of visual arts and craft practice and connect with your Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity. Phone Natalie on 0403 099166 to express their interest.
Closing date: Dec 4, 2023
Unbound Creativity
Serpentine Community Gallery
All Serpentine Gallery members are encouraged to submit a work that responds to this years final show theme, Unbound Creativity for the galleria group show open over summer.
Closing date: Dec 4, 2023
Community Resilience Grant Program
NRCF
The program will provide grants to support local not-for-profit organisations to continue to provide critical services to individuals and families, and to connect communities to recovery services including housing, food, health and wellbeing, as well as services that provide community connection.
Closing date: Dec 15, 2023
Angourie Dance - Call Out
Angourie Dance Youth Project is a new initiative of dance artists Janessa Dufty and Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, to support Clarence Valley youth dance by sharing their extensive experience and knowledge with the next generation of local young dancers.
Closing date: Dec 18, 2023
Infrastructure Grant
Office of Responsible Gambling
Funding to support arts and culture infrastructure such as museums, art galleries or cultural centres to include the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings.
Closing date: Dec 30, 2023
NCC Ceramic Award
North Coast Ceramics
A brand new Award for Ceramic Excellence open to ceramic artists living and working on the North Coast of NSW. Work must be at least 70% ceramic and a maximum size of 900mm. An exhibition of short-listed entrants will feature at Byron School of Art.
Closing date: Dec 31, 2023
Hot Shorts
Drill Hall Theatre Company
HOT SHORTS is the Drill Hall Theatre Company’s most exciting opportunity to flex your theatre writing skills and win cash prizes – with support from Drill Hall’s own practitioners.
Closing date: Jan 8, 2024
Byron All Shorts 2024 Entries Now Open!
iQ Inc
Byron All Shorts is an opportunity to showcase our incredible Northern Rivers filmmaking talent, alongside Flickerfest’s best of short films from Australia and the world. Celebrating & providing a platform for dedicated to our region's filmmakers.
Closing date: Jan 14, 2024
Yirramboi Festival 2025 EOI
Yirramboi
YIRRAMBOI invites Australian First Nations and Canadian First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists to submit an Expression of Interest to collaborate on new intercultural work to world premiere at YIRRAMBOI Festival 2025.
Closing date: Jan 23, 2024
Funding for Emerging Artists
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust
The Cultural Trust offers grants of up to $15,000 to assist talented emerging and early-career artists to take up professional development opportunities, usually overseas, supporting applicants who can demonstrate initiative, exceptional talent, and the ability to convert their ambitions into reality.
Closing date: Jan 29, 2024
GreenHouse - Residency
HotHouse Theatre
The GreenHouse: National Artist Residency offers an immersive, creative development residency program for live performance-makers from across Australia to develop a new work and expand their own artistic process/practice through specific creative interrogations.
Closing date: Feb 5, 2024
MOMENTUM Commissions
Australian Music Centre
A new round of the MOMENTUM Commissions are now open, with two $4,000 commissions available for the creation of a new work for solo piano, solo clarinet, or a small ensemble with either piano or clarinet as the solo instrument.
Closing date: Feb 6, 2024
Askin Ballet Scholarship
Creative Australia
The Lady Mollie Isabelle Askin Ballet Scholarship are open to individual artists who are Australian citizens aged 17 – 29 with outstanding ability and promise in ballet.
Closing date: Feb 6, 2024
The Marten Bequest
Create Australia
The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships offer $50,000 for artists (aged 21–35) to explore, study and develop their artistic gifts. This round is open to acting, instrumental music, painting and poetry.
Closing date: Feb 7, 2024
National Photographic Portrait Prize
National Portrait Gallery
Entering its 17th year, the National Photographic Portrait Prize is one of the Gallery's most popular annual events. The prize provides a powerful visual record of the year that was - a celebration of identity, both collective and individual.
Closing date: Feb 13, 2024
Art Music Fund
APRA AMCOS
The fund commissions new work that is innovative, displays professional compositional craft and represents a benchmark of excellence. The work must have committed partners to ensure and create a long artistic life for the work.
Closing date: Feb 14, 2024
Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize
Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize
The Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia.
Closing date: Feb 19, 2024
Creative Koori Projects
Create NSW
This targeted funding is for NSW-based Aboriginal artists, groups, arts/cultural workers and organisations in delivering arts and culture activities that benefit Aboriginal artists, arts/cultural workers and Aboriginal communities.
Closing date: Feb 19, 2024
Project Funding for Organisations
Create NSW
Funding for organisations and local government authority projects to deliver a dynamic and diverse range of arts and cultural experiences to communities across NSW
Closing date: Feb 26, 2024
Regional Arts Touring
Create NSW
These grants support projects that provide access to arts and culture for audiences living in regional NSW. Funding is available for tours of all artforms, including performing arts, music, visual arts, literature, history, museums and multi-arts.
Closing date: Feb 28, 2024
Lights On, Doors Open
Museums and Galleries of NSW
The ‘Lights On, Doors Open’ stipend program has been established to relieve the pressures faced by volunteer-led museums and Aboriginal cultural spaces in NSW and aims to provide crucial financial support to cover essential expenses like rent and electricity bills.
