Deadline: 23-Sep-20
The Create NSW has announced the Arts and Cultural Funding Program 2020/21 to deliver on the Premier’s commitment to enhance the quality of life of the people of NSW.
The ACFP supports excellence in arts and culture by funding creative development and presentation, investing in artists and arts and cultural workers, and supporting cultural visitation and participation. The Program supports the telling of stories that reflect NSW’s diverse history and contemporary life. This approach supports NSW as a world class centre for the arts and for culture.
Create NSW is committed to supporting organizations that are essential to a contemporary, innovative, and daring arts and cultural ecology in NSW. To provide platforms for creative development, presenting new and current work that tells NSW stories and excites audiences, and supporting careers and employment of artists, arts workers, and cultural practitioners, Create NSW invests in NSW arts and cultural organizations through its Annual Organization and Project funding grants.
Funding Information
- For Annual Organization funding, the maximum amount of funding that you can apply for is $140,000.
- For Project funding, the maximum amount of funding that you can apply for is $60,000.
Annual Organization Funding Overview
Annual Organization funding is provided on an annual basis to support arts and cultural organizations (including service organizations) to deliver arts and cultural activities that benefit NSW. Arts and cultural activities should increase access by and engagement with diverse audiences and artists, improve the quality and excellence of arts and culture, and ensure best practice and the sustainability of arts and cultural organizations. Funding can contribute to any aspect of an organization’s program throughout a single calendar or financial year. Funding is available for a wide range of activities, including:
- creation of new arts and cultural work, practice-based research or experimentation, and professional development
- production, exhibition, presenting, publishing or recording, touring and festivals
- promotion and marketing
- audience growth and development
- conservation and/or development of collections and archives (including Aboriginal Keeping Places)
- business development activities including new responses to environmental changes
- partnerships, capacity building, and sustainability.
Project Funding Overview
Project funding supports innovation, vibrancy, 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 vibrant and accessible art 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:
- the creative development and/or public presentation of work(s), for example, literary works, music, dance or theatre pieces
- commissioning professional artists – for example, a writer, composer, choreographer or visual artist – to develop a work for an event
- partnerships (including those with the non-arts sector) to develop arts and culture in a specific region, Priority Area or artform/discipline
- community collaborations involving professional artists, to develop skills, public performances, exhibitions or participatory events
- the development and presentation of a new museum display featuring items from current and/or new or borrowed collections
- arts and cultural activities aimed at engaging young people, particularly students attending geographically and/or socio-economically disadvantaged schools
- extending an artist’s or organization’s practice, audiences or markets
- Developing and deepening audience engagement with arts and culture.
Eligibility Criteria
Arts and cultural organizations are eligible for both Annual Organisation and Project funding.
- Applicant type: You must be an art and cultural organization located in Australia.
- Focus: Your annual program or project must have clearly defined arts and cultural activity at its core.
- Benefit: Your core program or project must benefit NSW by either:
- employing NSW artists or arts and cultural workers; and/or
- providing arts and cultural experiences to the people of NSW.
For more information, visit https://www.create.nsw.gov.au/funding-and-support/arts-and-cultural-funding-program/organisation-funding/