Deadline: 6-Mar-23
The North South Wales Government (NSW) is pleased to announce the Regional Arts Touring funding to support projects that provide access to arts and culture for audiences living in regional NSW.
Funding is available for tours of all art forms, including performing arts, music, visual arts, literature, history, museums and multi-arts. Applicants should demonstrate strong audience development and engagement strategies.
Objectives
- Provide people in regional NSW with access to a high calibre and diverse range of artistic and cultural experiences, no matter where they live.
- Support best practice programming in regional and rural facilities.
- Build audiences by encouraging and promoting regional and local support for arts and culture.
- Build the viability of NSW arts and cultural organisations by developing new markets and audiences.
Focus Areas: Your tour must be a clearly defined arts and cultural touring activity.
Eligibility Criteria
- You must be:
- an Australian citizen or
- an Australian permanent resident or
- a group located in Australia with Australian citizen and/or permanent resident members or
- a small to medium independent arts and cultural organisation based in Australia
- you are an NSW Local Government Authority (LGA)
- a professional artist or arts/cultural worker (including museum workers) with:
- A commitment to arts and cultural work as a major aspect of their working life (even if this work is not the main source of your/their income) and
- A degree of training, experience or manner of working that allows your/their work to be assessed against the highest practiced standards in the relevant artform or discipline
Special eligibility
- Applicants from interstate and those applicants based in Sydney and Western Sydney Local Government Areas are eligible to apply for tours to regional NSW destinations.
- Regional NSW applicants are eligible to apply for tours that include Western Sydney, Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong destinations.
- Non-NSW organisations, individuals and groups can apply if they demonstrate benefits to audiences in regional NSW and that 70% of your funding request must be for the regional NSW component of the tour. It is highly recommended that you discuss your application with Create NSW staff before applying.
- Organisations based in regional NSW are eligible to apply for funding for net touring costs
- community engagement or audience development costs
- inclusion of remount/pre-production costs up to $10,000 per tour
- Sydney and Western Sydney-based organisations can also apply for the costs, but for regional NSW tour locations only.
What can I apply for?
- Funding is available for a wide range of touring activity which may include but is not limited to:
- a Sydney-based dance company touring to three regional NSW destinations and delivering workshops with young people
- a regional NSW theatre organisation touring a performance to one Western Sydney and two regional NSW locations
- an artist/curator from Western Sydney touring an exhibition to multiple regional NSW galleries
- a band touring regional NSW to support an album release.
For more information, visit NSW.