Deadline: 27-Feb-23
The Arts Queensland is now inviting applications for its Touring Queensland Fund which focus on supporting regional communities access to high quality arts and cultural products and events.
Objectives
- Support arts presenters and producers in the delivery of touring arts and cultural experiences and gigs in a range of places including halls, libraries, galleries, performing arts venues, schools and nontraditional spaces within and across Queensland communities
- Grow audience access to and demand for exceptional and diverse arts experiences
- Enable audience development within regions, for an artist, organisation and/or artform through touring activity
- Increase diverse programming, including First Nations arts, contemporary music gigs and disability arts, and drive regional company touring into new regional locations and Brisbane
- Provide new employment and career development opportunities for Queensland artists and organisations
Funding Information
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For multi-year touring program funding up to $150,000 per annum for:
- touring an identified circuit of at least five locations multiple times over a 24-month period.
What the funding can be used for?
- The Fund supports regional arts touring within and across Queensland; assisting with costs including brokering and tour management, travel (including leaving or returning to Queensland if part of an interstate tour), freight, installation, technical support, equipment hires, and community engagement activities. The Fund supports performing arts, visual arts, contemporary music gigs, cultural heritage touring activity.
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This fund has streams:
- Multi-year touring funding for touring programs that are not dedicated schools touring within a 2-year period (with the option to extend funding agreements for a third year of programs) that enhance community cultural calendars and grow audiences for Queensland artists and arts organisations across or within regions.
- Funding will support tours within and between regions, touring from Brisbane to regional Queensland locations, and tours from regionally based companies to Brisbane.
Note: Dedicated multi-year schools touring programs will be supported through an expressions of interest process to be opened by Arts Queensland in late 2022 for 2023-2026 regional schools touring programs, therefore the Touring Queensland Fund will only support single- year schools touring projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- be based in Queensland
- not be a NPAPF funded organisation, Arts Statutory Body or Arts Owned Company
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If applying for funding for a placement:
- the applicant must have a proven track record in the provision of a safe workplace with skills development and on-the-job training capacity
- the placement must be a person permanently based in Queensland.
- Applicants may only receive one Touring Queensland Fund grant per calendar year for either single tours or touring programs. Applicants who are Regional Arts Service Network (RASN) providers are permitted one application to the Fund in their own right and one application to the Fund as a RASN provider per calendar year
For more information, visit Arts Queensland.
For more information, visit https://www.arts.qld.gov.au/images/documents/artsqld/Funding%20opportunities/Touring%20Queensland/touring-queensland-guidelines.pdf
