Deadline: 06-Aug-2024
Creative Australia is seeking applications to support the creation and sharing of Australian stories and new ways for people to engage with them.
Creative Futures Fund: Delivery Investment will bring new Australian stories to life so people can engage with and experience them.
It is for works in their final stages of development that are ready for presentation. Investment can be used to adapt existing works that have already had a public outcome, develop and deepen partnerships, secure co-investment, realise and share the work, and capture the impact this has had for you, your collaborators and those experiencing the work.
They are seeking great ideas that are ambitious, unexpected and innovative. This includes new works and projects that may leverage existing intellectual property. The innovation could be in the story, the artforms or mediums used, the partners and artists you work with, or the way you will present or share the work.
The investment available is significant, so they want to know what that investment may help you do that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. Funding business as usual activity is not a priority.
The fund will only support Australian stories, for example the intellectual property must be majority owned by Australian creatives, be an Australian concept, with subject matter that is relevant to contemporary Australia.
Funding Information
- Investment of between $250,000 and $1,500,000 will be negotiated with successful recipients.
What can be applied for?
- They will support the delivery or presentation of intellectual property that is owned by Australian citizens/permanent residents and/or an Australian company. This includes a wide range of delivery activities such as:
- final creative developments that build on previous public outcomes
- adapting existing Australian work and intellectual property into new formats and media
- presentation based activities such as exhibitions, performances, publishing, recording, streaming, touring
- professional skills development and capacity building
- specialist advice and consultancies
- establishing new partnerships, collaborations, investors, or income streams
- community engagement and consultation
- market and audience development
- evaluation
- a reasonable contribution to staffing or operational costs in support of this activity.
- Activities can take place nationally, internationally, online, or a combination of in-person and online (hybrid activities).
- Access costs are legitimate expenses and may be included in your application. They encourage applicants to ensure that their work is accessible to everyone. Budgets may include costs associated with making activities accessible to a wide range of people (e.g. presentation or delivery activities using Auslan, translation to other languages, captioning, audio description, temporary building adjustments, and materials in other formats).
- If you are working with d/Deaf people or people with disability in your application, you may apply for access costs associated with the use of an interpreter, translation services, specific technical equipment, carer or support worker assistance.
Eligibility Criteria
- Australian organisations working in the arts and culture sector who are carrying on business in Australia and have their central management and control in Australia
- Organisations in receipt of Multi-Year Investment from Creative Australia can apply, however they must demonstrate the delivery or presentation activity is not already supported by their existing funding
- Organisations can only submit one application to the Delivery Investment stream in this closing date.
Ineligible
- You can’t apply to this fund if:
- you are an individual or group
- your organisation is based outside of Australia
- your organisation does not work in the arts and culture sector
- you have already applied to this closing date of Delivery Investment
- you have an overdue report for another Creative Australia grant
- you owe money to Creative Australia.
For more information, visit Creative Australia.