Deadline: 22-Feb-21
Open to individual creative practitioners and collectives across all disciplines, and at all career stages, the program supports artists and creatives to undertake a sustained period of intensive research and development or experimentation.
The Creators Fund provides financial support for up to six months for creative practitioners to undertake the following activities that will enable career advancement and innovation within the creative industries:
- Intensive creative research and development of new ideas/concepts;
- Practice-based experimentation.
Aims & Priorities
Creators Fund aims to:
- Encourage deep research and experimentation to support creative practitioners in achieving excellence, innovation, and advancement in their careers.
- Afford practitioners with an opportunity to take creative risks.
- Support creative to broaden, deepen or diversify their creative practice.
- Promote original and expansive thinking.
- Encourage cross-disciplinary and cross-industry collaborations.
- Engage with independent artists, creatives, and collectives that reflect the diversity of the Victorian community, including individuals and collectives from across metro, outer suburban, and regional Victoria.
Funding Information
- Applicants may apply for Activity Costs plus Access Costs, if applicable.
Activity costs
- Applications will be accepted for requests between $20,000 and $50,000 plus access costs for a funded period of up to 6 months of activity.
Who can apply?
- The Creators Fund accepts applications from individuals and collectives. Applications are encouraged from a wide range of creative disciplines from across the sector, including but not limited to screen, fashion, design, digital games, visual arts, literature, dance, circus, cabaret, music, theatre, multidisciplinary and experimental work.
- The primary focus of the proposal must include Victorian-based individual professional creative practitioners (emerging too established) and/or Victorian-based professional collectives AND a creative ideas or activity.
- Groups of individuals who join together as a collective must be legally constituted or nominate either an individual or an auspicing body to apply, and to take legal and financial responsibility for the grant should one be awarded.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals: Unless otherwise specified, to be eligible for Creative Victoria funding as an individual you must be:
- An Australian citizen currently residing in Victoria; or
- A Permanent Resident (holding an appropriate visa) who has resided in Victoria for at least two years immediately prior to the date of your application.
- Applicants under 18 years of age must apply through an auspicing body.
- Organizations
- To be eligible to receive Creative Victoria funding an organization must be legally constituted. Organizations that are not legally constituted may apply to some funding programs through an auspicing body.
- Groups of individuals who join together informally to collaborate in the creation, development or presentation of work may apply to some funding programs. However, you must nominate either an individual or an auspicing body to sign the funding agreement and take legal and financial responsibility for the grant.
For more information, visit https://creative.vic.gov.au/grants-and-support/programs/creators-fund