Deadline: 3-Mar-22
The Creative Victoria has announced The Creators Fund, to supports creatives to undertake a sustained period of intensive research and development or experimentation of new ideas and concepts.
Aims & Priorities
The Creators Fund aims to:
- Encourage deep research and experimentation to support creative practitioners in achieving innovation, and advancement in their careers.
- Afford practitioners with an opportunity to take creative risks.
- Support creative practitioners 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.
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This program will encourage and prioritise support to applications from:
- First Peoples creatives
- Deaf and Disabled creatives
- Culturally and linguistically diverse creatives
- Under-represented cohorts (such as LGBTIQ+ creatives)
- Regionally based creatives
- Young people (aged 25 years and below).
Activities
- 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.
- Applications can be for solo activity or activity undertaken by creative collectives/collaborations.
- 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, multi-disciplinary, experimental work, and cross-industry collaborations.
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This program has three streams:
- First Peoples creatives stream – Applications led by Victorian First Peoples creatives will be assessed in alignment with Aboriginal self-determination by a First Peoples assessment panel.
- Deaf and Disabled creatives stream – Applications led by Victorian Deaf and Disabled creatives will be assessed by an assessment panel of creative industries peers with lived experience of deafness and disability.
- General Stream – All other applications will be assessed by specific creative industries peers depending on the creative discipline chosen.
Funding Information
Applications will be accepted for requests between $20,000 and $50,000, for a funded period of up to six months of activity.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications from non-First Peoples creative entities that contain First Peoples content may also be reviewed by a First Peoples panel to ensure cultural protocols are demonstrated in the applications.
- This program accepts applications from individuals and collectives that meet Creative Victoria’s General Eligibility.
- The primary focus of the proposal must include Victorian-based individual professional creative practitioners (emerging to established) and/or Victorian-based professional collectives AND a creative idea or activity that meets the program’s aims.
Please note:
- Creative Victoria will only accept one application per applicant (including as part of a collective or under auspice) in each funding round. Auspice bodies may apply on behalf of multiple applicants.
- Individuals employed by State-owned cultural agencies, National Performing Arts Partnership organisations and organisations receiving funding through Creative Victoria’s Organisations Investment, Creative Enterprises and Creative Ventures Programs or Regional Partnerships Programs are not a priority to receive funding through Creators Fund.
- Individuals undertaking full-time or part-time study at the point of commencing the proposed activity are not a priority to receive funding through Creators Fund.
- Please call program staff to ensure you are applying to the most appropriate funding program. Activity that is eligible for support through other Creative Victoria programs will not be a priority to receive funding through Creators Fund.
- 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.
For more information, visit Gov.au.
For more information, visit https://creative.vic.gov.au/grants-and-support/programs/creators-fund