Northern Territory: Arts and Culture Grants Program (Australia)

Deadline: 23-Jan-23

The Northern Territory (NT) Government is seeking applications for its Arts and Culture Grants Program (ACGP) to support opportunities, initiatives and projects that recognise, develop, and showcase the intrinsic value and benefit of arts and culture, for individuals and community wellbeing and vitality, and to encourage creativity, imagination and innovation and to express the culture through NT stories.

Art Forms

Literature and Writing: Literature and writing includes creating and/or presenting creative writing such as poetry, prose, drama, fiction, playwriting, writing for children and young people and non-fiction writing.
Visual Arts and Crafts: Visual arts and crafts includes the contemporary expression of visual art through a broad range of visual media. This may include but not be limited to paintings, drawings, prints, photographic works of art, digital works of art, art installations, sculpture, ceramics, glass art, jewellery, woven or printed textile art and wearable art.
Dance: Dance includes creating and/or presenting dance performances, including ballet, classical, contemporary or traditional cultural dance.
Music: Music includes creating and/or presenting contemporary, traditional, classical, experimental, instrumental, electronic, live and recorded music and compositions.
Theatre: Theatre includes plays and scripted work, cabaret, installation theatre performance, puppetry, media-based theatre work, live art, and contemporary inter-disciplinary performance.
Musical Theatre and Opera: Musical Theatre and Opera includes musical performance, composition and presentation of musical theatre or opera in which there is a relatively even balance between the musical and the theatrical elements.
Circus and Physical Theatre: Circus and Physical theatre includes creating and/or presenting circus and physical theatre performances. Physical theatre is movement based expression with or without music, with or without narrative impetus.
Comedy: Comedy includes creating and/or presenting performances in any discourse (written or spoken) intended to be humorous or amusing.
Cross art form (multi arts): Cross art form includes creating and/or presenting artistic performances or works that involve multiple art forms, or arts projects that are not art form specific.
Community Arts and Cultural Development: Community arts and cultural development is focussed on the creative processes and relationships developed between artists and communities to provide a platform for creative expression and to achieve artistic and social outcomes.

Roles

Funded activities may benefit individuals in the following roles:
- artist
- creative practitioner
- arts worker
- arts manager
- producer
- technical production
- board member

Eligibility Criteria

Each grant category specifies whether individuals, groups or organisations are eligible to apply – refer to following Grants at a Glance section or each grant category page for details.
An applicant’s track record will be considered when assessing applications.
Individuals
- Individual applicants must be:
  - an Australian citizen or have permanent residence status
  - over 18 years of age
  - a current resident of the NT.
  - You may be required to provide evidence, by providing a driver’s license, utilities bill, electoral roll registration or other similar documentation.
  - If you are an individual applying for a grant over $15,000 you will need to either be:
  - registered as Sole Trader with an active ABN and apply in GrantsNT with an Organisation Profile, or
  - apply through an Administering Body (refer to the Administering Bodies and Auspicing section).
  - Individuals applying with an Organisation Profile are still considered as Individuals for applicant eligibility purposes.
  - Individuals cannot apply for funding on behalf of another individual, unless you are supporting a person with accessibility issues and authorised by that person. They require evidence that you are authorised to so.
  - Employees of the NT Government are ineligible to apply if there is a perceived or direct conflict of interest.
Groups
- Groups are two or more individuals who do not form a legally constituted organisation.
- If your group is applying for a grant, you must identify an individual in the group to apply on behalf of the group. This person will be legally and financially responsible for the grant. The individual must meet the for Individuals.
Organisations
- Organisations must be not-for-profit, legally constituted and be producers of, or primary operate in support of the arts.
- Organisations that have their main place of business registered in the NT are eligible to apply.
- Organisations not registered in the NT are eligible to apply if they meet all the following criteria:
- have a physical presence in the NT (refer to the Glossary of Terms for the definition of Physical Presence)
- have an established track record of a minimum three years of grant funding auspiced through a NT arts and culture organisation, and have successfully acquitted all funding. Applicants with a track record of non-compliance will not be eligible
- deliver activities that have significant arts and cultural outcomes that benefit NT artists, arts organisations and the NT arts sector
- Organisations that are not registered in the NT and do not meet the cannot apply, but can partner with an eligible organisation to apply and administer the grant on their behalf.
- NT Government agencies and associated entities, local government, educational institutions and hospitals are ineligible.
- Organisations must be compliant with the relevant legislation you are constituted under – the Associations
- Act 2003 (NT) (or some cases the Incorporated Associations Act of another state/territory), Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 or Corporations Act 2001. Non-compliant including insolvent
- Organisations are ineligible and cannot act as an Administering Body.
- Some grants are only available to Organisations of a specific type or limited by other criteria. If this is the case, it will be stipulated in the grant category details.