Deadline: 2 June 2020
The Regional Performing Arts Touring program supports performing arts to reach regional and remote communities across Australia. Grants are available to support the net touring costs associated with a national tour. There is no limit on the amount that can be requested.
Activities
You can apply for:
- Interstate net touring costs, including freight, transport, accommodation and travel allowances outside of your home state
- A contribution towards tour coordination expenses.
You can’t apply for the following activity:
- Touring costs in your home state
- Projects where the performers and artistic personnel are not paid at Award rates
- Projects that are to tour an international production
- Touring projects that only include capital city or metropolitan presentations
- Touring projects that do not include three or more interstate locations
- Touring projects that only include presentations in schools
- Tour dates that have already taken place
- Projects with a budget in surplus.
Eligibility Criteria
The Council accepts applications from individuals and organisations.
You can’t apply for a grant if:
- You received a grant, or administered a grant, from the Australia Council in the past and that grant has not been satisfactorily acquitted
- You owe money to the Australia Council.
Peer Assessment
Your application will be assessed by a panel of peers. The peers will be representative of a range of areas relevant to performing arts touring, including:
- Regional audience engagement and presentation
- Performing arts production
- Tour coordination and management.
Assessment Criteria
Peers will assess your application against the following four criteria:
- Region
- The regional and remote coverage proposed by the itinerary.
- Quality
- The artists and the arts workers involved the project
- The quality of proposed work
- The calibre of the company, including demonstrated evidence of good organisational planning, governance and management.
- Engagement
- The plans to develop audiences and/or meet audience demand in the proposed locations
- Experiences offered to regional and remote communities – including audience attendance and where appropriate other participation activities, such as workshops and master classes
- Appropriate levels of engagement and partnerships developed with presenters to achieve audience goals.
- Viability
- Evidence of a realistic and accurate budget
- Evidence of home state
- The chosen itinerary is the most efficient and logical trajectory for the tour keeping in mind the overall wellbeing of touring party whilst on the road
- Appropriate level of support from other sources
- Capacity to deliver the project.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply online via given website.
For more information, visit https://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/funding/funding-index/playing-australia-regional-performing-arts-touring-fund/