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- The Arts Funding & Development team are available if you need assistance interpreting the guidelines or advice on the application process.
- Arts and Cultural Funding Program
- Create NSW's Arts and Cultural Funding Program provides funding opportunities for arts and cultural organisations, professional artists and arts and cultural workers across a wide range of artforms and disciplines.
- Artform Boards
- The Artform Advisory Boards provide recommendations and advise the Minister on strategic directions for the sector.
- Creative Kids
- Creative Kids provides artists, cultural practitioners, and arts and cultural organisations across NSW with opportunities to reach new audiences and grow business.
- NSW Grants (devolved funding)
- Organisations offering grants or devolved funding programs within specific artforms and with the community.
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- Funding opportunities offered by other NSW Government organisations.
- COVID-19 support for the small-medium arts and screen sector
- Support for independent artists and small to medium arts, screen and cultural organisations impacted by COVID-19.
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- A Cultural Tourism Toolkit
- State cultural institutions
- The NSW cultural institutions manage significant cultural heritage collections and provide services and programs throughout the state and beyond.
- Major performing arts organisations
- These companies have a commitment to excellence in performance, and to engaging in new and creative ways of entertaining and inspiring people.
- Major festivals
- These festivals provide Sydney with periods of concentrated cultural activity, attracting audiences of over two million people annually.
- Visual arts and craft organisations
- NSW is home to leading visual arts organisations; these organisations influence the development of contemporary visual arts and craft practice in our state.
- Create in NSW: The NSW Arts and Cultural Policy Framework
- Create in NSW is a ten year framework for contemporary NSW. It sets a vision for a future in which arts and culture are central to the life of our State.
- Cultural Infrastructure
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- Creating New Income Toolkit
- Here you'll find guides and resources to help generate revenue for your creative practice.
- Making a living
- Advice for artists and creative workers making a living through running a small business including sole practitioners, small groups, partnerships or cooperatives.
- Research and statistics
- On these pages you can view various Research and Statistics material from Create NSW and beyond.
- News
- News
- NSW Government Live Performance Grants to revitalise CBD
- Dennis Golding named 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellow
- Spirit Remains by Lorna Munro
- Spiral Gallery Bega unveils a new exhibition Always Was Always Will Be for NAIDOC Week 2020
- The award-winning story of world-renowned dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre lights up the screen in Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra
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- COVID-19 support
Greater capacity at theatres, cinemas and corporate events
Entertainment facilities including theatres, cinemas and concert halls across NSW will be able to increase their capacity to 50 per cent and corporate events at function centres will be able to welcome up to 300 attendees from next week.
Featured
Over $30 million to restart NSW arts & cultural organisations
The NSW Government has announced stage 2 of the $50 million rescue and restart package for NSW arts and cultural organisations to ensure the sector continues to make an important contribution to the NSW economy during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Profiles
Talking fellowships and practice with 2019 Create NSW and Visual Arts Emerging Fellow Shivanjani Lal 
Michaela Gleave’s messages of hope and love to fill Sydney’s sky 
With character and mischief, Wart’s art pushes boundaries and ideas on mental health Recent News
- NSW Government Live Performance Grants to revitalise CBD
- Dennis Golding named 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellow
- Spirit Remains by Lorna Munro
- Spiral Gallery Bega unveils a new exhibition Always Was Always Will Be for NAIDOC Week 2020
- The award-winning story of world-renowned dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre lights up the screen in Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra
CREATE NSW | What we do
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