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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.
- Other NSW Government Grants
- 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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- NSW Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Strategy 2015 – 2018: Connection, Culture, Pathways
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- NSW Contemporary Music Strategy
- NSW Night-Time Economy
- 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
- Resources
- 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
- Director Andrea James challenges audiences to consider Australia’s future in Sunshine Super Girl
- Sydney Festival Director Wesley Enoch kicks off 2021 with a Festival that proudly celebrates Australian-made goodness
- Director Kate Gaul gets audience onboard with Siren Theatre Co’s H.M.S Pinafore
- New Library and Cultural Centre for Parkes
- Get your culture fix up late in Sydney this summer
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- COVID-19 support
COVID-19 Support
Here you’ll find the latest updates from Create NSW on COVID-19, links to resources on grants, and financial assistance from the NSW Government and the Australian Government, and a link to our webpage on how to operate safely during COVID-19. You will also find links to other helpful websites and material from a range of other sites, including those concerning mental health and crisis management.
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
Director Andrea James challenges audiences to consider Australia’s future in Sunshine Super Girl 
Sydney Festival Director Wesley Enoch kicks off 2021 with a Festival that proudly celebrates Australian-made goodness 
Director Kate Gaul gets audience onboard with Siren Theatre Co’s H.M.S Pinafore Recent News
- Director Andrea James challenges audiences to consider Australia’s future in Sunshine Super Girl
- Sydney Festival Director Wesley Enoch kicks off 2021 with a Festival that proudly celebrates Australian-made goodness
- Director Kate Gaul gets audience onboard with Siren Theatre Co’s H.M.S Pinafore
- New Library and Cultural Centre for Parkes
- Get your culture fix up late in Sydney this summer
CREATE NSW | What we do
Create NSW is the NSW Government's arts and culture policy and development body. We provide support to artists and key arts and cultural organisations through our infrastructure and funding programs, and targeted strategies.More
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