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- 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.
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- Create NSW Holiday Break Partnership Program and the Office for Regional Youth are calling for EOIs from arts and cultural organisations, and individuals, across the state.
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- Create NSW works across Government to create public art opportunities for artists. Here you'll find the latest public art opportunities across NSW.
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- Creative Kids provides artists, cultural practitioners, and arts and cultural organisations across NSW with opportunities to reach new audiences and grow business.
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- The NSW cultural institutions manage significant cultural heritage collections and provide services and programs throughout the state and beyond.
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- 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.
- Create Infrastructure
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- Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
- Theatre Royal
- Powerhouse Parramatta
- Sydney Opera House Stage One Renewal and Joan Sutherland Theatre Upgrade
- One Canal Rd, Leichhardt – Workshop Spaces EOI
- Walsh Bay Arts Precinct Events Space Available for Cultural Use
- Willow Grove Relocation Project
- Arts and Cultural Assets Program (ECAP Arts)
- Powerhouse Ultimo Renewal
- Haymarket Creative
- Short-term production space hire
- Creative Capital
- The Gunnery Transformation Project
- Pier 2/3 venue hire
- Pier 2/3 is available for hire for short term use.
- Arts properties
- Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
- Theatre Royal
- Carriageworks
- Former Darlinghurst Gaol
- Garry Owen House
- Roslyn Packer Theatre
- One Canal Rd, Leichhardt – Workshop Spaces EOI
- Walsh Bay Arts Precinct Events Space Available for Cultural Use
- Willow Grove Relocation Project
- Arts and Cultural Assets Program (ECAP Arts)
- Resources
- Creating New Income Toolkit
- Here you'll find guides and resources to help generate revenue for your creative practice.
- NSW Public Art Toolkit
- The toolkit identifies the vital contribution and involvement of Aboriginal communities in the development of public art on Aboriginal land.
- NSW Creative Ageing Framework
- The NSW Government’s blueprint for responding to the opportunities and challenges of our ageing population.
- 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
- Dressing for success: Kristi Archer shares her Createability internship experience
- Prestigious Visual Arts Fellowship Shortlist Announced
- Grants for Arts and Cultural Organisations to Deliver Free Regional Holiday Programs
- $1.5m for Western Sydney Arts and Culture Up Late
- Over $7 Million to Rebuild Flood Damaged Arts and Cultural Infrastructure
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Funding & support
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/cultural workers across a wide range of artforms and disciplines.More
NSW Grants (devolved funding)
Some Arts and Cultural Development Program funds are managed by sector service organisations to support arts and cultural activities at local and regional levels. Organisations offering small grants or devolved […]More
Create NSW and Office for Regional Youth Holiday Break Program
Applications for the Create NSW 2023 Holiday Break Program for Spring/Summer school holidays have now closed. Create NSW and the Office for Regional Youth are partnering to respond to the […]More
Arts and Cultural Assets Program (ECAP Arts)
Applications for the Arts and Cultural Assets Program (ECAP Arts) – a program delivered under the 2022 Community Local Infrastructure Recovery Package (CLIRP), Essential Community Assets Program (ECAP) have closed. […]More
2023 Culture Up Late Western Sydney
Applications for Culture Up Late Western Sydney round have now closed. <Back to Arts and Cultural Funding Program Accessibility If you are an applicant with disability or who is d/Deaf, […]More
Regional Arts Touring
Arts and Cultural Funding Program 2022/23 Applications for Round two of Regional Arts Touring have now closed <Back to Arts and Cultural Funding Program Overview Regional Arts Touring funding supports […]More
NSW Design (Early Career) Fellowship – Powerhouse Residency
Arts and Cultural Funding Program 2022/23 Applications for the NSW Design (Early Career) Fellowship – Powerhouse Residency have now closed <Back to Arts and Cultural Funding Program Guidelines The information […]More
Business Skills Development Program
Create NSW will be offering selected ACFP applicants the opportunity to undertake a Business Skills Development Program with Creative Plus Business. In each of the funding Rounds, during the assessment of applications, […]More
Createability Internship Program
Applications for the Createability Internship Program are now closed. <Back to Funding and Support The information on this page is a guide only. Please read the full Guidelines before completing […]More
NSW Performing Arts COVID Support Package
Applications are open for the NSW Performing Arts COVID Support Package. Overview The aim of this package is to provide urgent financial support to performing arts venues, producers and promoters […]More
Creative Capital
The Creative Capital fund has been introduced to meet the demands for facilities to support the creative economy and improve access to and participation in quality cultural experiences across NSW. Cultural equity is at the heart of the new Creative Capital Program and will ensure that more people have access to and can participate in the arts.More
Creative Leadership opportunities
Arts and Cultural Funding Program Creative Leadership Opportunities is the Fellowship program supports NSW artists, practitioners and arts/cultural workers to undertake self-directed professional development programs or significant opportunities to support […]More
Multi-Year Funding
Arts and Cultural Funding Program Expressions of Interest (EOI) for Multi-year funding for arts and cultural organisations (including LGAs) are now closed. <Back to Arts and Cultural Funding Program Accessibility […]More
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