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Creative Communities - the NSW Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy

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Creative Communities is the state’s Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy, recognising the unique place of the sector in NSW.

Creative Communities is an inclusive policy that puts culture, arts, and the creative industries at the heart of NSW. It provides a framework for the next 10 years that supports artists, creatives and cultural organisations and expands to include the rapidly growing creative industries.

Read more on the NSW Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy.

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Sydney’s winter festivals full of free fun for the Family

This winter Sydney will host a range of free and low-cost activities for all ages - from music, film, talks, comedy, food and fashion across the city’s seven winter festivals.  
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New wave of talent at Australian Fashion Week as spotlight shines on First Nations and Emerging designers

The new wave of fashion designers will springboard onto the global stage this coming May, with two new runway shows celebrating First Nations designers, alongside a group runway spotlighting fashion’s cult favourites and rising creative forces.
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NSW arts and cultural funding opportunity opens for projects and regional tours

NSW artists, producers and arts and cultural organisations can now apply for funding with Create NSW’s 2026 Regional Arts Touring Round 1 and 2026 Arts and Cultural Funding Program (ACFP) Project Funding programs opening today.  
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Call for First Nations art to honour Stolen Generation Survivors’ truth at significant Western Sydney site

First Nations artists are invited to honour Stolen Generations Survivors through powerful truth-telling art, to be embedded in the deeply significant site of Keller House, the heritage-listed home to the Stolen Generations Keeping Place in Parramatta North’s cultural precinct located on the lands of the Burramattagal people, a clan of the Dharug. 
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Creative Residency in The Rocks to deliver a novel approach to supporting NSW writers

NSW authors, playwrights, illustrators and other literature creatives are invited to unlock a transformative opportunity to live and work in the heart of Sydney, at a subsidised, below-market rental rate, thanks to a new initiative The Rocks Creative Terraces Affordable Residencies Program. 

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