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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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26 June 2025

Yarkuwa Indigenous Knowledge Centre opens

Create NSW joined local and visiting First Nations Elders and Knowledge Holders, artists and creatives, cultural workers and community members from across NSW for the official opening of the  Yarkuwa Indigenous Knowledge Centre  located in the western Riverina community of Deniliquin on Wamba Wamba Perrepa Perrepa Country in south-western NSW.
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29 May 2025

Createability internship program welcomes host organisations and interns for 2025

Twelve talented interns are gearing up for exciting professional development internship roles with arts, screen and music organisations through the NSW Government’s groundbreaking Createability program, aimed to support the creative industries overcome the invisible barriers to employment for practitioners living with disability.
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21 May 2025

Strengthening the arts and cultural sector’s core: Around $17 million annual investment in creative communities across NSW

Create NSW is strengthening the backbone of the NSW creative ecosystem, with a major multi-year injection through the state’s flagship Arts and Cultural Funding Program.
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16 May 2025

Creativity unleashed with $7 million funding for hundreds of arts projects across NSW

Audiences and communities across the state will soon benefit from a wave of exciting, vibrant creative projects from NSW artists, creatives and arts and cultural organisations, supported by Create NSW’s flagship arts funding program. 
Media release
24 March 2025

Applications now open for arts and cultural projects

NSW’s talented artists, creatives and arts and cultural organisations are invited to bring their best creative ideas and apply for Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program (ACFP) Projects Round two for 2024/25, open today.

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