Image Alicia Fox Photography Curious Legends Whale Song a multimedia outdoor theatre procession that celebrates the humpback whale migration season.
Create NSW provides grants, funding and support for arts and cultural organisations, professional artists and arts and cultural workers across NSW, helping to grow the arts for everyone to enjoy.
Find out how Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program is supporting artists, arts and cultural organisations and communities across NSW.
Arts and Cultural Funding Program - Recent Outcomes
2-year Multi-year Funding Outcomes
Supporting the creative ecosystem of NSW
Receiving core operational funding until 2027
Sharing in $3,766,220
More than a third of all organisations receiving multi-year funding for the first time
4 First Nations arts and cultural organisations funded to deliver powerful and meaningful outcomes for NSW Aboriginal artists and communities
8 Western Sydney organisations, sharing in $985,000 per annum, engaging 345 artists and cultural workers
Engaged or employed by funded organisations
2024/25 Project Funding Programs - Round 2 recipients
Dennis Golding Redfern [The Block]. 2018. Photograph. Image by artist
Image Credit: Dennis Golding. Redfern [The Block]. 2018. Photograph. Image by Artist
Impact of 2024/25 Project Funding Round 2
2024/25 Arts and Cultural Funding Program Project Funding Round 2 investing $3,290,325 across 4 programs
Create NSW will support 104 projects, across all artforms, including 30 projects led by or engaging with diverse communities
- 268 in regional NSW
- 236 in Western Sydney
- 792 in metro Sydney
31 projects in regional NSW sharing over $1 million (31 per cent) of the project funding investment
These projects will translate into new and vibrant cultural experiences that connect diverse communities and tell untold, yet important stories
An estimated audience of more than 2.9 million people who will have the opportunity to enjoy and connect with diverse stories and experiences
Kurinji Collective, 'The Jungle and the Sea' Belvoir Image Sriram Jeyaraman
Round 2 Project Spotlight - Kurinji Collective
Having created extraordinary Sri-Lankan Australian Theatre epics (Counting & Cracking, Jungle and the Sea), the Kurinji Collective will build a South Asian actor collective that creates and performs work to reflect the richness of South Asian culture in Australia and redefines Australian storytelling. Led by award-winning writer, director and producer S. Shakthidharan, Kurinji Collective will create a new work and tour acclaimed shows internationally to build a unique South Asian Australian theatre form that is renowned globally.
2024/25 Project Funding Round 1
2024/25 Arts and Cultural Funding Program Project Funding Round 1 investing $7,007,137 across 4 programs
Create NSW will support 193 programs across all programs and artforms, including 73 new creative works.
From 479 eligible applications received.
Total investment in First Nations arts and cultural activity
829 - regional NSW
511 - Western Sydney
721 - metro Sydney
Projects employ 259 First Nations artists and arts workers.
12.5% of all artists
Project Funding Programs - Round 1 Recipients
Dancer leaps touches his toes mid air in front of outdoor crowd Ghana Road Show (GRS) offers a vibrant, joy-filled experience that celebrates West African arts and culture through the work of African creatives. With this project grant, we’re excited to reimagine the work for theatre settings, expanding its reach beyond street parades and outdoor festivals. This evolution deepens Black artistic agency while fostering meaningful cultural exchange and dialogue across diverse audiences in NSW and beyond.
Lucky Lartey, Dancer and Choreographer, The Ghana Road Show
Project Funding total by Artform Board
| Artform Board | Total Funding |
|---|---|
| Classical Music, Opera, Choral | $295,121 |
| Community Arts & Cultural Development | $1,072,610 |
| Dance & Physical Theatre | $764,859.07 |
| Digital & Experimental, Immersive & Light Art | $710,511 |
| Festivals | $199,195 |
| First Nations Arts and Culture | $1,394,699.65 |
| Literature & Writing | $463,221 |
| Museums & History | $103,922 |
| Theatre & Musical Theatre | $1,186,128.05 |
| Visual Arts | $816,872 |
Historical magazine covers displayed on a wall for an exhibition Through powerful truth-telling, Secrets of Dawn honours Coota Girls Survivors and all Stolen Generations Survivors who, despite efforts to eradicate First Nations people and culture through assimilation, have resisted and persisted through truth telling, healing and self-determination. With this funding for the Secrets of Dawn exhibition tour, we can share this healing and truth-telling experience to Coota Girls Survivors and other Stolen Generations Survivors, their families and descendants, broader First Nations communities across NSW, and non-First Nations supporters across Eora Nation, Wiradjuri Country and Gumbaynggirr Country.
Meagan Gerrard (Gamilaroi and Wailwan) and Alex McWhirter - Coota Girls Aboriginal Corporation
