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Creative Communities - the NSW Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy
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.
Image: Chanika De Silva in Vox Theatre’s Silenced. Photo: Natalie Low

Silenced, Vox Theatre Photo: Natalie Low.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
A fresh landscape at Art Gallery of NSW with new Director
Maud Page has been appointed the tenth Director of the Art Gallery of NSW, ushering in a new era of leadership for the 154-year-old institution.
A fairytale ending for regional NSW tour of Tinderella
Alyce Fisher, a freelance performing artist, based in Albury NSW and founder of Theatre On Toast, recently toured her first solo work - a cabaret-style comedy show ‘ Tinderella & the eight unique uses of Tinder’ with the support of Create NSW’s Regional Arts Touring program. Create NSW sat down with Alyce to learn more about her tour.
Sydney-made festival favourite casts another net
Award-winning play, Plenty of Fish in the Sea , by Clockfire Theatre Company, created by Emily Ayoub and Madeline Baghurst, and produced by Kate Gaul, was a hit at Sydney, Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and continues to hook audiences.
Funding opens for regional arts tours, great and small
World-class arts and cultural productions and programs keen to hit the road across NSW are invited to apply for the second round of Create NSW’s 2024/25 Regional Arts Touring funding program.
N-S-E-W sculpture creates a stunning landmark at Homebush Station
A new public artwork N-S-E-W by Warren Langley, 2024 has recently been unveiled at Homebush Station (Loftus Crescent), commissioned by Strathfield Municipal Council as part of the council's Station Street Domain Improvement project.
Discover Ngabu shell art bridge and interactive walk at Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
Premiering at Walsh Bay Arts Precinct for Sydney Festival from Friday 17 January 2025, through until 27 April 2025.