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Community concert bands, wind ensembles and brass bands across NSW can now apply for quick-response grants of up to $2,500 to keep the music playing, with Create NSW’s expanded $100,000 2026-27 NSW Community Band Program .  

Art and culture lovers will enjoy more vibrant arts festivals and entertainment offerings across NSW, thanks to a new initiative aimed at expanding the NSW cultural events calendar, especially throughout the winter and summer months.    

Create NSW and Western Sydney Arts Alliance have once again partnered to support independent artists and grassroots arts, culture and creative organisations across Western Sydney, with the launch of the 2026-27 Creative Western Sydney Micro Grants Program.   

Create NSW, Screen NSW and Sound NSW, in partnership with Accessible Arts, are inviting creative industries organisations across NSW to join the largest Createability Internship Program ever as champions of accessible employment for Deaf and Disabled creative practitioners.

Expressions of Interest are now open for creative industry organisations across regional NSW with new innovative partnerships that create opportunities or deliver outcomes for local artists and communities.

Western Sydney organisations interested in delivering new opportunities that strengthen the region’s arts, culture and creative sector are invited to apply for funding through the $2 million 2026-27 Western Sydney Strategic Partnerships Program.  

NSW’s artists and cultural producers can now apply for funding to support them in taking their exciting live shows, exhibitions and arts and cultural programs on the road for regional NSW audiences to enjoy.

Emerging fashion designers, textile practitioners and businesses across NSW can now apply for funding designed to meet their business and creative needs, from purchasing critical textile production equipment, to seizing career opportunities across the fashion and textile sector. 

The state’s next wave of fashion designers are getting runway ready, expanding their networks, and increasing their production capacity, supported by Create NSW’s Quick Response Fashion Grants Program.  

Dennis Golding still vividly remembers playing with a beaded wooden maze at the Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) in Redfern as a child. Decades later, that familiar object and the memories it holds became the inspiration for his powerful large-scale installation  Connecting Back , for the 2026 Biennale of Sydney. The work reflects on personal and collective experiences of dispossession, displacement while celebrating the enduring strength of community.