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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.

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Departmental Release
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.

Departmental Release
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.

Departmental Release
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. 

Departmental 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.

Ministerial media release
21 March 2025

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.

News
12 March 2025

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.

News
17 February 2025

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. 

Departmental Release
28 January 2025

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. 

News
16 January 2025

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. 

News
15 January 2025

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.

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