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.
Artists, creatives and producers, including individuals and organisations, can apply for up to $60,000 for small-scale tours and up to $120,000 for larger tours, spanning a touring schedule of up to two years.
Regional Arts Touring is open to a wide range of artforms – First Nations arts and culture, performing arts, visual arts, literature, history and museums, digital and immersive arts – so a broad range of stories can be told.
Image credit: Kate Smith performing in Lingua Franca's 2024 production of Highway of Lost Hearts by Mary Anne Butler. Photography: Hannah Grogan
The program provides the opportunity for exceptional arts and cultural productions to engage new audiences and deliver employment opportunities for creatives, all while ensuring ground-breaking art and smash-hit productions are accessible for regional NSW audiences, creating more vibrant and connected communities. Regional artists and producers can apply to tour their work further afield, as well as metro and Western Sydney-based productions and programs touring beyond greater Sydney.
The Regional Arts Touring fund delivers an immeasurable impact for audiences of all ages across NSW, ensuring equity of access for communities with acclaimed productions, creative workshops and cultural programs available right on their doorstep.
Brianna Munting, Acting Director Arts Create NSW said:
“Create NSW is excited to offer the Regional Arts Touring fund to support both large and small tours which enrich the lives and livelihoods of thousands of people across NSW.
“Across regional NSW there are many world-class and much-loved venues, galleries, theatres and cultural spaces that come alive when shows and exhibitions come to town. Touring provides a valuable opportunity to connect talented NSW creatives with new audiences and celebrate the extraordinary calibre of NSW’s homegrown arts and culture.
“Furthermore, thousands of children and young people in regional and remote communities have engaged in exciting arts and cultural opportunities supported through this program, from theatre, dance and musical performances, to poetry slam competitions, masterclasses and literature programs. This early engagement and chance to express creativity is critical to inspiring the next generation of artists and storytellers.”
Applications for Round 2 of the 2024/25 Regional Arts Touring Fund close Monday 17 March 2025.
Click here for the guidelines and to apply.