Top row, left to right: Photo: National Art School; Dance Battle, Photo: Anna Hay; Photo: Joseph Mayers. Bottom row, left to right: Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula. Photo: Destination NSW; Archie Party, 2023. Photo: Benny Clark.
About the Live Performance Venue Program
The Live Performance Venue Program aims to increase the number of fit-for-purpose live performance venues across Greater Sydney, Newcastle-Lower Hunter, Central Coast and Illawarra-Shoalhaven.
The Program seeks to:
- connect existing hospitality venues with subject-matter experts
- facilitate networking between venues, artists, agents and media
- build industry capacity to diversify existing hospitality venues to offer live performance
- increase sector knowledge and expertise in
- vision and business model alignment
- essential audio-visual equipment and sound management
- live performance programming, audience development and marketing
- provide funding for live performance equipment purchase and install, and start-up programming and marketing costs
The Program will be delivered over two phases:
Live Performance Venue Accelerator
Eligible hospitality businesses can develop relevant skills to diversify into live performance venues through specialist workshops, covering marketing, programming and essential equipment training.
Applications closed on Wednesday 13 December 2023.
Live Performance Venue Grant Program
Eligible hospitality venues can access grant funding up to $80,000 to purchase essential equipment to help start programming and promote live performance.
Applications closed on Wednesday 3 April 2024.
Venues Unlocked
The Live Performance Venue Program is a key Program within Venues Unlocked, a $5 million NSW Government initiative, delivered through Sound NSW and the Office of the 24-Hour Economy Commissioner.
With multiple funding and support streams, the Program aims to help NSW venues address sound management challenges and remove barriers to staging live performance.
The Venues Unlocked Program aims to:
- increase the number of live performance venues in NSW
- maintain industry best practice sound management
- build the capacity for live performance opportunities
- generate greater vibrancy in communities.
Alfie Arcuri performing at The Beresford, Surry Hills. Photo: Destination NSW
Information sessions
The information sessions covered an overview of the Live Performance Venue Accelerator, how to apply, eligibility requirements, followed by a Q&A.
The information sessions were held on:
11am Wednesday, 22 November 2023
11am Monday, 27 November 2023
12pm Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Live Performance Venue Accelerator
The Live Performance Venue Accelerator is a series of workshops for existing hospitality venues to improve their venue and business model to accommodate the staging of live performance.
Applications closed on Wednesday 13 December 2023.
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