NSW’s performing arts and live music sector will receive a funding boost to support the return of artists and performers to the stage.
The $85 million funding package will help music charitable organisation Support Act to support the health and welfare of individual performing artists, while extending the NSW Government’s Performing Arts Relaunch package, established in 2021.
Arts Minister Ben Franklin said the funding will regenerate the confidence needed by the performing arts and live music sector to continue delivering vibrant, diverse, and inspiring work that NSW missed out on during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The arts are crucial to helping communities across NSW heal, unite, and inspire as well as being essential to our state’s economic recovery,” Mr Franklin said.
Applications for the Performing Arts Relaunch package are open to eligible NSW venues, promoters and producers to relaunch performing arts activities.