Festivals Australia

Overview

Festivals Australia provides funding to support individual art projects at festivals or significant one-off community events, such as a town’s centenary celebration or opening of a new community resource.  Festivals Australia will:  provide access to a diverse range of high quality, innovative arts projects that grow audiences at festivals across regional Australia support partnerships and collaboration across the arts sector encourage community participation in arts projects at regional and remote festivals. The program delivers two funding rounds each year usually closing in March and October. The Minister for the Arts approves funding under the Program Guidelines. There is no limit to the amount of funding that may be sought for individual applications. Funding is available through annual or multi-year funding agreements subject to available funds.