Funding for programs and projects to celebrate Aboriginal culture and preserve history and traditions.
Funding for projects that support participation in, access to and creation of arts and culture in regional Western Australia.
For arts and cultural projects in regional WA that align with the following objectives:
Offering between $5000 and $80,000 funding for artists and creative industry professionals to deliver a one-off project or a program of activity.
The program supports the development and growth of a vibrant sector that promotes the participation and active engagement of Western Australian communities in high quality arts and cultural experiences.
Offering between $5000 and $80,000 funding for arts and creative industry organisations to deliver a one-off project or a program of activity.
The Arts Short Notice Activity Program (Arts SNAP) for individuals and groups offers funding for regional, national and international short notice activities for artists and creative industry professionals.
The program supports the growth of a vibrant sector that promotes the participation and active engagement of Western Australian artists and arts workers in high quality arts and cultural opportunities. Grants of up to $5000 for national and regional opportunities, and up to $10,000 for international, are available for individuals and groups.
Supports projects that enable Western Australian Aboriginal people and organisations to undertake on Country activities that foster the intergenerational transfer of knowledge, preservation of culture and strengthening of communities.
The program intends to:
The Contemporary Music Fund (CMF) assists homegrown contemporary music artists with projects that enable them to produce and promote their work, along with building links nationally and internationally.
The Contemporary Music Fund Development Program supports career changing opportunities for individuals, bands and music industry professionals.
The program offers up to $20,000 funding for professional development, sector development, international, national, and regional touring/showcasing opportunities, and recording and promotional activities.
For the purpose of this program, contemporary music is defined as music that is currently being written and recorded and/or performed, with priority given to music that is broadly understood as popular.
The CMF Development Program is designed to complement existing creative industries grant programs.
Applicants must clearly demonstrate how the opportunity or activity will develop their career and why it is particularly timely.
This program partners schools, creatives, and organisations to embed creativity into students' learning and understanding across curriculum areas.
The Creative Learning program offers funding to support creative learning projects and the development of creative learning practices in schools. The program invites Western Australian schools, creatives, and organisations to partner, connect and learn about creative processes.
Creative learning encourages the use of insight, imagination, intuition, connection, questioning, immersive practice, reflection, process driven practice, design, research, fieldwork and observation.
The 3 program categories, Partnerships, Collaborations and Residencies, support activities utilising arts-based practice to engage students in their learning beyond arts curriculum areas. These activities do not replace the learning in the arts curriculum subject areas.
Projects will support access, participation and overall engagement for students (K to 12) and develop educators’ capacity to use creative pedagogy through professional learning with creative practitioners.
The funded project should be designed as a series of transformative creative learning experiences that is inclusive of multiple curriculum areas and demonstrates deep learning through creativity.
Increasing access for students and teachers to engage in enriched learning through arts experiences.
The Creative Learning Partnerships Program offers grants between $60,000 and $250,000 per annum to deliver 2-year creative learning programs.
The Creative Learning Partnerships Program enhances students’ (years 2 to 9) and educators’ creative learning capabilities in and through the arts. Programs will build educators' pedagogical capacities and increase access to and participation in the arts, cultural and creative activities.
A key concern addressed through the program is those students who are disadvantaged and least likely to have access to such opportunities to enrich their overall learning and engagement. As part of the Creative Learning Partnerships Program, arts organisations will work with identified clusters of schools to deliver programming over two years.
The Creative WA Fellowships program supports individual artists and creatives to undertake creative development, skills development and forge career pathways via individual arts fellowships.
This program supports the Creative WA vision to grow and sustain thriving culture, arts and creative industries in Western Australia.
The Creative WA Internships program offers organisations the opportunity to provide internships for individuals to undertake skills development and forge career pathways.
Up to 3 Creative WA Internships will be offered each year.
For a list of other opportunities available across Australia for WA residents, see fellowships, residencies and internships.
Supporting projects for children and young people to engage in authentic creative and artistic experiences, promoting positive social and emotional wellbeing.
The Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport and Healthway recognise the importance of providing opportunities for children and young people to engage in authentic creative and artistic experiences, promoting positive social and emotional wellbeing.
The Kids Access All Areas Vouchers program will give WA children the chance to experience the joy of arts and culture — connecting families with local performances and supporting the creatives who make them possible.
The Kids Access All Areas Vouchers program is an exciting new initiative for Western Australian children aged 5 to 15 to attend arts and cultural events. Up to 25,000 vouchers will be available each year over 2 years.
Parents and guardians of children aged 5 to 15 can reserve one $50 voucher per child, up to a maximum of 4 children for $200.
KidSport helps Western Australian children take part in community sport and swimming lessons.
KidSport enables eligible Western Australian children aged 5 to 18 years to participate in community sport by offering them financial assistance towards club fees, and in some cases essential uniforms and equipment.
Grants for WA schools to promote and advance reconciliation.
The Partnership Acceptance Learning Sharing (PALS) program encourages WA schools to develop projects promoting and advancing reconciliation in their local community. By supporting projects that enhance the education and understanding of Aboriginal cultures, achievements and histories in the classroom, we gain a deeper understanding of the experiences and diversity of Aboriginal people, which is key to recognising our shared histories and unified futures.
The PALS program objectives are:
Funding for projects that support the development of Aboriginal artists and the Aboriginal arts and cultural sector in regional Western Australia.
For Aboriginal arts and cultural projects in regional and remote WA that align with one or more of the following objectives:
Funding to support the development of new performing arts work and touring of existing performing arts work in regional Western Australia.
The Regional Performing Arts — Made in WA category supports the development of new performing art works, which are relevant and responsive to regional audiences and communities, that will be premiered in regional venues.
The Regional Performing Arts — Playing WA category supports the touring of WA produced performing arts shows to regional and remote communities in Western Australia.