Funding Opportunities
Playing Australia
Playing Australia is the Australian Government's National Performing Arts Touring Program, gives all Australians, wherever they live, better access to some of the country's best performing arts. From ballet to Indigenous dance, jazz to classical music and Shakespeare to bilingual theatre - Playing Australia has assisted the touring of performing arts across Australia since 1992.
The program provides Australian Government funding to companies, producers, venues, presenters and tour organisers to tour performing arts across state and territory boundaries where this is currently n...
www.arts.gov.au/arts/playing_australia
Australia Council for the Arts
The Australia Council is the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body. The Australia Council cultivates the nation’s creativity by investing in artists and arts organisations working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, community partnerships, dance, literature, music, theatre, visual arts and multi-artform practices.
Arts NSW
Arts NSW is the NSW Government’s arts policy and funding body. Arts NSW funds key arts organisations, manages a portfolio of properties used for cultural activities and advises the Government and arts sector on effective support for the arts.
Through the Cultural Grants Program assistance is offered for professional arts and cultural organisations, and auspiced groups or individuals. A broad range of awards, fellowships, scholarships and residencies are also offered for the support and encouragement of arts practitioners living in New South Wales.
Sourcing Touring Product
Cyberpaddock
CyberPaddock gives presenters (venues) across Australia an opportunity to view all product that is available to tour.
On CyberPaddock you can browse all forms of performing arts, from drama to comedy, from dance to music, from children's entertainment to physical theatre, and register interest for shows that best suits your program. CyberPaddock also serves as a protection mechanism for presenters and producers by formalising all aspects and expectations of a touring production (ie costs, technical requirements etc).
For producers wishing to get a tour on the road, or...
Performing Lines
Performing Lines works from concept to production and touring. It works with artists at every stage of their careers, from emerging artists to internationally recognised names - and in many cases, plays a critical role in artists’ development. It produces or tours works presented at all levels of the Australian performing arts industry – from the contemporary arts venues comprising the Mobile States consortium, to regional venues large and small, to flagship venues such as Sydney Opera House, and to all the major Australian festivals.
Kultour tour
Kultour is a national touring network established by the Australia Council in 2001 to foster an awareness of Australian multicultural arts. Each year Kultour offers a curated program of multicultural works available for touring on the national circuit. Kultour supports presenters by covering touring costs and providing tour marketing materials.
Critical Stages
Critical Stages organises and manages tours of high quality independent theatre productions in Australia. Productions are chosen from across Australia via a national curatorial panel. Each production chosen to be part of Critical Stages is selected via a detailed curatorial process that includes essential criteria of significant critical and industry acclaim and a previous lengthy sell-out season.
Musica Viva
Musica Viva CountryWide sends musicians into and around regional and remote Australia to enthuse audiences, inspire creativity and imagination and nourish souls. From Darwin to Launceston and Ballina to Perth, CountryWide brings exceptional live music experiences to over 22,000 Australians every year through professional regional venues and volunteer music societies. A wide variety of groups tour for CountryWide to provide live music experiences in communities outside metropolitan areas, including string quartets, trios, duos and soloists, mixed ensembles, period instrument ensembles, w...
musicaviva.com.au/country_wide/touring_programs
Other Venue Associations and Networks
APACA
APACA is the national association for performing arts centres. It provides advocacy and advice to Federal, State and Local Government on a range of important issues and assists with industry development by providing benchmarks and codes of practices. In addition, APACA supports its Australia-wide membership with a vital platform for information exchange, an annual professional development conference and maintains strategic alliances with other industry peak bodies.
On the APACA site you will find lists of member venues, details about the national conference, touring code of con...
VAPAC
VAPAC is the state peak representative body for professionally managed performing arts centres in Victoria. Representing a network of over 52 performing arts facilities across regional and metropolitan Victoria and Tasmania, VAPAC offers a wide range of services and projects designed to support venue management and enhancements.
On the VAPAC site you will find lists of member venues and contact details, calendar of events, location maps and technical details.
NARPACA
The Northern Australian Regional Performing Arts Centres Association Inc, is the peak body serving regional and capital city Arts Centres throughout the State of Queensland and the Northern Territory.
On the NARPACA site you can search for venues in QLD & NT by regions and locations and display on map or as a list.CircuitWest
CircuitWest is a network of professional performing arts centres in regional WA. The network provides viable touring circuits for major state, national and international productions.
countryartswa.asn.au/cms/cawa/pages/artists/venues/venues_circuitwest.html
Touring Support and Advice
Arts On Tour NSW
As the key servicing Organisation for performing arts in NSW, Arts On Tour’s role translates to a range of different activities and projects. These include providing resources, tour development, advocacy, advice services, industry analysis, forum opportunities and tour coordination.
The full suite of industry resources provided by AOT is designed to support the vision of a strong, sustainable and vibrant NSW touring network.