Giving Day to the Arts

ActNow Theatre’s Associate Artists are community leaders and social impact builders. They consult, advise and collaborate on our programs, drawing on their professional and lived experience to shape projects that prioritise First Nations, Global Majority (POC), LGBTQIASB+, Disabled and Neurodiverse communities.

Our Associate Artists also play a significant role in the delivery of our Industry Development programs, providing pastoral care, sharing their knowledge, and guiding the next generation of artists. 

AusArt Day is designed to support artists and arts organisations to fundraise on one national day, and to increase the donor pool in support of Australian creativity whilst elevating the public value of the arts in the consciousness of everyday Australians.

This AusArt Day we are investing in our Associate Artists. With your support, our Associate Artists will strengthen our social justice theatre works, industry development programs and the communities we work alongside in new, more embedded ways. We will invest in their professional development as makers, consultants and leaders in the industry.

This AusArts Day, your donation will

UPSKILL OUR ASSOCIATE ARTISTS If we raise $2k we can provide training to our Associate Artists to increase their skills as pastoral support workers across our social justice theatre projects and industry development programs

SUPPORT OUR ASSOCIATE ARTISTS If we raise $5k we can employ two Associate Artists as creative consultants on two social justice theatre project developments in 2026

SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY If we raise $10k our Associate Artists can provide pastoral support for our Workshop Intensives, Homework Club and Yarn for Arts Sake initiatives in 2026

SUPPORT NEW WORK If we raise $15k, we can support an Associate Artist with a residency to develop an independent project or industry development initiative.

AusArt Day (Giving Day to the Arts) is an initiative of Creative Australia.