December 26th, 2023Creative projects dollars up for grabs

Artists and creatives in the wider Hepburn and Macedon Ranges shire areas are being encouraged to apply to the state government’s Creative Projects Fund.

The program supports independent artists and creative workers to build their skills and careers, develop new creative work and experiences, and take them to local, national or international
audiences and markets.

Grants of $5000 to $20,000 are available to Victorian professional artists, creative practitioners, collectives, groups and organisations working in all creative disciplines – from design to dance, fashion
to film, theatre, augmented and virtual technologies, visual art, music, literature and more.

The Fund aims to support a wide range of ideas and perspectives, reflecting the diversity of the creative industries and Victoria’s wider community. It includes dedicated streams for First Peoples and
Deaf and Disabled applicants.

Applications are also encouraged from culturally and linguistically diverse, LGBTIQA+ and regionally
based creatives.

The Creative Projects Fund invests in the creative people and ideas that fuel the state’s $38.4 billion
creative industries, and is an action of the Victorian Government’s Creative State 2025 strategy.

Applications for the General, Deaf and Disabled and First Peoples streams opened earlier this month
and will close at 3pm on Thursday 1 February 2024.

Member for Macedon, Mary-Anne Thomas: “The Creative Projects Fund helps professional artists and small creative businesses to develop new work, bringing their ideas to life.”