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Whatever your creative urge, we’re here to satisfy it.

As an artist, producer, or consumer - or all three - this is where you’ll find good advice, avenues for funding and getting your work out there, how to connect with other Australians in the same boat, ways to help make the arts stronger, links to other arts sites, and plenty of information on what’s happening and who’s doing what in the fabulous, exciting, daunting and sometimes crazy world of the arts.

Lesson one: for beginners especially, it can feel overwhelming. The arts don’t come in neat packages, so surf around, explore, grab ideas, make notes.

Lesson two: the possibilities in the arts today are limited only by your imagination. If your mission or quest is creative, we’ve got the experience, the resources and the contacts, and we’re here to help. That’s our role. The rest is up to you.

Lesson three: break away, be fearless.

art and the heart conference. Image courtesy of Shifting Ground Register now for Regional Arts Australia conference Registrations are now open for Regional Arts Australia’s sixth national conference - art at the heart - to be held from 3-5 October in Alice Springs.
Gadigal, Local Knowledge perform at Yabun 2005 Taking the initiative to benefit Indigenous arts Partners have been chosen for three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts initiatives, addressing Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights, employment in the arts and international promotion.
Arts funding guide 2008 120 ways we support the arts The Australia Council for the Arts has released details of its funding programs, grants and initiatives for 2008.