ACT Arts Links

ACT Festival Fund: The ACT Festival Fund is an ACT Government funding program aimed at encouraging festival activity that celebrates our community spirit and engages our community as active participants and appreciative audiences.
ACT Heritage Grants Program: The ACT Heritage Grants Program is an annual funding program administered by the ACT Government to assist the community in working to conserve and promote the heritage of the ACT.
Adult and Community Education: Adult and Community Education (ACE) is a program endorsed by state, territory and Commonwealth Ministers through the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA). They also have ACT Adult and Community Education (ACE) Grants available each year.
ArtsACT: As the ACT Government's arts agency, artsACT implements Government policies and priorities, and facilitates development and community participation in the arts. They also manage a series of Arts Grants and a Public Art Program.
Arts Access Australia: Arts Access Australia is the national peak body of State and Territory arts and disability organizations working to increase access and participation in the arts for the one in five Australians with a disability.
Arts Law Centre of Australia: The Arts Law Centre of Australia is the national community legal centre for the arts. Arts Law is a not for profit company limited by guarantee which was established with the support of the Australia Council in 1983 to provide specialised legal and business advice and referral services, professional development resources and advocacy for artists and arts organisations.
Australia Council: The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body. Various Grants and programs are available through out the year.
Australia Business Arts Foundation (ABAF): Australia Business Arts Foundation is a national organisation which promotes private sector support for the arts through three programs: Partnering, Volunteering and Giving.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS): The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is the world's premier institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Black Book: The Black Book has two main sections: the Black Book Directory and Black Book Library. The Directory includes more than 2,700 listings of Indigenous organisations and individuals working across 95 professions in the arts, media and cultural industries. The Library is constantly evolving to include new artistic works by Indigenous people. It currently contains 2,000 works from the late 1890s until now. The Black Book also offers additional pages which provide up to date information about events across the country, jobs and training opportunites, and profiles of leading Indigenous artists to give inspiration to our users.
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts: The Department administers programs and policies that encourage excellence in artistic effort, support for cultural heritage and public access to arts and culture.
Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services (DHCS): The ACT Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services has responsibility for a wide range of human services functions in the ACT, including multicultural affairs, community services, older people, women, public and community housing services and policy, children, youth and family support services and policy, disability policy and services, therapy services, Child and Family Centres, the ACT Government Concessions Program, homelessness, community engagement, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, and community disaster recovery. A range of Community Grants are available through out the year in various areas.
Gorman House arts centre: Gorman House arts centre is the creative centre for the arts in Canberra. It is a focus for the arts community, a centre of information on arts generally, a heritage site of significance, the home of a very successful art and craft market, a function centre and a meeting place.
Health Services - Health Promotion and Grants: ACT Health Promotion Grants provides funds to community, health, arts and sports organisations for ACT residents. These grants are for capacity building and health promotion activities, field development in the areas of training for the community as well as a research and evaluation program in the ACT.
Human Rights Commission: The Commission promotes the human rights and welfare of people living in the ACT and provides an independant, fair and accessible one-stop shop for complaints of unlawful discrimination, and complaints regarding health services, services for older people, disability services and services for children and young people.
Kultour: Kultour is a national network of arts organisations established in 2001 by the Australia Council as an initiative of the Arts in a Multicultural Australia policy. It operates as a not for profit Company Limited by Guarantee committed to increasing awareness of Australian multicultural arts through its annual touring program of Australian multicultural art. Kultour provides opportunities for local professional artists to reach new audiences in new areas whilst the annual touring program offers audiences insight into multicultural issues and arts through a professional quality touring program.
Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV): Their MISSION - To foster cultural diversity and respect through the promotion, enhancement and celebration of multicultural arts in Australia. Their GOALS - Access and Participation in the arts by all cultures, Acceptance and Understanding of cultural diversity by all cultures and Excellence and Innovation in multicultural arts. Their SERVICES - MAV provides support for established as well as new and emerging artists and communities through arts practise.
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA): NAVA is the peak body representing and advancing the professional interests of the Australian visual arts and craft sector. NAVA undertakes advocacy and lobbying, research, policy and project development, data collection and analysis. It also provides expert advice, resources, professional representation and development and a range of other services.
Regional Arts Australia: Regional Arts Australia promotes the development of the arts for the one-in-three Australians who live in regional, rural and remote parts of the country.
Regional Arts NSW: Regional Arts NSW is the peak body for regional arts activity in NSW. Based in Sydney, it provides a range of services and represents a state-wide network of Regional Arts Boards (RABs) in the key areas of: Advocacy, Capacity building, Communications and Support.
Viscopy: VISCOPY licenses the copyright in artistic works and pays the artist or copyright owner a royalty for the reproduction.

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