Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport media releases

Audiences of all ages in regional communities across the state will enjoy some of NSW’s best art, culture and entertaining performances with 17 outstanding productions and programs heading out on tour, supported by $1.2 million from Create NSW’s 2024/25 Regional Arts Touring fund.

Communities and audiences across the state will enjoy the exceptional calibre of homegrown creative talent with 51 NSW organisations funded to deliver diverse arts and cultural programming in the coming year.

Sound NSW is calling for applications from artists and music industry professionals passionate about the future of the state’s contemporary music to join the Advisory Board in 2025.

The Office of the 24-Hour Economy Commissioner, through the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality, and Sport, has announced the third round of the Uptown Grant Program is now open for applications with $5.5 million available to enhance and energise nightlife and cultural districts throughout Greater Sydney and regional New South Wales.

Ellen Ferrier, Ellie Hannon, Ali Noble, Vedika Rampal, Joel Sherwood Spring and Ali Tahayori have been named as the finalists for the Create NSW and Artspace 2025 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging).

From vibrant art hubs and entertainment precincts, through to eat streets and outdoor community spaces, like parks and high streets – a new $1 million grant program could soon bring even more unique Special Entertainment Precincts (SEPs) to life across the state. 

The state’s artists and audiences are set to benefit with applications now open for a new initiative that will see small-to-medium, not-for-profit arts and cultural organisations connect with businesses to get their innovative creative-led ideas off the ground.

A career-expanding opportunity is now open for creative practitioners with disability or who are d/Deaf to gain hands-on experience and grow their professional network with some of NSW’s leading arts, screen and music organisations. 

Marking the start of Ausmusic Month today, Sound NSW is providing a much-needed funding boost to the state’s contemporary music industry, with musicians and industry professionals to be supported year-round to travel and connect with new audiences and industry contacts locally and internationally, through Sound NSW’s new expanded Touring and Travel Fund. 

Individual creative practitioners and arts and cultural organisations in NSW can now apply for funding that better meets their needs with five new Project and Multi-year funding rounds opening today.