Thursday 6 August 2020

$10M IN MULTI-YEAR ARTS FUNDING TO FOSTER THE SECTOR

The NSW Government has announced the recipients of a $10 million multi-year arts funding boost to support 58 small to medium independent arts organisations for up to four years.

Minister for the Arts Don Harwin said the industry has struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020/2021 Independent Arts and Cultural Organisations (Multi-Year Funding) provides a future-proof plan for the revival of the arts sector.

“I’m delighted this year’s funding has increased to support a greater number of organisations across NSW with almost half of the multi-year funding to be delivered to first-time recipients,” Mr Harwin said.

“We are committed to supporting the NSW arts and culture sector and by ensuring extended financial stability for organisations.”

All successful recipients were assessed by the 10 Artform Boards – comprised of the State’s key leaders in the arts sector.

Key Snapshot of 2020/2021 Multi-Year Funding:
  • $9,999,110 in funding for 2020/2021 (up 8.38% on 2019/2020) will support 58 recipients (up from 55 on 2019/2020) across 33 metro Sydney, 14 regional NSW and 11 western Sydney based organisations
  • 23 new multi-year recipients
  • 5 Youth Theatre companies will receive funding
  • 2 Aboriginal led organisations will receive multi-year funding for the first time

Funding over a four year period will cover creation of new works, exhibitions, publishing and recording, promotion and marketing, conservation or development of collections and archives, and equipment purchases.

See the full list of the multi-year funding recipients. Find out more about Create NSW funding programs online.

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