Creative Victoria

Someone dancing Chunky Move Depth of Field (2015). Photo: Pippa Samaya

Creative Victoria champions and supports the state's creative industries, spanning arts, culture, screen, design and more. Learn more about Creative Victoria

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the place now called Victoria, and all First Peoples living and working on this land. We celebrate the history and contemporary creativity of the world's oldest living culture and pay respect to Elders – past, present and future.

Find support through our funding programs

Creative Exchange: Ideas. Skills. Connections.

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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the place now called Victoria, and all First Peoples living and working on this land. We celebrate the history and contemporary creativity of the world's oldest living culture and pay respect to Elders – past, present and future.

Find support through our funding programs

Creative Exchange: Ideas. Skills. Connections.

Quick links

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  • arts & culture
  • design

Design team appointed for Melbourne Arts Precinct transformation

Melbourne design practice HASSELL, in partnership with New York’s Solid Objects Idenburg Liu (SO-IL), will lead a team to redesign Melbourne's art precinct.
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  • music

Pushing 30: Three decades of young people and music

Youth music organisation The Push celebrates its 30-year anniversary this November.

16 November 2018
  • Key Initiative

Melbourne Arts Precinct

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  • Strategy

Creative State Victoria's first creative industries strategy

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  • arts & culture

The Write Stuff

Writer’s Victoria has launched two programs giving writers with disability a chance to tell their stories and build professional careers.

8 November 2018
  • News
  • arts & culture
  • aboriginal
  • regional

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s new residency in Bendigo

Bangarra Dance Theatre has a new home away from home in Bendigo thanks to a new four-year residency program supported by the Victorian Government. 
  • News
  • arts & culture
  • music
  • regional

Delivering big entertainment to small towns

Regional audiences will be treated to performances chosen by locals for locals as part of the Victorian Government’s Small Regional Presenters program.
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  • arts & culture
  • screen
  • design
  • international

Magic Mirror

Melbourne’s Lucy McRae explores the relationship between the body and technology with Biometric Mirror, an installation work destined for MIT and the Centre Pompidou.

18 October 2018
  • News
  • music
  • international

Music Works - Quick Response Grants to take local music across the globe

The latest round of Music Works – Quick Response Grants recipients have been announced.
  • Resources

Respectful Workplaces Resources to help creative organisations tackle harassment and bullying in the workplace

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  • News
  • music

Good Music Neighbours grant is music to venue’s ears

The latest round of the Music Works – Good Music Neighbours program, which provides support to live music venues to undertake noise management projects, is now open.
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  • arts & culture
  • music
  • games
  • design
  • aboriginal

International Focus

Some of Victoria’s most innovative arts organisations are paving news ways to work overseas, leading to greater cultural exchange and economic opportunity, and enriched creative practice.

27 April 2016
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The Creative Exchange Ideas. Skills. Connections.

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  • music
  • international

Life in the fast lane

The Fast Track Fellowships program sent four Victorian music managers overseas to create new opportunities for artists at home.

18 September 2018

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