Creative Victoria

People watching a performer in a big dress with an old timey looking building in the background Castlemaine State Festival opening night 2013. Photo: Michael Nix

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

Find support through our funding programs

Creative Exchange: Ideas. Skills. Connections.

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Find support through our funding programs

Creative Exchange: Ideas. Skills. Connections.

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  • News
  • arts & culture
  • regional

Engaging audiences across regional Victoria

The refurbished West Gippsland Arts Centre, the Latrobe Regional Gallery, and Warrnambool Art Gallery are the latest grant Engaging Audiences recipients.

18 July 2018
  • Showcase
  • arts & culture
  • music
  • screen
  • games
  • design

Meet the Creators

Find out more about the twenty-one creative individuals and groups who have been named the state’s ‘Creators’ for 2018.

22 June 2018
  • Key Initiative

Melbourne Arts Precinct

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  • arts & culture
  • music
  • screen
  • games
  • design

Highlights from the 2018 Creative State Summit

We report on this year's event.

14 June 2018
  • Strategy

Creative State Victoria's first creative industries strategy

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  • News
  • arts & culture
  • aboriginal

Next Wave launches First Nations Producers-in-Residence program

Next Wave’s Producers-in-Residence is a new springboard for three emerging First Nations creatives who want to leap into producing, programming or curating in the arts.

18 July 2018
  • News
  • arts & culture

Victorian events and artists honoured at the 2018 Helpmann Awards

The centrepiece of the 2017 Melbourne International Arts Festival, Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music won Best Special Event at the 2018 Helpmann Awards.

17 July 2018
  • News
  • arts & culture
  • international

MoMA Masterpieces draw 100,000 visitors and counting

More than 100,000 people have streamed through the doors of the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition MoMA at NGV.

12 July 2018
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  • arts & culture
  • international

New Artistic Director for National Theatre Ballet School

Damian Smith had only visited Melbourne a handful of times before moving here earlier this year.

21 May 2018
  • Websites

Culture Victoria Explore the Stories and Collections that make up the rich cultural life of Victoria

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  • News
  • arts & culture
  • regional

Cake Industries rising

Victorian experimental art collective Cake Industries is having a stellar year, fuelled by a Creators Fund grant from Creative Victoria.

11 July 2018
  • Showcase
  • arts & culture
  • international

40 years of puppets and play

Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2018, Polyglot Theatre is a treasure of the Victorian arts scene, delighting the young and the young at heart.

26 April 2018
  • Resources

The Creative Exchange Ideas. Skills. Connections.

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  • Showcase
  • games

Girls Got Game

A Victorian company is redressing the imbalance when it comes to female characters in digital games.

28 November 2016

Creative Victoria:The latest round of Engaging Audiences grants provides more than $120k to help Warrnambool Art Gallery, West Gippsl… https://t.co/fFTRtWRn8t

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