Creative Victoria

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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

What's new?

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  • arts & culture

Terracotta Warriors and Cai Guo-Qiang will march into the NGV next year as part of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series

The National Gallery of Victoria’s newly announced 2019 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition offers local audiences a rare glimpse at China’s most beloved treasures.
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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
  • music
  • regional

Get ready for Quick Response Music Grants

Quick Response Music Grants return in 2019
  • News
  • screen
  • international

Local producer gets lucky break thanks to Film Victoria

A young Victorian film producer will spend six months working with the producers of hit movie I, Tonya in the career break of a lifetime.
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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
  • arts & culture

Shortlist announced: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist has been announced, with 28 titles spanning fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more.
  • Resources

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

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  • arts & culture

New partnership to support creative residencies at Collingwood Arts Precinct

Emerging artists will have the opportunity to become part of the Collingwood Arts Precinct (CAP) community thanks to a new partnership with Bank of Melbourne.
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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
  • Resources

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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