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

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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  • 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.
  • Showcase
  • 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

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.
  • News
  • screen

Winners of the 2018 AACTA Awards

Congratulations are in order with Victorian screen practitioners and locally-made productions winning big at the 2018 AACTA Awards.
  • Showcase
  • 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
  • design
  • fashion
  • international

Melbourne design now on show in Hong Kong

The largest-ever international presentation of Victorian design wraps up this weekend at Asia’s premier design event, Hong Kong Business of Design Week (BODW).
  • Resources

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

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  • News
  • screen
  • international

TV series Wentworth set to return

Foxtel has commissioned another twenty episodes of the award-winning series Wentworth.
  • 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
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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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