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

What's new?

  • News
  • arts & culture

La Mama Theatre set to rebuild

Melbourne’s iconic La Mama Theatre is a big step closer to being rebuilt with the Victorian Government announcing support towards the project.
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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
  • Key Initiative

Melbourne Arts Precinct

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  • Strategy

Creative State Victoria's first creative industries strategy

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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
  • international

A unique Victorian treasure on display in Greece

The Hellenic Museum, in collaboration with the Benaki Museum, Athens, opened the new exhibition Messenger at the Benaki Museum last month.
  • News
  • arts & culture

Celebrating 10 years of Melbourne City of Literature

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  • Showcase
  • 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
  • News
  • arts & culture

Victorians shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2018

Over a quarter of all shortlisted authors for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards hail from, or are based in, Victoria.
  • Resources

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

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  • News
  • design

Victoria nails it at the 2018 National Architecture Awards

The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2018 National Architecture Awards, and Victorians have made an impressive mark.
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  • arts & culture
  • design
  • education

It’s a small world after all

There’s a tiny world living all around us, too small for the eye to see, which Scale Free Network seeks to illuminate.

30 August 2018
  • Resources

The Creative Exchange Ideas. Skills. Connections.

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

Art that changed the world

An opportunity for Victorian artists to create large-scale projects that make a lasting impact has us wondering, what do we mean by art that changes the world?

10 January 2018

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