Touring Victoria supports Victorian and arts and cultural organisations or professional creative practitioners to tour a professional production, performance, exhibition or program to, or from, regional and outer-metropolitan Victoria.
For activity commencing from 1 April 2026 and ending by 1 April 2028
What funding is available?
Amounts between $10,000 and $150,000 are available.
Who can apply?
We encourage you to apply if you’re a:
- Victorian and cross-border arts and cultural organisation
- Victorian and cross-border based professional creative practitioner with a history of presenting quality, professional work
- tour coordinator applying on behalf of an arts and cultural organisation or creative practitioner
- community or local government organisation with relevant experience, coordinating or presenting a tour
- sole trader applying under an auspice arrangement (please refer to the FAQs).
Note: State-owned cultural agencies or other creative organisations already receiving multi-year funding through Creative Victoria are eligible to apply to this program.
Please note
- This is the only round of the Touring Victoria program for the 2025-26 financial year.
- Grant funding agreements will only be entered into with legally constituted organisations that have an ABN.
- Creative Victoria will only accept one application per applicant.
This program has three streams:
- First Peoples stream - Applications led by First Peoples creative entities will be assessed in alignment with Aboriginal self-determination principles by an assessment panel of First Peoples creative industries peers.
- Deaf and Disabled stream- Applications led by Deaf and Disabled creative entities can choose to be assessed by a panel of creative industries peers with lived experience of deafness and disability, the First Peoples assessment panel or by specific creative industries peers depending on the creative discipline chosen.
- General stream- Applications will be assessed by specific creative industries peers depending on the creative discipline chosen.
Please Note:
- Applications from non-First Peoples that contain First Peoples activity may also be reviewed by a First Peoples panel to ensure cultural protocols are demonstrated in the applications.
- Each applicant can only apply to one stream. If you are eligible to apply to more than one stream (for example, First Peoples and Deaf and Disabled), please speak to program staff about which stream you are choosing to apply through, and which assessment panel you would like your application reviewed by.
Key dates
Applications open: Wednesday 5 November 2025
Applications close: 3pm, Thursday 4 December 2025
Supported activity can commence from 1 April 2026 and ending by 1 April 2028
How to apply
Who can I talk to?
- Erica Sanders
- For help with translations please call the Translating and Interpreting Service
- Visit the Translating and Interpreting website