Note: Confirmed locations are listed below with further locations to be scheduled. Check your local guides for dates.

Orchestra Victoria  
$65,000

To support Orchestra Victoria's 2026 'mOVe!' tour: a program of concerts and community engagement events for all ages in regional Victoria, with tours to the Great South Coast, Loddon Mallee, Hume and Gippsland regions. OV will perform in concert venues, aged care homes, schools and libraries.

NETS Victoria 
$74,908

To tour the TarraWarra Museum of Art’s exhibition Intimate Imaginaries - a major exhibition of the work of artists from Arts Project Australia.

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra 
$131,646

To support a statewide season of orchestral and chamber music, including performances and community engagement events in major centres and small towns including Narre Warren, Yackandandah, Mornington, Stawell, Hamilton, Port Fairy, Shepparton, Ballarat, Wyndham, Daylesford, Mildura, Warragul and Mallacoota.

Nicholas Clark Management Pty Ltd 
$105,909

To tour a series of 7 Victorian-made works for young people and families supported by workshops, Q&As and community engagement events to locations across the state including Geelong, Portland, Traralgon, South Morang, Bairnsdale, Bendigo and Shepparton.

Sarah Kriegler 
$50,000

Lemony S Puppet Theatre will tour Little Blue Dot, a new work for families that brings together astrophysics with a story of childhood passion, deep parental love and important lessons about the uncertainty of life. The tour will take in 28 locations across the state.

Jennifer Tran 
$50,000

Jennifer Tran and Sophia Constantine will tour MaaMaa & Nonna's Kitchen, an interactive theatre work for young children and their families. Confirmed locations on the tour will include Ararat, Mildura, Warrnambool, Geelong and Moorabbin.

Na Djinang Circus 
$150,000

To deliver a two-year Victorian regional touring program that includes community workshops and engagement with large-scale street performances. Confirmed locations include Footscray, Traralgon, Castlemaine, Sale, Warrnambool and Bairnsdale.

Birrarangga Film Festival Ltd 
$100,000

To deliver a regional tour in 2027/28 with locations to be confirmed, featuring Indigenous film screenings, Q&As and a masterclass with First Nations filmmakers.

Binung Boorigan Pty Ltd 
$75,000

To support a 2026-27 regional tour of nyilamum song cycles, a First Nations-led concert work by Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung performer Dr Lou Bennett AM, created with composer Paul Stanhope and the Australian String Quartet. The tour will stop in Bendigo with more locations to be confirmed.

REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM recipients

Regional Partnerships Program – Strategic Initiatives Participants

DAVID ARDEN, $80,687

Gunditjmara/Kokatha singer-songwriter David Arden will tour a new First Nations work, MEERTA– Rise Up! The Ballad of James Arden, a story about Aboriginal Identity, resilience and celebration to 10 Victorian destinations in regional Victoria.

NICHOLAS CLARK MANAGEMENT, $150,000

Nicholas Clark Management will tour three new Australian works to 39 regional and outer metro Melbourne locations in 2025 – IMAGINE LIVE, based on Alison Lester’s book, will tour to 19 locations, In Common by One Fell Swoop Circus will tour to 6 locations, and Velveteen Rabbit from Born in a Taxi will tour to 14 locations.

FINUCANE & SMITH, $86,011

Finucane & Smith will tour the whole-of-community knees-up show The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez to 23 towns in Victoria. Spanning writing to opera to burlesque, the community focused performance will draw entire towns into the celebration.

MELBOURNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, $44,900

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra will tour a statewide season of orchestral and chamber music, reaching 10 major and minor centres throughout Victoria, engaging over 2,000 attendees at 15 events ranging from concerts, talks and workshops to masterclasses and school visits.

PERFORMING LINES, $53,967

Performing Lines will tour AUNTY, a cabaret, dance and popular music extravaganza, to four regional destinations spanning from Portland to Wodonga.

ORCHESTRA VICTORIA, $130,000

Orchestra Victoria’s mOVe! tour will present a state-wide program of orchestral and chamber music, visiting 10 locations to deliver range of activity encompassing performances, talks, workshops and masterclasses at performance venues, schools, nursing homes and libraries.

The Touring Victoria Program is supported by the Victorian Government’s Community Support Fund.

ALTERNATIVE FACTS, $46,788 - Bendigo, Frankston, Narre Warren, Sale
Alternative Facts will tour a new play by David Williams, based on interviews with over 25 teachers, that celebrates teaching Shakespeare to school students and the power of language and imagination.

FLYING FRUIT FLY CIRCUS, $110,000 - Bendigo, Narre Warren, Wangaratta, Warrnambool
Flying Fruit Fly Circus will tour Tempo, a new musical circus production for children and families with a cast of 12 young acrobats from the National Youth Circus. The Victorian leg of this national tour will visit regional and outer metropolitan venues.

KOORIE HERITAGE TRUST, $190,000 – Regional galleries to be confirmed
The Koorie Heritage Trust will tour JXSH MVIR: FOREVER I LIVE, the first major retrospective exhibition of work by the celebrated late Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Barkindji artist Josh Muir.

LOUISE COOPER, $25,814 – Lynbrook, Melton, Narre Warren, Natimuk, Ocean Grove, Tongala, Yarrawonga, Yea
Louise Cooper will co-facilitate a Victorian tour of the Neurokin community arts and professional development program for Autistic and neurodiverse people to a range of community houses across Victoria. The program will include creative activities for children, young people and adults; professional development sessions for artists with lived experience; and capacity building for the participating venues to deliver safe sensory activities for their local community.

MELBOURNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, $58,798 - Bendigo, Daylesford, Geelong, Horsham, Mildura, Mornington, Narre Warren, Red Cliffs, Shepparton, Warragal, Yackandandah
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra’s 2023 Touring Season will present a state-wide program of orchestral and chamber music, visiting twelve locations to present performances, student masterclasses, talks and more.

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, $120,000 - Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Mildura, Shepparton, Wangaratta, Warragal
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will visit regional centres across Victoria in 2024 with a varied program of performances, school workshops and collaborative rehearsals to meet the distinct requirements of each region.

The Touring Victoria Program is supported by the Victorian Government’s Community Support Fund.

THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET, $75,000

The Australian Ballet will present a triple bill performance of world-class ballet across five locations in Victoria in 2023.

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, $159,300

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will visit eight regional centres across Victoria in 2023 with a varied program to meet the unique needs of each region.

CRITICAL STAGES, $75,750

Critical Stages will tour three diverse Victorian works to regional and outer-metro audiences: Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark an adaptation of Hamlet made for children, the irreverent cabaret Otto & Astrid’s Joint Solo Project and Personal Jodee Mundy’s moving work exploring dis/ability.

ORCHESTRA VICTORIA, $67,000

Orchestra Victoria will deliver vibrant children’s concerts and community performances of new scores written for Australian picture books and films in regional and outer-metropolitan Victoria in partnership with cultural organisations and festivals.

NATIONAL EXHIBITION TOURING SUPPORT VICTORIA, $219,903

NETS Victoria will tour the exhibition 'Collective Movements: First Nations Collectives, Collaborations and Creative Practices from across Victoria' to three regional Victoria galleries providing direct engagement and collaboration with First Peoples communities at each venue.

HIT PRODUCTIONS, $34,874

HIT will tour the escapist comedy/drama Wallflowering by Victorian playwright Peta Murray to 16 locations across Victoria along with a range of community engagement activities.

KOORIE HERITAGE TRUST, $120,000

The Koorie Heritage Trust will tour of Layers of Blak, an exhibition of contemporary jewellery by First Peoples designers, organised through KHT’s ground-breaking Blak Design initiative, to regional galleries.

NICHOLAS CLARK MANAGEMENT, $68,073

Nicholas Clark Management will tour five diverse contemporary works, Death of a Salesman, The Alphabet of Awesome Science, Werk, Chameleon and You are a Doughnut to regional Victoria and outer metro Melbourne in 2023.

The Touring Victoria Program is supported by the Victorian Government’s Community Support Fund.