Arts & Cultural Funding Program 2026: Regional Arts Touring Round 1

This grant round is open to individual artists, arts and cultural workers, and organisations who are touring arts and cultural work across regional NSW.

All applications must demonstrate that the proposal has a focus on arts and culture and directly benefits regional NSW artists, arts and cultural workers and/or regional NSW communities and audiences through arts led touring activities.

Some examples of what may be funded under this grant are but not limited to:

• an artist/curator from Western Sydney touring an exhibition to multiple regional NSW galleries

• a small group of regional theatre-makers staging a play in two locations outside their hometown

• a performance poet partnering with regional libraries and bookshops to run poetry nights and workshops

• a Sydney-based dance company touring to three regional NSW destinations and delivering workshops with young people

• a regional NSW theatre organisation touring a performance to one Western Sydney and two regional NSW locations

• a regional gallery sending a group show to two other regional galleries and offering a talk by the curator in each location.

Find out more including how to apply on the website.