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For arts and cultural projects in regional WA that align with the following objectives:

• Increase access to and/or participation in arts and culture in regional Western Australia.
• Provide employment opportunities, skills development or/and career pathways for regional Western Australian artists and arts workers.
• Encourage development of regional creative and cultural industries including cultural tourism.
• Support community led activities and creative developments.
• Contribute to social inclusion, wellbeing, cohesion and vibrancy in regional WA communities.

Applications are open to Western Australian based regional local governments

If applying from outside regional WA, you must provide evidence of support from, and benefits to, relevant regional communities.

If applying on behalf of Aboriginal people, you must provide evidence of significant Aboriginal involvement in project conception, development and delivery.

• projects or activities that do not involve or benefit regional Western Australian artists, creatives, arts or cultural workers, or communities
• international travel
• purchase of capital equipment (including instruments, equipment, software, computers, tablets (iPads) and/or uniforms) above $3000; and not a critical resource specific to the project/activity being undertaken. The total amount of capital equipment per application cannot exceed $3000.
• capital works such as construction or purchasing of studios, work spaces or gallery spaces
• activities already funded by the Creative Industries through any of our funding programs
• activities relating to radio broadcasting
• display, restoration or conservation of cultural and/or historical material
• costs of manufacturing and/or producing prototypes
• activities relating to podcasts and audiobooks that do not involve creative arts practitioners
• fundraising, competitions, prizes and trophies
• the work of State Government or Australian Government departments
• activity that will be academically assessed or any school curriculum-based activity
• facsimiles, genealogical works and histories of local governments, clubs, districts and organisations
• activities related to an individual’s membership in a national organisation
• ongoing staffing costs or operational costs
• digital games development activities
• film and television activities such as:
  • the development or production of narrative shorts or features, pilots for television series, mainstream animation for example, conventional character-based narrative cartoons
  • documentaries, including documentaries on the arts
  • screenwriting activities or script development for film and television
  • stand-alone documentation activities
  • education activities, or activities where members of the public take part, where the main or only artform being used is film, unless it’s in support of an artist’s work
  • film festivals, unless they support works created by practicing artists.