OPPORTUNITIES: Check out these opportunities for regional artists, performers, musicians and writers across Australia
2025 Women’s Week Event (Regional Bursary)
The Women in Arts and Creativity Symposium is a hybrid symposium showcasing the strengths and challenges of culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD), culturally and racially marginalised (CaRM), migrant, and refugee women and gender diverse folk in the arts, screen, and creative sectors. Diversity Arts Australia is offering travel bursaries ($200-$500) for up to 15 women from regional NSW to attend in person.
Submit EOI by Monday, February 10, 2025 at 5pm
Details: https://diversityarts.org.au/eoi-2025-womens-week-event.../
Photo credit: Nasir Jebeile
2025 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships
Are you a deadly writer? Win $15,000 and a publishing opportunity. black&write! is a groundbreaking national project dedicated to nurturing and empowering First Nations writers and editors through our prestigious Indigenous writing fellowships and editing internships.
Whether you’re published or unpublished, black&write! is open all Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers currently living in Australia.
Submissions close Friday 31 January 2025 via State Library of Queensland
Details: https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/.../indigenous-writing...
Photo credit: Joe Ruckli
The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships offer the chance of a lifetime for multiple artists across various art forms through travelling either interstate and/or overseas. These scholarships offer $50,000 for artists (aged 21–35) to explore, study and develop their artistic gifts. This round is open to architecture, ballet, prose, sculpture and singing.
Closing date: Tuesday 4 February 2025 via Creative Australia
Details: https://creative.gov.au/.../the-marten-bequest-scholarships/
Image credit: Maarten Deckers