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Touring Queensland Fund

The Touring Queensland Fund (the Fund) is focused on supporting regional communities’ access to high quality arts and cultural products and events, including music gigs.

The Fund can assist with costs including brokering and tour management, travel (including leaving or returning to Queensland if part of an interstate tour), freight, installation, technical support, equipment hires and community engagement activities.

The Fund supports the touring of all artforms within Arts Queensland’s remit including performing arts, visual arts, contemporary music gigs and cultural heritage activity, as well as touring into schools.

Funding will support tours within and between regions, touring from Brisbane to regional Queensland locations and tours from regionally based companies to Brisbane.

Note: The Touring Queensland Fund will support schools touring projects.  

Objectives 

The Touring Queensland Fund:

  • supports arts presenters and producers in the delivery of touring arts and cultural experiences and gigs in a range of places including halls, libraries, galleries, performing arts venues, schools and non-traditional spaces within and across Queensland communities. 
  • grows audience access to and demand for exceptional and diverse arts experiences.
  • enables audience development within regions for an artist, organisation and/or artform through touring activity.
  • increases diverse programming including First Nations arts, contemporary music and inclusive arts and drives regional company touring into new regional locations and Brisbane.
  • provides new employment and career development opportunities for Queensland artists and organisations.

Funding

Funding of up to $100,000 is available for tour-ready performances (including live music), visual arts, exhibitions, schools’ tours, events, and workshops (any art form that falls under Arts Queensland’s responsibility) and events for tour itineraries that include at least three (3) touring locations within a 12-month period.

Applicants cannot count the touring party’s home location as a touring location. Applicants can apply for up to 50% of the total project costs.

Frequency

Important dates for the Touring Queensland Fund

 Funding rounds

Open

Close

Notification expected

Activity start date
Round 6 31 March 2025 2pm 12 May 2025 Mid July 2025 From 11 August 2025

How to apply

1. Visit our supporting documents page to view the:

  • Touring Queensland guidelines
  • General Funding guidelines

2. Complete the online application form. 

Arts Queensland uses Smartygrants, an online grant application system. If you are unable to access Smartygrants contact:

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