Arts Grants

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Maximum funding value: $10,000

The Arts Grants program of the Town of Victoria Park supports artists and creatives to develop and deliver artistic, cultural, and creative activities that meaningfully engage the local community.

Funding is available for projects and initiatives that contribute to the Town’s Arts and Culture Strategy outcomes:

1. Increased capacity to be creative

Foster a thriving, inclusive creative community by encouraging collaboration, cultural exchange, and artistic expression. Support artists and creatives to develop, extend, and strengthen their artistic, cultural, or creative practice.

2. Increased sense of identity and belonging

Cultivate a strong sense of place, belonging, and civic pride through arts and cultural activities that connect people and communities. Projects should help develop and strengthen Victoria Park’s unique and vibrant arts, creative, and cultural sector, and include local artists and/or creatives.

3. Increased opportunities to engage with the arts

Provide opportunities, resources, and platforms for local artists to develop, showcase, and sustain their creative practices. Engage the local community in meaningful arts, cultural, and creative experiences within the Town of Victoria Park.

Resources:

Arts and Culture Strategy

Community Funding Program Toolkit

Grant Application Tips

Policy 114 Community Funding

Successful Arts Grant recipients 2026/27

Recipient Project Amount
SOUNDTRAKX Limited

Beats, Lyrics, Life.

Soundtrakx will deliver a free community music program for young people in Victoria Park using music production, songwriting and recording as tools for creativity, connection and wellbeing. The project will provide culturally safe and inclusive workshops that build confidence, strengthen community belonging and increase access to arts engagement. 

   $7,946.00
Kristy Nita-Brown

The Vic Park Youth Map Project

Young Victoria Park creators will produce a hand-crafted recycled materials community map.  The map will be photographed and transformed into a double-sided fold-out fanzine including youth writing, art, poetry, activities and local stories, printed and distributed free throughout the Town. 

   $9,838.70 
Mama Respond International  

Arts Unbound – Imagine, Create, Showcase  

Arts Unbound is a piloted, evidence-informed program supporting children with disabilities and their carers through inclusive arts activities, creative respite and peer connection.  By reducing isolation and strengthening wellbeing, the program increases confidence, belonging, and community participation, culminating in a public showcase celebrating participants’ creative achievements. 

   $9,640.00
Melissa Vermaak

The Studio Session – Series Two

A live art event supporting emerging and established local artists through paid opportunities, professional development, and community connection. 

   $9,760.00
Connect Vic Park 

Oral Histories with Theatre 180

A paint and sip class for youth aged 15-25, aimed at connecting young people to improve mental health outcomes within Victoria Park. 

   $8,028.00 
ROOK ARI

Rook Ari Artist in Focus Exhibitions

Rook Ari requested funding to support four exhibitions.  Continuing their aim to support emerging and early career art practices.  The exhibitions will give recent graduates from Curtin, ECU and TAFE the opportunity to plan, develop and realise an exhibition with curatorial support and mentorship from the team at Rook Ari.  

   $6,437.68  
Indian Ocean Communities Research Association 

Indian Ocean Territories’ Pop-Up Gallery  

The Indian Ocean Pop Up Gallery will feature artworks and cultural ephemera from Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands at the Victoria Park Leisure Centre to exhibit the cultural history of these migrants to the Victoria Park and greater metropolitan area.

   $800.00

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