Creative Victoria

People watching a performer in a big dress with an old timey looking building in the background Castlemaine State Festival opening night 2013. Photo: Michael Nix

Creative Victoria champions and supports the state's creative industries, spanning arts, culture, screen, design and more. Learn more about Creative Victoria

Find support through our funding programs

Creative Exchange: Ideas. Skills. Connections.

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Find support through our funding programs

Creative Exchange: Ideas. Skills. Connections.

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What's new?

  • News
  • arts & culture

Call for Entries to the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Entries to the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are now open.

7 September 2018
  • Showcase
  • arts & culture
  • design
  • education

It’s a small world after all

There’s a tiny world living all around us, too small for the eye to see, which Scale Free Network seeks to illuminate.

30 August 2018
  • Key Initiative

Melbourne Arts Precinct

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  • arts & culture
  • regional

Curation by Community

When Gannawarra Shire Council, in Victoria’s north, wanted to reinvigorate their ailing performing arts program, the answer was simple – get the community more involved.

16 August 2018
  • Strategy

Creative State Victoria's first creative industries strategy

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  • News
  • arts & culture

Applications open for Victoria’s creative business program, Foundry658

Victorian artists and creative businesses can now apply for Foundry658, a Victorian Government-backed intensive business program.

5 September 2018
  • News
  • arts & culture
  • music
  • screen
  • games
  • design

Measuring the economic value of cultural and creative industries

Victoria has taken the lead in preparing a new report on measuring the economic value of creative industries, published by the Meeting of Cultural Ministers (MCM).

4 September 2018
  • News
  • arts & culture
  • music

New festival to light up Melbourne winter

A brand-new winter festival will descend on Melbourne in 2019 — with an expanded White Night Melbourne at its core.

3 September 2018
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  • arts & culture
  • music
  • screen
  • international

New horizons with James Batchelor

For two months in 2016, dancer and choreographer James Batchelor found himself aboard a research vessel with 60 scientists in the sub-Antarctic.

26 July 2018
  • Websites

Culture Victoria Explore the Stories and Collections that make up the rich cultural life of Victoria

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  • News
  • games

Melbourne International Games Week 2018 program announced

Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW), the biggest games festival in the Asia Pacific, today announced the 2018 program, the largest to date.

31 August 2018
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  • arts & culture
  • music
  • screen
  • games
  • design

Meet the Creators

Find out more about the twenty-one creative individuals and groups who have been named the state’s ‘Creators’ for 2018.

22 June 2018
  • Resources

The Creative Exchange Ideas. Skills. Connections.

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  • arts & culture
  • music
  • screen
  • games
  • design

Art that changed the world

An opportunity for Victorian artists to create large-scale projects that make a lasting impact has us wondering, what do we mean by art that changes the world?

10 January 2018

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