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Playing Australia Fact Sheet

What is Playing Australia?

• Playing Australia was established in 1992 and provides assistance to performing arts organisations to expand their touring activities, help venues and locally based organisers to host touring activities, and to encourage producers of programmes of particular innovation and quality to tour their work across Australia
• The programme supports the performing arts sector in Australia and provides opportunities for all Australians, no matter where they live, to access some of the best performing arts on offer.

Has the funding been changed?

• Base funding for Playing Australia is approximately $3.8 million per annum. Additional funding in the 2004-05 Federal Budget of $2 million per annum will take the programme's base funding to approximately $5.8 million per annum. 

Will the administration of the program change?

• No, recognising the success of the existing arrangements, the programme will continue to be delivered by grants administered by the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.

Who benefits from the program?

• Performing artists and organisations who will be able to tour their performances to areas they normally wouldn't go to and regional Australians who have the opportunity to view some of the best performances in the country.

What sort of grants have been funded under the program?

• Since 1992 approximately 560 grants have been provided under the programme. Playing Australia has assisted in tours of performances as varied as Shakespearean theatre to contemporary dance.

Document ID: 12637 | Last modified: 6 February 2008, 9:47am