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.

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 gigs and disability arts, and drive 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 to support a single tour of any length or a program of tours taking place over a period no longer than 12 months.

Activities must be tour-ready and can be in any artform for which Arts Queensland has responsibility including visual arts, craft and design; cultural heritage; performing arts; contemporary and classical music; and writing.

Touring itineraries must include at least three (3) locations, excluding the touring party's home location.

Please refer to the Arts Queensland General Funding Guidelines for general eligibility criteria and definition of a tour.

In addition, the Fund requires that applicants must:

• be based in Queensland
• not be a NPAPF funded organisation, Arts Statutory Body or Arts Owned Company

If you are applying as an individual, you must also be:

• An Australian citizen or permanent resident
• Aged over 18

• Phone: 07 3034 4016
• Email: investment@arts.qld.gov.au