For 2023 the Cultural Fund has agreed that the following activities will NOT be supported:
Overall projects
- Aimed at small, niche audiences
- Which do not connect with, or reach significant audiences
- Aimed at performing arts, music or dance audiences
Publishers
- Production costs
- Image reproduction costs
- Book launches
- Marketing books
- Payments to freelance editors, proofreaders, and researchers
Writing
- Writers’ fees for art publications, catalogues, art journals, multi-arts journals and magazines
- Projects where writers are not paid a fee
- Self-publishing costs
- Projects which do not benefit writers or the publishing sector
- Community-run writing programs
Visual arts
- Projects where visual artists are not paid a fee
- Projects which do not benefit visual artists or the visual arts sector
- Prizes and awards for visual artists
- Community-run visual arts projects including murals
Art Galleries
- Exhibition costs
- Publishing art books
- Exhibition openings
- Book marketing costs
Festivals
- Multi-arts festivals
- Writers’ festivals and activities aligned to writers’ festivals (the major national writers’ festivals apply by invitation-only)
Universities
- Artist-in-residency programs which do not connect with audiences outside the university
Translations
- Into other languages for overseas publication and audiences
Film (see Screen Australia)
- Film script development
- Film festivals
- Projects aimed at the film industry
Academics
- Research for purely academic audiences
- Training and professional development for academics
- Publication of academic work
Digital production
- Development of apps and other devices
- Digitisation of back issues, previously published work, or catalogues of works
- Website development or maintenance costs
General
- Business or overhead costs
- Capital works
- Catering costs
- General administrative costs
- Production costs for theatre, film and other performances
- Projects which are primarily for the education market
- Staff costs
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