The recipients of the latest round of the New South Wales Government’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program for 2023/24 have been announced.

Omega Ensemble. Photo © Saskia Wilson

$9.3m is shared between 138 NSW-based projects and programs across Aboriginal arts and culture, dance, festivals, history and museums, literature, music, theatre and visual arts.

Among the recipients are a writing program for people with disability in the Blue Mountains, a new local music and arts festival in Wollongong, an Aboriginal cultural festival in Condobolin, a theatre production written and performed by creatives in the Northern Rivers, and a writing mentorship project amplifying under-represented stories from local communities in Western Sydney.

In the music sector, annual funding has been secured by organisations including Omega Ensemble ($150,000), The Song Company ($160,000), Australian Haydn Ensemble ($150,000), Sydney Improvised Music Association ($110,000), Percussion Australia – the parent organisation of music ensembles Synergy Percussion and Taikoz ($200,000).

Skye McIntosh, Australian Haydn Ensemble. Photo © Helen White

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