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 for tour-ready performances, gigs, exhibitions, schools' tours, events, and workshops (any art form that falls under Arts Queensland's responsibility), and for tour itineraries that include at least three (3) touring locations within a 12-month period.

Applicants cannot count the touring party's home location as a touring location. Applicants can apply for up to 50% of the total project costs.

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

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