Other Support for Creatives
Resources and organisations that support those working in and for the arts.
Online Resources
The Artists Essential Toolkit (by ArtsHub and Creative Victoria)
The Artists Essential Toolkit video series covers the fundamentals of getting your work online so it’s accessible to as wide an audience as possible.
Support Act Wellbeing Helpline
The Support Act Wellbeing Helpline is a free, confidential phone counselling service, available to anyone who works in Australian music, the performing arts or other creative industries.
Indigenous Art Code
The indigenous Art Code is a system to preserve and promote ethical trading in Indigenous art.
NAVA Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design
The Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design sets out equitable, ethical and self-reflective standards for the professional Australian contemporary arts sector.
General / Cross-artform
Arts Wellbeing Collective
The Arts Wellbeing Collective offers resources and services that support positive mental health for people working in the performing arts.
Arts Access Victoria
Arts Access Victoria started in 1974 and is the peak body for arts and disability in Victoria.
Koorie Heritage Trust
The Koorie Heritage Trust at Federation Square takes Koorie peoples, cultures and communities from the literal and figurative fringes of Melbourne to a place that is a central meeting and gathering place for all Victorians.
Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV)
MAV champions culturally diverse artists and communities to create systems of cultural production and participation that uphold equity and self-determination.
Visual Arts and Craft
Australian Museums and Galleries Association Victoria (AMaGA Victoria)
AMaGA supports the development of quality museums, collections care, knowledge, and specialised skills for museum work.
Craft Victoria
Craft Victoria is dedicated to supporting, presenting, and producing craft and design-focused creative practices.
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
NAVA leads advocacy, policy and action for a contemporary Australian arts sector that's ambitious and fair.
Performing Arts
Ausdance
Ausdance is Australia's peak body for dance, with a 44-year history of designing and delivering accessible and sustainable services to support Australian dance.
Australian Music Centre (AMC)
The Australian Music Centre is the national service organisation dedicated to the promotion and support of art music in Australia.
Community Music Victoria
CMVic aims to enhance health and wellbeing, strengthen communities, build social connectedness, and lessen social isolation, through widespread participation in active music making.
Music Victoria
Contemporary Music Victoria Inc. (Music Victoria) is an independent, not-for-profit organisation and the state peak body for contemporary music.
Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres (VAPAC)
The peak body representing performing arts venues and theatre professionals across Victoria and Tasmania.
Victorian Drama League (VDL)
The VDL’s mission is to support community theatre in Victoria and act as a hub for bringing like-minded theatre people together.
Other Art Forms
Writers Victoria
Writers Victoria is all about writing. With members throughout Victoria (and beyond), they are the state’s largest organisation supporting Victorian writers.
Film Victoria
Film Victoria is the State Government agency that provides strategic leadership and assistance to the film, television and digital media sectors of Victoria.
Note - for information about filming in Greater Bendigo, including the permit process go to: Filming in Bendigo
Legal (including Copyright)
Australian Copyright Council (ACC)
The ACC is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting an understanding of copyright law and its application.
Australasian Performing Right Association and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (APRA AMCOS)
APRA AMCOS helps music creators get paid for their work and give people an easy way to legally play and copy music.
Arts Law
Arts Law is an independent national community legal centre for the arts, providing free or low cost specialised legal advice, education and resources to Australian artists and arts organisations.
Image: No Longer on Mute - Pennyweight Walk 2021