Touring Queensland Fund

The Touring Queensland Fund focuses on supporting regional community access to quality arts and cultural events and products. It supports arts presenters and producers in the delivery of performing arts, visual arts, contemporary music gigs and cultural heritage touring activity.

This fund has 2 streams:

Single-year and single-tour funding for single tours and touring programs including schools touring (within a 12-month period) and tours to present arts products and experiences across Queensland touring circuits or regions.
Multi-year touring funding for touring programs that are not dedicated schools touring within a 2-year period (with the option to extend funding agreements for a third year of programs) that enhance community cultural calendars and grow audiences for Queensland artists and arts organisations across or within regions.

Funding will support tours within and between regions, touring from Brisbane to regional Queensland locations, and tours from regionally based companies to Brisbane.

Note: The Touring Queensland Fund will only support single-year schools touring projects.

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 and inclusive arts, and drives regional company touring into new regional locations and Brisbane.
provides new employment and career development opportunities for Queensland artists and organisations.

Funding

Single-year touring programs and single-tour funding—up to $100,000 for tour-ready performing arts (including live music), visual arts, schools’ tours, workshops, (any art form that falls under Arts Queensland's responsibility), and events for tour itineraries that include at least 3 locations within a 12-month period.

Multi-year touring program funding—up to $150,000 per annum for touring an identified circuit of at least 5 locations multiple times over a 24-month period. Funding will support either;

touring programs that repeat visits to the same circuits
tours to different circuits across the period.

Applicants can apply for up to 50% of the total project costs.

Update to Round 5

Since December 2022, Arts Queensland has supported 64 Industry Placements through its contestable project funding programs.

Arts Queensland has paused Industry Placements while we evaluate the impact and outcomes of placements to shape future support. We are committed to ensuring Industry Placements strengthen capacity building in key areas, and secure career pathways and longer-term employment opportunities for First Nations artists and artsworkers and people with disability in the lead up to Brisbane 2032. While placements will not be available through Touring Queensland Fund Round 5, we anticipate Industry Placement support will be available through dedicated funding opportunities in the coming months.

Frequency

Important dates for the Touring Queensland Fund
Funding rounds	Open	Close	Notification expected	Activity start date
Round 6 (new guidelines tbc)	31 March 2025	2pm 12 May 2025	Mid July 2025	From 11 August 2025
Round 7 (new guidelines tbc)	25 August 2025	2pm 29 September 2025	Early December 2025	From 1 January 2026

How to apply

1. Visit our supporting documents page to view the:

Touring Queensland guidelines
General Funding guidelines

2. Complete the online application form.

Arts Queensland uses Smartygrants, an online grant application system. If you are unable to access Smartygrants contact:

an Arts Investment Officer on (07) 3034 4016 or toll free 1800 175 531
email investment@arts.qld.gov.au.