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From theatre in King Vallery to music in South Gippsland, grants through the Small Regional Presenters program are helping to build local skills and giving regional Victorians even more reasons to love where they live!

One year on from the launch of the South West Creative Industries Strategy 2025–2029, partners across southwest Victoria are celebrating support for the sector. 

Check out our round-up of jobs, grants and opportunities relevant to regional Victorian creatives and organisations.

We are inviting regional Victorian creatives who work with children and young people to take part in a short online survey.

The Port Fairy Folk Festival, a proud member of RAV, is one of Australia’s most loved and enduring cultural events.

The Regional Arts Fund supports participation in, and access to, Australia’s arts and culture through developing and supporting cultural expression.

Gunditjmara musicians will perform at the Share the Spirit Festival on 26 January supported by Fletcher Jones Family Foundations. All are welcome, entry is free!

We’ve partnered with Victoria’s First Nations peak creative organisations to establish a First Nations Reference Group to ensure First Nations creatives in regional Victoria are visible and heard.

RAV has successfully established two significant partnership projects with VicHealth that use creativity and community connections to enhance health outcomes and promote wellbeing.

The Making Change program has concluded but RAV stays committed to supporting creative communities across regional Victoria through our continued on-the-ground presence.