Past Projects

A Vic Health initiative, Future Reset: Young People, Arts and Mental Wellbeing will engage nine organisations to create events, installations and other creative projects across 2023 and 2024 to enhance mental wellbeing through art and creativity – with young regional creatives leading the way!

What It Means: A Creative Industries Strategy for South West Victoria.

Creative Recovery in East Gippsland in 2023 is an extension of our previous work in the region following the 2019/2020 bushfires.

Regional Arts Victoria is working across creative communities in the G21 region – City of Greater Geelong, Surf Coast, Queenscliff and Bellarine, Colac Otways and Golden Plains – to deliver the first stage of the Making Change: Creative Industries Strategy 2021-2026.

A Vic Health initiative, Future Reset: Young People, Arts and Mental Wellbeing will engage nine organisations to create events, installations and other creative projects across 2023 and 2024 to enhance mental wellbeing through art and creativity – with young regional creatives leading the way!

Parallel Wilds is a short residency program designed by Northeast Victorian artist Craig Dent to engage students in years 4-5 from Carragarmungee and Milawa primary schools across Term Two, 2023.

RAV in Residence is a partnership between Regional Arts Victoria and RAV Member Organisations or regional Local Government Authorities, providing the opportunity for local creatives to book a one-on-one conversation with Regional Arts Victoria staff, and the delivery of creative networking offerings in communities.

In 2020-2021, Regional Arts Victoria partnered with Victoria Together to commission eight regional arts festivals across the state to create or adapt work from their events into a digital format hosted by Victoria Together.

To continue addressing the far-reaching impacts of the 2019–20 bushfire season, Regional Arts Victoria delivered the Step Up program to support the social recovery of disaster impacted communities through arts and cultural activation.

After the devastating Victorian fires over the Summer of 2019/2020, Regional Arts Victoria received funding from Creative Victoria and Bushfire Recovery Victoria to undertake creative recovery activities.

This program saw 24 school-aged artists in South West Victoria matched with industry mentors, who worked with them to explore pathways to an arts career.

Our Circus Active partnership program looked at the efficacy of circus-based arts programs to increase physical activity amongst adolescents.

Student Voice for Recovery was a student-led bushfire recovery program providing student recovery, wellbeing and connection opportunities.

Creative Workers in Schools saw 150 creative industry workers undertake a six-month residency program in Victorian government and special schools.

We administered the funding for creative arts projects that reflected the experiences of local communities directly affected by the 2009 bushfires.

The Creative Recovery Program saw Creative Arts Recovery Facilitators placed in three key areas across the State in response to the 2014 bushfires.

Learn more about the history of Regional Arts Victoria’s Regional Living Expo, which saw us presents a diverse array of artists from across the state.

Investing in our leaders of tomorrow, the Creative Leadership Program led 12 regional emerging arts leaders through a nine-day intensive.

Celebrating children as designers of sustainable architecture, Eco-Cubby supported them to develop an Eco-Cubby project for their own community.

Over an eight year period, Home Is Where The Hall Is saw hundreds of community led projects in regional Victoria, South Australia & Tasmania.

Small Town Transformations encouraged Victorian communities to think big about how art can transform their town.

Working across Victoria, Illuminated by Fire celebrated the places we care about and the story and role of fire within those places.