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.
Celebrating children as designers of sustainable architecture, Eco-Cubby supported them to develop an Eco-Cubby project for their own community.
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!
Creative Workers in Schools saw 150 creative industry workers undertake a six-month residency program in Victorian government and special schools.
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.
Student Voice for Recovery was a student-led bushfire recovery program providing student recovery, wellbeing and connection opportunities.
Our Circus Active partnership program looked at the efficacy of circus-based arts programs to increase physical activity amongst adolescents.
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.
Creative Recovery in East Gippsland in 2023 is an extension of our previous work in the region following the 2019/2020 bushfires.