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Announcing our small grants program! 🙌🙌

We’re thrilled to announce the Healing Arts South Australia small grants program will provide one-off funding to eligible individuals, groups and organisations for activities that extend the health and wellbeing benefits of arts, culture and creativity for South Australians.

Grants of $2,000 to $20,000 are available for projects and initiatives delivered during Healing Arts South Australia, 3–9 May 2027. New and existing initiatives are eligible. Established projects can apply for funding to expand, adapt or deepen their impact during the week of Healing Arts South Australia.

Learn more about the small grants program and apply 🔗 https://bit.ly/3T6Oho3

Could your artwork become the visual identity of Healing Arts South Australia?

There's less than three weeks left to enter the inaugural Healing Arts South Australia Artist Award.

South Australian artists are invited to submit work responding to one or more of the program's themes:

🌱growing up safe and happy
🧠mental health in a changing world
🤝connection through culture
🌳ageing well

The winning artist will receive $5,000, with their artwork featured across campaign materials promoting Healing Arts South Australia.

Entries close 19 September 2026.

🔗 Learn more and apply at https://lnkd.in/ehiaFf5U

Want to know how CreateSA and it’s partners are progressing delivery of South Australia’s 10-year cultural policy, A Place to Create?

Today we shared progress updates from the first year and launched A Sound Future 2026-2028, the Music Development Office's new strategy for the contemporary music sector.

Over the past year, we've delivered key initiatives, including establishing a dedicated Aboriginal arts leadership team, investing in a new Carclew grant program, opening the new Little Library at the State Library, and co-investing in Creative Australia’s Creative Workplaces, helping support fair, safe and respectful workplaces for South Australian artists and creative workers.

🔗 Read more about our progress and the launch of A Sound Future: https://bit.ly/3SZQ2mP

Image: The Tullamarines, photography by Annie Harvey

📚 A new chapter for young readers in South Australia!

Little Library has officially opened at the State Library of South Australia, creating a welcoming new space where children and families can read, play, learn and explore together.

Supported by a $2 million investment from the Government of South Australia's Arts Investment Fund – delivered through CreateSA – and the Libraries Board of South Australia, the purpose-built space combines books, stories, creativity and hands-on experiences designed to foster a lifelong love of reading.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4gOQqxz

Aboriginal artists and arts workers: this opportunity is for you 📣

Want to build your leadership skills and better understand how arts organisations make decisions?

We’re offering a free three-day Governance and Financial Literacy Workshop for South Australian Aboriginal artists, creatives and arts workers.

You'll gain practical skills in:

✅ Leadership and decision-making
✅ Boards and committees
✅ Understanding budgets and finances
✅ Governance in arts organisations

📍 Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
📅 15-17 September 2026
📝 Registrations close 4 September 2026

Places are limited. Find out more and register now: https://createsa.smartygrants.com.au/GFL2627

How can arts, culture and creativity support health, wellbeing and social connection?

Healing Arts South Australia is a state-wide campaign of events and activities by artists, communities, organisations, educators and health practitioners exploring exactly that.

Are you an artist? The Healing Arts South Australia Artist Award is now open – your original artwork could define the campaign and you’ll receive $5,000.

Visit the new website:
✅ Enter the Healing Arts South Australia Artist Award
✅ Register to host events and activities
✅ Sign up for updates

🔗 Visit healingartssouthaustralia.org

Less than 48 hours to go!
Get your nominations for the 2026 Ruby Awards in by 5pm ACST Wednesday 12 August.
🔗 Find out more and nominate: createsa.gov.au/rubys

Check out We Are.SA's coverage of Gravity and Other Myths' journey and how the three-time Ruby Award recipients value their Adelaide industry connection.
https://www.weare.sa.gov.au/news/meet-the-ruby-award-winning-global-circus-sensation

Meet the Ruby Award-winning global circus sensation Gravity & Other Myths was never supposed to last. Thirteen years later, the homegrown company has toured 44 countries, won major awards including three Ruby Awards, and captivated almost 1.2 million people. Here’s how the Adelaide community helped them.

🚨 ONE WEEK TO GO 🚨

Nominations for the 2026 Ruby Awards close Wednesday 12 August at 5pm ACST.

As Australia's only government-led annual awards for the creative sector, the Ruby Awards recognise creative individuals, organisations and initiatives making a positive impact across South Australia.

Don't miss your chance to recognise an outstanding contribution to our state's creative sector.

🔗 Find out more and nominate: createsa.gov.au/rubys

CreateSA We acknowledge and respect Aboriginal peoples as the state’s first peoples and nations, and recognise them as traditional owners and occupants of land and waters in South Australia. Further, we acknowledge that the spiritual, social, cultural and economic practices of Aboriginal peoples come from ...