Regional Victoria

Castlemaine State Festival: visual arts
The visual arts program at this biennial regional festival features a broad range of exhibitions, floor talks, and open studios.

Castlemaine State Festival: performing arts
From bands, ensembles and choral groups to Indigenous pantomime and cabaret, this festival has the performing arts covered.

Got the Message? 50 Years of Political Posters
Got the Message? showcases some of the most artistically arresting posters created in Australia and internationally over the last 50…

Nick Mount: The Fabric of Work
The presentation of this exhibition by glass artist Nick Mount slightly detracts from the beauty of his work.

Creative Leaders launch Backyard Cinema Film Festival
Regional Victoria’s emerging creative leaders are on their way to success and they’re taking Victoria’s young filmmakers with them.

The Regional Arts Fund Round One now open for applications
Applications for Round One of the Federal Government’s Regional Arts Fund are open until March 12.

Benalla Art Gallery goes Nude for a year
Artists have a year to prepare for Benalla Nude, a $50,000 non-acquisitive award for a painting with the naked human…

Nine projects get $90,000 in Regional Arts Funds
Projects in Horsham, Warrenmang, Drouin, Trentham, Castlemaine, Balmoral, Shepparton and Lakes Entrance have received $90,512 through the Regional Arts Fund.

Ballarat gets its first rockabilly festival
Rockabilly King Arthur Matsakos brings international and interstate acts to central Victoria for the first Ballarat Beat Rockabilly Festival in…

Express interest in Small Town Transformations now
Expressions of Interest are now open to towns of fewer than 1,500 residents across Victoria for as much as $350,000…