National Touring Status Grant by Australia Council for the Arts, Deadline October 4th

NATIONAL TOURING STATUS GRANT

This Grant supports Australian organisations with demonstrated national touring experience, to program tours from 2018-2020. The Grant focuses on the opportunities to develop and engage regional and remote audiences through established partnerships with presenters.
Depending on what is appropriate to audience engagement plans and regional and remote presenters, proposed locations for touring can be either:

the same location each year of the touring triennium
a different itinerary plan for each year.
Applicants awarded a National Touring Status Grant will not be eligible to submit applications to Playing Australia - Regional Performing Arts Touring Fund for tours that take place between 2018-2020.

Applicants may apply for up to $400,000 per annum over three years.

We strongly advise you to speak with an Australia Council grants officer before applying to this fund.


Closing date
Midnight, 4 October 2016, for tours starting after 1 January 2018

Who can apply

We accept applications from organisations.

Who can’t apply

You can’t apply for a grant if:

you received a grant, or administered a grant, from the Australia Council in the past and that grant has not been satisfactorily acquitted
you owe money to the Australia Council.

What you can apply for

You can apply for:

interstate net touring costs, including freight, transport, accommodation and travel allowances outside of your home state
a contribution towards tour coordination expenses.

What you can’t apply for

You can’t apply for the following activity:

projects where the performers and artistic personnel are not paid at Award rates
projects that are to tour an international production
touring projects that only include capital city or metropolitan presentations
touring projects that do not include three or more interstate locations
touring projects that only include presentations in schools
tour dates that have already taken place
projects with a budget in surplus
core costs, for example wages and other costs associated with running the organisation

Peer assessment

Your application will be assessed by a panel of peers. The peers will be representative of a range of areas relevant to performing arts touring, including:

regional audience engagement and presentation
performing arts production
tour coordination and management.

Assessment criteria

Peers will assess your application against four criteria:

Region

The regional and remote coverage of the three year touring program.
Quality

The national touring track record of the applicant
The selection rationale for determining which productions are most appropriate for the touring program.
Engagement

The audience development plan
The value of additional activities, for example workshops and masterclasses
How partnerships will be developed and maintained with presenters throughout the three year period.
Viability

Strength of planning
Realistic budgets
Organisational capacity to deliver the project
Your application

Applications for the National Touring Status Grant via  http://australiacouncil.gov.au/funding/new-grants-model/national-touring-status-grant/