Music Opportunities Directory

The Community Garden

Search 100+ grants, funding, festivals, scholarships, competitions and career opportunities for Australian musicians, updated every fortnight.

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  • 100+ opportunities
    Grants, funding, festival EOIs, scholarships, residencies and more

  • Updated fortnightly
    Never miss new opportunities with regular updates

  • Built for Australia
    Opportunities specifically relevant to Australian musicians

  • Search smarter
    Filter by location, category and community

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Find the opportunities you didn’t know existed

  • The latest music grants across Australia

  • Verified funding programs and scholarships for musicians and music industry workers

  • Key industry events, networking opportunities and callouts

  • Curated artist development programs to help you grow your career

Built for growing a career in music

  • Artists: At any career stage looking for grants, programs, funding and opportunities to support their next step.

  • Music industry professionals: Managers and creatives looking for opportunities for themselves or the artists they support.

  • Students and emerging creatives: People wanting to connect with the industry, build skills and find their way in.

why join?

The music industry is full of grants, funding programs, residencies, scholarships and career opportunities, but they’re often scattered across hundreds of websites, newsletters and social media posts.

Community Garden takes the guesswork out of finding them. We’ve done the digging for you, curating and updating opportunities every fortnight so Australian musicians and industry professionals can spend less time searching and more time creating.

Stay ahead of deadlines

With new opportunities added every fortnight, you’ll always know what’s available and what’s coming up.

Discover opportunities that fit you

Search opportunities by category, location and community (Deaf, Disabled, a woman or gender diverse, CALD, First Nations, or part of the LGBTQIAPN+ community) to find programs that match your goals and career stage.

Save hours searching

No more digging through endless websites, IG posts groups and mailing lists. We find and organise the opportunities so you don’t have to.

Built for the Australian music community

Created for Australian musicians and industry professionals, with opportunities that actually apply to your career.

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The Community Garden isn’t just a resource. It’s a starting point for investing in yourself as a musician. From grants to programs, we curate the best opportunities fortnightly to help you unlock your fullest potential. Plant the first seed in growing your artist career by joining our Community Garden today. 

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faq

  • Our purpose is to save you time by bringing together the best music grants, funding, and industry resources in one place - helping you grow your career as an Australian musician.

  • We started the Community Garden for three reasons:

    1. We noticed that amazing opportunities were often hidden due to limited marketing budgets, especially those run by not-for-profits. We wanted to share these opportunities with a wider audience and increase the quality of the talent pool.  

    2. We are constantly asked by musicians if we know of any opportunities, so now we have a trusted place that we can point them to. 

    3. At the heart of it, we wanted to help our community on a wider scale that went beyond our current roster, and contribute to the local creative community as a whole.

  • The Community Garden is a paid resource, however the monthly newsletter is separate from the directory, and is free to subscribe.

  • No, the monthly newsletter is free and you do not need to be a Community Garden member to sign up and receive it.

  • The community garden is updated fortnightly with new opportunities.

  • Only members can submit opportunities, once you’re logged in, you’ll find a dedicated space in your member dashboard to submit them. 

  • No, we do not offer grants. Please contact the organisers of specific opportunities directly for information on their funding or support. 

  • We are currently developing more comprehensive listing pages. These updates will include helpful tags like "free to apply/attend" and 'short application form' to give members a snapshot of the opportunity before finding out more information

  • We focus on opportunities for that do either or all of these things: fund, upskill or connect individuals. We avoid events that are primarily self promotions, such as “come to my gig” invites.