We are giving away micro-grants of up to $1000 as a modest boost to help creative projects and events in regional South Australia get off the ground and register for this year’s Nature Festival.
NB: The Festival program will have a greater focus on regional events in the second week of the Festival in 2025 so you may want to consider this when planning the timing of your event.
Applications will be ranked based on how strongly they progress the aims of the Festival, reflect the theme and represent our diverse relationship with nature.
This year the theme of our festival is 'FLOW’. From rivers and oceans to creative flow, impermanence and ephemeral desert flow, to the flow of communities and generations, FLOW connects and sustains all life. It enables balance, fosters adaptation and drives renewal. It should be honoured and celebrated.
In past years we have funded a 'seed dating' event, an ephemeral art workshop, a future of food event, a nature poetry slam, a bushtucker storytelling event about the lost Warki people, a dance workshop, a limestone carving workshop for kids, an instagram tree-pose, an outdoor music experience, a shorebird walk, tree-planting campaign and more.
This year the micro-grants this year are generously supported by RAA and the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board.
Applications open: 26 May
Applications close: 30 June (11.59pm)
Successful groups notified: 8 July
Event registrations close: 31 July
Events must run during the Festival: 26 Sept – 12 Oct
Each year we give away $500 micro-grants as a modest boost to help creative projects, events, and artwork get off the ground.
This year the theme of our festival is 'the nature of home'. Our sense of home is formed early, but evolves over a lifetime. We are all made of a patchwork of memory and unconscious connections to place: scraps of colour like muted greens, soft yellows and fiery reds, or a clamour of sounds from the almighty screech of a cockatoo to a cacophony of cicadas.
This year we invite events, experiences, and encounters with the nature of home. This might be the landscapes we carry, the relationships we build or the memories we hold of nature and place. They might revolve around food, art, adventure, music, or culture. They might be about large, metaphorical homes, or the simple beauty of a pot plant and own back gardens.
In past years we have funded a 'seed dating' event, an ephemeral art workshop, a future of food event, a nature poetry slam, a bushtucker storytelling event about the lost Warki people, a dance workshop, a limestone carving workshop for kids, an instagram tree-pose and tree-planting campaign and more.
This year the micro-grants this year are generously supported by the Hills and Fleurieu Landscape Board, the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board, RAA, and the City of Adelaide.
Applications open 19 June
Applications close 24 July (11.59pm)
Successful groups notified 31 July
Events must run during the Festival: 1-15 Oct
Applicants will be notified by the end of July.
