Creative Kitchen | Micro funding for collaborative creative projects | 1 Apr – 2 Jun & 19 Jun
Three people with large wooden bowls on their heads draw on each other with coloured pencils

Robbie Karmel, Sitting Standing Turning exhibition opening Headbowl collaborative drawing, 2024

APPLICATIONS

OPEN: 1 April 2025
CLOSE: 2 June 2025

EVENT

DATE: Thursday 19 June 2025
TIME: 6-8pm. Bar open from 5pm

Details

Register online between 1 April and 2 June and be part of TAC’s Creative Kitchen. Up to 5 projects will be chosen by TAC staff to go through to the live pitch event on June 19.

This community audience driven initiative seeks to support new creative collaborations by providing micro funding to help kick start your project. In the Creative Kitchen the audience has the power, so make sure you bring you fan club and your creative ideas along to this fun networking evening! On the night, artists will pitch and the audience will vote. The vote will determine who is awarded $1000 to push their idea towards realisation. This fun networking opportunity aims to get creative juices cooking. The bar will be open (so you can buy influence with voters) and any donations made on the night will also be given to the winner. Pop it in your diary and pop on your thinking caps. Technical experimentation, recordings, mural painting, community workshops, art events, live performances – nothing is off the table.

Imagine joining an artist to learn a new skill and to contribute to a significant public project. For example; adding your own length of string, hand-made from recycled domestic textiles, to help create the biggest ball of yarn Canberra has ever seen. Think of all the used material and the memories carried and twisted into the monumental outcome.

For the Creatives

Pitch your collaborative project!  Bring your 5-minute project pitch.  Sell the Creative Kitchen audience on your idea and answer questions over a glass of wine.  If you receive the most votes you take home $1000 (and any donations on the night)

  • Step 1: Register online.  Up to 5 projects will be chosen by TAC staff to go through to the live pitch session. Click here to register 
  • Step 2: Come to Creative Kitchen Thursday 19 June 6pm and bring your 5-minute project pitch.  You can bring props/costumes but no PowerPoint presentations!  Sell the audience on your idea and answer questions over a glass of wine.
  • Step 3: Audience votes are counted, and winner announced on the night.

    For the Audience

    You have the power! Support your local creative community and choose which project gets the funds.  Ask questions, enjoy a glass of wine and nibbles, and vote for your favourite.  You can also make a personal donation if you wish

    • Step 1: Book your free ticket to the event. Click here to book
    • Step 2: Come along ready to vote for your favourite idea!
    • Step 3: Audience votes are counted, and winner announced on the night.