Glossary

These are key terms used in the General Funding Guidelines, in specific Fund Guidelines and application and outcome forms. Refer to the Arts Queensland Data dictionary for further information and counting rules.

• Administration and support staff – for the purposes of Arts Queensland funding, administration and support staff includes project manager, HR, finance, legal, food and beverage staff, and other administrative roles.
• Artist – for Arts Queensland funding, artist includes:
  • Actor, theatre director, dancer, choreographer, teacher-artist, dramaturg
  • Community cultural development worker, experimental arts practitioner, craft practitioner, including jeweller, textile artist, ceramic artist, glass artist, wood worker
  • Musician, singer, instrumentalist, music director, composer, songwriter, arranger, producer, librettist
  • Visual artist, including painter, photographer, sculptor, printmaker, installation artist, illustrator
  • Writer, including playwright, author, poet, book editor, script editor.
• Arts Owned Company – Queensland has three arts owned companies, which include Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, The Queensland Music Festival, Major Brisbane Festivals and Screen Queensland, which is a government-owned agency for screen development. Further information about arts owned companies can be found at What we do.
• Arts Statutory Body – Queensland has five arts statutory bodies, which include Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees; Board of the Queensland Museum; Queensland Performing Arts Trust; Queensland Theatre Company and Library Board of Queensland. More information about the arts statutory bodies is available at What we do.
• Arts worker – for the purposes of Arts Queensland funding, an arts worker is an individual who works in the arts sector to support or manage artists and arts programs, including:
  • Arts management, including Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director, Artistic and Associate Director, producer
  • Production and technical staff, including stage managers, operators, workshop, wardrobe, production manager, instrument tuner, venue box office and front of house,
  • Recording engineers, producers, and mechanists
  • Publishing production staff
  • Librarian Curatorial staff, gallery and exhibition mounting staff
  • Tour booker or broker, artist management
  • Marketing staff
  • Community liaison staff
  • Designer (set, costumes, lighting, sound, fashion, graphic, software, and website
  • Teachers and tutors (dance, music, art, drama).
• Attendees – Refer to the Arts Queensland Data Dictionary.
• Audience development – the ongoing process of understanding the needs of, building relationships with, and growing audiences over time.
• Audience development plan – a strategic document that focuses on building long-term, collaborative relationships with existing and potential audiences.
• Auspicing / Auspice body – where someone other than the applicant takes responsibility for all legal and financial obligations, including how the grant funding is spent and ensuring the funded activity is completed and acquitted in time.
• Australian Business Number (ABN) – a unique identification number issued by the Registrar of the Australian Business Register to business entities.
• Business partnership – a formal or deliberate collaboration between two or more organisations that delivers mutual, significant, and measurable value aligned to each partner’s strategic goals. For example, an organisation and a local council sign a multiyear agreement to co-deliver a touring program, sharing costs and audiences with joint marketing and evaluation.
• Community – any group of people who identify with each other through a common element that can include geographical location; shared cultural heritage, history or other characteristics; age group; profession; or social or recreational interests.
• Community-led art organisation or group – for the purposes of Arts Queensland funding, community-led arts organisation or group includes groups driven by the needs of members and/or community and focused on participation, access and inclusion for either amateur or professional artists or both.
• Concept touring – where the idea, process or work travels or tours, but a full touring party does not. For example, the work is produced with community where the presentation will take place; the work then travels to multiple other communities where the process is repeated.
• Core operations / core business – an organisation’s activities that would happen and incur costs, regardless of whether the proposed project would go ahead.
• Core staff – staff roles employed in an ongoing way by the applicant, regardless of whether the proposed project would go ahead.
• Creative developments – refer to the Arts Queensland Data Dictionary.
• Creative partnership – a collaborative relationship with an organisation or individual that brings together creative skills, ideas and resources to co-develop, produce, or present artistic or cultural outcomes with shared ownerships or contribution to the creative process.
• Cultural infrastructure – includes buildings and equipment for arts and cultural activity.
• Cultural tourism - visitors’ engagement with activities that support their discovery, participation and consumption of cultural attractions, products and/or experiences unique to the destination. It can be the main reason someone travels, or a by-product that enhances or provides additional motivation to travel.
• DGR status – an entity or fund that can receive tax deductible donations.
• Direct and incremental spending generated – refer to the Arts Queensland Data Dictionary.
• Direct visitor nights generated – refer to the Arts Queensland Data Dictionary.
• Economic impact report – in the context of Cultural Tourism, an economic impact report or assessment provides important information on a festival or event, such as:
  • unique and total attendances and total attendees
  • the direct and indirect economic effects of a festival, event, or activity to a specific region (i.e. the region in which the festival or event is presented, and Queensland)
  • the amount spent by local, intrastate (outside of region), interstate and international visitors.
• Employee – individuals who are employed under an agreement or award and included in the recipient’s payroll regardless of role.
• Engaged – artists, creatives and arts workers involved in your funded activity regardless of their employment status or who pays them, including those who:
  • employed under an agreement or award and included in your payroll
  • employed but not on payroll (e.g. paid on contract or commissioned)
  • appearing in your programs but employed or paid by another entity.
• For-profit arts organisation – an entity engaged in artistic activity that operates with the intention of generating profit, including the distribution of surplus revenue to owners, shareholders or members.
• GST (Good and Services Tax) – the value added tax of 10% on most goods and services in Australia.
• Headcount – total number of people paid directly by your organisation with each person counted as 1, regardless of how many hours they work per week or their employment status (that is, regardless of whether they are full-time, part-time, casual, contractors etc.)
• Home location – the town or city of residence of the artists or touring party, including outer suburbs and satellite towns of regional centres.
• Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) - may include ownership of knowledge, stories, places or rituals, songs, dance, ceremonies, paintings, traditional symbols and designs, making techniques, language.
• In-kind support – includes real project costs provided free of charge or at a discounted rate, such as volunteer labour, services, administrative support, rent-free accommodation or donations of materials or equipment. These contributions should be given a dollar value and should be included in the proposed budget.
• Intellectual Property (IP) – includes copyright and moral rights, which are legal tools to protect artists’ work from unauthorised use, safeguard their reputation, and generate income.
• Investment partnerships – a financial or in-kind contribution from an organisation or individual provided through sponsorship, grant funding, or other investment that is secured to support delivery of agreed activities or outcomes aligned to your organisation's strategic objectives.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – measures of outcomes or outputs to evaluate activities.
• Marketing plan – a plan outlining how you will promote your activity to increase sales or attendance.
• Metropolitan – for the purposes of Arts Queensland funding, metropolitan Queensland is defined as all the areas inside the Brisbane City Council local government area.
• Nationally or internationally significant artist or company – an artist or company with a strong critical reputation and have good name recognition to people familiar with the artform, or reasonable recognition by the general public in Australia or their home country.
• New market – an expansion into a new geographic area (e.g. responding to the opportunity of new flight route), customer segment (e.g. children and families) or a product/service that could reach new customers and/or diversify festival income.
• New or enhanced programming – newly developed work or expanded programming initiatives above and beyond usual or regular programming of the festival/event.
• New work – refer to the Arts Queensland Data Dictionary.
• Non-government organisation – an organisation that is not subject to the control of the Commonwealth, a State or Territory and/or a local government.
• Not-for-profit – a legally constituted organisation whose constitution or rules state that profits or surpluses must be used to further the organisation’s artistic objectives. Any profits or surpluses cannot be distributed to owners, members or any other individual or group of individuals. The constitution or rules should also make provision for the transfer of assets to a similar organisation should they cease operations.
• Operational funding – contributions made by funding bodies that support the core operations and annual programs of arts and cultural organisations.
• Outcome report – a record, provided by the funding recipient, of the project or activity and how the funds were spent.
• Peer assessor – an industry expert of peer who is responsbile for assessing funding applications against a set of funding criteria.
• Philanthropic partnership – a relationship with an organisation, trust, foundation or individual that provides financial or in-kind support motivated by shared social, environmental, or cultural values without expectation of direct return.
• Presenters – the person, group or organisation who is responsible for bringing the work to its intended audience, for example - a performing arts venue that has programmed the performance, the gallery that will be presenting an exhibition or a local council or community organisation that has arranged for workshops/performances to be delivered in their community. Usually pays a fee to, or a takes an income split with, the Producer of the work
• Producer – the person, group or organisation who has control over the development and creation of the work.
• Profit-for-purpose – an organisation that generates income through commercial activities, such as ticket sales, venue hire, workshops, merchandising or creative services, and uses any profit or surplus to support its artistic purpose rather than primarily distributing returns to private owners or shareholders.
• Public outcomes – people other than the artists and arts workers involved in the project. The 'public' can view the work or attend or participate in an activity. For example, a workshop for a school would be a public outcome, even though the general public would not be able to attend.
• Queensland arts organisation – an entity, institution or group physically based in Queensland that generates its own program of work and may also present and distribute the work of others.
• Regional Queensland – for the purposes of Arts Queensland funding, regional Queensland is defined as all the areas outside the Brisbane City Council local government area.
• Rural and remote – for the purposes of Arts Queensland funding, rural and remote communities are defined as MMM4 – MMM7 using the Modified Monash Model (MMM) classification of remoteness.
• Self-present – where a producer of the work takes responsibility for bringing the work to its intended audience and receives income directly from the audience – e.g a touring orchestra hires a hall to do its performance and receives all the ticket income.
• Service Organisations – organisations whose core purpose is to provide programs and activities that support artists and art producers/presenters. They include peak industry bodies as well as smaller organisations concentrating on a particular regional area.
• Slow touring – when parts or all a touring party spend longer periods in communities to deliver activities with a focus on deeper community engagement and participation.
• Social impact project – for the purpose of Arts Queensland funding, a project where the main objective is to deliver enduring individual and community outcomes in response to social and community priorities.
• Tour / Touring – the same performance, exhibition or activity happening, in sequence, over a cohesive period of time in more than two external communities (i.e. it needs to be happening in at least three communities other than the applicant’s home location).
• Tour ready – productions and exhibitions that are artistically completed and packaged ready for public presentation at venues without the need for additional development/rehearsal and or reamounting costs.
• Volunteer – a person working on a volunteer basis and typically not paid. This may include volunteer board/committee members, volunteer fundraisers and auxiliaries, as well as volunteers involved in organisational and other operational activities.

Last updated:

2 November 2026