Touring Queensland Fund (Round 1) recipients announced

The Touring Queensland Fund is focused on supporting regional communities’ access to high quality arts and cultural products and events, including music gigs.

17 successful applicants will share in funding of $1,159,268 to deliver live arts experiences across Queensland including: 

• Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra - $ 25,937 for the 2026 Regional Queensland Tour to five regional communities, presenting chamber music performed on historical instruments and featuring commissioned work by Queensland composer Nicole Murphy.
• Bangarra Dance Theatre - $45,000 for The Bogong’s Song: A Call to Country, an immersive theatre experience for children aged 5–12 years, created by Bangarra Dance Theatre and co-commissioned by QPAC, touring to regional Queensland venues.
  
• Bring A Plate Dance - $102,314 including $10,000 access funding support for Dance Leads To Chaos, a community-engaged dance-theatre project featuring workshops, rehearsals, and three outdoor performances across two Sunshine Coast locations and Cairns.
• Dead Puppet Society Limited - $63,313 for The Riddle of Washpool Gully: Regional Queensland tour, a reimagined exploration of Australian mythology, delving into the mysterious creatures that may inhabit the uncharted corners of our vast landscape.
• Ensemble Q Australia Inc - $34,415 for Ensemble Q with Ed le Brocq, presenting five performances and delivering a range of engagement activities, including school workshops and composition classes. The program features a new commission by Australian composer Anne Cawrse, inspired by Ed le Brocq’s story Sonam and the Silence.
• Flipside Circus Ltd - $68,000 to deliver 2026 Regional and Remote Touring, a new tour and residency program designed to engage young people across regional and remote Queensland. This program includes skill-building residencies, the collaborative creative development of a new performance, and the staging of The Cubby, a production originally created in partnership with local communities.
• indelarts Ltd - $73,746 including $10,000 access funding support for Mystery Quest Regional and Remote Queensland tour, an interactive theatre experience for children aged 8–12. The production explores themes of cyber-safety, friendship, and the complex choices young people face in both online and real-world environments.
• Ms Melissa Western - $99,954 for 2026-2027 Touring program, a 12-month touring program across 12 Queensland communities. The program features five tour-ready productions – The Meat Tray Murder Mystery, Sip-Sparkle-Skull, 1954: Ella, Etta, Eartha, The Outhouse, and Last-Minute Christmas – alongside a pilot slow touring event, She’s Electric.
• Museum and Gallery Services Queensland Ltd - $87,635 for Veiled Histories: Works by Leading First Nations Artists – Jennifer Herd (Mbarbarum) and Joanne Currie Nalingu (Gungurri). This touring exhibition explores identity, history, resilience, and revived cultural traditions.
• RAVA Productions - $99,572 for Fractured Fairy Tales, an imaginative children’s theatre production designed for primary-aged audiences aged 5-10 years. In this high-energy adventure, fairy tales have gone topsy-turvy, with favourite characters muddled and stories in disarray.  The production will tour 16 regional and remote Queensland communities.
• Ms Sarah Ogden - $77,580 for PRAMKICKER by Sadie Hasler Western Queensland Tour – a bold, comic, feminist theatre work, reimagined by MO Theatre (Sarah Ogden and Sarah Ann McLeod) for a uniquely Queensland context.
• Shock Therapy Arts Ltd - $100,000 for Education Program Touring 2026-27 featuring two productions, Consumed and Crossing the Divide, designed to engage young people aged 12 to 18 years. Consumed delves into the dynamic world of online culture, while Crossing the Divide explores the profound effects of settler-colonialism on Indigenous Australians.
• Somerset Storyfest Ltd - $99,936 for Storyfest Regional Tour 2026 aims to empower young people to thrive through literacy and storytelling. Storyfest will expand its programs in St George and Longreach, while also hosting a two-day Writers' Festival in West Moreton (Ipswich) and a one-day event in the Darling Downs (Toowoomba).
• Southern Cross Soloists Music - $32,572 for Ellis and the Night Orchestra, a new work for children and family audiences, created by writer-director Julie Ritchey and composer-performer Tim Munro. Blending chamber music and theatre, this playful production invites children aged 0 to 8 years into an imaginative, participatory musical world.
• Stage Queensland (QTouring) - $38,603 for Island Hopping, a three-stop comedy-music tour to Indigenous communities on Minjerribah, Boyne Island, and Great Keppel Island.  The tour includes workshops for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• Mr William Lebihan - $11,391 for Good Will Remedy Western Tour. Good Will Remedy will embark on a western Queensland tour as part of the Queensland Music Trails. The tour will include community engagement activities, foster regional music audiences, and showcase Queensland stories, featuring their new song, St George.
• Woodfordia Incorporated - $99,300 for Festival of Small Halls: Winter and Spring Queensland Tours will bring live music to 30 rural, regional and remote communities across Central, Western and South-East Queensland.  The tour will showcase Queensland-based artists, Barley Shakes and Tenzin Choeygal, alongside acclaimed Canadian performers Old Man Luedecke and Amanda Rheaume.

Last updated:

26 March 2026