Touring Queensland Fund Round 2 recipients announced

The Queensland Government has announced $584,346 in grant funding to help 10 Queensland-based companies tour vibrant arts experiences to regional locations across the state.

Through Queensland’s Time to Shine, the ten-year strategy for arts and culture, the Queensland Government is delivering quality arts experiences across the state.

Recipients in Round 2 of the Touring Queensland Fund are:

• Mr Antony Dyer - $88,264 for Permission Granted an interactive beatboxing and musical improvisation show for children and families to tour regional communities (including four festivals).
• Counterpilot - $71,632 for Scaredy House Queensland Tour - a family-friendly show where audiences co-create ghost stories to tackle their own fears, in an immersive projector-mapped blanket fort with cutting-edge shadow puppetry.
• Mr Joseph Geia - $90,195 for the Sing for the Black Tour 2026-2027, presenting concerts and community activities in regional venues including in Palm Island, Cherbourg, Hope Vale, and Thursday Island.
• Ms Laura Bamford - $68,555 plus $10,000 Access support funding for You Played Where!?, a tour of live arts events including original country music, visual arts, all-ages line dancing, storytelling and Auslan-interpreted performances to non-traditional venues across Queensland.
• Monto Museum of Art - $21,990 for Gil Jamieson touring exhibitions in Central Queensland comprising three professionally curated exhibitions of Gil Jamieson’s works (1934–1992) in partnership with Birrunga Gallery and regional art galleries.
• NUDO - $38,150 for Granted a contemporary dance work blending contemporary technique with Afro-Cuban, Latin and street dance influences that will tour regional Queensland, with accompanying community engagement activities.
• Red Chair - $99,489 plus $9,951 access support funding for COMPASS Project 2027 bringing six independent Queensland music productions to eight regional communities, featuring three world premieres, emerging local talent, and first-time touring opportunities for regional artists.
• Shakespeare Under The Stars Inc.- $36,056 to tour The Assignment by Terri Brabon, a coming-of-age comedy for multi-generational audiences, celebrating life in a small North Queensland town and featuring young artists from each host community.
• The Memoir Writer -$ 37,339 for The Stories That Shape Us a regional writing tour by Queensland author and memoir artist Natalie Stockdale, offering 12 immersive memoir-writing workshops across western, central and coastal Queensland.
• Ms Toni Janke - $12,725 for Inheritance, an Indigenous music-theatre work exploring identity, resilience, belonging and cultural connection, touring to Cairns and surrounding areas.