As Australia engages in a national conversation about the future of arts and culture, we need to ensure that the curtain is held open for Youth Arts.

The Australian stories that will define the next decade do not exist yet. The artists who will create them are young people in rehearsal rooms, in classrooms, in regional towns, right now, and some are yet to have their first experience of theatre-making. 

We know what happens when the support of storytelling pipelines diminishes. The consequences are not felt overnight – they arrive years later, in the productions never written, the artists who quietly left, and the youth arts organisations who had to close their doors.

Please make a tax deductible gift today to ensure the next generation of Australian artists has access to Youth Arts.