🎉📚 Support Creativity and Culture: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Creative Clunes 📚🎉

Creative Clunes' annual Booktown Festival celebrates the written word, bringing together authors, readers, and book lovers for a weekend of literary magic, our bi-annual Clunes Ceramic Award, is a nationally recognised award celebrating excellence in contemporary ceramics, providing artists with a platform to showcase their work, connect with new audiences, and push the boundaries of their practice.

But we need your help to keep this vibrant community alive and thriving!

✨ Why Donate? ✨
Your donation helps us bring world-class authors, workshops, artists and events to Clunes. It ensures that our events continue to be a space for literary discovery, creativity, and cultural exchange for years to come. Plus, your contribution is tax-deductible, making it even easier to support us.

✨ How will my donation help? ✨

• Supporting Creative Clunes through donations directly strengthens two of regional Victoria’s most significant cultural initiatives—the Clunes Booktown Festival and the Clunes Ceramic Award—while also sustaining the broader creative life of the community. Donations help fund the delivery of events, covering essential costs such as artist participation, programming, infrastructure, and community engagement.
• For the Clunes Booktown Festival, donor support enables the attraction of writers, booksellers, and performers, helping maintain a vibrant, large-scale literary event that draws thousands of visitors and contributes significantly to the town’s cultural identity and economy . Funding also supports workshops, talks, and accessible programming that connect audiences with stories and ideas.
• For the Clunes Ceramic Award, donations help sustain a nationally recognised biennial prize that celebrates contemporary ceramic art, including exhibition delivery, prize funding, and partnerships with major regional galleries . This ensures ongoing opportunities for artists and strengthens Clunes’ reputation as a centre for creative excellence.
  
  Importantly, contributions to Creative Clunes provide flexible, community-driven funding that underpins both events together—ensuring their long-term stability, growth, and accessibility. By donating, supporters are investing not just in individual events, but in a thriving regional arts ecosystem that fosters creativity, tourism, and community connection year after year.

Thank you for supporting Creative Clunes — where our town comes to life, and so do ideas! ✨📚

Nick Bassett
Chair, Creative Clunes Inc.