ACT – You Are Here Canberra: CBD Creative Workshops

CBD Creative Workshops is a series of 12 artist-led workshops over six weeks, offering everyday Canberrans relaxed, fun, and accessible creative activities that build connection and community. The program aims to provide safe, inclusive night-time opportunities for anyone to socialise and engage creatively, helping to energise Canberra’s after-dark culture.

NSW – Arts North West: When Main Streets Dream – Projection Project by ANW

When Main Streets Dream is a regional night-time projection trail transforming CBD shopfronts and facades into moving canvases. Arts North West will commission digital artists to create site-responsive animations, activating under-utilised spaces after dark. Free and accessible, the project enhances vibrancy, night-time economy, safety and community connection across the region.

NT – MusicNT: Night Territory

This Darwin CBD Youth Night Activation Program brings four weeks of night-time culture to the CBD throughout July–August – Amplify Youth Festival at the Town Hall Ruins, NT Music Awards, a youth creative residency, CBD street events, and Darwin Fusion weekend featuring the Sister City Cup, and the Garramilla Food Fair.

QLD – Swing Patrol Dance Group: Gabba Fridays: Activating Gabba’s Logan Road Precinct

Festoon lights glowing across the old buildings. Music plays. A dance floor appears on the street. Roving dancers intrigue passersby, while diners and bar guests watch on from metres away. Hundreds of strangers learn to dance together, for free, before drinks or after dinner. All under the stars in Woolloongabba.

SA – Pride Adelaide: The Big Gay Night Markets

Pride Adelaide will deliver The Big Gay Night Markets and Pride After Dark during the grant period, a series of inclusive evening events featuring markets, film and live performances. The program will activate Adelaide’s night-time economy while creating safe, affordable and welcoming spaces for the LGBTQIA+ community and wider public.

TAS – Committee for Greater Hobart: TUSA After Dark

TUSA After Dark activates Hobart’s mid-town university precinct through free and affordable food events. Led by the Tasmanian University Student Association (TUSA), it tackles food insecurity while creating a vibrant, youth-led night-time economy—bringing students, producers, and community together through shared meals, local stories, and inclusive, low-cost experiences.

VIC — Boroondara Cemetery: Firefly Winter Solstice Festival

A Winter Solstice ‘Firefly’ Festival held within the historic grounds of Boroondara Cemetery, featuring markets, music, food, projection art, roving performers, puppetry and lantern parade. Guests can take free guided tours of significant memorials as our heritage Clocktower is dramatically illuminated after dark, closing with a spectacular fireworks display.

WA — What Were You Wearing Australia: Safer Spaces

The “Safer Spaces” project by What Were You Wearing Australia aims to promote safer nightlife practice, providing venues with training on the prevention of nightlife sexual assault and harassment, These venues hold dedicated ‘Safe Session’ events, with the intention of increasing women’s safety at night.