Our Partners

As a peak body for community arts and cultural development, CAN WA provides services to the communities of Western Australia on behalf of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Department of Culture and the Arts.

Australia Council for the Arts

Australia Council for the Arts, the Australia Government’s arts funding and advisory body, supports CAN WA, our Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development Programs and the Strategic Partnership Initiative.

Department of Culture and the Arts

CAN WA manages the Catalyst community arts fund and the Creative Networks fund on behalf of the State of Western Australia through the Department of Culture and the Arts.

Stronger Culture, Stronger Communities

Southern Wheatbelt arts and cultural development program (Narrogin office)

Eastern Wheatbelt arts and cultural development program (Kellerberrin office)

Voices of the Wheatbelt

strategic partnerships initative

Community Governance Training Program (Gnaala Karla Booja Working Party)

community governance training program (Wadjuk Working party)

nationally accredited training

Funding programs

CAN WA manages these funds on behalf of the State of Western Australia through the Department of Culture and the Arts.

Catalyst community arts fund

creative networks fund

sharing stories fund

The Sharing Stories community sponsorship fund promotes Relationships Australia’s Make Time to Talk message.

Youth arts and culture programs    

Risky Bizness

CAN WA delivers the Liveworx training program through the Risky Bizness program, which is part of the City of Gosnells' Str8 Talk’n initiative.