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Other initiatives receiving grants through the program are:

• City of Greater Geraldton ($24,950) to assist with the curation and delivery of the artistic program which will form the basis of the Big Sky Festival 2021
• Shire of Yalgoo ($20,000) to run the Open Air Sculpture Gallery, part of the Emu Festival 2021
• Shire of Mount Magnet ($14,100) for SciArt & Astro-Photography Activities, drawing on local Indigenous artists and culminating in an Astro-Photography Exhibition
• York Arts and Events ($48,541) for presentation of the 7th annual York Festival
• Shire of Merredin ($35,000) for War Stories Illumination Projections. The creation of illuminated war stories that connect the past and the present, as part of the inaugural Memorial Festival
• Big hART Inc ($50,000) for Songs for Peace 2021, a month-long series of events featuring song writing workshops, community feasting and intimate acoustic performances culminates in a showcase concert of headline artists and local musicians including elders and young people
• Annette Nykiel ($49,710) for the We Must Get Together Sometime exhibition and related events.

The Regional and Remote Festivals Fund is a program delivered as part of the Regional Arts and Cultural Investment Program (RACIP), which supports arts and cultural activity at regional and remote festivals in Western Australia.

Funding of up to $50,000 per applicant is available towards the direct costs associated with delivering arts activity that is part of a series of events comprising a festival.