THE Fruit Flies, HotHouse Theatre and MAMA are among Border arts institutions sharing in more than $1.4 million funding.
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The NSW Government has unveiled three-year deals to allow organisations to plan productions through to 2018.
HotHouse will receive $509,000, with $165,000 in 2016 and $172,000 each in the two following years.
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus will be given $348,000 with $114,000 in 2016 and $117,000 in 2017 and 2018.
Murray Arts, which runs programs for small towns on the Border, will net $420,000 with $140,000 per annum.
The Albury LibraryMuseum will receive $135,000 for exhibitions and activities, while MAMA has been allocated $40,000 for SPEED: faster, larger, stronger, quieter.
It is a display which will open next August and examine transport and innovation, referencing V8 racing via Brad Jones, the Robbins and Porter monoplane and Lavington's gearbox factory.
HotHouse general manager Tahni Froudist said the recurrent three-year funding, which will allow productions to go from conception to stage, was very welcome.
"It was a new funding round and there were no guarantees, our three years was up and we needed to submit a new plan," she said.
"We thought we did have a very competitive application and the fact we've been successful shows we did have a competitive application."
Ms Froudist said new multi-year deals with the Federal and Victorian governments were being sought to complement the NSW deal.
Similarly, the Fruit Flies anticipate extending agreements with Canberra and Spring Street in 2016 to dovetail with NSW.
Executive director Richard Hull said the troupe had worked with the Sydney Opera House, National Institute of Circus Arts, The Cube in Wodonga and a Vietnam circus school over the past 2½ years and the funding aided those relationships.
Member for Albury Greg Aplin announced the funding on Monday at the Fruit Flies tranining centre.
"With one of the few regional theatres and Australia's only full-time circus school, the diversity of arts in this region is unmatched," Mr Aplin said.