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WHO and Nordic Culture Fund project on arts /health strategies

The World Health Organisation has partnered with the Nordic Culture Fund to explore strategies for effectively implementing art in health care. The project which brings together bring together academics, artists, cultural institutions, health-care practitioners and policy-makers aims to identify effective strategies for introducing arts based interventions in healthcare settings. The ultimate aim is to provide guidance on integrating arts and health across the broader European WHO region. The project includes researchers from University College London (United Kingdom), University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland), BOZAR (the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium), the Central Denmark Region and the Cluj Cultural Centre (Romania).

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2026 ASPERA Screen Production Teaching Award

Launched in 2025, the ASPERA Screen Production Teaching Award celebrates excellence and innovation. Each year a $1,000 cash prize will be awarded to the top individual or team. Please consider applying yourself, or encouraging a colleague.  Guidelines We are seeking applications from ASPERA members who are actively involved in teaching screen production, and have delivered […]

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Exploring the Arts for Social, Cultural and Educational Value from Cradle to Grave

DDCA Webinar, 1-2pm AEDT, Friday 9th October 2026 This webinar addresses this rich and important value of arts across the lifespan through the research of four leading researcher-practitioners. Emily Gann, whose Arts SA Ruby Award-winning Lullaby Project Australia has formed partnerships with organisations including Carnegie Hall, New York. Kamarra Bell-Wykes (Yagera/Butchulla), a theatre maker and arts specialist across professional, […]

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Contribute to Creative Matters ed 13: REGENERATE – guest edited by AFTRS

The Australian Film, Television and Radio School’s (AFTRS) Digital Futures Summit 2026 – Regenerate – was an invitation to reimagine the screen and audio industries as living ecosystems. In this framing, regeneration is not merely about sustainability or resilience; it is about active restoration, ecological enhancement and systemic transformation. With this upcoming edition of Creative Matters, the AFTRS guest editorial team […]

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A new National Cultural Policy

The DDCA together with DASSH (Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) made a submission to the National Cultural Policy review of Revive. Our submission recognised the important architecture of the existing 5 pillars that work to support First Nations First; A Place for Every Story; Centrality of the Artist; Strong Cultural Infrastructure; […]

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APPLY: 2026 DDCA AWARDS

The DDCA Awards are designed to acknowledge and celebrate outstanding contributions to creative arts, elevate and share best practice, and encourage and promote the next generation of creative arts leaders in research and education. The Awards promote diversity and recognise contributions and achievements by First Nations creatives, as well as early-, mid- and senior-career practitioners […]

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OUT NOW Evaluating creative practice research: A new framework

ABSTRACT It has been widely noted that creative practice research agitates in positive ways certain attitudes, understandings and/or practices towards ‘knowledge’ and ‘research’ within the university context. Not only this, or partly because of this, creative practice research complicates established scholarly protocols of assessment and evaluation. This has been a topic of concern and debate […]

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