Celebrating Community, Creating Legacy
DATE: Friday 05th December, 9am – 4.30pm AEDT
LOCATION: Deakin Downtown, Melbourne, Victoria Level 12, Tower 2, 727 Collins St, Melbourne, 3008
As we wind up this challenging year, join us for a day of enriching conversation, creative sharing and forward planning. Celebrating what makes the creative arts integral to our lives (academic and personal), the DDCA Symposium will focus on empowering our members to remain vital in their practices and to their communities in these times when we need art more than ever. Conversations, panel presentations and workshop activities will focus on the question of sustaining and self-branding during this period of drastic change and upheaval. This is a free, fully catered, one-day event. Go to Deakin Downtown website for venue accessibility and public transport information.
SCHEDULE
| 9am – 9.30am | Registration, Tea & Coffee |
| 9.30am – 9.55am | Acknowledgement of Country Welcome by Deakin hosts DDCA Introduction by Professor Craig Batty (outgoing President) and Professor Jane Davidson (incoming President) |
| 10am – 10.45am | Keynote: Art, Tenacity, Democracy Esther Anatolitis (Hon A/Prof, RMIT School of Art) Q&A Session |
| 10.45am – 11am | Morning Tea |
| 11am – 12.15pm | DDCA Presentation and Panel: How does DDCA represent its institutional members in a changing academy? Hosted by Professor Craig Batty (outgoing President) and Professor Jane Davidson (incoming President) Q&A Session |
| 12. 15 – 1pm | Catered Lunch |
| 1pm – 2.30pm | Workshop: Personal Branding Presented by Meghan Kelly (Professor Visual Communication Design, Head of School – Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University) |
| 2.30pm – 2.45pm | Tea Break |
| 2.45pm – 4pm | Group Activity: Thinking Creative Thought Together: How to Lead with Artistic Methods Presented by Antonia Pont (Associate Professor Writing, Literature & Culture, Deakin University) and David Cross (Professor of Visual Arts, Deakin University) |
| 4pm – 4.30pm | Reflections and final remarks |
All times are in AEDT
If you have any questions about the Symposium, please drop us an email: admin@ddca.edu.au