DDCA Symposium 2024
SUSTAINING – MAINTAINING – NOURISHING – CREATIVITY
DATE: Friday 29th November, 10am – 5pm AEDT
LOCATION: Federation University
Ballarat Technology Park, 106-110 Lydiard Street, Ballarat Central 3350
This is a free, fully catered, one-day event which will be held on and around Federation University’s SMB campus in leafy Ballarat, regional Victoria.
This year’s theme speaks to maintaining and nourishing the energy of creativity, and asks: How do we sustain this energy to keep on creating over time and within the academic environment?
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
All times are in AEDT
10.00am
10.30am
Registration
Welcome to Country from Macaylah Johnson
Symposium opens with Professor Rick Chew, Director, Federation Arts Academy
Welcome Message from DDCA President, Professor Craig Batty
11am
11.30am
11.45am
PRESENTATION Dr Jill Orr, Visual Artist (Federation University)
WORK-IN-PROGRESS Kim Percy (HDR, Visual Arts)
WORKSHOP by Associate Professor Margaret McVeigh (Griffith)
TITLE: Think and Write Like a Creative: A Narrated Workshop*
12.30pm
CATERED LUNCH
1.30pm
2.00pm
2.15pm
PRESENTATION Associate Professor Carole Wilson (Federation)
WORK-IN-PROGRESS Nick Martin (HDR, Music)
WORKSHOP by Associate Professor Jessica Wilkinson (RMIT)
TITLE: Transmuting Creative Conversations Through Poetic Inquiry**
3.00pm
3.30pm
4.15pm
AFTERNOON TEA
Reflections from the day – DDCA President Craig Batty
PERFORMANCE Inscape Piano Trio – Lachlan Dent, Dunja Lavrova, Rick Chew [VENUE: Post Office Theatre]
5.00pm
CLOSE
Attendees are invited to join us for social drinks at the Hop Temple Ballarat.
*The workshop leader requests that participants bring a TREASURED ITEM FROM CHILDHOOD (an object rather than a photo, if possible).
**The workshop leader requests that participants bring a small object that is important to them in their daily life as a practitioner/academic – something that sustains, nourishes or simply pleases you (photos allowed).
For any questions email admin@ddca.edu.au
REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE https://events.humanitix.com/ddca-symposium-2024