Perspectives on creative arts in higher education
Victoria’s Arts Wellbeing Collective has released a guide for performing arts organisations and their collaborators that provides practical strategies to help improve mental health in the workplace. The Work Well Guide responds to research conducted by Victoria University and Entertainment Assist (https://vuir.vu.edu.au/31756) and to subsequent commissioned research which highlighted the increased
"Where’s the evidence?" Entertainment Assist (EA) received a fairly typical pollie response when they raised the mental health problems present in the Australian entertainment industry. Yet as Susan Cooper, EA General Manager discovered, "apart from a couple of studies in the UK and US there was nothing - no whole-of-industry study
In the spirit of reconciliation, the DDCA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.