When we activate our creativity and, by extension, our civic participation, we create belonging, give voice to experience, and generate new thinking toward future possibilities.

Our network of skilled arts and cultural practitioners are dedicated to building Australia’s recovery capabilities and supporting the growth of confident, connected, disaster resilient communities.
Arts and cultural programs have a unique capacity to build social cohesion - an essential tool that helps communities be prepared for disasters, and supports them to respond and recover better when they occur. Here's how we are strengthening disaster management through creativity.
Response can mean many things – care, comfort, growth, connection, empowerment, memorial, celebration.

Through our resources, research and training programs, we harness the power of creativity to build community capacity and move towards a more resilient future.
We are committed to deepening the conversation around how the arts can repair, rebuild and reunite.

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Firesticks Project: Parent Trees are Talking

Dixons Creek Primary School, Yarra Ranges Council
In partnership with Uncle Dave Wandin Wurundjeri Elder, Victor Steffensen Indigenous Fire Practitioner, Yarra Ranges Council and Dixons Creek Primary…
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Wurundjeri, Black Saturday Fires, children's book, children's drawings, cultural education for children, Indigenous burning methods, Indigenous land management, post-fire production, reflective practice, transmedia storytelling

Big Stories, Small Towns

A multiplatform documentary project (2009 - 2015)
Big Stories, Small Towns is an ongoing, online and participatory documentary series that explores community life in small towns. The…
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The Remedy Project

First Nations Music as a Determinant of Health
The Remedy Project explores music as a primary cultural determinant of health for First Nations communities. The Remedy Project honours…
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Alice Springs, Arrente, First Nations music

Orara Valley Schools Art Exhibition

Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
The Coffs Harbour Regional Museum and Gallery is presenting a Creative Recovery Project in collaboration with primary schools in the…
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