Arts Symposium: Leadership in the Arts, Culture and Creative Industries

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What is the Arts Leadership Symposium?

Across the Asia-Pacific region, the arts, culture, and creative industries are proving to be a dynamic sector. Radical changes in society, in technology, in participation and in models of financial support are profoundly impacting the sector, with implications for educational and cultural institutions alike.

There are implications for the health and wellbeing of the arts sector, as well as significant health and wellbeing benefits for audiences and participants. In this symposium we explore those tensions.

The symposium will bring together leaders from universities and arts institutions to share experiences, ideas, and strategic visions in response to the sector’s most pressing challenges and opportunities around health and wellbeing.

In particular, the symposium will ask how leadership in the sector can formulate and drive responses to the following key questions:

How can the arts and university sectors work together to make the case most effectively for the efficacy of arts and health ?
How can these collaborations support the wellbeing of artists to be in a position to support the use of arts for the wellbeing of communities? How can universities and arts institutions and community sector collaborate to conduct research, prepare future workforces and advocate for better understanding the impact of arts experiences on wellbeing?
How can international collaborations across the Asia-Pacific in arts for health and wellbeing be both widened and deepened?
How do topics like climate action, decolonial practices, ceding power and opening public space contribute to the role arts can play for the health and wellbeing of diverse communities?
What role does leadership and governance play in supporting arts for wellbeing?

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A Bachelor of Arts is the most common degree among non-executive directors of Australia's 100 biggest public companies, and two thirds of Australia‘s workforce have studied humanities and social sciences.* 

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