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🌱 What might be possible when creativity, wellbeing and community come together?The Creative Wellbeing Collective invite...
10/09/2026

🌱 What might be possible when creativity, wellbeing and community come together?

The Creative Wellbeing Collective invites you to spend a day exploring healing, connection and transformation through storytelling, visual arts, reflection and collaborative action.

The workshop will feature:
🎨 Hands-on creative activities
đź’¬ Facilitated yarning circles
🌟 Indigenous humour with Angelina Hurley
🌿 Opportunities to shape future wellbeing and healing research initiatives

Come along to connect with others, share ideas and help plant the seeds for meaningful future collaborations.

đź“… Wednesday 28 October 10am-4pm (registration starts at 9.30am)
đź“Ť Function Room S02 7.07
Register now for the full workshop run sheet and program details. https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/sZYatZE9yJ

Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Griffith University

04/09/2026

Congratulations to Gunaro Setiawan (GBS/GAI), Catherine Grant (QCGU/CARI/GCSCR) and Muhammad Ashoer Zaenal (GBS), who will collaborate with Indonesian artist, educator, music director and cultural leader Yusup Oeblet on the project ''Fostering Place-Based Sustainability Learning Through Arts, Culture and Forest Engagement: The Role of a Community Hub''.

Funded via the 2026 GAI-GCSCR collaborative grant scheme, the project pools the team’s expertise in cultural sustainability, environmental sustainability, business management, and community engagement. The project will support and advance the mission of partner organisation Bumi Seni Tari Kolot, a community hub in West Java focusing on arts and environmental preservation.

Congratulations to the team on this exciting collaboration! ❤️

Griffith Business School Griffith Asia Institute Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research Griffith University

28/08/2026

Congratulations to the researchers and collaborators whose project has received support through Griffith’s Games Impact and Legacy Catapult Fund 2026, advancing innovative partnerships and positive legacy outcomes in the lead-up to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Led by Griffith’s Industry and External Engagement (IEE) Games Engagement and Partnerships team, the fund supports researchers to co-design solutions with industry, government and community partners, while building pathways to larger funding opportunities and long-term impact beyond 2032.

Professor Naomi Sunderland, Associate Professor Eleni Kalantidou, Dr Petra Perolini, Dr Laura Ripoll González, Dr Millicent Kennelly, Associate Professor Adele Pavlidis) will partner with the Creative Brisbane Collaboration network on Measuring What Matters: Co-Designing an Arts and Cultural Legacy Evaluation Framework for Brisbane 2032. The project will develop a sector-wide framework for evaluating arts, culture and community impact and legacy outcomes associated with Brisbane 2032.

Congratulations to all involved! ❤️

Creative Brisbane Collab Herston Health Precinct Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University Griffith Criminology Institute Griffith University

The Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI’s inaugural UN/BOUND Festival was an incredible celebration of creativity, r...
21/08/2026

The Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI’s inaugural UN/BOUND Festival was an incredible celebration of creativity, research, and collaboration.

Bringing together artists, researchers, students, community partners, and creative practitioners, the festival explored how the arts can help us release, reimagine, and regenerate across health, culture, climate, justice, technology, storytelling, and place. Across two days audiences experienced an exciting mix of First Nations-led creative research, immersive performance, VR, games, installation, animation, poetry, sound, documentary, and youth-led conversations. The festival showcased the vital role of arts-based research in exploring new possibilities for building connections and sharing research with audiences in engaging and accessible ways. 🥳

The online program featured thought provoking presentations on eco-digital innovation, climate-conscious performance, and creative practices driving social change, highlighting the ways art and research can respond to real-world challenges.

The festival opened in person at the Brisbane Planetarium with a unique full dome showcase from the Future Projections Research Group, exploring immersive storytelling, hybrid media, and new ways of communicating complex global issues.

The Logan program featured highlights including Reconciliation Rescue and the Young Creatives Panel, creating space for dialogue, experimentation, and future-focused cultural leadership.

A huge thank you to everyone who presented, performed, facilitated, participated, and helped make UN/BOUND possible. It was wonderful to see so many ideas, perspectives, and creative practices come together! ❤

Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University Griffith Film School Griffith University

Join us for ''The Songs Inside The Aggregate Data'', a live performance by MJ O'Neill on Friday 14 Aug at Griffith Unive...
05/08/2026

Join us for ''The Songs Inside The Aggregate Data'', a live performance by MJ O'Neill on Friday 14 Aug at Griffith University Logan campus.

In 2024, MJ released 932 Sirens, an album made entirely from collages of sounds drawn from a dataset of 932 siren recordings. Praised by The Wire and Bandcamp Daily as one of the year’s best releases, the work creatively reimagined a dataset originally designed to inform AI technologies — without using any external sounds or instruments.

In this live performance, MJ will share work and improvisations from her siren experiments, alongside a new dataset project drawn from a deceased DIY ornithologist’s 30-year collection of Australian birdsong recordings.

Full abstract and tickets are available on our website: https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/arts-education-law/creative-arts-research-institute/upcoming-events

We look forward to seeing you at UN/BOUND. 🤩

Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Griffith University

Join us for ''Exploring Intersubjective Knowledge Translation Through Creative Responses to Artwork About Lived Experien...
04/08/2026

Join us for ''Exploring Intersubjective Knowledge Translation Through Creative Responses to Artwork About Lived Experience of Incarceration'', a workshop by Patricia Fay Morgan from the University of New South Wales on Friday 14 Aug at Griffith University Logan campus.

This workshop invites participants to engage with artworks from the virtual exhibition Drawing Free, featuring work by nine people with lived experience of incarceration.

Through contemplative art-making and critical arts-based research, participants will explore how creative responses can help translate lived experiences for policymakers, service providers, and the broader public.

Aligned with UN/BOUND, the workshop invites reflection on what counts as “evidence” and how creative practice can open new pathways for justice, inclusion, and understanding beyond institutional boundaries.

Explore the exhibition: https://drawingfree.com.au

Full abstract and tickets are available on our website: https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/arts-education-law/creative-arts-research-institute/upcoming-events

We look forward to seeing you at UN/BOUND.

Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Griffith University UNSW

Join us for ''The Role of Community Songwriting in First Nations’ Truth-Telling: A Case Study from Songs For Freedom in ...
03/08/2026

Join us for ''The Role of Community Songwriting in First Nations’ Truth-Telling: A Case Study from Songs For Freedom in Australia'', presented by Dr Joel Spence on Thursday 13 Aug.

Drawing on an article by Dr Joel Spence and Professor Brydie Bartleet from Griffith University, this presentation explores how community-written songs can contribute to First Nations truth-telling, advocacy, wellbeing, and healing.

Focusing on the Songs For Freedom community songwriting project in Ieramugadu/Roebourne, Western Australia, the presentation considers how songs created with Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Elders form a powerful archive of lived experience.

Through lyrics, storytelling, and collective creative expression, these songs highlight the ongoing impacts of colonisation and systemic injustice, while opening space for deeper national awareness, connection, and reflection.

Full abstract and tickets are available on our website: https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/arts-education-law/creative-arts-research-institute/upcoming-events

We look forward to seeing you at UN/BOUND. 🤩

Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Griffith University

Join us for ''The Forest as Scenographer: Rethinking Material Procurement Through Tent Theatre Creation'', an online pre...
30/07/2026

Join us for ''The Forest as Scenographer: Rethinking Material Procurement Through Tent Theatre Creation'', an online presentation by Hiroko Oshima from Lancaster University, Visiting Scholar at Griffith University, on Thursday 13 Aug.

This presentation explores how material procurement in scenography can be understood not only as a logistical process, but as a creative act shaped by direct engagement with raw materials.

Drawing on practice-based research with theatre company Norabo and Yanagisawa Forestry, the project follows the creation of a wooden tent theatre using locally sourced timber, reflecting on how relationships with materials can influence artistic process, aesthetics, and meaning.

The wooden tent becomes a “social object”, opening dialogue around sustainability, place, material use, and the wider social and cultural contexts of creative practice.

Full abstract and tickets are available on our website: https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/arts-education-law/creative-arts-research-institute/upcoming-events

We look forward to seeing you at UN/BOUND. 🤩

Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University Griffith University Lancaster University Lancaster University

Join us for ''Listening to People, Listening to the Past'', an online presentation by Perrin Ellis on Thursday 13 Aug. R...
29/07/2026

Join us for ''Listening to People, Listening to the Past'', an online presentation by Perrin Ellis on Thursday 13 Aug.

Revisiting a 2022 video essay responding to Gary Maloney’s 1994 documentary about his hometown, Palen’s Creek, this presentation focuses on moments of “silence” — where narration falls away and the sounds of place come forward.

For UN/BOUND, Perrin will rework the video essay as a live presentation, responding in real time to the sounds of the video and their own recorded voice. The work invites audiences to slow down, resist the urge to fill silence, and practise listening with care, reflection, and attention.

Following the presentation, audience members will be invited to listen to recorded sounds of a past environment and share the memories and associations they evoke.

Full abstract and tickets are available on our website: https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/arts-education-law/creative-arts-research-institute/upcoming-events.

We look forward to seeing you at UN/BOUND. 🤩

Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University Griffith University

Join us for ''Ex-Institutional Studios: Research-Informed Models for Accessible Creative Education'', an online presenta...
28/07/2026

Join us for ''Ex-Institutional Studios: Research-Informed Models for Accessible Creative Education'', an online presentation by Dr Bill Platz (Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University/Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI).

This presentation explores how creative arts practice can help rethink learning beyond traditional studio and classroom models.

Drawing on project-based, socially situated, and countercultural approaches, the research considers how learners can develop new skills, knowledge, and transformative relationships through alternative creative processes.

The presentation will share an ongoing project informed by Mail Art, obsolete correspondence models, and the pedagogical philosophies of Black Mountain College and the Barnes Foundation, offering new ways to support accessible, networked, and engaging creative education.

Full abstract and tickets are available on our website: https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/arts-education-law/creative-arts-research-institute/upcoming-events

We look forward to seeing you at UN/BOUND. 🤩

Creative Arts Research Institute - CARI Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University Griffith University

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