Create Centre at the University of Sydney

Webinar this Thursday!
Join us as we hear Prof Daisy Fancourt introduce her book, Art Cure, which summarises the phenomenal contribution that the arts and creativity make to the health and wellbeing of individuals and societies by sharing the cutting-edge scientific evidence.
6:30pm Sydney time, link here:

Webinar #67 | Daisy Fancourt - Art Cure Book Launch Discover how art can improve our health, make us happier and even help us live longer with the inspiring new book from Daisy Fancourt: Art Cure.

Petition time!

Sign the Petition Call for a national inquiry into Arts Education and Training in Australia

Thank you to all the wonderful educators who came to Towards Creative Schools 2026 - what an amazing couple of days full of sharing and learning it was!

And never has a conference had the benefit of such vivacious and life-affirming keynote speakers. Thanks Kirli Saunders and Thalia Goldstein for bringing us all back to where we need to be, with the energy to keep working on transforming education in this country.

Vital reading for all of us. Absorb, share, and then we get together to demand change.

‘Polycrisis’ threatens future of arts education in Aussie schools: researchers Sidelined from the early years and scrapped at senior levels, arts education in Australian schools is rapidly deteriorating – and our nation’s creative and cultural capital is now at serious risk of dying out, two researchers have warned.

Get the inside story on Daisy Fancourt's vital new book, Art Cure, in our next webinar.

Daisy will share her studies of how people can use the arts to support specific mental and physical health outcomes for different clinical conditions.

Her work uncovers the major challenges being faced globally to the arts sector and artists around the world, and has the ultimate aim of trying to achieve a step-change in how people view and value the arts – not as a luxury but as an essential.


6:30pm Thursday 26 February, get the link here:

Webinar #67 | Daisy Fancourt - Art Cure Book Launch Discover how art can improve our health, make us happier and even help us live longer with the inspiring new book from Daisy Fancourt: Art Cure.

Are you ready for Towards Creative Schools?
We'll see you on campus tomorrow!

Towards Creative Schools Conference 2026 The CREATE Centre's next Towards Creative Schools Conference will take place at the University of Sydney on Thursday 12 & Friday 13 February 2026.Who is it f...

We're delighted that Assoc Prof Mary Ann Hunter has agreed to deliver a plenary address at our Towards Creative Schools conference this week.
So looking forward to hearing what you have to say, Mary Ann!
https://discover.utas.edu.au/MaryAnn.Hunter
Schedule outlined here:
https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-groups/create-centre/towards-creative-schools-conference.html

Thursday and Friday this week - we'll be meeting on campus for two days of connection and collaboration. Be a part of the conversation that shapes the future at the CREATE Centre's Towards Creative Schools Conference 2026.
More information and registration at the link below.

Congratulations Poetry In Action on your 20th birthday! Let's celebrate by finding them some new Ambassadors (link under the video, deadline Friday). Listen to their history, their methods, their ideals and their ambitions here:

Webinar #66 | Poetry in Action - presented by Bryce Youngman and Olivia Hall-Smith Poetry, AI and Young People Today, with Bryce Youngman, Artistic Director, CEO and Co-founder of Poetry in Action and actor/producer Olivia Hall-SmithYoung p...

Love schools? Love kids? Believe in what we can do for kids and schools?
Time to meet where we can work together to make creative things possible in pedagogy.
Find us at our Towards Creative Schools Conference 2026 Thursday 12 & Friday 13 February.

Towards Creative Schools - we're on the move!
Next week, Thursday 12 & Friday 13 February

Towards Creative Schools Conference 2026 The CREATE Centre's next Towards Creative Schools Conference will take place at the University of Sydney on Thursday 12 & Friday 13 February 2026.Who is it f...

Connect with peers and colleagues in a creative space at our Towards Creative Schools conference next week: teachers at all levels, students of pedagogy, teaching artists, inspirational leaders of learning communities.
Thursday 12 & Friday 13 February
https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-groups/create-centre/towards-creative-schools-conference.html