Creative Plus Business

15/10/2026

It was a brilliant evening at the Art Gallery of NSW joining a huge crowd to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Accessible Arts. It was the cherry on top to have a surprise reunion with Wendi and Fiona from C+B past - the squeals were real. And the cake was delicious. 🧁

Happy Birthday Accessible Arts! 🎉🥳

14/10/2026

A truly interesting case study series from The Festival of Dangerous Ideas that dives into risk in the festival world and how it can be both managed and taken advantage for for everyone to benefit. If risk is a word that’s in your world a lot right now, take a look!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/heap-how-play-danger-festival-of-dangerous-ideas-erzic

Regal Innovations x Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2026 When Industry Expertise Fuels Cultural Ambition By combining creative ambition with technical expertise, the partnership between Festival of Dangerous Ideas and Regal Innovations on Festival artwork, HEAP, demonstrates how industry can play a pivo

13/10/2026

An excellent article in The Guardian today that highlights the challenges of growing a creative practice and business, and what changes when you step back to figure out how you could work smarter (and healthier) as an artist.

When I toured an overseas workshop I was amazed. In contrast my own space lacked safety basics and the hours were far too long

12/10/2026

Help celebrate 40 Years of Accessible Arts!

Accessible Arts is marking this exciting occasion with a program of free, accessible events in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of Art After Hours on Wednesday 14 October.

The centrepiece of the celebration, ‘Access Ideas and Insights: Nothing About Us Without Us’ brings together leading voices from the arts and disability community to reflect on what’s been achieved, where we are now, and what lies ahead.

You can also drop into a free Disability Justice & Joy: Zine Making Workshop or join a Comedian-Led Art Tour for unique perspectives into ‘The Edge of Things’ – an Art Gallery of NSW exhibition.

More than a milestone, this is a celebration of the people, creativity and ideas that
have shaped 40 years of arts and disability in NSW, and an invitation to imagine
what the next 40 years can make possible.

For full details visit https://aarts.net.au/news/celebrating-40-years/

08/10/2026

The Apocaloptimists are back and online for everyone. We're looking into the future to find out how leading creatives find silver linings in cloudy times. Free to register!

06/10/2026

We'll be there, and we hope you will be too. Celebrating 40 years of this amazing organisation at the same time as getting into the next Access Ideas and Insights (Nothing About Us Without Us) is going to be fabulous! Happy Birthday Accessible Arts!

05/10/2026

Well here's something fresh! October 7th is National Banana Day 🍌 and for one day only you can take your snack along to over 250 gyms nationwide for a FREE entry pass. It's called the Banana Gym Pass, and if you've been thinking about trying out a local gym to get those clever endorphins, here's your chance. Visit bananagympass.com to see where participating gyms are in your region.

28/09/2026

Our freinds at The Hey Mate Project are bringing Uplift Queensland to Museum of Brisbane on Thursday 15 October — a practical 3.5-hour workshop for artists,
creatives, freelancers, and arts workers.

The session focuses on practical wellbeing strategies, AOD literacy, safer conversations, protective practices and support pathways, with tools people can use in their own practice and creative businesses. And it's free!

Find out more and register here:

A free, community workshop where Queensland's creative sector comes together to build AOD literacy, reduce stigma and strengthen collective wellbeing.

24/09/2026

Is your creative team exhausted? Are your strategic plans collecting digital dust? 💨

Unconstrained “blue sky thinking” sounds inspiring, but for independent creative enterprises and arts organisations, giant impractical ideas often don't lead to the kind of change you're aiming for.

You don’t need high-altitude brainstorming. You need down-to-earth Green Grass Thinking.

In our latest blog article, Monica explains her 4 strategy filters you should run your next planning session through:

✂️ The Pruning Sheet
🌾 The Quick Harvest
📐 The Trellis
🚧 The Fence Line

Read the full article to learn more about Green Grass Thinking and how to use it for goal setting in your creative business. And if you need some help getting your feet on the ground, we're here!

https://creativeplusbusiness.com/green-grass-thinking/

Blue sky thinking is a luxury only fit for organisations with bottomless budgets, energetic teams and endless runway. For arts businesses, cultural

17/09/2026

The official photos are here!

Jillian and Oumi on stage (and on the winners carpet) at the Business NSW Awards for Sydney. It really was a very special night, with inspiring words from Sydney's Deputy Lord Mayor, Jess Miller, and a town hall filled with amazing business owners and leaders. It was an extra treat to be handed our award by Councillor Olly Arkins, who leads Sydney City's Cultural, Creative and Nightlife Committee.

Next up? Well, we just found out we're a finalist for Most Outstanding Community Organisation in NSW!!

The CPB team will be there in October to find out if another shiny award will be in our office this year. How exciting!

Congratulations again to all the finalists and winners!