Diversity Arts Australia

Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN) On The Road: Meet & Greet Naarm. Photo credit: Carolina Triana Cuéllar

⚡ Thank you to the creative workers who joined us for the Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN) On The Road: Meet & Greet Naarm last week! Solidarity drives change. Interested? Join the next one: diversityarts.org.au/project/crea...

Report cover featuring the Fair Play Symposium panel. Photo credit: Maylei Hunt

🎤 Today, we celebrate a major milestone as we launched the Fair Play Reflections report at the Wheeler Centre! We’re thankful to continue work in solidarity for change. Download a free copy and learn about what's coming up next: diversityarts.org.au/fair-play-re...

Ramadan Mubarak greeting surrounded by golden lanterns and the moon

🌙✨ Ramadan Mubarak. We wish everyone a peaceful and safe Ramadan.

Golden lunar new year horse covered in flowers and surrounded by fireworks

🏮Happy Lunar New Year! Wishing you joy, prosperity and strength in the year ahead. As we celebrate new beginnings, explore how to support culturally diverse voices in the arts here: diversityarts.org.au/about/get-in...

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💜 Join us for Belonging & Storytelling: Diversity in Publishing on March 25 presented by Thrive and hosted by Hachette

A dedicated space for First Nations, Bla(c)k, CaRM, migrant & refugee publishing professionals working in the publishing industry: bit.ly/Thrive-Belon...

✨🚎 Join us for Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN) On The Road: Meet & Greet in Naarm on 19 Feb! Connect for a more equitable creative sector. 🎟️ Register now! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/creative-c...

🎉 Congratulations to our Creative Producer Kevin Bathman on being named a finalist in the British Council Study UK Alumni Awards (Culture, Creative & Sport)! Selected from 1,000 applicants & 5 finalists per category, he’s honoured to champion overlooked stories.

📷 Breaking Ground Symposium. Photo credit: Isabella Moore

✨ Sign up to join the Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN)! A national space for creatives & organisations committed to racial and cultural equity. Share experience, build solidarity & drive change. Online roundtables return in 2026: diversityarts.org.au/project/crea...

⚡Reminder! What is it really like to work in the creative industries? Improve future work conditions for First Nations and culturally diverse creative workers in this anonymous survey from Creative Workplaces. Open until 23 Feb: creativeworkplaces.gov.au/survey

Dream Collective

📢 Join our friends at The Dream Collective for the first ever Naarm networking session! First Nations and culturally diverse women in the arts and media are invited to gather on Feb 18 at Hardie Grant books: events.humanitix.com/the-dream-co...

📷 Poster illustration by Judy Kuo

✨ Reflect, recharge, and make anti-racism sustainable. Care for yourself and your communities through mutual support and collective care. Get started with the quiz: www.antiracism.art/

📷 Poster illustration by Judy Kuo

🎨📚 Watch the Imagine Talk: Anti-racism—Empowering Change Through Art & Culture facilitated by Dr Sukhmani Khorana: www.youtube.com/watch

🌏 View the Imagine Around The World case studies: creativeequitytoolkit.org/topic/organi...

📷 Breaking Ground Symposium. Photo credit: Isabella Moore

⚡ The Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN) connects creatives & organisations to build solidarity and advocate for racial & cultural equity across the creative sector. Join now: diversityarts.org.au/project/crea...

Poster illustration by Judy Kuo

Speak up against racism and help drive real change. Take the Racial Equity Quiz—a free, ungraded tool to spark reflection, dialogue, and learning about racism in the arts. For individuals & organisations: www.antiracism.art/

🎧 Watch The Colour Cycle Podcast S7 Ep 5 (Bonus): Diversity & Equity in Arts Leadership. Featuring Nigel Lopez-Mcbean on diverse leadership and Hilary Carty on building healthy, inclusive organisations. Listen now: diversityarts.org.au/project/the-...

🎥 Watch Facilitator Piumi Wijesundara ask the artists’ panel about the complexity of building a creative practice here when you already had one back home, and what it means to emerge or re-emerge: youtu.be/SVVuYptyyRw

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Today on January 26, we reflect on the painful history and ongoing impact of invasion on Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples. We honour their strength, resilience & cultures, and stand against racism. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal land.

📣 Quick Arts Opportunities & Events Shout-Out:

📍 Share your artwork to welcome refugees with City of Sydney

📍 Accessible Arts - Songsmiths: a program for songwriters who are d/Deaf or disabled

📍Creative Workplaces Survey

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Breaking Ground Symposium. Photo credit: Isabella Moore

The Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN) brings creatives & organisations together to advance cultural equity in the creative sector—through connection, advocacy, solidarity & action. Get involved: diversityarts.org.au/project/crea...

Poster illustration by Judy Kuo

✨ Check yourself. Build awareness. Create change. Take the free Racial Equity Quiz—a reflective, ungraded tool to help individuals & organisations recognise power, perspective & impact, and deepen learning about racism in the arts. Start here: www.antiracism.art/

🎪 Fekat Circus creates open, creative spaces across Ethiopia—bringing youth, art & community together. Watch the Imagine Talk: Transforming Communities: www.youtube.com/watch

🌏 View the Imagine Around The World case studies: creativeequitytoolkit.org/topic/organi...

🎥 Watch artist Janhavi Salvi on the Breaking & Entering: Culturally Diverse ‘Emerging’ Artist Panel. She reflects on Word Pharmacy, language, power, migration & how her upbringing shapes her practice: www.youtube.com/watch

🎧 Tune in now! The Colour Cycle Podcast S7 EP4: Radical Care Part 2 – Finding Solidarity. Artists Tian Zhang & Cheryl Martin reflect on racism, gaps in care systems, and how communities found solidarity amid crisis: diversityarts.org.au/project/the-...

-> Screen NSW - Crew Development Program | Entry Level & Mid-Career - Stream A - EXTENDED DEADLINE: Apply by 21 January 2026: www.screen.nsw.gov.au/funding-supp...

InterGenerate Presentation at SOH. Photo credit: Justine Da Jose for DARTS.

✨We’re building a creative sector that truly reflects us all. Through the Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN), creative workers & organisations come together to connect & drive cultural equity across this continent. Join us: diversityarts.org.au/project/crea...

Quick Arts Opportunities & Events Shout-Ou

The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships | Apply by 3 Feb 2026 | Presented by Creative Australia | Support for young artists to study and develop through interstate and international travel

Greek Women Speak symposium presented by Koraly Dimitriadis | 15 Feb 2026 | Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria

Open Door Policy | 24 & 25 Feb 2026 | Presented by CuriousWorks

📣 Quick Arts Opportunities & Events Shout-Out:

📍 The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships | Apply by 3 Feb 2026 | Creative Australia

📍 Greek Women Speak | 15 Feb 2026 | Melbourne

📍Open Door Policy | 24 & 25 Feb 2026 | CuriousWorks

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🎭 How can community-based theatre tackle issues and create pathways for artists? Watch the Imagine Talk: Transforming Communities with Yasmin Gurreeboo of ActNow Theatre: www.youtube.com/watch

🌏 View the Imagine Around The World case studies: creativeequitytoolkit.org/topic/organi...

Diversity Arts Australia’s Statement on the Removal of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week

Festivals are a core part of our civic infrastructure, providing forums for exchange, disagreement, and critical public debate. The removal of Dr Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week undermines these principles, and the widespread withdrawal of writers signals that this breach has been clearly understood by the cultural community.

Diversity Arts Australia stands unequivocally with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. We also stand with the greatly respected Festival Director Louise Adler, the writers, First Nations authors, publishers, and cultural workers who have withdrawn in protest, and with all those who are calling for accountability, transparency, and the reinstatement of Dr Abdel-Fattah to the Adelaide Writers’ Week program.

We call on the Adelaide Festival Board to urgently reinstate Dr Abdel-Fattah’s invitation. We call on the Adelaide Festival Board to affirm its commitment to freedom of artistic, political, and cultural expression, genuine cultural equity, and the protection of those freedoms within publicly funded cultural institutions.

We stand in solidarity with all those who are calling for accountability, transparency, and the reinstatement of Dr Abdel-Fattah to the Adelaide Writers’ Week program: diversityarts.org.au/diversity-ar...

🎙️Don't miss Radical Care (Part 1) of the Colour Cycle Podcast. Creatives Tian Zhang & Cheryl Martin unpack what radical care means in the arts, why it’s unequally distributed, & how to build safer, more welcoming spaces for artists: diversityarts.org.au/project/the-...

Creative Cultural Diversity Network

⚡ Need a place for community, support and advocacy? Calling creative worker and organisations committed to racial & cultural equity in the creative sector! Come along to our national online roundtables in 2026—EOI open now: diversityarts.org.au/project/crea...