Creative Arts Research Institute

Another amazing year for CARI! Thanks for all your support throughout the year. We will reopen on Monday 8 January 2024. Digital art by Frankie Dyson Reilly.

Are you a part of the Australian screen industry? We would love for you to fill out our survey, which is investigating the mental health and wellbeing of individuals who work in the Australian screen industry: researchsurvey.griffith.edu.au/index.php/5644… Anonymous and confidential. Closes 15/02/2024

Griffith Film School’s Associate Professor @peterhegedus and sessional teacher and impact producer Bobbi-Lea Dionysius have launched a comprehensive survey to assess the mental health and wellbeing of those working in the screen industry. news.griffith.edu.au/2023/11/28/act…

The Experimental Game Design Conference is happening tomorrow at the Griffith Film School (S08) from 9:45 am - 5:30 pm. To register your attendance, click here: events.griffith.edu.au/event/698fd9d8…

That’s a wrap! Our 8th SIMM-posium is done and dusted, after a brilliant Day 3! Heartfelt thanks to the 100+ delegates, Keynotes, Chairs, Online Facilitators, and performers who joined us in person and online from 24 different across and across Australia! #SIMM_Brisbane

A new Behind the Music Instalment: The role of cultural policy in responding to social conflict. You can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=E1aBOu… @aakallio

A final day at #SIMM_Brisbane and I am officially exhausted and my brain is compost. Such wonderful people, ideas, music… all of it! @simmplatform @QldCon_Griffith

We are very proud to announce that The Remedy Project has won the Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence award in the Research Group or Team category! #griffithuniversity

My film, Farsh-e-Parandeh (Flying Carpet), won Best Animation Award in Hummingbird International Film Festival 🏆 Thanks @Hummingbird2k21!

A very special lunch time concert at SIMM-posium today curated by Flora Wong (HDR). Featuring HDR members Glenn Barry, Matthew Klotz, Libby Myers, Lexi Gorton and Frankie Dyson Reilly at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.

Some photographs from the 3rd SIMM-posium (Social Impact of Music Making) day from the session Social Impact of Music Making in Oceania.

Some big issues have been discussed and grappled with at todays Climate Ready Australia National Summit presented by the Climate Action Beacon. CARI contributed through amazing conversations with delegates where we shared the work of researchers.

Another epic day at our 8th SIMM-posium! From the Singing Indigenous Languages Collective to sessions on higher music education & social change, music, health & well-being, music making in Oceania & in detention, keynote by Prof Jioji Ravulo & river walk ‘n’ talk! #SIMM_Brisbane

See you tomorrow at the Climate Ready Australia National Summit! A day of inspiring conversations, challenging questions, fruitful connections and plenty more awaits. #CRA2030

Thank you @simmplatform and @JiojiRavulo for bringing OneFour to @QldCon_Griffith - more drill in the recital hall on its way 2024-2027!

ARC DP researchers 2024 onwards! @JiojiRavulo set the musical bar high today fitting both the little mermaid and OneFour in one presentation. CAN NOT wait for this journey to launch…

SIMM day 2! @simmplatform #SIMM_Brisbane

Read Music as Symbolic Action by adjunct member Phil Graham and Andy Ward here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Some wonderful shots from Tuesday's Hydrofictions boat trip. In collaboration with the Climate Action Beacon, this was the 5th iteration of Green Cellophane - an exploration of creative solutions to climate action. Facilitated by Ally Bisshop & Zeynep Akcay #climateactionbeacon

Alexis Kallio (QCGU) recently presented an analysis of the 2023 National Cultural Policy (Revive) at the Cultural Diversity in Music Education conference in Cape Town, South Africa.