Creative Recovery and Resilience Forum

The Creative Recovery and Resilience Forum provided a platform for exploring themes, issues and opportunities for the ACT creative sector relating to recovery and resilience, for the benefit of project participants and the ACT creative ecology more broadly. Nine events were delivered within the Forum program, each trialling models that contribute to creative recovery and resilience in the ACT and showcase the other projects within the Creative Recovery and Resilience The Forum was also a platform for showcasing other projects in the artsACT Creative Recovery and Resilience Program.

The Forum was underpinned by the belief that the ACT creative and cultural sector makes important, meaningful, and multi-faceted contributions to the prosperity, wellbeing, vibrancy and diversity of the ACT. Thus, we valued the opportunity to support and serve the ACT creative and cultural sector to assist recovery and enhance resilience. Central to this approach was our commitment to collaboration through co-design and co-creation, interdisciplinarity, knowledge and ideas exchange, and sharing resources with some of ACT’s leading arts organisations, artists and arts workers. As a higher education institution, University of Canberra (UC) understands the importance of dialogue for learning, empathy, wellbeing, resilience, growth, community-building, innovation and transformation. The Forum adopted an explicitly experimental and creative-centred approach in all modes of Forum design, delivery and evaluation, to demonstrate the capability and transferability of these approaches.