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Centre for Creative & Cultural Research University of Canberra

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6201 5111



Address: Building 20, University of Canberra 2617 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website: www.canberra.edu.au/centres/cccr

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25.01.2022 We're absolutely delighted to announce that the web archives section of Tim Sherratt's GLAM Workbench has won the British Library Labs Research Award for 2020! Congratulations Tim! Judges acknowledged Tim's incredible work in developing the Workbench and commented that these notebooks were 'some of the first of their kind'. The GLAM Workbench is free and openly-licensed for anyone interested in exploring GLAM sector data - check it out here! https://glam-workbench.github.io/



24.01.2022 UC has launched its Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan today, which will be implemented over four years, and aims to further enhance reconciliation outcomes for university staff and students. #UniCBR

24.01.2022 We're thrilled to announce that UC Faculty of Arts & Design HDR candidate and CCCR member Lisa Fuller has won the Griffith University Young Adult Book Award for her novel Ghost Bird, as well as sharing the Norma K Hemming Award for speculative fiction! Congratulations Lisa, an incredible achievement. https://www.slq.qld.gov.au//fel/queensland-literary-awards

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Cathy Hope and her Haig Park activation team on being awarded the Public Engagement and Community Planning Award from the Planning Institute of Australia! A big congratulations to everyone who worked on this wonderful project!



19.01.2022 A poignant piece by Jen Webb in The Conversation on Leonard Cohen and finding beauty in a broken world: https://theconversation.com/listening-to-songs-of-leonard-c

19.01.2022 A fascinating article in the Conversation about the history of airline collapses in Australia by Tracy Ireland, Peter Hobbins and Pru Black! https://theconversation.com/home-away-from-home-reflecting-

18.01.2022 We are delighted to let everyone know that the new issue of our journal Axon: Creative Explorations, is now live at https://axonjournal.com.au/issue-vol-10-no-2-dec-2020. Focusing on manifestos, diatribes and creative interventions, it features 27 essays, short prose pieces, poems and poetry essays, photo essays, and of course diatribes, and manifestos. Axon is an open access journal, so please feel free to share it. Cover image by Drager Meurtant, who features in this issue.



18.01.2022 Delighted to present Iso Topics, an online exhibition of art made in isolation by CCCR members and hosted by the Belconnen Arts Centre. Check out the catalogue and view the exhibition here: https://www.belcoarts.com.au/iso-topics/

16.01.2022 What will the creative and cultural sectors look like in a post-COVID world? Stephen Cassidy is presenting an online winter short course investigating this and other questions relating to impacts of creativity and culture over three weeks in June/July. Uniting economic and social perspectives, the course examines the role of cultural diversity in fostering innovation, First Nations cultures in the creative economy, and other future-focused considerations over a series of short lectures and discussion groups. Learn more about the course at https://www.canberra.edu.au//shortcourses/creative-and-cul or hear from Stephen himself at https://cassarticle.blogspot.com//creative-and-cultural-fu. This course is open to everyone.

15.01.2022 Reminder that our latest free public seminar is TOMORROW at 1:30pm AEDT. Come along to Ways of Seeing Ginninderry: Interpreting the changing landscape and its lived experience in a local sustainable urban development by Mary Hutchison (ANU), Cathy Hope (UC) and Denise Thwaites (UC) and be part of the discussion. You can attend in person or virtually. See below for more details or go to https://www.canberra.edu.au/events/Home/Event/410827

14.01.2022 We're excited to announce the launch of Poetry on the Move Online, a major event for the CCCR in 2020. Hosted between June and November, the festival involves monthly contributions from three online poets in residence, Vahni Capildeo from Trinidad/UK, Yeow Kai Chai from Singapore and Lisa Brockwell from Australia, as well as a series of free workshops run by poets Owen Bullock, Subhash Jaireth, Lucy Alexander and Melinda Smith, and the 'Well-known Corners' project with monthl...y readings and the opportunity for participants to submit their own poetry. The festival offers the chance to reflect on the many challenges of 2020 through creative expression, and hear from experienced creative voices via the video readings or the Poetry on the Move podcast. Find out how to get involved at https://www.poetryonthemove.net/ or read more at https://mailchi.mp//the-university-of-canberras-poetry-on- See more

14.01.2022 Huge congratulations to CCCR members Alison Wain and Asti Sherring for having a paper published in Studies in Conservation! Changeability, Variability and Malleability: Sharing Perspectives on the Role of Change in Time-based Art and Utilitarian Machinery Conservation - what a fantastic start to 2021! Read the article here: https://www.tandfonline.com//full/10/00393630.2020.1860672



12.01.2022 If your research involves working with galleries, libraries, archives or museums, you should come along to Tim Sherratt's Hacking Heritage intensive workshop, where he will introduce you to his GLAM Workbench designed to help researchers do more with digital collections. The GLAM Workbench is a series of fantastic tutorials and tools that allow researchers to explore collections in innovative ways. You'll learn how to use Jupyter notebooks to explore existing collections or develop your own notebooks for your GLAM institution's collections. This course is available to everyone and requires no advanced coding skills to participate! https://www.canberra.edu.au/a/shortcourses/hacking-heritage

11.01.2022 We're thrilled to announce the 2020 Donald Horne Creative and Cultural Fellows - Kirsten Krauth, Tim Napper and Olga Walker. Their work ranges from the legacy of Australian 80s music to scifi noir in the face of COVID-19 to the 2019/20 bushfire crisis, and we couldn't be more excited to follow their work! Read more about these fantastic projects here https://www.canberra.edu.au//faculty-/cccr/research/dhccfs

09.01.2022 The UC Faculty of Arts & Design at the University of Canberra provides a vibrant research culture in the fields of Arts, Humanities, Design, Communication, Architecture and Built Environment. We offer undergraduate, honours, and postgraduate levels across all our disciplines. The Faculty is the home of two globally recognised research centres Centre for Creative & Cultural Research and News & Media Research Centre and a multidisciplinary research group Built Environment... Research & Innovation Group. Our second annual FAD Research Festival 2020 will showcase the state-of-the-art research that our researchers and higher degree of research students are conducting, through online presentations and workshops. Register for events by heading to https://www.canberra.edu.au//research/fad-research-festival or go to Eventbrite and search #FADFest20.

09.01.2022 Want to be a museum conservator? Start your journey with UC's Graduate Certificate in Heritage Material Conservation this Feb with a government supported place. Lab and site sessions teach you to assess the significance and condition of heritage items and develop and carry out a treatment plan. Find out more at http://bit.ly/UC-GradCertHMC

08.01.2022 Hi all; the journal Axon: Creative Explorations is inviting submissions to a new issue called Poetry as Speculation. We're interested in articles that explore p...oetic expression and form, and how it operates as a mode of speculation. Full details at https://axoncreativeexplorations.submittable.com//poetry-a We invite you to submit an abstract by 8 Feb, and then a full paper by 24 May, for peer review, and then publication in June/July. To get a feel for the range of material Axon publishes, please check out earlier issues at https://axonjournal.com.au/ See more

08.01.2022 Our "Scholar of Compost" Dr Bethaney Turner was on ABC Radio's The Sunday Brunch with Kim Huynh to talk about the appreciation of compost and its connection between the environment and one another. LISTEN HERE - Bethaney's Talk starts around 1hr 8min: https://www.abc.net.au//sundaybrunch/sunday-brunch/13356048

06.01.2022 Arts and Humanities offer so much more than our government will acknowledge. We support our colleagues and students here and across Australia.

06.01.2022 A huge congratulations to CCCR Research Fellow Dr Ursula Frederick on her exciting ARC Special Research Initiative 2020 project Archives in Bark. The project is a cross-institutional initiative led by Professor Susan O’Connor (ANU), with CI Professor Jane Balme (UWA), CI Dr Ursula Frederick (UC) and CI Ms Melissa Marshall (University of Notre Dame) working together with Kimberley-based communities to document and contextualise Indigenous and non-Indigenous carvings and inscriptions on ancient Australian boab trees (Adansonia gregorii) growing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

05.01.2022 Huge congratulations to Dr Patrick Mullins, winner of the 2020 National Biography Award! His entry 'Tiberius with a Telephone: the life and stories of William McMahon' was completed with the support of a CCCR Donald Horne Fellowship. Listen in on the award announcements here: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/national-biography-award

05.01.2022 Today's CCCR Seminar was presented by Jordan Williams and Ian Drayton on their work in creative arts, trauma and wellbeing, including their regeneration project which made the news in March.

04.01.2022 THERE IS STILL TIME TO REGISTER FOR TODAY'S SEMINAR! Come along this afternoon to hear from two of our members, Jordan Williams and Ian Drayton, about developing a research strength in creativity and wellbeing. Head over to our Twitter (link below) to contact Jess Western for details.

03.01.2022 The 2020 Festival of Creativity kicks off this Thursday with a session by Ross Gibson and Denise Thwaites: How to use Stories to Create Plans in Messy Situations. Four free sessions over four weeks aimed at provoking curiosity, playfulness and creativity in responses to real world problems, jointly hosted by Ainslie and Gorman Arts Theatres, Canberra Innovation Network, PWC, Lightbulb and UC FAD. Join in and get inspired: https://cbrin.com.au/FoC2020

02.01.2022 On 24th June, CCCR Donald Horne Fellow Kirsten Krauth will be discussing her book 'Almost a Mirror' with Ginger Gorman in an event hosted by Wednesday Night Book Club. Join in for a fascinating chat! Registration is free.

01.01.2022 Join us 5 - 6 Nov for MoneyLab #X - Economythologies, organised by CCCR member Denise Thwaites and Nancy Mauro-Flude! Take part in a live studio audience for the showcase of experimental thinking, making and doing, conjuring and questioning the myths that underpin global finance and economy today. Free registration. Developed in collaboration with researchers from Western Sydney University, RMIT, ANU and The Institute of Network Cultures (NL), with the support of Ainslie+Gorman Arts Centres, Bett Gallery and Despoinas Media Coven. Find out more at https://economythologies.network/ or register at https://pretix.eu/Economythologies/MLX2020/

01.01.2022 Will Covid kill the bra? What kinds of art will people make post-pandemic? What are we eating, buying and decorating our homes with during this highly unpredictable year? Jordan Williams discusses the ways our day to day experiences with culture are being impacted by the pandemic on The Briefing - listen in here: https://www.podcastoneaustralia.com.au//post-pandemic-cult

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