Celebrating Community, Creating Legacy
DATE: Friday 05th December, 2025. 9am – 4.30pm AEDT
LOCATION: Deakin Downtown, Melbourne, Victoria Level 12, Tower 2, 727 Collins St, Melbourne, 3008
As we wound up this challenging year, the creative practice research community gathered together for a day of enriching conversation, creative sharing and forward planning. Celebrating what makes the creative arts integral to our lives (academic and personal), this year’s Symposium focussed on empowering our members to remain vital in their practices and to their communities in these times when we need art more than ever. Conversations, panel presentations and workshop activities focussed on the question of sustaining and self-branding during this period of drastic change and upheaval.
Presented by Esther Anatolitis (Hon A/Prof, RMIT School of Art)
Presented by Meghan Kelly (Professor Visual Communication Design, Head of School – Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University)
Presented by Antonia Pont (Associate Professor Writing, Literature & Culture, Deakin University) and David Cross (Professor of Visual Arts, Deakin University)