⚡ 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...

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

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 linktr.ee/DiversityArt...

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...

✨ 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...

✨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-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 linktr.ee/DiversityArt...

🎭 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...

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-...

⚡ 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...

🖌️ Ready to change practices, challenge barriers and advocate for equity in the arts? Take the Racial Equity Quiz to get started: www.antiracism.art/ 📷 Challenge systems poster illustrated by Judy Kuo

📣 Quick Arts Opportunities & Events Shout-Out: -> Screen NSW - Crew Development Program | Apply by 14 Jan -> CuriousWorks - Community Arts Senior Creative Producer | Apply by 2 Feb -> Contemporary Asian Australian Performance - LACRIMA - Ticket ballot closes 11 Jan linktr.ee/DiversityArt...

🌵 Raw dissonant voices from the deep of the Mexican desert. Listen to artist Deni Dominguez on the combined power of music and dance: youtu.be/SVVuYptyyRw

📣 Quick Arts Opportunities & Events Shout-Out: -> The Parramatta Play Project | Apply by 11 Jan -> Creative Voices for Human Rights: A Stage Showcase of Muslim Storytellers | 29 Jan For more info, visit: linktr.ee/DiversityArt...

🎆 Happy New Year! Thank you for your incredible support. As we step into the year ahead, help us continue championing equity in the arts. Support Diversity Arts in the new year by donating here: diversityarts.org.au/about/get-in...

🎧 Listen now! The Colour Cycle podcast dives deep into leadership, courage & creativity. Dr Görkem Acaroğlu chats with arts powerhouse Deborah Williams OAM on 30+ years of forging her own path: diversityarts.org.au/the-colour-c...

⚡ If you’re a creative worker or organisation committed to racial & cultural equity in the creative sector, the Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN) is your space. Join our national online roundtables in 2026—building support & advocacy for change: diversityarts.org.au/project/crea...

🎨 How to be anti-racist in the arts: Learn how racism works. Honour marginalised perspectives. Take the free Racial Equity Quiz—a tool for reflection, dialogue & learning for individuals and organisations: www.antiracism.art/ 📷 Educate yourself poster art illustrated by Judy Kuo

📣 Quick Arts Opportunities & Events Shout-Out: -> Art Against War | Apply by 16 Jan 2026 📍Refugee Art Project, Thirning Villa -> Pari Ari Program Call-Out 2026/27 | Apply by 27 Jan 2026📍Pari, Parramatta For more info, visit: linktr.ee/DiversityArt...

🎧 In this episode of “Where We Are Now,” Season 7 of The Colour Cycle Podcast, we’re joined by game-changing Hip Hop artists from Australia and the UK: diversityarts.org.au/project/the-...

🕊️ Throwback to the Australian Human Rights Awards! It was an honour for Diversity Arts to be named a 2025 finalist. We wish everyone a safe holiday season: mailchi.mp/diversityart...

🎪🎭 How can art empower underrepresented communities? Dereje Dange, Co-Founder & Artistic Director of Fekat Circus (Ethiopia) talks social change. Watch the Imagine Talk: Transforming Communities: www.youtube.com/watch Imagine case studies: creativeequitytoolkit.org/topic/organi...

🎥 On International Migrants Day, watch artists reflect on what it means to really 'emerge.' The Breaking and Entering: Culturally Diverse ‘Emerging’ Artist Panel: www.youtube.com/watch

Our strength lies in our shared ethics of care for one another including our differences – cultural, religious and communal. Together, we are stronger: diversityarts.org.au/statement-of...

✨ Join us online for the Australian Human Rights Awards tonight! The ceremony will be livestreamed via Zoom from 6.30pm AEDT. We're so thankful to be a finalist for the 2025 Australian Human Rights Awards: humanrights.gov.au/about-us/hum...

📣 Quick Arts Opportunities & Events Shout-Out: -> The Return Play by Ala’a Al Qaisi | 1 - 21 Dec 2025 📍PYT Fairfield -> Garrigarrang Badu – Peta Strachan & Jannawi Dance Clan | 9 - 10 Jan 2026 | Presented by ACE📍Sydney Opera House linktr.ee/DiversityArt...

⚖️ Thank you to all the creatives and arts workers who joined us for the final 2025 Shifting the Balance Leadership Program Professional Development Days! We were honoured to co-host industry excursions to the Sydney Opera House and DARTS: diversityarts.org.au/wrap-up-2025...

💫 Diversity Arts is proud to support the launch of Love! Sweatshop Literacy Movement's new anthology celebrating every shade of love. Join the launch at Better Read Than Dead on 11 Dec 2025. Register now: diversityarts.org.au/event/the-lo... 💜 Love is out now at all good bookstores!

✨ We’re delighted to welcome two new members to the Diversity Arts Australia Board: Melina Talanis and Dr Bilquis Ghani: diversityarts.org.au/media-releas...

🎇 Shout-out to DARTS Board member Dr Bilquis Ghani, who delivered an inspiring opening talk on our Anti-Racism & The Arts campaign at the Human Rights in the Arts Symposium—part of Utp’s Another World Festival on 14 November 2025 www.antiracism.art/

🏆 We’re excited to share that the Anti-Racism & The Arts website has been named an award winner for the 2025 LearnX Awards! Shout-out to our website collaborators, Wordology and Studio Thing! Learn more: www.antiracism.art/

🌿 Thank you for joining us for the Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN) On The Road: Canberra last week! A symposium presented by Diversity Arts Australia and University of Canberra Join our online national roundtables in 2026: diversityarts.org.au/project/crea...

✨️ Don't miss the last in-person Dream Collective gathering for 2025! Join our Dream Collective friends for a space to celebrate First Nations and culturally diverse women in the media & the arts: events.humanitix.com/the-dream-co...

🌿It was an honour for DARTS’ Carolina Triana Cuéllar & Simone A Jordan to present the Anti-Racism & The Arts Campaign Posters at Anti-Racism Conference at Western Sydney University in early Nov Book a free session on How to Be Anti-Racist in the Arts: antiracism.art

💫 Diversity Arts is proud to support the launch of @sweatshopws' new anthology, Love! Join the launch @BRTDbookshop on 11 Dec, 6:30–8pm. Register now: diversityarts.org.au/event/the-lo... 💜 Love is out at all good book stores from Dec 1!

💫 Be part of our Creative Cultural Diversity Network (CCDN) Canberra Roundtable—highlighting strengths, addressing challenges, and brainstorming solutions. Facilitated by Carolina Triana-Cuellar (DARTS). 📅 Nov 27–28: bit.ly/CCDN-canberr...

🤝 Sharing, Solidarity & Advocacy. A session for Canberra-based CaLD/CaRM artists, People of Colour, and those from Bla(c)k, migrant or refugee backgrounds. Join the Learning Circle with Simone A Jordan 📅 Nov 27–28: bit.ly/CCDN-canberr...

🎶 Experience GlowLing, Canberra’s first traditional Chinese music band! Immerse yourself in the sounds of the Erhu, Pipa, Guzheng & Dizi. 💫 📅 Nov 27–28 Catch them at CCDN On The Road: Canberra Register: bit.ly/CCDN-canberr...

📣 Quick Arts Opportunities & Events Shout-Out: ✨ Cosmic Connections — 40 years of ACE! 22 Nov 2025, 4–10pm AEST 📍ACE ✨ First Nations Artist Residency Program — Apply by 30 Nov 2025 📍 Alfred Street Artists’ Studios, North Sydney Council linktr.ee/DiversityArt...

🔥 Join us for the Axon Hunar Special Issue Launch! Dr Eduardo Guerra & Dr Bilquis Ghani discuss themes from Hunar’s symposium on artistic responses to conflict, crisis & colonisation. 💫 Plus: CCDN On The Road: Canberra — Nov 27–28. 👉 Register: bit.ly/CCDN-canberr...

📢 We’re thrilled that the Anti-Racism & The Arts website has been named a finalist in the 2025 LearnX Awards! Book a free workplace session on How to Be Anti-Racist in the Arts, created by artists and arts workers. Empower your team to take action: www.antiracism.art/

📚 Uyghur Resistance: Connecting Diaspora through Community Based Publishing Explore community-based storytelling & publishing, and the importance of reclaiming complex cultural narratives for diasporic communities, including Uyghur Resistance @UniCanberra @uc_cccr bit.ly/CCDN-canberr...