Latest News & Updates from the Collective
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On Tuesday, our Lived Experience Advisory Group gathered at Arts Centre Melbourne for a day of future planning.
- June 22, 2023
- News
The Arts Wellbeing Collective has paired up with five Australian performing artists to create Digital Shorts – bite sized videos on some of our most requested topics!
- March 7, 2023
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The Arts Wellbeing Collective has joined LinkedIn! Staying up to date with us is now easier than ever.
- December 2, 2022
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Introducing our Lived Experience Advisory Group plus New Mental Health Matinees for Alter State festival
- November 30, 2022
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We’ve extended our engagement survey to Sunday 8 May 2022. We’d love to hear from you!
- April 26, 2022
- Interactive
We Are Lonely is a podcast that seeks to demystify loneliness by revealing it in iconic music, film, and art.
- April 26, 2022
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We are currently undertaking strategic planning and engagement to help shape the Collective’s goals and priorities for the next three years. And we want to hear from you!
- April 26, 2022
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While we all experience change and uncertainty in different ways, it’s fair to say the new year has not kicked off how many of us in the performing arts industry might have hoped.
- April 26, 2022
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As 2021 draws to a close, we extend a huge thank you to everyone in the performing arts community and to all our contributors, members, and supporters.
- December 21, 2021
- Interactive
Former Arts Wellbeing Collective Head of Program, Tracy Margieson, speaks to Patternmakers Managing Director Tandi Palmer Williams, host of the Theory of Creativity podcast
- December 9, 2021
- Patternmakers
- News
As mercurial Melbourne moves into the warmer weather at last, signs of life are returning and there are green shoots everywhere.
- December 10, 2021
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October is Mental Health Month – this time last year we launched SOUND MIND a beautiful music and conversation series exploring mental health and the performing arts during the enduring impacts of COVID-19.
- October 21, 2021
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Our friends at TNA hosted an information session to explain the criteria and talk you through the application process.
- October 13, 2021
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We’re thrilled to announce that Support Act's COVID-19 Crisis Relief Grants are now open to applications for performing arts workers via the website.
- August 23, 2021
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If you’re feeling like your energy and emotions are all over the place – you’re not alone.
- October 21, 2021
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Deeply immersive and engaging, Power Up! combines bold artistic elements with movement, music and voice to shift the viewer’s energy from isolation and separation towards expansion, fun, and renewed creative connection.
- July 8, 2021
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Take time to rest, and attend to your own needs – when we are rested and able to support our own needs and each other, we can look up and ahead at the future we’re creating together.
- August 13, 2021
- Interactive
Arts Wellbeing Collective Project Coordinator, Matt Heyward, speaks to Emily Tresidder, host of the podcast, How Do You Do That?
- June 18, 2021
- Joy
- In the Media
How do mental health professionals change their approach when working with artists? In a recent panel discussion, psychologists looked at key mental health issues in the performing arts.
- July 1, 2021
- ArtsHub
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We simply cannot know what’s actually going to happen next. Our industry is – yet again – demonstrating unbelievable capacity and capability to move with rapid changes.
- June 18, 2021
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As we transition towards COVIDSafe settings, we’ve seen our theatre capacities slowly increase from 0% to 100%. But, unlike our theatre capacities, we might have gone from 0% to 100% very quickly!
- May 14, 2021