At the CREATE Centre we believe one of the most valuable things we can do is make sure everyone knows about the research and resources being generated around creativity, across disciplines and across the world. This is where you will meet the scholars, educators and artists who make up our community.
123Play
Keep your eye on this space for the announcement of our next on-campus event, a launch of the first findings to arise from our research partnership with the Matilda Centre. 123Play is an innovative inclusive program of pretend play that builds foundational social and emotional skills to improve wellbeing in our children. We will harness the power of play to equip children, parents and educators with lifelong skills. Find out all about the project here.
CREATE’s regular monthly webinars introduce distinguished experts, creative artists and community members to share new knowledge and lead provocative interdisciplinary discussions. Become a member to be notified about what’s coming up, and browse our YouTube channel for our huge catalogue of past presentations.
Find out more and book your place at our March webinar, where we'll be presenting the research findings from our years-long collaborative partnership with Barking Gecko Arts in Western Australia. Full details here.
We have also created a special series of webinars to help support Higher Degree Research students and Early Career Researchers working in creativity connect with others in the field and learn about new developments in methodologies. After the live events these continue to be available online here: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
Our Towards Creative Schools Conferences have been held for three years. This annual event represents a gathering for educators, policymakers, artists and academics committed to creative education. For leading practitioners in transformative learning, this is an intensive space for sharing, inspiring and building new work in the pedagogy of creativity.
Every year we play a role in establishing international events that create opportunites for global dialoge about creativity. This event was co-convened by the CREATE Centre, the New Victory Theatre and Roundabout Theatre, the symposium took place in New York over two days on 17-18 June 2025. Featuring a mix of practical workshops, incredible performances, critical discussions, and academic presentations, the symposium engaged teaching artists, theatre educators, policy makers, and practitioners. Together, we explored innovative practices, varied understandings of success, and theoretical and empirical frameworks that underpin this sector of theatrical practice, strengthening the CREATE Centre's place in a global network of creative institutions.
We hold Roundtables to bring experts across a particular field together to explore research opportunities and potential fresh partnerships.
Watch our Roundtable videos Adolescent Mental Health and the Arts and Youth Mental Health and the Arts Partnerships to learn more, and our playlist of expert panels discussing facets of creative support for education and health.
We host the annual Shakespeare Memorial Lecture, an event free and open to the public to hear from the most exciting practitioners of Shakespeare’s works. This series of lectures is also published in book form, which you can download for free. Join our mailing list to be notified when this year's lecture is announced.
email: create.centre@sydney.edu.au
