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.
Towards Creative Schools Conference 2026
Our next on-campus event is our annual conference for educators and leaders in creative educational practice, taking place this year on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 February.
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 two February webinars, with Poetry in Action celebrating their 20th birthday, and then with Daisy Fancourt celebrating the launch of her new book Art Cure.
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 next Towards Creative Schools Conference, will be held on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 February 2026. 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. Join our mailing list to be notified when this year's lecture is announced.
email: create.centre@sydney.edu.au
