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Wow, this has been a conference to remember! It was such an honour to give a keynote at the Australian Social Prescribing Institute of Research & Education #EACH24 conference & share insights from our ARC @creativechange0 at Griffith University on music, equity and arts-on-prescription

Thanks to Croakey News for citing our ARC @creativechange0 at Griffith University and picking up on some of my ASPIRE #EACH24 keynote points about arts, culture, equity & social prescribing in your story! croakey.org/as-we-face-a-s…

Bravo to our QMF team for delivering a spectacular Reef Trail on Yuwi Country this weekend! Between the tides & under the stars, we’ve been treated to two magical nights of music on Casuarina Beach at Cape Hillsborough. A huge shout out to the TOs, performers & crew!

On standby and ready to fly (virtually) to Finland for ISME’s Community Music Activities Commission! We’re sharing findings from our ARC @creativechange0 national mapping exercise involving 100+ community music programs creating social equity in Australian communities!

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Queensland Symphony Orchestra again & researching their Healthy Ageing initiative. This is an important pillar of QSO’s Health and Wellbeing Program, designed to provide hope, health and happiness in QLD communities through music Griffith University

A thought-provoking Annual Forum on Women & Homelessness yesterday. A shout out to The Lady Musgrave Trust for hosting this event & the phenomenal speakers for sharing your stories & wisdom. So many insights for our ARC @creativechange0, but also new programs we’re developing!

Led by Amunda Gorey & team, our article in the Sage Research Methods: Diversifying & Decolonizing Research series is out! We explore how you can achieve First Nations sovereignty & human rights through research partnership building & yarning interviews doi.org/10.4135/978152…

Our ARC @creativechange0 team love collaborative analysis, especially when it's creative and generative! We took another deep dive together yesterday, & our individual & collective insights on community music and social equity are generating some big stories! Watch this space!

It was such a pleasure to be interviewed by the ever-insightful and inspiring Prof @DeBanffy from the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf for the latest instalment the new International Journal of Community Music podcast series: youtu.be/qJ3Bo1Hs1YM?si…

We're loving working with Queensland Symphony Orchestra to understand the health & wellbeing benefits of their Healthy Ageing program. We spent a beautiful morning at Blue Care Mt Gravatt Respite Centre having tea & cake & chatting about music, health, happiness, & hope with this lovely group!

A phenomenal cultural experience at ITAC7 Conference in Aotearoa from the first karanga (call) we heard at the welcoming pōwhiri at Waipapa Marae to a deep day of cultural sharing in the Ngā Tauira Marae yesterday, where I got to play three pūkāea (Māori trumpets)! Thank you all.

What does social equity sound like? Yesterday our ARC team put on a beautiful concert, “Sounds of Creative Change” to explore this question! We invited audiences to listen deeply to the sounds that have shaped our research on community music and social equity in Australia.

Our latest article is out in Family & Community Health! In it we explore how intergenerational musical practices in diverse First Nations families may provide protective cultural, social, economic, educative, and professional determinants of health: journals.lww.com/familyandcommu…

How can music foster creative, place-based approaches to health promotion that support health equity? Our new article in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia tackles this question with insights from our ARC Creative Change Project research in Kurilpa  doi.org/10.1002/hpja.9…

Ready to fly (virtually) back to New York to speak on a panel about how music can help address the global loneliness epidemic for the UN’s Day of Older Persons! This session has been organized by the International Council For Caring Communities Fulbright Australia connections continue

How can we make the future of the arts more accessible? Today Morwenna Collett joined us at Griffith University for a brilliant talk on how the arts sector can include everyone in their work! Much food for thought for creative arts higher education [ID: attendees from today’s talk]

Proud of our ARC Creative Change Project team who sang up a storm at the National Health Promotion Symposium in Canberra! Em and Pearly showed that the best way to share our findings is to sing them, and when others join in they not only listen to our insights but feel them too.

Audiences were treated to a fantastic showcase of original music by our Qld Conservatorium pop music students last night! Congrats to the musicians, faculty, back & front of house crews! You put on an entertaining show full of energy & zest, as well as beautifully tender moments!

Proud of our QMF team for creating a stunning Long Sunset at Canungra’s Elysian Fields. 6,000 music lovers enjoyed the line up of artists including Matt Corby, Angie McMahon, Tamborine Mountain's own Blind Corners, Emma Donovan, Ngaiire, Sons of the East & more!

My heart & mind have been in Copenhagen for our 9th simm SIMM-posium! Deepest thanks to our hosts at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, our keynotes, scientific committee & presenters - your criticality, creativity, ethics & rigor have been inspiring to witness!