Engagement
The Academy of the Arts is open to engaging with the community, the creative industries and academic partners.
Please contact us at artsacademy@cdu.edu.au if you’d like to discuss ideas for collaboration.
Community and industry
The Academy of the Arts connects with numerous community and industry organisations. Some of our long-standing collaborators include the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, the Darwin Chorale and the Darwin Festival. We are in regular conversation with Arts NT, Music NT and Screen Territory.
Academic partners
Academics in CDU’s Academy of the Arts network with arts institutions and departments across Australia and internationally. We are keen to develop collaborations in teaching, research and creative practice.
Current projects
The StART Program
Getting started in the arts.
In 2023 the Academy of the Arts will engage with secondary schools and communities in the Northern Territory to provide introductory workshops and activities to deepen the connection between CDU creative staff and secondary school students, teachers and families. The aim is to promote the range of rewarding careers available in the creative sector in the NT and beyond and to clarify study pathways for young and emerging art students. This program is made possible through funds from the Higher Education Participation and Pathways Program (HEPPP).
Arts workshop available in the September/October school holidays.
Dates: 25 - 29 September 2023 (Monday to Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm)
Venue: Casuarina campus, Darwin (except for the dance, which will be held at Darwin Entertainment Centre, CBD)
Workshops are being planned in:
- contemporary dance
- contemporary music
- drama
- film
- musical theatre
- technical production
- visual arts.
For further information, contact: artsacademy@cdu.edu.au
Remix: a collaboration with Darwin Festival
Attack, decay, sustain, release. The language of music production and live performance resonates through visual arts practice. Remix is the amplification, distortion, attenuation, tone generator and audacity of a new generation of Visual Arts students within the Charles Darwin University Academy of the Arts.
A polyphonic paste-up of fluorescent Risographic posters, Remix is a multitimbral, dissonant chorus, sampled from texts, popular-culture and Creative Commons. Experience the work around Festival Lawn or join in a RISO workshop and create posters for the installation.