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Creative Dialogues

Upcoming Creative Dialogues events

Saturday 20 June 2026
12:00 pm - 07:00 pm
A day of conversation and information sharing for creative practitioners.

 

About Creative Dialogues

Creative Dialogues is a series of free events with a focus on the arts and creative industries. It's about connecting through art, music and conversation.

Learn new approaches, grow your professional practice, upskill and connect through strategic partnerships and new collaborations.

Creative Dialogues is for everyone, and particularly young and emerging artists, arts workers, professional creatives, arts producers and anyone interested in our city's arts and culture.

Our most recent program in June 2025 included 14 free workshops, discussions, installations and live music in Port Kembla. You can catch up on some of these discussions in the 'recordings and podcasts' section below.

For more information about Creative Dialogues, call us on (02) 4227 7111 or email our Arts and Culture team.

Wollongong City Council is committed to providing access to Creative Dialogues for people with disability. Please tell us about your access needs when booking.

Creative Dialogues recordings and podcasts

When we can, we record our in-person sessions.

Explore previous recordings and podcasts below. You can also listen on iTunes or Spotify, or pick an episode below to learn more.

What are the tensions and responsibilities of truth telling, for the First Nations and non-First Nations artists and curators?
A discussion about collaborative relationships and creative solutions for studios and venues.
A panel discussion about how community supports art and creativity.
Author Shain Shapiro is joined by a panel to discuss how live music can make a city better.
Shain Shapiro PhD, one of the world’s leading music and cultural policy thinkers, talks about his book 'This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better'.
A wide-ranging and rambunctious conversation with some of the leading minds in emerging technologies, recorded in May 2024.
An exciting and important conversation held at Buckaroo Leatherworks in May 2024.
Listen to a discussion about how to de-cringe telling your story, recorded at Buckaroo Leatherworks on Saturday 18 May 2024.
A 2020 podcast about advancing the rights of, and opportunities for, people with disability.
A 2020 discussion about forging a career and thriving in the Australian literary industry.
What is the reality for professional musicians in Australia?
A 2020 podcast about producing, touring and exhibiting your content, and reaching the right audience.
A 2020 podcast that brings together contemporary dance leaders in conversation.
A 2020 podcast for creatives working with young children.
A 2020 session exploring experience and interaction design, programming electronics and collaborative multi-media creative practice.

Top image by Tim Baker