Dear wonderful AHNNA 2025 members and colleagues,

It’s time for an Arts Health Network NSW/ACT update!

We’ve been working behind the scenes to update our systems as well as our website. This means smoother processes for people to apply for membership, pay their $25 membership fee and submit articles for our blog. You can reach us easily at artshealthnetworkahnna@gmail.com.

Now that the systems are ready, members are about to receive instructions for how to create their member Profile for the AHNNA website! The guide will be sent this week to all paid members.

Mark your calendars and download and import this calendar hold! The AHNNA partnership with the ‘HeArts of Care’ node at the Sydney Policy Lab is offering you three events in June, July and August.

– In June, we will hold an online webinar to discuss the state of arts and health policy in Australia.

– On 1 July, the node will officially launch in Western Sydney.

– On 27 August, we are offering a free, full day of policy and leadership capacity building for our sector! Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from effective policy leaders, take a masterclass with our foremost practitioners, and help build a national policy agenda for our sector for the future.

Online attendance is available for those who live outside Sydney. Places are limited so please register your interest to attend AT THIS LINK and let us know who you would love to hear from.

Meantime, join us with partner SPHERE-in-the-know to connect with the SPHERE arts and health lunch and learn series. If you are interested in presenting, you can contact the SPHERE team via their website.

And please let us know if you have projects or events or reports or outcomes that you would like to share by emailing artshealthnetworkahnna@gmail.com and we can distribute on our socials.

We looking forward to seeing you at one of these events soon.

Warmly yours,

Claire Hooker

AHNNA President 2025

Image credit: Unsplash

 

Posted by Elyssa Sykes-Smith.
  • Dr Claire Hooker, Senior Lecturer, Health and Medical Humanities; Director, Bioethics program, Sydney Health Ethics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, and AHNNA President 2025.
  • Elyssa Sykes-Smith is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and climate psychology researcher, and Media Officer at AHNNA.