Diversity Arts Australia (DARTS) invites you and a colleague to the 2025 Shifting the Balance of Leadership Masterclasses! Sessions are open to arts workers, creatives and mid-career leaders from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds (people of Colour, Black people, migrants, refugees and people from culturally and racially marginalised backgrounds) in NSW’s arts and cultural sectors.
Delivered by DARTS, TAFE NSW and other partners, the program targets arts / cultural workers / leaders (eg. mid-career producers, managers, curators, programmers, publishers or directors), aiming to deepen their knowledge and skills and support them both in and towards leadership roles.
⏰ Dates: Attendees are encouraged to attend all sessions but can also choose sessions according to their availability. In-person and online tickets available:
NEW DATES: MASTERCLASSES LED BY DR AMRIT VERSHA
Topics: Advocacy & Change Management
- Thursday, May 29 (6-8pm)
- Thursday, June 5 (6-8pm)
📍 Location: PHIVE, 5 Parramatta Square, Parramatta NSW 2150 (5 min walk from station)
🎟 Register early! Tickets by donation – we warmly encourage you to contribute what you can. If cost is a concern, please don’t hesitate to join us via a free ticket registration —your participation is truly valued, and we don’t want financial circumstances to be a barrier.
For in-person tickets, seating is limited to 20 spots per session, so kindly confirm your attendance only if you're certain you can join us, to ensure spots are available for everyone.
💡 Suggested donations:
- $25 for waged individuals
- $60 for organisational representatives
✅ ♿ Wheelchair accessible. In-person attendance is prioritised for interactive learning. Online captioned Zoom webinar tickets are also available for accessibility.
🔹 Shifting the Balance Leadership Program by Diversity Arts Australia is supported by Create NSW, City of Parramatta, City of Sydney, Creative Australia, and TAFE NSW.
Diversity Arts Australia acknowledges the First Peoples of the lands on which we work, the Burramattagal people of the Dharug Nation. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded. We recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters and their ongoing custodianship. It is untenable to talk about migration and race in Australia without contextualising it within the colonisation and dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We seek to be guided in all our work by First Peoples’ leadership, recognising the immense value that First Nations artists and cultural workers create within the arts and cultural landscape.
Image credit: Shifting the Balance Leadership 2025 & 2024 masterclass participants.