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Art has a unique ability to make us stop and pay attention. Through music, paintings, poetry, literature, and other creative media, artists have always tapped into societal shifts, presenting work that challenges the status quo, inspires critical thinking, and helps us ask better questions. 

Propelled by Khaled Sabsabi's Between Suns exhibition at Vessel Contemporary, this session explores the essential role of the arts in a functioning democracy and an active, healthy society.

Join us for a lively Sunday morning conversation that examines the case for investing money, time, and energy into the arts at a moment when it feels there are more urgent items on the agenda. Then, we invite you to put art through its paces on a playful tour of all the vital parts we forget art holds in our lives.

Art can be a teacher, a balm, a rebel, a portal, a lighthouse, a looking glass… come see what’s possible when we take it just seriously enough.

Speakers and facilitators:

• Kate Hulett, Freo community-builder

• Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa OAM, CEO, Blue Room Theatre

• Dr Francis Russell, Freelance art critic and trade union official

• Aden Date, Director at Only The Human