NEXUS QUESTIONS...
This years event took place in September 2025 and delved into areas of Youth Arts Practice.
We asked the following questions….
* How do we best care for practitioners, participants, and cultivate an equitable culture?
* Why does work with young people matter?
* Youth-Led: What does it look like and how do we do it well?
* What approaches and requisites result in meaningful creative work with young people?
An event bringing together regional arts organisations and freelancers to collectively address key questions identified during Year 1 of NEXUS. Insights included...
• Advocating for a more nuanced view of ‘Youth- Led’ work to celebrate collaboration/ co-creation.
• Good work results from having adequate time to listen to young people, to build solid relationships, trust, creativity and competence.
• Care for participants begins with care for practitioners, which includes fair payment and access to supportive peer communities.
• Creativity offers a broad range of personal and societal benefits that have become undervalued. Exposing young people to these benefits today offers hope for the future of arts practice and societal development.
Trauma informed
I’ve led the best sessions I’ve done in a while this week and that’s definitely thanks to the couple of days we all spent together.” - Phil Cross, Theatre Porto
“It made me more aware, and prompted further investigation into how I can influence policy to be trauma informed.” - Tavia Panton, Storyhouse
This 1 day training delivered by Kazzum Arts opened the 2 day event to culminate the first year of NEXUS. The NEXUS questions event followed this and was informed by this training.
Kazzum Arts led a group of artists through a thought-provoking day that helped frame what trauma informed practice is, the research that surround it as a practice and how to safely implement the ideas into our own practice.