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2026 Craft + Design Canberra Festival Program
BOLD Dissent
12 – 13 November 2026 | Canberra Museum and Gallery
BOLD Dissent is a two-day conference featuring leading dancers, designers and thinkers from across Australia and the world bringing a focus on dissent. Shaking up the way we create and present performing arts and the ways in which organisations and artists can create more accessible and inclusive environments for the future.
SYMPOSIUM | Dissent by Design | Creativity as a Tool for Change
6 November 2026 | National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Dissent by Design explores creativity as a form of dissent: the ways artists, designers, activists and storytellers use their practice to resist, imagine and rebuild.