2025 Annual Torrance Lecture: Teresa AmabileThursday, October 2 at 4 PMUGA Please register to attend this free event: “A Labor of Love – Insights from a Creativity Research Program” Teresa M. Amabile is an internationally recognized researcher, writer,…
2026 Emerging Creatives Student Summit: “Rewilding: New Stories of Collective Wellbeing”March 5-8Michigan State Emerging Creatives is a three-day collaborative experience in which students form small cross-disciplinary teams to explore a specific area of the Summit’s theme. Over the course…
Quantifying the Arts in this Moment: A Community ConversationTuesday, September 16 at 4 This event is free and open to the public Please join a2ru for the second in a series of community conversations, following up on June 30’s…
Creating Knowledge in Common, Together: A Round TableFriday, September 26 from 1 to 3:30 The editors of “Creating Knowledge in Common”, the 2024 special edition of Ground Works focussed on university/community partnered arts integrative research, invite all those engaged…
Mapping Creative Futures: A Community ConversationMonday, June 30 at 2:30 Free and open to all Earlier this spring, when the a2ru Executive Committee drafted a statement about the effect of executive orders, one of many points we talked about…
Evolve in the African State of MindMultimedia installation by Nkululeko ZunguApril 28 – 30Lamar Dodd Building Room S390 Arts Collaborative Research Affiliate Nkululeko Zungu finds pleasure in exploring music from traditional Classical to modern Electronic. He writes: Music is a…
2025 a2ru ConferenceCall for a2ru’s next annual conference will take place October 23-25, 2025 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. This will be an in-person conference. This year’s theme, “Creative Futures: Driving Interdisciplinary Innovation Through the Arts,” explores…
Nature Writing as Ecologists: Literary Salon & Zine ReleaseTuesday, May 6 from 5-7 PMEcology Building room 117 Ecology graduate students will share original works of creative writing on the theme of “nature writing as ecologists.’” Come ready to listen, mingle,…
Zero Waste UGA Film Screening: The Cigarette SurfboardWednesday, April 23 from 5 to 7:30 PMCine, 234 W. Hancock Ave. Join Zero Waste UGA for a free screening of The Cigarette Surfboard and panel discussion with the filmmaker in a conversation…