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Arts Transforms Community

CAN creates positive social change through the arts, building inclusion and understanding between people.

For more than 30 years CAN has partnered with communities to share the histories and experiences that are unwritten or unspoken. This work breaks through the silence arising from systemic disempowerment and exposes the politics of fear by sharing, through art, participants’ daily acts of resistance and resilience that are essential to maintaining hope.

The creation of powerful artworks and experiences resonate deeply for the community and with the audiences they reach, far beyond where the work originated.

Cultural Awareness Day 2024 News Feature

Event

Cultural Awareness Day creates connection to Country

Immersing us in Noongar culture, CAN’s Cultural Awareness Day is part of our ongoing commitment to advocating for First Peoples’ self-determination.

12 March 2024

Project Highlights

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Hedland

Now Sounds

Now Sounds Hedland is an intercultural dance, music and digital media project working with young people from First Nations and multicultural communities in the Pilbara town of Hedland.

Belmont

Lullabies

CAN’s award-winning music, art and language program, Noongar Lullabies is coming to Belmont!

Hillview Hub

Hillview Community Art Project

The Hillview Intercultural Art Project is a community mural project that celebrates the unique multicultural ‘home’ and heritage of the City of Canning.

Documentary

Ngaluk Waangkiny

Ngaluk Waangkiny (Us Talking) follows the journey of a courageous group of Aboriginal Elders living on Whadjuk Noongar boodja as they fight for respect, recognition and acknowledgement from the City of Perth.

Art Highlights

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