Creative Assembly Central NSW Inc. (CrACN), is a not-for-profit advocacy body for creatives, by creatives
Based in Dubbo, NSW, CrACN is run 100% by local volunteers who are current creatives or cultural practitioners. CrACN advocates for creative individuals and groups, within a 200km radius of Dubbo.
Bizzi Mason
Erifili Davis
Jack Randell
Kellie Jennar
Why The Creative Sector Is Important
What part of the economy employs more people than the mining and agriculture sectors combined? And contributes to Gross Value Added as much as the employment and training sector and almost twice that of the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector?
It is the creative economy.
The most recent accounting from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports cultural and creative activity plays an important role in Australia’s economy, growing to $115.8 billion in 2018–19, a 27.4 percent increase over the last 10 years, and contributing a six percent share of GDP.
The role of creative skills in the evolution of our future economy needs to become mainstream knowledge.
Creative skills are some of the least likely to be supplanted by automation and they have been integral to fast-growing industries over the last decade. Of the top five most innovation-active industries, between 10 and 28 percent of employees hold a creative qualification.
Data based on reports from: Report: The economic value of cultural and creative activity in 2018–19, by BCARR (Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research)
Excerpt above was published in CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia).
Services
We support, advocate for and promote the work of practicing creative individuals and groups, within a 200km radius of Dubbo
We champion the views and perspectives of creative practitioners in the region.
We champion the contribution of creative practitioners and the arts to the region and advocate their contribution to the social, economic, tourist, health and recreation development of the region.
We support and promote the provision of original cultural material and advocate for increased community engagement and access to such material.
We collaborate, share, critique, support, promote and encourage the work of creative practitioners. Encouraging the creation of a sector that is collegiate, fraternal and approachable.