Cultural life and events

Cultural life is a key site for the production of cosmopolitan civil societies through leisure, recreation, the arts and tourism. Through cultural life, civil societies express and produce underlying structures of social meaning. Participation in cultural life, from family celebrations, the arts, to music festivals, to sporting carnivals and holiday celebrations, offer forms of awareness and connectivity that underpin cosmopolitan orientations. How these activities and events are organised and experienced, and what they produce economically and socially, are important areas for inquiry.

The Convenors are  Simon Darcy and  Deborah Edwards.

Projects include:

  • Visitor Accessibility In Urban Centres
  • Sport and Active Recreation: Disability Participation and Non Participation Study
  • Sydney For All
Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.