'12 THREADS' was a performance event of three newly developed and commissioned Australian art songs which presented contemporary stories, perspectives and thoughts from diverse Australian female artists.

12 THREADS utilised an innovative curatorial technique where 12 artists from diverse disciplines were brought together to collaborate on three new musical and vocal works. The project moved against the dominant composition process where the composer is seen as the central author of new music. In this project, vocalists, instrumentalists, writers, and composers were all equal contributors to the scope, focus, themes, and final aesthetic of the songs. Initial workshops encouraged collaboration and cross-disciplinary knowledge. The project drew on three types of writer, with the musicians collaborating across forms including poetry, prose fiction, and playwriting. The performances were all pairs of one singer and one instrumentalist and the work contributes to the Australia repertoire for cello, flute and recorder.

In 2019 the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) and Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) collaborated with the UNE Museum of Antiquities (UNEMA) to create a regional festival event including public exhibitions and lectures, combined with a Classics research conference, to explore how Classics can engage researchers, school teachers, and the general public in a regional centre of learning, and work to ensure that Classics is neither the preserve of wealthy white elites nor a metropolitan privilege (Hall & Stead 2013; Lawrence 2018). Festival events included diverse public lectures on social revolution in the Roman Republic, Pagan and Christian architectural thought, Sudanese archaeology, and the dialogue between Classics and LEGO. The public exhibitions included a photographic exhibition on the New England region, the unveiling of an Ancient Egyptian sandal (the oldest shoe in Australia) accompanied by an exhibition on footwear, and an exhibition displaying together for the first time classical and archaeological books in the collections of the UNE Department of Classics, the UNE Heritage Centre, and Dixson Library Rare Books Collection. The public events were held concurrently with the ASCS Annual Conference, which brought over two hundred researchers in Classics, Ancient History, Museum and Reception Studies, and Archaeology to Armidale, and which for the first time was registered with NESA to provide an accredited professional development opportunity for NSW school teachers.

In the antique Roman calendar, February 4th was the official first day of spring and marked the recommencement of agricultural activity. In the revised ancient Roman calendar February 7th heralded the commencement of spring. In Armidale, February marks the change from stone fruit to apple season. Under these auspices, the UNE Museum of Antiquities (UNEMA) and Greenhills Orchards (an 8th generation family farm and the last remaining commmerical orchard in the New England), collaborated to create an interactive exhibition in 2D and 3D reflecting on the ancient and modern Art of Agriculture. Held in Armidale from 4-7th February 2019, the exhibition consisted of diorama recreating ancient Roman garlands of flowers and ox skulls (bucrania), intertwined with edible stone fruit from Greenhills Orchards. The diorama were accompanied by an original photographic display of agricultural life at Greenhills Orchard juxtaposed with excerpts from ancient Roman agricultural treatises, to provide a literary, pictorial, and gastronomic dialogue discussing the rhythm and values of agricultural life on the ancient and modern family farm.

Situated within Peace Studies' cultural peacebuilding & artistic activism areas, this multi-media art exhibition asked in what ways can surrealist/satirical art interrogate & illuminate contemporary eco-pax ambiguities & contradictions. It exemplified new & creative methods of explicating the synthesis & analysis of longitudinal emic participant-observer research into nonviolent action, civil disobedience & symbolic protest within environmental & peace (eco-pax) movements.