Creative Asia is an arts management consultancy focused on building cross-cultural collaborations between Australia and China. It was founded in January 2010 by Hannah Skrzynski. Hannah is an arts manager with extensive experience working in the Australia – China cultural field, and is a Mandarin speaker.
Hannah previously spent three and a half years living in Beijing, working on major cultural events including the Beijing International Literary Festival and 2008 Beijing Olympics, and as Senior Culture and Public Affairs Officer at the Australian Embassy Beijing.
From 2009-2010, Hannah coordinated the Australian Embassy in Beijing’s cultural program in China, as well as advising Australian and Chinese arts organization’s on bilateral cultural exchanges.
In early 2010, Hannah returned to Sydney to found the consultancy Creative Asia as a key channel for connecting Chinese and Australian arts organizations to mount events internationally, and building cross-cultural collaborations and exchange between the two countries. Creative Asia collaborates with individual artists, arts organisations and government agencies to produce new cross-cultural events across the contemporary arts.
Hannah also sits on the board of Performance 4A, and is Co-Chair of the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Advisory Committee. She is current Co-Director of the Australia-China Young Professionals Initiative, Sydney, and is a recipient of one of the inaugural Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, awarded by the Sidney Myer Foundation in 2011 to 12 artists and arts managers from across Australia.
