CEO REPORT
CuriousWorks, like all small to medium non-profit community arts organisations, delivers what we do off the good will, the hard work and the deeply purposeful commitment of a collective of humans (our staff and Management Committee). These humans are supported and complemented by the good will, hard work and deeply purposeful commitment of another collective of humans (our partners and collaborators). Together we turn public money (Government grants), earned revenue (fee for service income), and donations and in-kind contributions (thanks lovely friends/peers) into support for brilliant, creative humans and essential workers (artists), who then turn it into public good (things like: emotional resonance, new understanding, shared experiences, connection, belonging, social bonding, wellbeing etc. etc. etc.) for communities (more humans).
All of these humans individually have big, beautiful, ordinary, and sometimes difficult lives outside of this work. All of these humans individually and collectively have varying proximities to local and global crises. All of these humans have worked together to produce the programs, artworks, outcomes, impacts, etc. detailed in this annual report.
There is a lot to be proud of in our work this year (scroll through to read testimonials and see highlights reels that we love), but if there is one thing I am most proud of in 2025, it is that all of us, with all of our differences and our plural identities and lived experiences and proximities to so much conflict and division around us, worked together to create supported spaces where artists and communities could feel and experience good things.
I hope that as you read through our 2025 annual report, you can, like me, see the deeply human in our work, and that which can’t be captured by stats, graphics, and output metrics.
I am grateful to the staff for their grounded reflections on the year and am really proud to include them in this report below. I am grateful for their good work and feel privileged to witness and be a part of a lineage and culture at CuriousWorks, past and present, supporting growth and professional development in our little org, and in turn, supporting sector development and the sustainability of our arts ecology.
I’m grateful to the Management Committee for their time and expertise - they volunteer many hours to review and advise on things like employment law, insurances, risk mitigation, financial health, business and philanthropic development. I’m also grateful for the committee’s support and belief in the importance of investing reserves this year into a new senior role.
I’m grateful to our donors and supporters for their confidence in our work. And finally to our peers in the sector, for all the moments and sites of resistance and care we create together.
Kiriaki Zakinthinos, CEO
All of these humans individually have big, beautiful, ordinary, and sometimes difficult lives outside of this work. All of these humans individually and collectively have varying proximities to local and global crises. All of these humans have worked together to produce the programs, artworks, outcomes, impacts, etc. detailed in this annual report.
There is a lot to be proud of in our work this year (scroll through to read testimonials and see highlights reels that we love), but if there is one thing I am most proud of in 2025, it is that all of us, with all of our differences and our plural identities and lived experiences and proximities to so much conflict and division around us, worked together to create supported spaces where artists and communities could feel and experience good things.
I hope that as you read through our 2025 annual report, you can, like me, see the deeply human in our work, and that which can’t be captured by stats, graphics, and output metrics.
I am grateful to the staff for their grounded reflections on the year and am really proud to include them in this report below. I am grateful for their good work and feel privileged to witness and be a part of a lineage and culture at CuriousWorks, past and present, supporting growth and professional development in our little org, and in turn, supporting sector development and the sustainability of our arts ecology.
I’m grateful to the Management Committee for their time and expertise - they volunteer many hours to review and advise on things like employment law, insurances, risk mitigation, financial health, business and philanthropic development. I’m also grateful for the committee’s support and belief in the importance of investing reserves this year into a new senior role.
I’m grateful to our donors and supporters for their confidence in our work. And finally to our peers in the sector, for all the moments and sites of resistance and care we create together.
Kiriaki Zakinthinos, CEO