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Adelaide-based theatre company Brink Productions has announced the appointment of Trish Hansen as the company’s new Chair.

Hansen officially commences in the role on 16 February when longstanding Chair Stuart Symons retires after 10 years with the company.

A strategist and systems designer in the fields of health, wellbeing, arts and culture, Hansen founded Urban Mind Studio to contribute to enriching the creative and cultural life of people, places, neighbourhoods and cities. Hansen is a natural collaborator and complex systems thinker, and has provoked, pioneered and managed social enterprises, projects, programs and quests in the tertiary adult and paediatric health, urban arts and cultural sectors.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts