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Creative Art Therapy Australia (CATA) provides mental health support programs for all people, including neuro, physical, gender, and culture diverse people.

CATA empowers and impacts the lives of people living with trauma or adverse experiences. We provide mental health triage, recovery, support, prevention, acute care, and complex needs processes for children, adolescents, and adults. CATA delivers face-to-face and outreach services (traveling to people), with flexible door-to-door delivery in ways that work best for the individual’s mental health goals and needs
We produce safe, creative, and thriving environments to foster growth and development. Only qualified registered Creative Arts Therapists and Psychotherapists work for/with CATA. CATA is aligned and partnered with local hospitals, hospices, schools, and organisations working with people facing adversity. CATA focuses on integrity and respect for all people.

27/10/2026

Tomorrow night.

12 years of Creative Art Therapy Australia creating meaningful change through creative arts therapy, we’ll come together to mark the beginning of something new: the official launch of the BlueSky Foundation.

What began with one little boy grew into a program that has supported more than 731 families navigating life-limiting illness, grief, and end-of-life.

One little boy changed everything.

Tomorrow, we begin writing the next chapter together.

The BlueSky Foundation is being established to help create the long-term capacity for this work to continue and grow, supporting family-centred therapeutic care, research, workforce development, advocacy and service expansion across Australia.

Join us for an evening of art, generosity, connection and shared purpose, alongside people who believe children and families deserve meaningful support through some of life’s most profound experiences.

📍 ZINCTT Studios

📅 29 October 2026

🎨 Live Art Auctions

🎵 Entertainment by DJ Freddy Fuze

Come ready to connect, celebrate what has already been built, and help create what comes next.

Tomorrow night, a new chapter begins.

🎟️ Tickets:https://lnkd.in/gKdbdt5k

25/10/2026

Every child deserves the opportunity to author their story.

That isn’t just a sentence.

It’s a belief.

A belief that a child should still be seen as a child when illness enters their life.

A belief that families deserve opportunities for connection when everything else is changing.

A belief that grief doesn’t need to be removed to be supported.

A belief that healthcare can care for the person, not only the condition.

And a belief that the moments created while people are still here can become part of a family’s legacy.

This is why BlueSky Foundation is being created.

Not because the Blue Sky Program has finished.

Because the need continues to grow.

On 29 October, we’re bringing together the people who want to help build that future.

We hope you’ll be one of them.

Tickets are only $145. This is more than the launch of a Foundation.

It is an invitation to stand behind a future where children and families are supported through some of life’s most profound experiences, and to become part of building the capacity to ensure that support can continue and grow.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-AU/ticketing/blue-sky-foundation-launch

22/10/2026

In one week, we’ll open the doors to the inaugural launch of the Blue Sky Foundation.

And we want the room to be full.

Full of people who believe children are more than their diagnosis.

Full of people who believe families deserve connection alongside clinical care.

Full of people who want to help build a future where every child facing a life-limiting condition has the opportunity to author their story.

You’ll enjoy an evening of beautiful food and drinks, live and silent auctions, meaningful conversations and a few surprises.

But the most important thing in the room will be the people.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-AU/ticketing/blue-sky-foundation-launch

If you haven’t secured your place, now is the time.

One week.

One room.

One important beginning.

22/10/2026

What if one meaningful night came with one brilliant surprise? 💎

Join us for the launch of the Blue Sky Foundation—an evening where art, generosity and purpose come together to create brighter possibilities for children and families.

And to make the night even more unforgettable, one guest will have the chance to win a stunning 1-carat diamond.

📅 Thursday, 29 October 2026
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 ZINCTT Studios

Come for the impact. Stay for the sparkle.

Get your tickets now!
https://www.zeffy.com/en-AU/ticketing/blue-sky-foundation-launch

18/10/2026

His story didn’t end in that hospital room.

It lives in hundreds of families.

It lives in the Blue Sky Program.

And now it lives inside the Foundation being established in his name.

The Blue Sky Foundation will help create long-term investment in family-centred therapeutic care, research, workforce development, advocacy and service expansion across Australia.

Because one program can support families.

A Foundation can help create the sustainability to support generations of families.

This is the next chapter.

And on 29 October, we’re opening it together.

Come for the celebration.
Come for the connection.
Come because you believe families deserve more.
Come because you want to help build what comes next.

Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-AU/ticketing/blue-sky-foundation-launch

This is more than the launch of the Blue Sky Foundation. It's the continuation of over 700 childrens legacys.

15/10/2026

SAVE THE DATE 💙

On 29 October 2026, we invite you to join us at ZINCTT Studios for the official launch of the BlueSky Foundation.

BlueSky is built on a simple belief: every child deserves the opportunity to remain themselves, stay connected to the people they love, and continue authoring their story, even through some of life’s most profound experiences.

This launch marks the beginning of what comes next: building the long-term capacity for more children and families across Australia to access specialised creative therapeutic support alongside clinical care.

Join us for an evening of art, generosity and shared purpose, featuring:

Live Art Auctions at ZINCTT Studios Gallery and Event Space
Entertainment by DJ Freddy Fuze

📅 29 October 2026
📍 ZINCTT Studios

Get your tickets via https://www.zeffy.com/en-AU/ticketing/blue-sky-foundation-launch

All donations of $2 or more are tax deductible.

11/10/2026

One little boy became more than 731 family stories.

Children facing life-limiting illness are still brothers and sisters.

Still sons and daughters.

Still storytellers.

Still full of humour, imagination, opinions, friendships and dreams.

Yet when serious illness becomes the dominant narrative, something can quietly disappear:

Identity.

Every child deserves the opportunity to continue being the author of their own story.

Not because creativity changes the outcome.

Because it can change the experience.

A painting can become a conversation.
A shared creation can strengthen a relationship.
A story can become a memory.
A moment can become part of a family’s legacy.

This is what BlueSky stands for.

On 29 October, we invite you to join us for the official launch of the Blue Sky Foundation - established to create the long-term capacity for more children and families across Australia to receive this specialised support beyond clinical care.

This is more than the launch of a Foundation.

It is an invitation to stand behind a future where children and families are supported through some of life’s most profound experiences, and to become part of building the capacity to ensure that support can continue and grow.

Join us at ZINCTT Studios for an evening of art auctions, generosity, and shared purpose that brings together people willing to build what comes next.

An evening shared with: https://www.zeffy.com/en-AU/ticketing/blue-sky-foundation-launch

Live Art Auctions at ZINCTT Studios Gallery and Event Space.
Entertainment by DJ Freddy Fuze.

All Donations of $2.00 or more are tax-deductible.

08/10/2026

One little boy became more than 731 family stories.

What began with one family became the Blue Sky Program.

Over the past 12 years, Creative Art Therapy Australia has supported more than 731 families navigating life-limiting illness, grief and end-of-life.

Different diagnoses.

Different cultures.

Different beliefs.

Different stories.

But again and again, families showed us the same thing:

People remember moments.

A handprint.

A shared painting.

A letter.

A song.

A final laugh.

These moments may seem small, but for families facing some of life’s most profound experiences, they can become part of what remains.

The Blue Sky Program was never designed to replace medical care.

It exists alongside it, creating space for connection, expression, identity and memory when families need it most.

And the need continues to grow.

That is why the BlueSky Foundation is being established: to build the long-term capacity needed to invest in family-centred therapeutic care, research, workforce development, advocacy and service expansion across Australia.

One little boy changed everything.

Now, 731 families later, we are asking what comes next.

The launch of the BlueSky Foundation is more than a celebration.

It is an invitation to help build a future where more children and families can access meaningful support through illness, grief and end-of-life, and where that support can continue to grow for years to come.

Join us on 29 October 2026 at ZINCTT Studios for an evening of art, generosity and shared purpose. Featuring :Live Art Auctions at ZINCTT Studios Gallery and Event Space; Entertainment by DJ Freddy Fuze.

RSVP:https://www.zeffy.com/en-AU/ticketing/blue-sky-foundation-launch

06/10/2026

We often think of legacy as something left behind after someone is gone.

But what if legacy begins while we’re still here?

A handprint.
A shared painting.
A letter.
A story.
A song.
A final laugh.
A conversation that otherwise may never have happened.

These are the moments families can carry with them.

For one family, creative arts therapy created space for six brothers to stay connected while their world was changing.

One brother created an imagined jungle called Poopaloo, where soldiers fought to protect his brother from unseen enemies.

To an outsider, it was a painting.

To his brother, it was hope.

To his family, it became a memory.

To CATA, it became evidence of what creative therapeutic care can make possible.

The Blue Sky Program has now supported more than 731 families navigating life-limiting illness, grief and end-of-life.

One family became hundreds.

And now, we’re building what comes next.

It is an invitation to stand behind a future where children and families are supported through some of life’s most profound experiences, and to become part of building the capacity to ensure that support can continue and grow.

Join us at ZINCTT Studios for an evening of art auctions, generosity and shared purpose that brings together people willing to build what comes next.

An evening shared with:

Live Art Auctions at ZINCTT Studios Gallery and Event space.
Entertainment by DJ Freddy Fuze.

All Donations of $2.00 or more are Tax Deductible.
RSVP: https://www.zeffy.com/en-AU/ticketing/blue-sky-foundation-launch

05/10/2026

He had bright blue hair, six brothers and a love of creating.

In June 2014, a CATA artist was on her way to see him at Monash Children’s Hospital.

She was five minutes away from his room when he died.

His family was with him.
She was just outside.
When she looked up, the sky was impossibly blue.

She would never hear him say her name, but the time she had spent with him had already changed something.

In the days before his death, creativity had become a way for six brothers to stay connected.

Paint carried conversations that were difficult to put into words.

Stories gave them somewhere to go beyond illness.

And even as his life was becoming smaller, he was still creating, still choosing, still imagining and still telling his story in his own way.

That is where BlueSky began.

Not as an idea for a Foundation, but as a reminder of what creativity can give a child and a family when words are no longer enough.

On 29 October, we’ll officially launch the BlueSky Foundation and begin the next chapter of that story.

RSVP / Tickets:
https://lnkd.in/gKdbdt5k

Address

135 Station Street
Melbourne, VIC
3078

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm

Website

http://www.cata.org.au/

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