TURN OF EVENTS
Susan Armstrong and Michelle Grey are like the ultimate party planners you never knew you needed. The long-time friends and co-founders of Arts-Matter bring that elusive X factor that makes an evening sing, and their sought-after events nourish the brain as well as the body. Chadwick Models agent Joseph Tenni describes it as “edutainment”, while Camilla Franks summed it up during a recent Arts-Matter event: “Everyone is so sick of cocktails and canapés. People want to socialise with a purpose.”
The ‘P’ word is certainly on trend right now, but if Franks’s observation makes the Arts-Matter events sound a little worthy, they’re anything but. As the name suggests, Arts-Matter is built around the belief that culture and creativity are crucial to a thriving society and that the people passionate about these things enjoy meeting and socialising with other like-minded people.
Arts-Matter surfaced towards the end of Sydney’s lockdown in 2020, when photos of its gatherings emerged on
