Friday 11 October 2.00-3.30pm
FORUMS, WORKSHOPS & SHOWCASES
(1.1 - 1.10)
CULTURAL TOURS and
LEFT OF FIELD WORKSHOPS
Please note: this schedule is subject to change.
1.1 CURRENTS FORUM
Ask your burning questions of the National and International Current and
Cross-current speakers from the morning sessions:
- Makerita Urale
- Carol Geddes
- Robyn Archer
- Bill Hauritz
- Cathy Craigie
- Dr Onko Kingma
1.2 AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT
Showcasing some of the models being employed across rural and regional
Australia to build new audiences and create inclusive arts programming
and practices.
- Regional Audience Development
Sally Farr & Brian Peddie, Regional Audience Development Specialists
What do we mean by "audience development"? "Audience" comes from the Latin word audientia meaning attention or hearing. "Develop" comes from the French développer meaning to unwrap or expose. If we take it to be a two way street, then we must think of an audience as a subject to dialogue with rather than an object to be 'captured'.
Accessible Arts for the Disability Market
Kiersten Fishburn, Audience Development Officer
Audience development strategies for people with disabilities - why are these are important and how can the arts community work towards inclusion, including ways to ensure accessibility, meet legal requirements and encourage people with disabilities to be an ongoing part of arts audiences?
Indigenous Audiences
Charlie Trindall, Regional Indigenous Cultural Worker
What are the key issues, strategies and factors that need to be considered in regional Indigenous audience development? And how much of a part does the development of self-determined approaches to Indigenous cultural expression in regional communities play in this?
1.3 EVENT CREATION & PLANNING WORKSHOP
(Limit 40)
Creative approaches to event programming, how to bring new and imaginative
ideas to your festival, how to apply the planning process to translate
great ideas into reality.
(Repeated Sat 1.30 pm)
- Johnny Allen, Director, Australian Centre for
Event Management
This workshop combines practical and theoretical tools to give you basic skills to help recognise, source and combine the creative ideas and potential of artists and community members in the creation of events and festivals.
1.4 RISK MANAGEMENT PLANNING
WORKSHOP (Limit 30)
Introduction to how to identify, analyse and manage risk to improve
the quality and longevity of your event or festival from a project management
perspective.
(repeated Fri 4.00pm)
- Bill O'Toole, Event Project
Management System
This workshop combines practical and theoretical tools to enable you to source essential information and develop plans to ensure potential risks and alternative measures are identified and assessed for a trouble-free successful event.
1.5 PARTNERSHIPS FOR REGIONAL REGENERATION
Showcasing models of partnerships with state and local government and
the business sector that focus on the regeneration of communities both
through and with the arts
- Arts Edge WA & Ed WA
Gwen Knox, Broome Regional Arts Edge Coordinator
Arts Edge is a partnership between the Ministry for Culture and the Arts and the Education Department WA to promote arts in education across the Kimberley region, providing mentorship and professional development to arts educators. You will hear how this is working and how arts educators contribute to the regeneration of communities in the region.
Cultural + Economic Development: The Coolamon Shire Plan
Sue Boaden, Cultural Strategist and Director, Australia Street Companyl
Exporing how a very small rural community responded to the economic development opportunities presented by the area's rich built and moveable heritage. How collaborative partnerships were established and the lessons learned after 18 months.
Thursday Plantation East Coast Sculpture Show
Priya Woolston, Curator
An overview of a private sector organisation that sees the value in dedicated arts programming - usually the realm of the public sector. You will gain insight into the value that Thursday Plantation places in contributing to the community through the arts and how this contributes to both the cultural and economic regeneration of the region.
1.6 RESEARCH MODELS FOR REGIONAL ARTS
Showcasing research that tells us who and what we are dealing with in
rural and regional Australia and how the arts impacts on communities.
- Rethinking Regionality: Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance
Dr Warwick Mules, Central Queensland University
Introducing Transformations, an interactive web site that includes an academic journal and art space. Transformations creates links between the diverse activities of regional culture and society, facilitating knowledge exchange across boundaries and providing opportunities for researchers, writers and artists to contribute to ongoing debates and dialogues about regionality throughout the world. Here regionality becomes a site for new beginnings rather than a disempowered margin responding to an empowered centre.
Regional Regeneration Through Arts Leadership
Jennifer Radbourne, Asst Dean, Business Faculty, QUT
Demonstrating how arts leadership can be used in the regeneration and cultural sustainability of regional and rural communities. Through a pilot study of two regions, arts leadership is identified and documented in the key areas of local government, education and cultural organisations. The outcomes show arts leadership to be the crucial link between cultural activity and regional regeneration and sustainability.
Social Impact of Arts: Community Models
Deidre Williams, Arts & Cultural Development Consultant
A non-academic, arts practitioner, perspective on the vital connection between arts/culture practitioners and research, and the importance of developing research tools that do not undermine practitioners and their work. Does arts practice create the rationale for arts research and what is the social impact of both on regional and rural Australia?
1.7 YOUTH ARTS: YOUTH AT RISK
Showcasing a model project that deals with the hard facts about youth
in rural and regional Australia.
- Hiding Behind the Brightness
- Somebody's Daughter Theatre
Performance and Question and Answer session.
The first truly collaborative work between the Daughters and the younger generation - teenagers aged 13 - 16 from Wodonga and surrounding areas. This skilful interweaving of their collective life stories explores issues of local relevance such as drug use, binge drinking, violence and abuse, teenage pregnancy and dropping out of school. These are stories about survival and reclaiming one's spirit, dignity and sense of self-worth - the essence of "breaking the cycle"
1.8 PROTOCOLS, RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES
WORKSHOP (Limit 30)
Protocols to assist Indigenous artists to define their rights and to guide
non-Indigenous people in their relationships with Indigenous artists and
communities
- Doreen Mellor, Project Manager,
National Library Bringing Them Home
Project & Independent Curator
This workshop addresses important issues and protocols for Indigenous arts: purchasing, exhibiting and reproducing art; public collections and their management. Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and artsworkers will gain practical tools to identify and secure the rights of Indigenous artists and to respect and preserve the cultural integrity of their works
1.9 ART & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
IN REGIONAL REGENERATION
Showcasing cultural activities incorporating art and new technologies,
exploring how these contribute to the development of regions, and the
power and potential of new technologies in the cultural regeneration of
regional communities. Learn about potential funding sources, fellow travellers,
and the "new libraries" of shows, artists and projects.
- Cultural Development & Community Technology
Centres
Paul Reader, NW/New England CTC Coordinator
Community technology centres are being "rolled out" in small towns across regional NSW as part of the CTC Network. In the planning of these centres it is obvious that CTC success and perhaps even the survival of small towns is largely dependent on new and effective interpretations (or reinterpretations) of community culture and knowledge.
Digital Story-telling
Malcolm McKinnon, Artist
This project involves the development of interactive screen-based artworks and was initiated in partnership with small regional museums in SA, the Wimmera in Victoria and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Exploring the slow move of new technologies into regional and rural communities and institutions, and implications for access to arts by regional communities.
FestNet - RAV Online Festival Network
David Eedle
FestNet brings together festival workers in regional Victoria. It comprises the creation of an online community of workers, participants and volunteers, sharing information and ideas, and improving their internet connectivity and online skills, together with online festival promotion. You will hear about the creation and development of the project.
1.10 THE ABC's COVERAGE OF REGIONAL ARTS
An overview of the ABC's coverage of regional arts through its media formats,
with an opportunity to pose questions as to how the ABC can and does work
for your region.
- Arts TV Richard
Moore, Executive Producer, ABC TV Arts
ABC Online Rosie Allimonos, Producer, Arts & Culture Gateway
Arts Radio Lucy Broad, Head of Network Scheduling, ABC Radio
SIDESTREAMS
See the Sidestreams page for full descriptions
of all cultural tours and the local program:
Thurgoona Tour:
Architecture at the Rural Fringe
PS Cumberoona
(Paddle-steamer tour along the Murray - depending on water levels)
LEFT OF FIELD
Photography:
About Face - The National Community Photographic Portrait Project at the
Wilson Street Gallery.
Body Art: Body
Piercing. Exploring the art of body piercing with Danielle's Piercing
Studio.
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Go to:
Tributaries 2 Friday
4.00pm
Tributaries 3 Saturday 1.30pm
Tributaries 4 Saturday
3.30pm
Sidestreams Tours
& Local Program
Program
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