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Lamingtons!"Does Australia need a cultural policy?"

A discussion forum at the Byron Bay Writers Festival

9.30am - 11.00am, 4 August 2006
The Byron Community & Cultural Centre
69 Jonson Street, Byron Bay

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"We stand at a critical point in our development as a nation.... There is a sense in the air that as a society we are economically wealthy but culturally impoverished ... or at least uncertain about what our cultural values are or in what direction they may be changing."

Professor David Throsby, "Does Australia Need a Cultural Policy?" Currency Press Platform Paper, 2006

Regional Arts NSW and the Northern Rivers Writers Centre present a discussion panel on the topic of the need (or not!) for cultural policy for Australia. The forum will be held before an audience as part of the Byron Bay Writers Festival. The panellists are:

The session will be followed by morning tea and lamingtons for panellists and the audience.

Be a part of it!

To book at ticket for this free event (and ensure your lamington and cup of tea!) send an email to admin@regionalartsnsw.com.au before 1 August, ring Jetset Byron Bay Tel 02 6685 6554 or pick your ticket up from Jetset, Shop 6, Old Bakery Complex, Cnr Marvell & Jonson Streets, Byron Bay.


Ien Ang


Professor Ien Ang

Professor Ien Ang, the founding Director of the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney, is a leading figure in cultural studies worldwide and a prominent public commentator in Australia. She focuses on media and cultural consumption, identity politics, the changing new world (dis)order, migration and ethnicity, and issues of representation and inclusion in our cultural institutions. Books include 2001's On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West, Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World (1996) and Desperately Seeking the Audience (1991), all published by Routledge.

Neil Armfield
One of Australia's foremost directors, Neil Armfield is the Artistic Director of the internationally renowned Company B, at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney, and Director of the feature film, Candy.

Neil Armfield


Margaret Fink
Margaret Fink, indomitable producer of feature films including The Removalists, My Brilliant Career, For Love Alone and Candy, and television's 3 part drama Edens Lost. She also kick-started the careers of Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving and Gillian Armstrong among others.

John Harding
John Harding (Kuku/Erub) is a founding member and current President of Ilbijerri Aboriginal /TSI Theatre Company and has worked tirelessly in the pursuit of Indigenous artistic expression in the arts and particularly theatre. He also developed the first Aboriginal current affairs program on ABC TV, Blackout, in 1989, and in 1996 wrote the first Aboriginal vignette sit-com series, The Masters, for SBS TV as part of ICAM Series 1 & 2.
John directed his last three plays, Second Helping in 2005, Enuff in 2002 for the Blak Inside season at the Playbox, and No Parking in 2001 for the Bless Your Big Blak Arts Festival.

John Harding

Professor David Throsby


Professor David Throsby
David Throsby is Professor of Economics at Macquarie University and is internationally known for his work in the economics of the arts and culture. His book The Economics of the Performing Arts, co-authored with Glenn Withers, has become a standard reference work in the field. His most recent book, Economics and Culture, was published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press and earlier this year Currency House published his much discussed Platform Paper, Does Australia Need a Cultural Policy?

 

The "Does Australia need a cultural policy?" discussion forum is sponsored by Regional Arts NSW
and the Northern Rivers Writers Centre.

Regional Arts NSW
 
The Northern Rivers Writers Centre