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Australia Council's Arts Funding Guide 2010. Please email with your name and address for a free copy.
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Call for Papers
'Culture and Sustainable Communities'
for a special issue of the 'Culture and Local Governance' journal, Canada
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LEAP (Localities Enhancing Arts Participation) Project
VicHealth, CDN and eight Victorian councils
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a network of Victorian arts organisations, artists and government agencies working with Arts Victoria to strengthen community-based arts practice
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ReGenerating Community: Arts, Community & Governance National Conference
Proceedings available
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Developing & Revitalizing Rural Communities
Through Arts & Creativity: International research report
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UNESCO e-journal:
Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts
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Agenda 21 for Culture is the first document with worldwide mission that advocates establishing the groundwork of an undertaking by cities and local governments for cultural development.
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Who we are

Our membership is very diverse; it includes local government councillors, workers and managers from arts and culture, community and social planning areas, State government employees, artists and artsworkers, arts managers, students, researchers, and workers and managers from community, health, welfare, education and church agencies. Our members can be found in every area of cultural action. They mostly live in Victoria and are based all over the state; in the city, metropolitan, regional and rural areas. The fact that you’re looking at our website might mean that you are interested in our work and that we’d welcome you as a member.

Board Members

Sue Beal, Chair (appointed May 2000) is the Manager of Cultural Venues with the City of Melbourne and is responsible for the Arts House program, North Melbourne Town Hall and the newly developed Meat Market. Sue has a long and distinguished record in the arts and local government sectors. She has been a national organiser for Actors Equity; member of the Australia Council’s Theatre Board; Australian representative for Cirque Du Soleil and General Manager of Sidetrack Theatre. She has Chaired our Board (originally an informal Committee) since its inception.
Contact Sue

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Paul Holton, Treasurer, (appointed May 2000)
Paul is Manager, Cultural Liveability for Latrobe City Council. His role encompasses overall management of Latrobe City’s cultural facilities and programs. He has worked in arts administration and cultural development for fifteen years and was part of the team that initiated the highly successful Wangaratta Festival of Jazz. Paul is a former member of the Australia Council’s Community Cultural Development Board. Contact Paul

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Angela Bailey, Deputy Chair, (appointed May 2006)
Angela is a photographic artist with diverse experience in community-based work, including projects with housing estate tenants, textile workers, older adults, young people, asylum seekers and women prisoners. Her current and recent activities include Artist in Residency at Carlton Public Housing Estate, City of Melbourne, Photographic Coordinator Feltex Workers Exhibition - Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia, Curator of Legends, Places and Faces exhibition at the Incinerator Arts Complex, Moonee Ponds to coincide with the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Angela has lectured and tutored in Photography at Monash University, Gippsland and Melbourne University, and has work in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery and State Library of Victoria. Her qualifications include Post-Grad Dip Fine Art-Photography, VCA, Assoc Dip Photography, Queensland College of Art, Bach Communication, QUT, Creative Arts Programming and Events Management,Arts Access. In 2005, Angela received an Australia Council CCD Skills and Professional Development award for to travel to the United Kingdom. In addition to her role on the CDN Board, Angela is also a Life Member of Midsumma Festival Board and Brisbane Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival.
Contact Angela

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Helen Baker, Secretary (appointed May 2007)
Helen has a background in arts administration, strategic planning and project management; primarily within the local government sector. Her experience ranges from hands on project management of public art commissions, community based arts programs and art and heritage collections through to strategic planning for the arts and cultural sector within a political environment. A stint in London included work in a research centre at the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum and at the award winning Hackney Museum in the east end. In 2007-2008, Helen was the Manager of the Cultural and Library Services branch at the City of Yarra which includes Arts and Cultural Services, Civic Facilities and the Yarra Libraries. Helen currently works in the multimedia sector providing a range of media programs to international museums, zoos, aquariums and other cultural institutions.
Contact Helen

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Hanut Singh Dodd, (appointed May 2006)
Hanut is a highly experienced cultural, heritage and tourism manager with skills in specialised areas such as museum management, cultural and environmental tourism, event management, exhibition development, public program management, architectural conservation, moveable cultural heritage and collection management. Hanut has more than ten years experience working as a freelance curator and architectural conservator and has also worked for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service as Area Manager at the Hill End Historic Site, as Director of the National Wool Museum and for councils in Victoria including Cities of Melbourne, Port Phillip and Hume. Hanut is currently working as a Project Manager with the Alpine Resorts Coordinating Council.
Contact Hanut

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Dr Nicholas Hill (appointed December 2007)
Nick Hill is Lecturer, Arts Management and Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. His qualifications include BA (Hons); PG DipM and MA. He has recently completed his PhD at South Bank University, England, on - "The Folk and the People: Patronage and Promotion in the Tamasha of Maharashtra". Previously he worked at South Bank University as Senior Lecturer in Arts Marketing and Course Director (Services Management programme). His research interests include Arts & Patronage, South Asian Performing Arts (Folk - Popular - Traditional), Performing Arts Hybrids, Arts Marketing and Communications, Instrumental and Intrinsic Arts Benefits, Arts Ethnography, The lived experience and prism methodology.
Contact Nicholas

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CDN Board and staff (from left to right): Paul Holton, Helen Baker, Angela Bailey, Hanut Dodd, Fiona Strahan, Kim Dunphy, John Smithies, Nick Hill

Staff

John Smithies, Director, (appointed December 2005)

John has studied and worked extensively in the field of cinema programming, new media arts exhibitions, and screen education. He studied at the Tasmanian School of Art, the South Australian School of Art, Monash University and the Academy of Fine Art Karlsruhe, Germany. From 1992, John was Director of the State Film Centre of Victoria until its merger with Film Victoria in 1997 to form Cinemedia. At Cinemedia, John was Deputy Director, with prime responsibility for developing the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). John was Chief Executive Officer of Cinemedia in 2000, and became the first CEO for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in March 2002. He was responsible for opening the new public facilities at Federation Square in Melbourne in October 2002. John resigned from ACMI in April 2004, taking on shorter term management and consulting roles. In addition to his role as Director of CDN, John still works on new and innovative technology based projects and is returning to development of his own arts practice. Contact John

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Kim Dunphy, Program Manager (appointed October 2004)
Kim came to CDN after experience in local government at the Cities of Hobsons Bay and Melbourne. Kim's long standing interest in the contribution of arts to community life has been played out in diverse roles including those of community artist and educator in primary, secondary, tertiary and community sectors. Kim's Masters thesis investigated the role of community cultural groups for Maori migrants in Melbourne and her work in the area of movement and dance for people with intellectual disabilities was distilled into the book Freedom to Move (McLennan and Petty, 2003). Kim has been a dance critic for The Age and managed community centres in Hampton and Altona North. Between 2002 and 2008, Kim was also Director of Kita Performing Arts Company where she worked with Asian artists to share their cultural traditions with Australian audiences. She is Past-President of Ausdance Victoria, a Board member of the Arts Management Advisory Group and Vice-President of the Dance Therapy Association of Australia and has been a panel member for Arts Victoria's 'Arts Creation' category. In 2009, Kim will combine her work at CDN with research towards her PhD. Contact Kim

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Janel Yau, Administrator (appointed February 2009)
After completing a Masters of Arts Management at the University of Melbourne, and Bachelor of Arts (Music Industry), Janel has worked with various arts companies to feed her curiosity and interest in the arts. Her experience in arts administration has included project management (Scope Vic, Melbourne Fringe), arts marketing/sponsorship (PGAV and Melbourne Jazz) and ticketing (Comedy Festival, MTC, Melbourne Jazz). Janel is also a jazz lover and an ever-learning pianist. Contact Janel

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Monique Mahony, Project Intern
Monique is completing her Masters of Arts Management at RMIT University and has a BA in Cinema Studies from La Trobe University.  Her experiences in the arts & culture include directing, producing & writing for independent & community theatre & short films.  She has also worked as an event organiser for the very first Westgarth Film Festival and co-created two of her own festivals Fusion Multi-Arts Festival & Fringe Fusion under her business name Spiral Creative Industries. Her activities with the Moreland Theatre Company, with whom she is the Vice President, saw her coordinate the Places Please Community Theatre Conference in 2007. Contact Monique

CDN Support Team

CDN support team 2009 (from L to R):
Dorothy Kapetopoulos (designer), Kim Dunphy (Program Manager), Kitka Hiltula, (website), Alan Reddick (IT/membership system), Meredith Windust (finances), John Smithies, (Director), Janel Yau (administrator), Monique Mahony (intern)