What's New?
Arts and Community Researchers' Network next meeting
Thur. 29 July,
4-5.30 pm, VCAM, Southbank
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Arts Indicators for Local Government - discussion paper now available
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Community Consent and the Arts - research paper
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Picture This: increasing cultural participation of people with a disability - research report
Gudjal Dance Group, ReGenerating Community Conference,September 2009,
Federation Square,
Melbourne.
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Introducing the new Fourth Pillar blog
by CDN's cultural analyst Jon Hawkes - discussing the ways cultural action can support communities.
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Australia Council's Arts Funding Guide 2010. Download a copy.
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2nd International ‘Art of Good Health and Wellbeing’ Arts and Health Conference, University of Melbourne, 16 – 19 November 2010
Call for papers
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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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Resources
This page contains a listing of resources that have come to CDN's attention, that we think might be useful for our readers. It is continually growing, and we welcome submissions. If you have a publication or resource that could be listed here, please email the info to us at admin@culturaldevelopment.net.au. Put 'listing for website resources page' in the subject line and provide us with a short description and contact details for prospective readers.
A huge number of resources developed by CDN staff or in the course of our public progams are available from our past events page.
The National Arts and Disability Strategy Survey
What is it and what does it mean to you?
Survey Deadline – Friday 16 July
Complete the survey
In October 2009, the Cultural Ministers Council of all nine state, territory and federal arts ministers, released the National Arts and Disability Strategy. The Strategy addresses the rights of people with a disability to have access to, and full participation in, arts and cultural activities in Australia.
The National Arts and Disability Strategy was developed by the Cultural Ministers Council after a national public consultation process with over 100 responses in addition to input from peak bodies including Arts Access Australia.
The Ministers have agreed on four priority areas for action. These are:
- Addressing barriers to access and participation;
- Supporting artistic and cultural practice amongst those with a disability;
- Developing audiences for disability arts companies and individual artists; and
- Improving policy development and planning within governments.
The Strategy is also intended to align with the:
- National Disability Strategy
- Fourth National Mental Health Plan
- National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy
In addition, in 2010, Australia is developing its first national arts curriculum.
To read the full document in a range of formats follow this link to the Cultural Ministers Council web page: www.cmc.gov.au
Now that the Strategy has been created it is vital that you share your views on the most important priorities for governments to strengthen, fund and support.
We have created the survey below for the purpose of collecting your response to priorities outlined in the document and so that you can let the government know what you want this Strategy to do for you.
Who Should Fill in the Survey?
- Artists
- People with a disability, mental health issue or who are deaf
- Art and cultural workers
- Art and cultural organisations
- Disability organisations
- Mental Health organisations
- Ageing organisations
- Employment services
- Community organisations
- Families and carers
If you can spend a little time (15 mins) filling out the survey Arts Access Australia and our state and territory members will be better able to support you and provide government with your ideas and comments.
If you would like to receive this survey in an alternative format or record your responses via an interview, please contact Arts Access Victoria at info@artsaccess.com.au or phone 03 9699 8299.
Click here to commence the SurveyCall For Papers for Special Issue on: 'Culture and Sustainable Communities'
for 'Culture and Local Governance' journal, Canada
Deadline for submission of papers: May 1, 2010
Guest Editors: Nancy Duxbury ( Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal) and M. Sharon Jeannotte (Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa, Canada)
In the face of growing environmental and economic urgencies, issues of sustainability and resiliency are moving to the forefront of planning, policy, and programs in cities and communities of all sizes. City planning paradigms are mutating from a focus on building 'creative cities' to that of achieving 'sustainable cities.' Internationally, this shift is evident among local governments adopting sustainability goals for towns, cities, and regions; creating sustainable community plans; and implementing community projects related to 'sustainable development.' Yet cultural considerations, while recognized in urban and community planning contexts, are not integrated into sustainability planning in a widespread way.
Where are cultural considerations in this new paradigm/framework? How might culture be incorporated and situated within sustainability planning and related initiatives? How should cultural planning adapt to this increasingly dominant paradigm and context?
Potential contributors are invited to submit an article (maximum 5,000 words) by May 1, 2010 to Nancy Duxbury at duxbury@ces.uc.pt.
Details: www.ces.uc.pt/cesfct/nd/CFP_Culture_and_Local_Governance.pdf
Arts & Development
Art and Upheaval – Artists on the World’s
frontline
A book by William Cleveland, with foreward by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, about
artists making art with and for communities facing social, political and
environmental crises. Published by New Village Press,
www.newvillagepress.net
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Artist Career
A really useful resource for visual artists and craftspeople - Artist career is
an independent, non-commercial website that offers high quality resources and
information to support professional and business skills development for
artists.
www.artistcareer.com.au
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Arts Victoria - Client Services Survey results
The results of Arts Victoria's Client Services Survey have been released. The
report includes feedback on grant application and assessment processes,
professional practice and organisation development, and perceptions of the effect
of the GFC on the arts. For more information, please see:
www.arts.vic.gov.au
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Assessing the Intrinsic Impacts of a Live Performance, Published by WolfBrown
This report attempts to define and measure how audiences are transformed by a
live performance.
www.wolfbrown.com/index.php?page=books-and-reports
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The Kingston Arts Directory - new on line format
The Arts Directory is now available online. It is a comprehensive listing of
local arts networks, individual artists and arts organisations in the City of
Kingston. As well as being a reliable resource, the directory is a tribute to
the hard working artists who make a valuable contribution to the local
community.
www.kingston.vic.gov.au
Arts & Cultural Management
A New Deal: art, museums and communities – re-imagining
relations by Declan McGonagle, ‘A New Deal’ argues that engaged or participatory art
practice can be shown to be central rather than marginal to the meaning and
value of art in the ‘story’ of human society, but only if we take a long view
and change the position from which we read and understand received history. Community
Development Journal Vol 42 No 4 cdj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/4/425
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Enabling the Creators: Arts and Cultural Management and
the Challenge of Social Inclusion - Edited by Jolyon Laycock. This book looks at enabling the Creators
is one of the outcomes of the European Arts Management Project (EAM) a 2-year pilot project More
information:
www.encatc.org/uploads/newsletters/encatc_info_2008-10-02.pdf
Arts & Engagement
The Values Study: Rediscovering the Meaning and Value of
Arts Participation
Published by Wolf Brown, this participatory qualitative study of arts
participation in Connecticut involves teams of board and staff members.
www.wolfbrown.com/index.php?page=books-and-reports
Arts & Health
Arts in Aging study
This project links a number of studies, articles and best practice models that
discuss the benefits of arts education and types of arts programs available in
the United States for older people.
www.apo.org.au
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Evaluating the Mental Health and Wellbeing Impacts of
Community-Based Festivals: VicHealth report released September 2007
This report examines the impacts of community-based festivals on mental health
and wellbeing from a population health perspective, through evaluation of two
Victorian festivals Awakenings and Braybrook’s Big Day Out www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/Resource-Centre/Publications-and-Resources/
Social-connection/Awakenings-Festival-and-Braybrooks-Big-Day-Out.aspx
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Promoting Health
Through Creativity, Therese Schmid (ed), 2004, Whurr Publishers: UK
This book contains contributed chapters on a theory of creativity as an innate
capacity, the therapeutic benefits of creativity, factors that encourage or
inhibit creativity and current research on these, and accounts of creativity
both as individual projects and as group work.
www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1861564783.html
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Art is a Community Effort: Allen Ginsberg
This publication discusses how using puppets enhance sexual health education in
schools and how participation in community arts improves health and well-being
in older people. For your free electronic issue, or email nicola@intellectbooks.com or go to: www.intellectbooks.co.uk
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Arts Development in Community Health: a social tonic, by
Mike White.
This book considers how and why arts in community health came about, the
characteristics of its practice and the challenges it poses
for evaluation.
catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4593680
Civic Engagement & Citizenship
The Impact of Culture on Tourism
Based on recent case studies that illustrate the different facets of the
relationship between tourism, culture and regional attractiveness, and the
policy interventions which can be taken to enhance the relationship, this
publication shows how a strong link between tourism and culture can be fostered
to help places become more attractive to tourists, as well as increasing their
competitiveness as locations which to live, visit, work and invest.
www.oecdbookshop.org
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Website: Action for Victoria's Future
New website developed by State Government to provide an effective tool to
locate the most up-to-date StatebGovernment policy and strategy information.
www.action.vic.gov.au
Community Arts
Creative Spaces: This
website is a free site that documents spaces, venues and studios around
Victoria that are available for artists and arts organisations to develop and
present their work. Individuals and organisations can also list their spaces
and use the site to learn how to transform an existing space into one suitable
for the arts.
www.creativespaces.net.au
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Documentary: “A Few Old Blokes”
“A Few Old Blokes”, is a frank, intimate slice of life documentary directed by
Kate Gillick, edited by Mark Atkin and produced by the Kensington Management
Company. The film maker asks the residents about love, life, dreams, and ideas.
Filmed at 94 Ormond Street Kensington. Terri Soumilas, Community Development
Manager, Kensington Management Company , ph: 9371 2010
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Film: ‘Doan Ket La Suc Manh’ (Together We are Strong),
A unique short film made by prisoners for prisoners through an innovative and
creative approach to health promotion, with partners including the North
Richmond Community Health Centre, Arts and Culture program and Vietnamese
prisoners from Fulham Correctional Centre. Enquiries:
Vivien Fox vivienf@ceh.org.au
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‘Meet, Meld, Merge’: Art Bringing a Community Together:
the ‘Toil Art’ Project, in Yea, north-eastern Victoria. May 2008
A recent, unique, community art project, Toil Art, focuses on the much utilised
facilities of the Yea Public Toilets; with the aim of people now stopping for a
‘Wee and a See!’ The concept for the project began at the ‘Meet, Meld Merge’
forum run by Berry St with the support of the Cultural Development Network, in
September 2006. On this day, participants were asked to brainstorm a new
project for their community, and the first idea for ‘Toil Art’ was born.
Lisa Rudd, Youth and Community Arts worker, Berry Street, Yea. Contact
Lisa Rudd on 0428 887 009 or lrudd@berrystreet.org.au
Download
article
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Wild Earth Blanket: Wildscapes of Warringine Community
Art Project
Article
by Jenny Macaffer, Coordinator, Social Planning & Community Development,
Mornington Peninsula Shire
The Wild Earth Blanket (WEB) encourages us to engage in a dialogue with
ourselves and others. It is a symbol for self reflection, a beautiful piece of
community art, and a story of the sacred ways of nature, and our place in the
world. The WEB started as a community art project to connect health and well
being with the natural bushland of Warringine Park in Western Port, Victoria.
It was initiated at Wild Discovery Day at the Park on 6 October 2007. Contact Jenny
Macaffer Telephone (03) 5950 1684 macaj@mornpen.vic.gov.au
Download article
Community Arts: Papers
Confluences, Conference On Intercultural Dialogue -Final Report
International Conference on Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue was held from
23 to 25 July 2008, in Panticosa (Huesca, Spain). Confluences were designed by
the Interarts Foundation in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
The final report of the event is now available at
www.interarts.net
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‘Strengthening Local Communities: Arts in Community Settings’. The
evaluation of two Community Support Funded Arts Programs,
This new report by Arts Victoria and DVC examines the impact of two Community
Arts Programs, demonstrating the importance of partnerships in making arts and
cultural activities sustainable in local communities.
www.dvc.vic.gov.au/Web14/dvc/rwpgslib.nsf/GraphicFiles/0307-
11CommunityArtsReport/$file/0307-11CommunityArtsReport.pdf
Community Arts: Research
Creative tropical city Project: mapping Darwin's
creative industries
The Creative Tropical City project explored the idea of Darwin, located in
Australia's tropical-savannah north, as a ‘creative city’.
www.apo.org.au
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Cultural Ministers Council Findings
Discussion included the development of a Cultural Ministers Council Strategy
and findings of the Third Review of the Major Performing Arts Funding Model. To
request a copy of the Strategy, please contact Jacqui Uhlmann on 1800 185 693,
or email arts.disability@environment.gov.au
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Getting To Know Your Community - a guide to using local
data is a comprehensive resource designed to assist local communities
and community groups access and review local level data in Victoria. For more
information, download PDF or go to
www.dvc.vic.gov.au
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Proving the Practice: new book about the effectiveness
of community-based arts
Proving the Practice is an initiative of DADAA WA responding to a lack of
evidence in the field of community-based arts and health by providing a rich
body of evidence to support the effectiveness of arts interventions for people
with a mental illness. DADAA's Disseminate Disability and Mental Health Arts
Research project responds to a world-wide need for evaluating, articulating,
developing and promoting the real value of the arts (and participation in arts
programs) in improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Enquiries: andrea@dadaawa.asn.au
www.dadaawa.org.au/disseminate/Disseminate
Community Development
Arts Victoria and Department of Victorian Communities
This report examines the results of focus groups undertaken with artists,
participants and community groups about the impact of two Community Arts Programs.
The report demonstrates the importance of partnerships in making arts and
cultural activities sustainable in local communities.
www.dvc.vic.gov.au/web14/dvc/dvcmain.nsf/allDocs/
RWP0C47790245D57B16CA257045007FFBE3?OpenDocument
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Choreographing Community Sustainability: The Importance of Cultural
Planning to Community Viability, Kat Runnalls (July 2007)
This research project examined how cultural planning can be more fully
integrated into planning processes of municipalities to evolve healthier,
sustainable communities.
www.cultureandcommunities.ca/resources/publications.html
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‘Creating
Community: Celebrations, Arts and Wellbeing within Local Communities’,
Globalism Institute RMIT and VicHealth
This report is based on a three year research project in metropolitan and
regional communities that found that people who take part in community arts
find new ways to deal with a variety of personal and social issues. Enquiries:
Dr Martin Mulligan 9925 2725 martin.mulligan@rmit.edu.au
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Language Factory is a community resource that aims to provide
affordable and responsive interpreting and translation services to diverse
sectors of the community. Language Factory utilises accredited interpreters and
translators and the in house skills of residents living in public housing to
provide community language services. Find out more
www.languagefactory.org.au/index.shtml
Creative Economy
Arts Nonprofits Fuel Economy
Nonprofit arts groups, including museums, orchestras, theatres and dance
companies, contributed $166.2 billion and 5.7 million jobs to the U.S. economy
in 2005, according to an advocacy group urging more funding for the arts, as
reported in the Los Angeles Times. www.calendarlive.com
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Creative Economy As A Development Strategy
This book aims to stimulate the debate around the creative economy and if it
can be a development strategy and, if it can, what needs to be done to make it
concrete. In order to increase access to this discussion, the digital book is
available for free download, in Portuguese, Spanish and English.
www.garimpodesolucoes.com.br
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Creative Economy Programme, UK Department for Culture,
Media and Sport
Discussion papers available on their website at
www.cep.culture.gov.uk
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Creative Economy Report 2008: The challenge of assessing
the creative economy towards informed policy-making. This is a report that
aims to help developing countries harness their creative economies and to
maximize trade and development gains by recognizing the
creative economy as a feasible development option for linking economic, technological, social and cultural development objectives. www.unctad.org/Templates/webflyer.asp?docid=9750&intItemID=2068&lang=1
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The International Forum on the Creative Economy –
Compendium of Research Papers. The Conference Board of Canada has recently
released the Compendium of Research Papers resulting from the
International Forum on the Creative Economy, a two-day forum held
in Gatineau, Québec in March 2008. The event was a partnership between Canadian Heritage and the Conference Board of Canada. The report includes
academic papers from leading researchers from around the
world. It can be downloaded from:
www.conferenceboard.ca/search.aspx?q=International+
forum+on+the+creative+economy
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The Sum of
Us: The Economic Impact of Arts & Culture in Glenelg Shire
This
major study has recently been completed and adopted by Glenelg Shire Council.
Enquiries:
Karl Hatton on 5522 2263.
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Using Arts and Culture to Stimulate State Economic
Development?
National Governors Association, 2009: This report offers insights and examples
from states across the country to help governors incorporate the arts and
culture into state economic development strategies. In particular, provides
governors with tips on how to understand and measure their creative industries,
develop plans to capitalize on the benefits of those industries, and provide
support that helps sustain the contributions of the arts and culture sector,
local community development and state tourism.
www.nga.org
Cultural Development
2008 Year of Intercultural Dialogue website - Fundació
Societat i Cultura (FUSIC) Spain
A new website exploring how artistic creation can overcome cultural barriers,
this site offers Europeans artists and organizations the opportunity to reach
out to potential partners to develop and exchange ideas for their work during
the 2008 Year on Intercultural Dialogue. www.dialogointercultural2008.es
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ENCATC NEWS European Network of Cultural Administration
Training Centres
Interesting e-bulletin on cultural development in Europe
www.encatc.org
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'European agenda for culture' adopted by European
Parliament
The first systematic attempt to move towards a European strategy for culture,
focussing on three main aims: promoting cultural diversity and intercultural
dialogue, promoting culture as a catalyst for creativity within the Lisbon
strategy, and promoting culture as an essential element in the EU's external
relations.
www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5532002
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Inventory of community actions in the field of culture,
2007
A document of the European Commission which gathers the community actions
developed in the field of culture and serves as a technical complement to the
Communication on a European Agenda for Culture.
ec.europa.eu/culture/pdf/doc1163_en.pdf
Cultural Indicators
4172.0 Arts and Culture in Australia: A Statistical
Overview, 2004 (Reissue)
www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4172.0?OpenDocument
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ABS report: Attendance at Selected Cultural Venues and Events, Australia, 2005-06
www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4114.0?OpenDocument
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Australian Bureau of Statistics: Report on Children's
Participation in Cultural and Leisure Activities, Australia, April 2006. This publication
provides information about the participation of children aged 5 to 14 years in cultural, sporting and other leisure activities.
www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4901.0
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Cultural Mapping Toolkit
The Creative City Network of Canada with 2010 Legacies have developed two new
resources to assist local governments, as well as arts, cultural and heritage
organizations, plan for the future. The Cultural Mapping Toolkit takes you
through the entire mapping process, from creating an inventory of cultural
resources to drawing and presenting your map. info@creativecity.ca or go to
www.creativecity.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view
&id=206&Itemid=174
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Cultural Ministers Council Statistics Working Group
The Social and Demographic Characteristics of Cultural Attendees - Cultural
Data Online - free online access to Australian arts and cultural research
reports and statistics.
www.culturaldata.gov.au
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Cultural Statistics Booklet
Produced by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Community gathers
cultural statistics comparable at EU level, and the booklet includes chapters
about heritage, employment, trade and cultural participation.
epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home
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Cultural Vitality in Communities: Interpretation and
Indicators,
Maria-Rosario Jackson, Florence Kabwasa-Green, Joaquin Herranz
This report introduces a definition of cultural vitality that includes the
range of cultural activity people around the country find significant. We use
this definition as a lens to clarify our understanding of data necessary, as
well as the more limited data currently available, to document arts and culture
in communities in a consistent, recurrent and reliable manner.
www.urban.org/publications/311392.html
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Demographics: People of Victoria
The People of Victoria: Statistics from the 2006 Census is a major compilation
of statistics on birthplace, language, religion and ancestry from the 2006
Census. The report is part of the wider Department of Immigration and
Multicultural Affairs (DIAC) project for the production of separate reports for
each State and Territory
www.dse.vic.gov.au
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Making the Case for Culture: Creative City Network of
Canada
Featuring six key areas including urban renewal, community identity, positive
change in communities, quality of life, personal and social development and
economic development, this site provides key arguments, profiles, resources,
case studies and reference lists
www.ifacca.org/publications/2007/08/27/making-the-case-for-culture/
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Online Article - Survey Reveals Almost Two-Thirds of
Adults Use Museums,
Libraries and Archives
A new survey published by the Department for Culture Media and Sport shows that
over 12 months, 64 per cent of adults, almost two thirds of the population,
visited a museum, a library or an archive…
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART47616.html
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‘Quotes,
Stats and Facts’: Compendium for arts advocates and lobbyists
This study documents existing studies of the social and economic value of the
arts. Useful for anyone who needs to prove that arts and cultural activities
stimulate tourism and job creation, attract investment and diversification and
contribute to the community’s wellbeing.
www.regionalartsnsw.com.au/news/quotes_stats_and_facts_20_4_07.htm
Cultural Indicators Initiatives
Australia's heritage: Heritage is all the
things that make up Australia's identity - our spirit and ingenuity, our
historic buildings, and our unique, living landscapes. Discover Australia's
heritage on the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts' www.environment.gov.au/heritage
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Democratic Culture: Opening Up the Arts to Everyone by
John Holden, Demos (UK) The report asks what a ‘democratic culture'
in the arts would look like. Holden states "culture should be something
that we all own and make".
www.demos.co.uk
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Evaluation of the City of Port Phillip community mural report by Katrina Gorjanicyn KGorjani@portphillip.vic.gov.au
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Funky on your flyer, a report on the Crossing
the Line seminars.
Crossing the Line report young people’s feelings
about and relationships to different kinds of cultural venues, literature,
barriers to attendance, marketing strategies, interviews with young people and
cultural mentors and mediators. www.artsresearchdigest.com/archive/digests/1329
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Cultural Networks
CCDNSW - Tel 02 9821 2210, Email: info@ccdnsw.org, www.ccdnsw.org
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Community Arts Network SA - Tel 08 8231
0900/1800 245 678, Email: cansa@cansa.net.au
www.cansa.on.net
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Community Arts Network WA - Tel 08 9226
2422/1800 681 021, Email: pilar@canwa.com.au
www.canwa.com.au
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The Creative City Network of Canada is inviting
interested parties to join a new Indicators-L
listserv, which will help connect individuals working on and/or interested in
the development of
cultural indicators at the local level.
creativecity.ca/index.php?option=com_content
&task=section&id=16&Itemid=270
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Local Connections Online
Local Connections is an interactive online quarterly newsletter for research
and policy officers in local government in Victoria produced by the Local Government Research
Network (LGRN). Articles cover research, evaluation of programs, indicators for community
wellbeing or benchmarking, community surveys, research partnerships or other collaborations,
and other activities which support the development of policy through quality research.
Enquiries: 136 186, customer.service@dse.vic.gov.au or www.dse.vic.gov.au/
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Queensland Community Arts Network - Tel 07 3254 4922,
Email: mail@qldcan.org.au or
www.qldcan.org.au
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Trans Europe Halles - International network of
independent culture centres.
With over 39 members in 24 countries, the network provides a stimulating
platform for exchange, support and co-operation between its members.
www.efah.org
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Victoria's small and independent theatre scene
www.theatrealive.com.au
Cultural Policy
Agenda 21 For Culture: Cultural Trends, Vol 14 No 4
Rescuing our neglected heritage: The evolution of the Government's policy on
portable antiquities in England and Wales. Roger Bland Cross-country
comparisons of cultural statistics.
www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a743759419
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Agenda 21 for Culture’, policy document as introduced by
Jordi Pascual at Expanding Cultures conference
The 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. A growing number of cities and local
governments the world over have adhered to the Agenda 21 for culture in their
local councils. The process has raised the interest of international
organisations, national governments and civil society. Hard
copies available from CDN kim.dunphy@culturaldevelopment.net.au www.agenda21culture.net
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Arts RiPPA
Arts RiPPA is Australia's digest of arts and cultural policy research. It
investigates contemporary issues and trends which drive policy and planning,
and improves communication between researchers and policy makers. The new
edition can be downloaded at:
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Framing Infrastructure in a Cultural Context: A National
and International Policy Scan. Katie Warfield, Erin Schultz, and
Kelsey Johnson (June 2007)
Through a scan of online policy and program information, this paper explores
uses of the term cultural infrastructure in Canadian federal policy
and in policies and programs internationally. Working Paper (PDF)
www.cultureandcommunities.ca/resources/publications.html
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2020 Summit - Final Report
www.australia2020.gov.au/final_report/index.cfm
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The World Culture Project Web Site
Includes a number of interesting full-text articles related to culture and
cities/communities/municipalities.
www3.sympatico.ca
Culture & Sustainability
Arts and Culture In The Metropolis: Strategies For
Sustainability
RAND Corporation , USA, March 2007 The William Penn Foundation and the Greater
Philadelphia Cultural Alliance asked RAND to examine the condition of
Philadelphia’s arts and culture sector and recommend actions to ensure its
sustainability.
www.rand.org
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Culture Club: Bendigo region
Contact Maree McLachlan, Greater Bendigo, m.mclachlan@Bendigo.vic.gov.au
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Culture Victoria, website launched
New on-line resource that goes behind the scenes of Victoria’s arts culture,
from people, places and pastimes to visual and performing arts. www.cv.vic.gov.au
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IFACCA: Arts and Ecological Sustainability Report
This Report provides examples of good practice in supporting artists or arts
organisations with creative and practical responses to ecological concerns.
www.ifacca.org/announcements
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The Impact of Culture on Tourism
Based on recent case studies that illustrate the different facets of the
relationship between tourism, culture and regional attractiveness, and the
policy interventions which can be taken to enhance the relationship, this
publication shows how a strong link between tourism and culture can be fostered
to help places become more attractive to tourists, as well as increasing their
competitiveness as locations which to live, visit, work and invest.
www.oecdbookshop.org
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Planning for Cultural Infrastructure on a Municipal or
Regional Scale: Key
Frameworks and Issues from the Literature Steven R.
Dang and Nancy Duxbury (June 2007)
This paper explores the contributions of academic research and professional
planning literature to understanding various approaches to, and issues involved
in, planning for cultural infrastructure on a municipal or regional scale.
www.cultureandcommunities.ca/resources/publications.html
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‘Planning
for the Intercultural City’, Jude Bloomfield and Franco Bianchini
As introduced by Jude Bloomfield at ‘Expanding Cultures’ conference
The book argues that city governments should promote cross-fertilisation across
all cultural boundaries, between 'majority' and 'minorities', 'dominant' and
'sub' cultures, localities, classes, faiths, disciplines and genres, as the
source of cultural, social, political and economic innovation. COST:
$20 Copies are available from CDN kim.dunphy@culturaldevelopment.net.au
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Social Inclusion Website
This website is aimed at helping people across all levels of government, the
not-for-profit sector, business and the general community access information on
the Social Inclusion Agenda in an easily accessible and informative format
www.socialinclusion.gov.au
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Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures
This third volume in the series 'Higher Education for Sustainability' includes
international contributions based on papers presented at the 2007 conference of
the Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts: 'New Frontiers in Arts
Sociology: Creativity, Support and Sustainability' conference.
www.cultura21.net/dokuwiki/doku.php/orange:newfrontier
Disability, Arts & Culture
Art for Art's Sake: A Qualitative Study Exploring the
Facilitation of Creativity within Disability Services
This qualitative study focuses on how creativity is facilitated within a range
of creative art services for adults with disabilities. The study conducted by
the authors is posed from an occupational therapy perspective to draw on the
values of current art services run in the Sydney metropolitan area for this
specific adult group.
www.aarts.net.au
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Making the Journey a new 94 page, full
colour book about arts activities and people with
disabilities. It offers 12 case studies as examples of approaches, issues and
achievements in the Australian field of art and disability in recent years. The book has been
made possible by the generous support of the Australia Council and Family and Community
Services.
www.artsaccess.com.au
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The National Arts and Disability Strategy
The Strategy provides a framework within which jurisdictions can assess and
improve new & existing activities. Contact Ms Jacqui Uhlmann on 1800 185
693 or email: arts.disability@environment.gov.au or go to
www.cmc.gov.au
Educational Resources
Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame by Beverly
Naidus.
Artist, writer, university educator, Beverly Naidus takes a fearless look at
the evolution of socially-engaged arts taught in various educational settings.
www.newvillagepress.net
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Arts as a Priority for C21st Education
On Friday April 17th the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training
and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) announced the inclusion of the visual and
performing arts as priority learning areas in the second stage of national
curriculum development.
www.ausdance.org.au/education/naae/news.html
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Artists & Schools Partnership Research Paper
The report highlights recent national and international research and includes a
few examples of partnerships which took place with Victorian schools in 2008.
www.arts.vic.gov.au/content/Public/Research_and_Resources/
Research_Projects/Arts_and_Education_Partnerships.aspx
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Australian Centre for Human Rights Education
Principally concerned with research and education on human rights issues.
www.rmit.edu.au/achre
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‘National Education and the Arts Statement’
This statement by MCEETYA and Cultural Ministers Council was posted in October
and has some broad directions outlined on the importance of Arts Education.
www.mceetya.edu.au/mceecdya/
national_education_and_the_arts_statement,20981.html
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‘The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in
Arts Education.’
Harvard Project Zero: Study in Arts Education
www.pz.harvard.edu
Research Supporter Services providing qualitative research
services for a range of clients and projects. Whether you are an individual,
private sector or community based organisation, Research Supporter can assist
you to design and manage a research project or provide minor support for your
ongoing work.
www.researchsupport.net.au
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The UNESCO Observatory Multi-Disciplinary Research in
the Arts
This bi-annual peer reviewed e-journal is maintained by The UNESCO Observatory.
It arose out of a recognised need for better research and knowledge sharing in
the field of arts in education and to systematise and network qualitative and
quantitative research, existing and potential throughout the Asia Pacific and
other regions.
www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/unesco/ejournal.htm
Entrepreneurship
On Entrepreneurship and Education in Cultural Life:
ENCATC Annual Conference 2007 Report
www.encatc.org/pages/fileadmin/user_upload/supervisors/
ENCATC%202007%20report.pdf
Funding
Cultural Funding By Government, Australia, 2005-06,
Australian Bureau of Statistics.
www.creative.org.au
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D’Art Topic No. 28: Multidisciplinary Arts: Approaches
to Funding
Summarises the findings of a question developed and conducted by the Canada
Council for the Arts and the Australia www.ifacca.org/topic/multidisciplinary-arts.................................................................
Funding the architectural heritage: A guide to policies
and examples, Robert Pickard, March 2009
This guide aims to provide authoritative information on different funding
mechanisms, financial resources and management systems utilised in Europe and
in North America as a means to assist the development of good and efficient
practice.
www.book.coe.int
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‘Giving and the Arts’ Australia Business Arts Foundation
Melinda Martin interviews Sue Roff, Australia Business Arts Foundation, on why
people give to the arts, and how the arts can attract donors. www.abaf.org.au
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How do you evaluate the intangible?
This report is designed to help grant-giving organisations assess different
evaluation
techniques, considering how much weight should be given to hard data and
measurable
outcomes.
www.rieti.go.jp/jp/events/07062201/pdf/5-1_kuroda_presentation_o.pdf
Housing & Homelessness
Community capacity building: a practical guide. Housing
and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania. Developing the
capacity of communities has become an important part of the broadening role f many state and NGO agencies. The guide stresses that there is a need
to engage communities to identify their own needs, rather than parachuting
pre-conceived ideas of what might work best.
www.utas.edu.au/.../HACRU_Occasional_Paper_6_Community_
Capacity_Building_-_A_Practical_Guide.pdf
Indigenous Arts
Aboriginal Art Directory
The Aboriginal Art Directory is the largest online tool to help you find
Australian Aboriginal art, self-representing artists, Aboriginal art centres,
galleries, online stores and wholesalers worldwide. Support
the Aboriginal Art industry and learn about Aboriginal art,
authenticity and the range of Aboriginal artists and vendors before you invest. Aboriginal Art Directory now has a monthly email
newsletter.
www.aboriginalartdirectory.com
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Building Indigenous Leadership: Promoting the Emotional
and Spiritual Wellbeing of Koori Communities through the Koori Communities
Leadership Program. This report records the experience and key learnings of
five Koori community-based indigenous leadership projects and
the state-wide leadership network. It includes factors influencing the
wellbeing of Indigenous communities and the importance of
building leadership to ensure the ongoing survival and growth of Indigenous
communities.
www.vichealth.vic.gov.au
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Making Solid Ground Review
This review examined the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander key organizations program and new ways to support the national
Indigenous arts infrastructure.
www.australiacouncil.gov.au
Local Government
Local Government Public Art group
Contact Tania
Blackwell at Hobsons Bay tblackwell@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au
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Our City our Culture: Redlands City Council 10 year
Cultural Plan
www.redland.qld.gov.au/Residents/ArtsAndCulture/Pages/Culture.aspx
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‘The role of government agencies in regeneration’ Jennifer
Bott, Australia Council, World Summit on Arts and Culture
For the past decade, the Australia Council has worked closely with the
Australian Local Government Association, promoting community arts and cultural
development as a core function of local government. That dialogue is critical
in determining the issues we are dealing with, in getting the disenfranchised
involved, animating democracy, helping to create new identities from people and
cultures, who have come in from elsewhere - often from the other side of the
planet.
www.creative.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=132614
Multicultural Arts
New online publication. Adjust Your View: developing
multicultural audiences for the arts a toolkit. The AustraliaCouncil
for the Arts
www.australiacouncil.gov.au
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New Victorian Multicultural Policy released - 'All of
Us'
The policy sets out a framework for continuing to strengthen and promote
multiculturalism across the state. The policy
includes human rights as one of four policy themes informing multiculturalism
in our state.
www.multicultural.vic.gov.au
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The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces
(FEMP)
This is and edited guide to evaluate local cultural policies.
www.oei.es
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Victorian Multicultural Commission’s Multicultural
Resources Directory -
New resource to help people access services across Victoria. The easy-to-use
directory lists the details for more than 1700 interfaith networks, language
service providers, government agencies, chambers of commerce, consulates and
community language schools
www.multicultural.vic.gov.au/resources/community-directory
Publications
7 ways to Support Artists by Bruce Demara
Read this fascinating article how artists in Canada survive financially
compared to the rest of the world.
www.thestar.com
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Art is Good for Your Health
An award presented to charity, Arts Care underlines the Arts Council’s
assertion in
its current five year plan that contributing to the health and well being of
the wider community is one of the ways in which the arts can contribute to a
new Northern Ireland.
www.artscouncil-ni.org
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ArtReviewSouthWest is a regional arts online magazine.
If you are interested in
receiving information on it, just reply with a YES to jackiea@artreviewsouthwest.org
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Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian Year Book
The latest edition of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ principal reference
book includes information on volunteering, not-for-profits and social health.
www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/1301.0
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The
Australian Copyright Council: Permissions & Clearances Guide
To order, view a sample page and table of contents,
AUD $40 (including GST and delivery in Australia), and for links to the
Copyright Council¹s other resources and services visit
www.copyright.org.au
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Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture: Findings From
Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts: USA:
From 2000 to 2004, Americans for the Arts, with support from the Ford
Foundation, implemented Animating Democracy, an initiative to foster artistic
activities encouraging civic dialogue on important contemporary issues. This
book examines the experiences of 37 arts and humanities projects, realized by a
wide range of cultural organizations.
americans4thearts.stores.yahoo.net/civdialarcul.html
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Craft Research is a new Intellect
journal, launching in 2010 - UK
The aim of Craft Research is
to advocate and promote current and emerging craft research, materials,
processes, methods, concepts, aesthetic and style. For further details:
www.intellectbooks.co.uk
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First edition
published of new journal of 'Arts and Community'
The new
journal is out now. Journal of Arts and Community seeks original researched
articles, case studies, reports of projects in progress, particularly from
practitioners and research students as well as, book reviews, conference
reviews and reports.
www.intellectbooks.co.uk
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Griffith Review:
‘Essentially Creative’ Issue 23
When the
Prime Minister included the arts and creativity in the 2020 Summit in early
2008, it was more than political window-dressing with famous actors. It was a
sign that after a decade artists, actors, writers and others engaged in the
creative economy were being taken seriously. This issue of Griffith Review
proposes a bold new agenda to restore the arts to centre stage.
www3.griffith.edu.au
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Hartnett House
Brunswick: It’s Founder It’s Work It’s History, by Banda Dagher. Melbourne.
This book is
an historical record on the history of this house for pregnant single women
through the 20th century, details the good, the bad and the indifferent. To
purchase ph 03 9387 1194 or email brunswickhistory@yahoo.com
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New journal: ‘The Journal of Arts and Communities’
A critical examination of the practices known as community or participatory
arts
Call for Papers:
www.intellectbooks.com
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Masks: the online journal of law and theatre: The journal is
generally concerned with the intersection of the two areas of law and theatre,
encourages interest from all areas of study ranging, for instance, from the
humanities, psychology, sociology, law to actual practitioners. More
information: email communications@masksjournal.com
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On- line article: Observations From the
'Real World' - What it takes to be a writer-in-community, By
Angela Costi
Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature
www.thylazine.org/thyla12/thyla12j.html
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Research Supporter Services providing qualitative
research services for a range of clients and projects. Whether you are an
individual, private sector or community based organisation, Research Supporter
can assist you to design and manage a research project or provide minor support
for your ongoing work.
www.researchsupport.net.au
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‘Train Stations as Places for Community Wellbeing’
VicHealth commissioned the development of a scoping paper focusing on existing
arts practice designed to develop railway stations as community hubs. The
document investigates this possibility
www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/.../Train-Stations-as-Places-for-Community-Wellbeing.aspx
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The UNESCO Observatory
Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts
This bi-annual peer reviewed e-journal is maintained by The UNESCO
Observatory, arising out of a recognised need for better research and knowledge
sharing in the field of arts in education and to systematise and network
qualitative and quantitative research, existing and potential throughout Asia
Pacific and other regions.
www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/unesco/ejournal/vol-one-issue-one.html
Regional Arts
Regional Arts Victoria presents ‘STORYBOARD’ in
partnership with CFA and DSE
Sharing stories has the power to engage people, assist communities to
collectively deal with trauma and create stronger networks so that we are
self-determining, aware and resilient. An ongoing project, Storyboard is a safe
place to archive your precious images and record local histories. Share your
story at
www.rav.net.au/storyboard
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Regional Arts Contact Book
This is the access point to regional artists and arts workers, providing a
mechanism for networking, sourcing of artists for contracts and projects, and
for artists to make connections. List your details here as well. www.regionalarts.com.au/raa1/support/ContactAED.asp?action=new
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Rural Society , volume 19, issue 1,
April 2009 =includes the following articles
A place for the arts in rural revitalisation and the social wellbeing of
Australian rural communities, J Anwar McHenry, What's the meaning of ChillOut?:
Rural/urban difference and the cultural significance of Australia's largest
rural GLBTQ festival, Authors: Andrew Gorman-Murray rsj.e-contentmanagement.com
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SWAN: South West Artsworkers Network- SW Victoria
Contact Regional Arts Development Officer Jo Grant in Port Fairy JGrant@rav.net.au or go to
www.swansydney.com
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Tasmanian Regional Arts - Tel 03 6426 2344, Email: info@tasregionalarts.asn.au
www.tasregionalarts.org.au
Volunteerism
Professional skills matching services
Organisations provide a 'matching' service - linking your project with an
interested volunteer.
www.volunteermatch.com.au
Youth
The Australia Council's new protocols for Working with Children in Art
released.
The protocols include an overview of relevant state and territory laws and a
set of minimum standards which artists and organisations must follow in order
to receive Fed Govt funding.
www.australiacouncil.gov.au/about_us/strategies_2/children_in_art
Other
Performing Arts Lodge, Vancouver: A success in community building
The Performing Arts Lodge is an ‘anti-retirement’ home for Vancouver's
performance community that serves as a model for ‘affordable housing done
right.’ The PAL building boasts 111 apartments as well as ‘a 100-seat public
theatre on the eighth floor, with stage and lighting to accommodate productions
by residents and public perfomances...’
www.palvancouver.org
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Browns Mart Community Arts Centre - Tel 08
8981 5522, Email: brownsmart@octa4.net.au www.darwincommunityarts.org.au/node/291
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Burrinja studio - Upwey
For permanent arts or arts business related studio space, with 24 hour, 7 day
access and very low overheads. Enquiries: Call
Suzanne or Ross on 9754 8723 or email burrinja@burrinja.org.au
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