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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, Opening Ceremony, ReGenerating Community Conference, September 2009, Federation Square, Melbourne.
Green Expectations by Shaun Gardner and Stefanie
Robinson, ReGenerating Community Conference, September 2009, RMIT University, Melbourne.
HOT LINKS
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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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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Our main advocacy work has been through running and supporting forums and conferences at which individuals can meet and debate face to face. Details of our plans for the future as well as past events can be found on these pages.
We began hosting forums to stimulate discussion among and between various sectors about the implications of applying a cultural perspective to local development. Always extending our research work, our forums have meant that people from disparate disciplines have forged new relationships, considerednew ideas and been inspired by the possibilities of ‘fourth pillar’ thinking.
Public Program 2010
Arts Indicators for Local Government
Discussion groups:
Monday 31 May, 2-5 pm, Melbourne
Fri 18 June, 10am - 1 pm, Melbourne
Please contact Kim Dunphy on kim.dunphy@culturaldevelopment.net.au if you would like to participate in this discussion.
Arts and community PhD researchers network:
Next meeting Thursday 29 July, 4 - 5:30 pm,
Philip Law Room, Level One, Elizabeth Murdoch Building,
(white building with pillars, corner St Kilda Road and Grant Street),
VCAM, Southbank
Presenters:
Vicki-Ann Ware, PhD (Ethnomusicology) & Robert Hoskin, PhD Candidate (ACU, School of Arts)
Vicki-Ann Ware, PhD (Ethnomusicology): Moving with the times: maintaining cultural identity through fusion genres
Vicki worked in community-based arts in mainland Southeast Asia for 8.5 years. She conducted a range of projects across three countries, ranging from song-writing seminars to community festivals, and completed a PhD in Ethnomusicology, specialising in Thai music. Her thesis examined the maintenance of music-cultural identity during times of rapid culture change. She showed that there are definite patterns in the maintenance of facets of Thai culture and the adoption of more Western music practices in Thai fusion genres, which present a modern-yet-Thai identity musically. Vicki will present some reflections on her work and research in Thailand. In particular, she will talk about one project in Bangkok where she used a variety of ways to re-stimulate an interest in indigenous music and help them find ways of combining traditional Thai and Western music to facilitate this modern-yet-Thai identity.
Robert Hoskin, PhD Candidate (ACU, School of Arts): The Mowanjum Festival: A model for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Collaboration
Mowanjum is an Aboriginal community some ten kilometres from Derby, comprising the Worrora, Ngarinyin and Wunambul peoples of the Western Kimberley. The three tribes are people of the Wandjina, the Spirit beings who are believed to create and sustain the land and its people. The community has an Arts and Culture Centre which has hosted a festival since 1998. I briefly summarise my involvement in the Festival and with the community over nearly ten years. This involvement includes volunteer work with the Arts Centre and Festival as well as engagement with the people and their culture. Of recent years, I joined the Boab Network, a group of volunteers associated with the Floreat Uniting Church Perth. The Boab Network have also assisted at the Festival and are undertaken a range of projects including youth work, the installation of computers, visitation. In this paper, I argue that the Festival is and has become a significant model for Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaboration, bringing together a wide range of people with diverse experience and talents to share. I posit an action reflection model based on the importance of developing and maintaining dynamic relationships with the people. Other key elements include listening to the needs and aspirations of the people, being prepared to take appropriate initiatives, and developing creative ways of reflection. In my case, I have used journal, various forms of visual and performance art, and conversation to explore the issues and tensions within such collaboration and engagement with an Indigenous community. Finally, it is necessary to develop a way of communicating the process and experience of this collaborative engagement with the wider Australian society. This has its own tensions and issues, often requiring the permission and direction of the Indigenous community.
RSVP: marniebadham@gmail.com
The Arts and Community PhD Researchers Network:
A partnership between the Cultural Development Network (CDN) and VCAM’s Centre for Cultural Partnerships' PhD students, the network brings together researchers from Victorian universities who are interested in cultural development, social change, creative methodologies, artistic intervention, and/ or community research themes. It provides opportunities for presentation and discussion of new research in an informal and supportive collegial environment for students and by students.
The International Perspective: artists and artsworkers who have been working overseas talk about tbeir experiences
Artists' Talk:
2-5 pm, Friday 10 December 2010
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We would be pleased to hear from you with enquiries or suggestions about any of these activities or any other ideas.
Contact Program Manager, Kim Dunphy, on (03) 9658 9976 or admin@culturaldevelopment.net.au
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