Jessica Alice is a poet, critic, broadcaster and artistic director/CEO from Melbourne’s west living on Kaurna Yarta in Adelaide, South Australia.
Jessica is the Director of Writers SA, the peak organisation for writing and literature in South Australia, and Chair of the Arts Industry Council of South Australia, the state’s independent, sector wide representative arts body.
Jessica is completing a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Cultural Leadership at NIDA—the National Institute of Dramatic Art—with a focus on leadership and governance, advocacy, policy and cultural diplomacy.
Join us for a discussion about the future of arts and culture in Australia: the key visions, approaches and initiatives of different parties and candidates, and why supporting and rebuilding Australia’s arts and cultural sector is an important challenge for future Australian governments.
Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.