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Working across Australia over 3 decades in the arts and community arts sector. Understanding and experience in community cultural development (ccd) values and projects, including commitment to diverse cultural practices and protocols, facilitating community consultation and participatory expression, collaborative project design, broad network development, and access to skills and resources. 

Executive member of Qld Chamber of Arts and Culture, actively involved in National ArtsFront program and Coordinator for the “Little Lunches on Line” Captioners team. Loving feeling part of a national sector and contributing in some way to ensuring these conversations are accessible to all. 

Current Program Manager at www.ArtsNexus.com.au

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Arts Captioners

A group of artists who provide captioning services.

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A group of artists who provide captioning services.

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Arts Front Leadership Group

A leadership group supporting the Art Front project.

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A leadership group supporting the Art Front project.

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Fair Play | Equity, Inclusion & the Creative Industries

The Fair Play project, funded by Creative Victoria, is an equity and inclusion capacity building program for organisations that receive multi-year funding through Creative Victoria.

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The Fair Play project, funded by Creative Victoria, is an equity and inclusion capacity building program for organisations that receive multi-year funding through Creative Victoria.

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Rural and Regional Visioning

Rural and Regional Visioning 

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Rural and Regional Visioning 

With the commitment by the new federal government to renew and reinstate the Creative Australia National cultural policy by the end of 2022, there is a perfect opportunity to complete the Arts Front 2030 work, and promote the ideas and visions for the future that people have contributed over the last five years.

Jul 01 2022 To Jun 30 2023

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.

Adelaide, Kaurna Yerta
Nov 11 2021 To Nov 12 2021

Unpacking the Canada Council's $85m Digital Strategy Fund. What worked and what can the arts sector in Australia learn from it? 

Whitehorse - Yukon Canada
Feb 18 2021 To Feb 18 2021

Conversations across the continents: A series of panels discussing cultural linkages between Australian and Indian artists hosted by Arts Nexus (Far North Qld).

Nov 09 2020 To Nov 11 2020

Field Trip - Arts, Science, Tech and Environment Symposium

Sunshine Coast
Aug 08 2020

An online symposium exploring ideas of basic income and the need for an approach to economy that puts creativity and care at its centre. Led by a panel of artists, researchers, economists, scientists and philosophers, the symposium responds to current and ongoing planetary crises, and positions creativity and social ecology as integral to shaping policy and systems of value.

The Symposium is a joint initiative of Arts Front, BLINDSIDE and Next Wave and was supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.

Melbourne
May 28 2020 To May 28 2020

Arts Dinners Online delivers a professional development, networking and fun event so that people can participate in this from the comfort of their own home.

Apr 28 2020 To Jul 28 2020

Little Lunch Online (LLOL) was a daily online meetup and creative exchange to support the Australian arts sector during the Corona Virus pandemic in 2020.

Mar 23 2020 To Sep 30 2020

Arts Ablaze was a conference and celebration of regional arts in Queensland taking place at Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley on Wednesday 2 to Sunday 6 October 2019.

Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley
Oct 02 2019 To Oct 04 2019

The Fair Play symposium will platform the knowledges, leading practices and lived experiences of First Nations, Disability, and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse creative practitioners.

The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Feb 26 2019 To Feb 27 2019