Are you a culturally diverse creative, arts worker, filmmaker, producer, director, performer or writer with a vision for the future?
Join us for a free workshop series to imagine a future where cultural diversity is present at every level in the arts! Sydney University’s Dr Remy Low, Lecturer from the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, will be a workshop facilitator.
Workshops will be held in NSW, SA, ACT and WA with some spaces available to people in other States/Territories. Submit your interest below. More workshops to be announced soon, so register early!
The workshops invite culturally diverse creatives and arts workers to imagine a timeline towards an equitable culturally diverse arts future in Australia. The workshop flows from the personal to the structural and systemic; including exercises that reflect upon experiences of marginalisation in the arts to group exercises of collectively imagining milestones towards an equitable culturally diverse arts scene in 2050.
Workshop outcomes
Register now
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For SA, ACT and WA based culturally diverse creatives or arts workers, register your interest by the next intake extended to 31 July 2019 below.
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All previous earlier submissions from culturally diverse creatives/arts workers are still valid priority submissions.
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Invitations to workshops will be sent at least a month before each workshop to registered culturally diverse artists/arts workers.
Workshops:
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ACT Workshops – The Street Theatre on 13 & 14 September 2019.
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WA Workshops – The State Library of Western Australia on 24 & 25 October 2019. (Supported by Community Arts Network & Country Arts WA).
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SA Workshops – Nexus Arts on 21 & 22 November 2019.
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For NSW applicants, registrations have closed for the January 2019 workshops but will re-open in the future.
Project Updates
In January 2019, we kicked off the first workshops in NSW at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Parramatta Artists Studios with a range of artists and arts workers from across the creative sector.
Check out the workshop coverage at Peril Magazine and read Salaat by Omar Sakr, a poem inspired by a personal reflection upon the connections between the past, present and future at the workshop. Also read Islandless Islanders: the very real threat of climate change by Winnie Dunn at SBS Life for another reflective piece inspired by the workshop. At Peril Magazine, Monica Kumar also explores the present and the future state of being in The year is 2050 and nothing much has changed.
In March and April 2019, we launched the first introductory short films based on the NSW Stories from the Future workshops at two events with Councillor Charishma Kaliyanda and Councillor Patricia Prociv.
The introductory films were launched as part of the celebrations for Harmony Day: Forum For Home at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and the Stories from the Future social mixer at Parramatta Artists Studios. Stay tuned to this space for the online short films coming soon.
