Conference Program

What difference does it make when you take a whole of city/region approach and place culture in a leading role? The Norwegians have described this as creating ‘a state of mind that lasts…’ 

• Contributors:

• Libby Christie - Chair
• Theaker von Ziarno - Panellist
• Rod Ainsworth - Panellist
• Jo Pike - Panellist
• John Smithies - Panellist

At regular but unpredictable intervals, people around the world are affected by natural hazards. We can only expect that these events will increase in number and ferocity the future. Disaster management is a complex series of activities and external assistance can provide expert knowledge and resources, but survivors and people living in the area can also do much to help if they are prepared and supported.

• Contributors:

• Scotia Monkivitch - Chair
• Coralie Winn - Panellist
• Carmen Mauk - Panellist
• Debra Jefferies - Panellist

In this dance theatre masterclass, Katrina Lazaroff - Artistic Director of One Point 618, will guide participants through a movement and voice warm up. Participants will be given the opportunity to learn a short piece of repertoire from the performance of Involuntary and be involved in a task based choreographic exercise creating their own creative material through a guided process.

A facet of leadership is about being committed to taking risks. The work artists produce is the material of questioning and risk taking. Embracing uncertainty increases our capacity to turn a problem or crisis into an opportunity. But there’s a tension between artistic risk and innovation, and accessibility and acceptance.

• Contributors:

• Sandy Verschoor - Chair
• Craig Walsh - Panellist
• Alex Kelly - Panellist
• Jude Anderson - Panellist
• Sarah Last - Panellist

Word on the Street (WOTS) is an ephemeral art activity combining the written word and visual installations of a community’s thoughts, dreams and hopes.

Community artists Sandy Elverd and her team will lead participants in a process which invites them to share their thoughts, ideas and words and learn the skills of the WOTS project. We will then mingle amongst other delegates and gather their thoughts and ideas using the WOTS process.

Crowd funding has emerged as a significant new player in the global fundraising landscape. Over the past few years we have witnessed different crowd funding campaigns ‘go viral’ – crowd funding’s real point of difference because it allows supporters to access global supporters who would never otherwise have been able to connect with a campaign.

• Contributors:

• Caroline Vu - Chair
• Rebecca Harris - Panellist
• Michelle Cotterill - Panellist
• Fee Plumley - Panellist

RiAus presents a panel of practicing artists and scientists to discuss the creativity of science and the science of art.

• Contributors:

• Janice Lally - Facilitator
• Deb Shaw - Panellist
• Ian Gibbins - Panellist
• Niki Sperou - Panellist
• David Kerr - Panellist

What are the possibilities for cultural leadership within a regional environment? Especially ones in performance making and theatre, an art form that is rare in the cultural landscape in regional Australia?

What does a cultural leader looks like within their specific environment? What kind of activities would professionally develop these leaders?

• Contributors:

• Antonietta Morgillo - Chair
• Suellen Maunder - Panellist
• Krista Horbatiuk - Panellist
• Steve Mayhew - Panellist

Smart regional communities are focusing on their young people and their leadership potential to maintain vibrancy and relevance. Meanwhile young people are communicating globally on digital platforms.

Where do our traditional notions of regional arts and culture fit into this picture?

• Contributors:

• Olivia Allen - Chair
• Emily Atkins - Panellist
• Sofie Lines - Panellist
• Alysha Herrmann - Panellist

This workshop will teach participants how to film, edit and upload a simple timelapse video using an iphone or ipad. Timelapse is a fast and effective technique for showing your creative process or event. It’s easy to do, easy to share online and it’s fun!

For this workshop, participants needs to bring an iPhone or iPad, and participants are expected to bring their phone or iPad fully charged.

Environmental issues and creative community activism have been ongoing bed fellows since the 1960’s.

This panel will survey three recent projects and areas, all very different from each other, all addressing unique contemporary economic issues and all with distinctive tactics and results.

This workshop will teach participants how to film, edit and upload a
simple timelapse video using their own camera and computer. Timelapse is a fast and effective technique for showing your creative process or event. It’s easy to do, easy to share online and it’s fun!

For this workshop, participants needs to bring their own camera & laptop.

It’s Coming! The NBN is coming! And with it a prediction that a wave of mainstream product from the United States will be streaming straight to our houses filling our lives with digital soap bubbles overflowing from our screens!

However the NBN is two way tube of communication and these panelists know it.

Be it inhabiting empty spaces in new ways or using digital tools to re-imagine community spaces, people are place making all over the place! And they’re getting their local governments on board to assist them!

This panel will bring together the energy required that activates such initiatives to discuss the main tools used, the successes and challenges, the pitfalls and benefits.

• Contributors:

• Steve Saffell - Chair
• Tania Blackwell - Panellist
• Merryn Spencer - Panellist
• Rose Marin - Panellist
• Anna Maclean - Panellist

The rivers of the Murray Darling Basin connect people, communities and places over a vast geographic terrain, both literally and metaphorically.

One River is a multi-state and territory project being staged as part of celebrations for the Centenary of Canberra in 2013, recognising the national capital’s location within the Basin and its connection to the watery heart of the country.

This panel discussion will propose some useful directions and demonstrate the importance of memory and cultural knowledge as a resource that we need to value and draw upon.

• Contributors:

• Malcolm McKinnon - Chair
• Robyn Archer - Panellist
• Åsa Wahlquist - Panellist
• Ken Orchard - Panellist
• Adrian Brown - Panellist

A bit like railway gauges, every state seems to have its own idiosyncracies and variations when it comes to youth arts one may argue they are overdue for a refresh.

This panel will profile existing models and discuss the state of the nation's respective approaches to youth arts policy. Then engage the audience in an interactive discussion about what they perceive as crucial to an effective model for youth arts policy.

• Contributors:

• Paul MacPhail - Chair
• Jim Lawson - Panellist
• Tricia Walton - Panellist
• Elizabeth Spencer - Panellist

In the lead up to the 2014 Regional Arts Australia Conference and in relation to the current resources boom we thought it might be good to get the conversation started about mining and it’s impact on community and culture, and vice versa.

A panel discussion dedicated to the effect our nation’s recent bushfires and floods have had on regional artists and their communities.

• Contributors:

• Arthur Frame AM - Chair
• Scotia Monkivitch - Panellist
• Katrina Lazaroff - Panellist
• Donna Jackson - Panellist

Artists working with DADAA will discuss and present interventionist art works. The project Lost and Found will provide an active example to share key ideas and strategies.

Lost and Found is a campaign to play with methods of attracting the attention of the public in open spaces and to engage/encourage a response to personally loaded artworks.

Established cultural venues, town halls, even tin sheds can play the important function of hubs of activity where notions of placemaking occur.

This panel will explore the role of the “hub”, through looking at those that have been established for some time through to the emerging and burgeoning.

• Contributors:

• Hania Radvan - Chair
• Cath Bowdler - Panellist
• Dylan Gower - Panellist
• Ashleigh Bunter - Panellist
• Kylie Shead - Panellist
• Esther Anatolitis - Panellist

Carclew Youth Arts delivers digital animation workshops in metropolitan and regional centres across South Australia.

Workshops are tailored for participants aged 10-16 years, but for the Kumuwuki / Big Wave conference animators Luku and Mitch Hearn will be teaching the big kids skills in digital animation, creative skills development and the creation of animated artworks for public exhibition. 

The do-er’s, the movers and the shakers. Just what is a Cultural Leader and what does it look like?

These panelists will explore the topic by giving their identikit version of Cultural Leadership that pertains to their part of Australia.

• Contributors:

• Elizabeth Rogers - Chair
• Jane Kreis - Panellist
• Ross Onley-Zerkel - Panellist
• Michelle Murray - Panellist

Okay, so the internet has been around for a while now right? And we all know how broadband is going to change our worlds and revolutionise our sector - especially in rural and regional communities. But are we actually connecting yet as a sector? If not, why not?

The community mental health benefits of art and cultural participation are well established, from supporting people who are experiencing mental illness, to creating social networks and opportunities for meaningful engagment and economic participation more widely.

• Contributors:

• Jim Rimmer - Chair
• Georgina Allain - Panellist
• Lenore de la Perrelle - Panellist
• Simone Gillam - Panellist

Alison Tickell (Julie's Bicycle) and Angharad Wynne-Jones (TippingPoint Australia, Arts House) have an open dialogue about their experiences of creating and participating in sustainability initiatives in the arts and culture sectors.

• Contributors:

• Angharad Wynne-Jones - Panellist
• Alison Tickell - Panellist

Artists working with DADAA will discuss and present interventionist art works. The project Lost and Found will provide an active example to share key ideas and strategies.

Lost and Found is a campaign to play with methods of attracting the attention of the public in open spaces and to engage/encourage a response to personally loaded artworks.