Lone Keast, Director of the Policy, Planning and Performance team at Arts Queensland recently delivered a presentation at the Making Culture Count Conference . This post is an adapted extract from her presentation. Over the past couple of years in Arts Queensland, there has been a surge in our efforts to collect more tangible evidence about ...
Entertainment lawyer Samuel Seow provides a quick tutorial on protecting your creative property….. As a lawyer I am widely assumed to be boring. The impression is compounded when I say I am a lawyer from.…Singapore. Few appreciate that my youthful good looks were put to good use in my (actual) youth when I sang professionally. ...
Shelley Pisani blogs about how Creative Regions is delivering arts services to regional communities and why it’s working for them. In 2008, Jude Pippen, Sylvia Langford, Rod Ainsworth and I formed Creative Regions, a regionally-based arts production company that aims to build the capacity of artists, arts workers and organisations and, ultimately, develop and deliver ...
Marcus Westbury describes his brokering of enterprising partnerships between business and the arts in Newcastle…… What is the difference between a sponsorship and a partnership? It’s a question that I’d never really had to engage with until comparatively recently. I’d worked on festivals and events that had received commercial sponsorship – occasionally cash but mostly ...
Strategist John Tarnoff describes the need for cultural leaders to enter in to dialogue with their communities…… Like it or not, 21st century digital culture is participatory. What this means is that it is no longer possible to communicate in one-way streams, informing stakeholders, partners, employees, customers, members or subscribers with contained, encapsulated communications. 21st ...
Netherlands based economist and visual artist Hans Abbing argues that we should not strive for more individual subsidies for artists……. In our society art, artworks and artists are put on a pedestal, while at the same time artists are poor, very poor. This appears to be a contradiction, but it is not. As I explained ...
Queensland poet Graham Nunn discusses the big ideas emerging from consultation with Queensland’s writing sector. Graham’s post should be read alongside Chris Meade’s recent post. Without doubt, writing can be a lonely business. We often work alone, with full control over the way we generate ideas, the type of work we produce, the hours in ...
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