Janet Galpin, representing N’arweet Carolyn Briggs and the Boon Wurrung Foundation

Martin Foley MP, Minister for Creative Industries
Lena Nahlous, Executive Director, Diversity Arts Australia

MC Eleanor Jackson, poet and Chair, Peril 

Genevieve Grieves, artist, curator and Head, First Peoples Dept, Museums Victoria

Keynote followed by Q&A facilitated by Eleanor Jackson 

• Why are you here? What do you want to get from this experience?
• What is your organisation/sector already doing well? What needs to change?
• Share your thoughts on Twitter (#FairPlayCreative), with your neighbor or on a Post-it note provided by staff
• Meet the Citizen Journalists who will be documenting the symposium

What does self-determination mean in the context of your work and your community?

Participating Chair: Eugenia Flynn

Fiona Tuomy, Artistic Director, The Other Film Festival

Tania Canas, Arts Director, RISE Refugee

Panel followed by Q&A facilitated by chair.

Please make your way to The Moat, located downstairs from the Performance Space, and grab a lunchbox. Please prioritise lunchboxes in the Performance Space for people with access needs. You are welcome to enjoy your lunch outdoors, in the main space, upstairs in the breakout rooms or in the restaurant itself. Please Note: Space in The Moat is limited, and needs to be cleared out by 12.45pm today.

Deborah Williams, Executive Director, Creative Diversity Network (UK)

Keynote followed by Q&A facilitated by Caroline Bowditch, Executive Director, Arts Access Victoria.

MC check-in and activity that gets people moving

Participating Chair: Veronica Pardo, CEO, Multicultural Arts Victoria

Sophie Black, Head of Publishing, the Wheeler Centre

Leah Jing McIntosh, founder and editor-in-chief, Liminal

Kath Duncan, Researcher, producer and co-founder, Quippings deaf and disabled queer dance troupe

Bali Padda, Industry Development Executive, Screen Australia

Panel followed by Q&A facilitated by chair.

Why are we still talking about diversity? How many words have been spoken and written about the political imperatives of racial equity, cultural rights and inclusion?  

Artists and activists Aseel Tayah and Dr Paula Abood reflect on their experiences in this space through a performative paper that tells a 30 year story.

Citizen Journalists will report back on the proceedings so far.

MC will ask participants to check-in with their intentions, invite self-reflection and to take note of any take-aways or actions inspired by the day.

Take this time to get some air outside of the Performance Space as the Wheeler Centre staff prepares the space for the debrief sessions.

Spaces are available for closed debrief sessions for CALD, First Nations, and People with Disability. There will be an open debrief session that anyone can attend. Please sign-up for debriefs early in the day so we can allocate space accordingly.

Speakers and participants are invited to The Moat to continue conversations and make connections.

MC Eleanor Jackson to facilitate goal-setting/review 

Performance by Neil Morris, DRMNGNOW and RRR

Music/spoken word performance followed by an interview by Eleanor Jackson. Neil is also Aboriginal Development Officer at the Victorian Music Office.

Let’s talk leadership. What’s happening at the top? What will it take to diversify leadership in creative industries and why does that matter so much? This session looks at the current leadership composition of creative industries and cultural institutions, and tangible pathways for change.

Participating Chair: Jeremy Smith, Director of Community, Emerging and Experimental Arts, Australia Council for the Arts

Professor James Arvanitakis, Chair, Diversity Arts and Pro Vice-Chancellor, WSU

Michael Williams, Director, the Wheeler Centre

Jane Crawley, Director, Arts Investment, Creative Victoria

Jodie Sizer, Co-CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers Indigenous Consulting and Board Member of Collingwood Football Club

Katrina Sedgwick, CEO, ACMI

Paola Balla, artist, curator, educator and Indigenous Advisory Group, Footscray Community Arts Centre  

Panel followed by Q&A facilitated by chair.

Rob Hyatt, Education Manager, Koorie Heritage Trust

Caroline Bowditch, Executive Director, Arts Access Victoria 

In 2014, Caroline Bowditch premiered a show titled Falling in love with Frida. With both disabled and non-disabled performers, and sign language interpretation embedded at its centre, the award-winning and critically acclaimed dance theatre work was shown 93 times to sold out audiences across the UK and internationally. In her keynote presentation, Caroline will address why it was important to make this show, how it was represented in the media in Australia compared to overseas, why it is important to reclaim Frida Kahlo as a disabled artist, and making work that doesn’t focus on accepted mainstream conventions.

Please make your way to The Moat, located downstairs from the Performance Space, and grab a lunchbox. Please prioritise lunchboxes in the Performance Space for people with access needs. You are welcome to enjoy your lunch outdoors, in the main space, upstairs in the breakout rooms or in the restaurant itself. Please Note: Space in The Moat is limited.

INTERSECT is a British Council and Diversity Arts Australia led initiative that includes a knowledge exchange and peer support program for arts leaders in the UK and Australia who are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or from a culturally and linguistically diverse or minority ethnic background.

The 2018 INTERSECT participants will discuss how international exchange has shaped their practice and philosophy. What are the implications of a “cultural exchange” between a colonial centre and its former settler colony, established through the dispossession of First Nations people? How do we engage with these dilemmas, and what can we learn from each other?

Participating Chair: Deborah Williams, Creative Diversity Network UK

Candy Bowers, multidisciplinary producer and co-artistic director of Black Honey Company (AUS)

Jacob Boehme, multidisciplinary theatremaker and choreographer (AUS)

Mikala Tai, curator and Director, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (AUS)

Abdul Shayek, Theatre Director and Artistic Director of FIO (Wales)

Natalie Ibu, Artistic Director and CEO, tiata fahodzi (UK)

Adelaide Bannerman, freelance project manager and curator (UK)

Panel followed by Q&A facilitated by chair.

Stories from the trenches on problematising identity and intersectionality in creative expression.

Participating Chair: Eugenia Flynn

Dominic Golding, Disability and Community Arts officer of Rise Refugee

Peter Waples Crowe, Ngarigo queer visual and performing artist

Azizeh Astaneh, visual artist, graphic designer and founding president of Melbourne Artists for Asylum Seekers

Jax Jacki Brown, disability and LGBTIQ rights activist and Publishability Project Officer, Writers Victoria

Citizen journalists report back 

MC invites participants to check-in with their goals and notes any actions or takeaways. Also encourage participants to complete online feedback. 

Closing acknowledgements by Lena Nahlous, Executive Director of Diversity Arts Australia

Spaces are available for closed debrief sessions for CALD, First Nations, and People with Disability. There will be an open debrief session that anyone can attend. Please sign-up for debriefs early in the day so we can allocate space accordingly.

Speakers and participants are invited to The Moat to continue conversations and make connections.