Welcome Functions: Prahran Town Hall, Greville St, Prahran

WEDNESDAY JULY 25 ‘Expanding Cultures’ conference program (as July 2)

Welcome functions: Prahran Town Hall, Greville St, Prahran

5.30 pm Delegate Reception, Committee Room, Prahran Town Hall City of Stonnington function to welcome delegates and VIPs prior to the formal conference program Hosted by Helen Baker and Peter Redden, Conference Co-Chairs

6.30 pm: Sponsors Reception, Oriental Tea House, 455 Chapel St. South Yarra Hosted by Cr Claude Ullin, City of Stonnington Guest speaker, Jordi Pascual, Coordinator of the Working Group on Culture of ‘United Cities and Local Governments’ based at Barcelona City Council.

6.30 pm: Casual dinner for conference delegates, Gurkha’s Nepalese Brasserie. 190 Chapel Street Prahran. Ph: 9510 3325 John invites everyone else to join CDN staff to dinner at Gurkha’s upstairs private room RSVP to [email protected] by Monday July 23

THURSDAY JULY 26 ‘Expanding Cultures’ conference program (as July 2) TIME SESSION CHAIR SESSION TITLE PRESENTERS PRESENTATION TITLE 9.00- Registration Chapel Off Chapel open 9.30 for light breakfast

9.30 Conference Helen Baker, Welcome Helen Baker, Coordinator, Arts Welcome and background to am Opening City of Yarra & Cultural Services, City of conference Yarra 9.40- Carolyn Briggs, Welcome to Country 9.45 Chairperson of the Boon wurrung Foundation Ltd. 9.45- Councillor Claude Ullin, Welcome to Stonnington 9.50 City of Stonnington 9.50- Graham Pitts, Freelance Artist Framing the conversation: the 10.00 history of community based arts in Australia, especially the relationship with local government 10.00- Ministerial Local government, Richard Wynne, Minister for The changing shape of 10.10 address communities and the Local Government, Victoria community cultures and their arts impact on local government in Australia 10.10 Hon Nanaia Mahuta, Minister New Zealand government’s -10.30 for Youth Affairs, Associate adoption of the fourth pillar of Minister for Local Government, ‘culture’ New Zealand 10.30- Morning tea 11.00 11.00- Sue Beal, Policy directions for the Welcome to session 11.05 Chair Cultural future: how can policy Development in arts and culture Network, Team contribute to strength of Leader, Arts local communities? House, City of Melbourne 11.05 Keynote Jordi Pascual, Co-ordinator of The Global Community and 11.45 Speaker And the Working Group on Culture Local Government: Agenda 21 Q and A of United Cities and Local for Culture Governments (UCLG) for the Insitut de Cultura (Barcelona City Council) 11.45- Concurrent Local government’s Rae Perry, CEO, Victorian How can we advance a cultural 12.45 sessions growing engagement Local Governance Association development agenda in with arts and cultural Victoria?: local government’s development And other speakers tbc response 11.45- Concurrent Paul Holton, Strengthening Elisabeth Jones and Ian Arts Victoria: Local Partnerships 12.45 sessions Manager, Arts relationships between Rogers, Arts Victoria Program and Leisure, spheres of government: Latrobe City new directions for arts Council policy and funding Frank Panucci, Community Australia Council: Community Partnerships, Australia Council Partnerships Program 12.45 LUNCH -- 1.45 1.45- Pre afternoon Wake up call Bronwyn Roberts, President of ‘Laugh your socks off’ 2.00 warm up Laughter Clubs Victoria Inc after lunch wake up Laughing workshop 2.00 – Leading Cr David Colleen Marion, Director, 2.45 session Wilso Indigenous communities Gathering Place, western n, and local government: suburbs Melbourne City can the arts contribute? of Melbo The Hon Nanaia Mahuta. urne Minister for Youth Affairs, Associate Minister for Local Government, New Zealand

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2.45- Concurrent Kim Kruger, Maree McLachlan, Arts & Exploring creative engagement 3.45 sessions Audience What have we learned Cultural Team Leader and methodologies to celebrate the Access Project from arts projects with Bridget Robertson, Youth Arts art making of local Indigenous Manager, indigenous Officer, City of Greater Artists: case studies “Passage Ilbijerri Theatre communities? Bendigo Through Ceremony” and “Hand Company Me Down Project

‘Interweaving People: Karen Wyld, Community Connecting Communities: Case Development Officer, City of study of southern Indigenous Onkaparinga Weavers Project

Kylie Belling, Artistic Director, ‘Strengthening the Aboriginal Ilbijerri Aboriginal & Torres Community in Smith Street, the Strait Islander Theatre Co-op Dirty Mile’ Ltd 2.45- Concurrent Cr David How can we get Wal Saunders, Warrnambool, 3.45 sessions Wilso indigenous arts on the first Chair of Melbourne’s Getting started: lobbying council n, agenda of local Indigenous Arts Advisory for support and resource City government? Panel of Case study of City of Kutcha Edwards, current Melbo Melbourne’s Indigenous Chair, urne Arts Program Colin McKinnon, Indigenous What’s happening now? artist and businessman One outcome: Code of Practice Janina Harding, Manager, for Galleries and Retailers of Indigenous Arts Program, City Indigenous Arts of Melbourne 2.00- Workshop Host: Anne Steve Payne , Executive ‘How do we get the truth into 3.45 (maximum 20 Maree Pfabe, Officer, The Torch Project reconciliation?’ participants) Unit Manager Arts & Culture, Moreland City Council

3.45- Afternoon Foyer 4.15 Tea 4.15- Final session Moderator: The Great Debate: Jordi Pasquale, Working 5.00 Expanding Cultures: Group for Culture, United Professor ‘Interculturalism versus Cities for Local Government, Peter multiculturalism’ : Spain Sheldrake, should we be Jude Bloomfield independent Professor of encouraging expression researcher, UK Business of traditional cultures or Claude Ullin, Councillor, City of Entrepreneurs new forms of cultural Stonnington hip, RMIT expression? Rick Connors- Arts Victoria, Professional in Residence, Shepparton Khalid Abdul Wahib, hiphop artist and Youth Officer Multicultural Arts Victoria Isabel Jackson, Arts ad Culture Officer, City of Hobsons Bay Jorge Torrico, Multicultural Officer, City of Hobsons Bay Singing Session Jane Coker, co-ordinator of 5-6 pm Post Singing together is the most conference presented by Community Music Victoria's effective first step in developing Community Music state-wide team of catalysts. community. Join Jane Coker for workshop Victoria 60 minutes of guaranteed fun along with some practical advice about how local government can support and encourage community singing.

6-7 Pitching for Session John Smithies to Panel: pm Communities chair: introduce Pitching competition, concept and welcome Chair: Andy Miller, Senior John Smithies, panelists and Arts Officer, Arts Victoria Committee Director, competitors Room, Cultural Rita Dimasi, Editor, Artshub Prahran Town Development Graham Pitts, artist playwright Hall Network and Chair of NACA

7 00- Conference MC: 7 – 10.30 pm Background music by Akash Highlights of the evening will be 10.30 dinner Aamer performances by Pitching for Communities National Institute of Prahran Town Rahman finallists Circus Arts artists and Hall Performance by NICA artists the ‘Pitching for Communities’ competition, where teams of artists and community groups present their dream project to conference delegates

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9.55- Keynote Jude Bloomfield, research 'Intercultural Dialogue- creating the 10.40 speaker associate of the International new' And Q and A Cultural Planning & Policy Unit, De Montfort University, Leicester & Comedia, UK.

10.40- Morning tea 11.10 11.10- Leading Sue Doyle, Arts Different Professor John Wiseman The contribution of cultural 11.55 session Victoria approaches to and Dr. Kathleen Brasher, development to community well- evaluation: how do McCaughey Centre, being: key trends and emerging we measure the Melbourne University ideas outcomes of arts and cultural development activities? 12.00 Concurrent Sue Doyle, Different Naomi Berman, Assoc. Prof. ‘Measuring health outcomes of – 1.00 sessions Arts Victoria approaches to David Dunt, Victoria engagement in the arts: the Arts evaluation: how do Johnson, Lindy Joubert, Dr. Health Strategy for the Australia we measure the Margaret Kelaher, Dr. Janet Council’ outcomes of arts Stanley and cultural development Linda Sproul, Manager, activities? ‘Measuring cultural outcomes: case Public Programs, study work in progress. Melbourne Georgie Meyer, Community Museum’s efforts to measure Engagement Manager, cultural outcomes of its activities’. Museum Victoria

Karl Hatton, Cultural Services Officer, Glenelg Measuring economic outcomes of Shire Council cultural activity in Portland: the why and how 12.00 Concurrent Marion Mathews, Working with Debby Maziarz, Director, ‘Working in Partnership – the – 1.00 sessions Regional Arts diverse partners: Westside Circus Rotary Youth Arts Project’ Development positive outcomes Officer, Regional for all? ‘Making the Link; Developing Arts Victoria Dean Michael, Brimbank Partnerships Across the Western City Council and Lisa Arnott, Region: Aim West: arts alliance of Maribyrnong City Council, local government in Melbourne’s west

Celia Robinson, Unit ‘Linking Glenroy’: increasing Manager, Community community capacity building and Development and Paula and well-being through the arts Jorgenson, Moreland City Council 12.00 – Concurrent Alice Park, Senior Arts in public Louise Rollman, 1.00 sessions Arts Officer, Arts spaces: how do independent curator, ‘What is public?: unpacking key Victoria we deal with Queensland questions in public art projects differing agendas? Glenyys Romanes, ‘Train Stations as Creative Manager Community Community Hubs’ Relationships, Department of Infrastructure

‘Cultural development partnerships Natasha Shaw, Arts Co- around train stations’ ordinator, Queensland Rail 1.00- LUNCH 2.00 2.00- Pre afternoon Bollywood dance workshop, 2.15 warm up Kita Performing Arts company

2.15 – Leading Jon Hawkes, Arts and Martin Mulligan, Deputy ‘What role, strategies and impacts 3.00 session: Director, democratic Director, Globalism Institute, can community arts have on local Community Music participation in RMIT communities and the relationship of Victoria and Australia: how can participatory arts and participatory author ‘Fourth the arts be more democracy? Pillar of strategically Sustainability’ important to local government?’ 3.00- Concurrent Peggy Stevenson, Regional focus: Marty Cunningham, Dept of ‘The Arts and Social Well Being in 4.00 sessions Victorian how can local arts Culture and the Arts, WA Rural and Regional WA pm Represe projects contribute Communities’ ntative, to the strength of ‘Common Ground project: finding Local regional Lindy Allen, Director, new ways to tap into rhythms, skills Governm communities? Regional Arts Victoria and passions in regional ent communities’ Commun ity ‘Driving Innovation: Arts Practice Services Clare Irvine, Education and Innovation in a Regional Associati Coordinator, Maitland Context’ on, Regional Art Gallery,

Expanding Cultures conference program as at 1.7.07 3 General Manager Maitland City Council City Services, Latrobe Council 3.00- Concurrent Richard Holt, City Issues arising Gaynor Cuthbert, Research ‘Prioritising Process over Product’ 4.00 sessions of Port Phillip from practice - Creative Arts, University of Melbourne Rebecca Lister, Arts and Culture Coordinator, Jesuit Social Services ‘Is inclusion all that it’s cracked up to be?’

Lesley Hall, Arts & Cultural ‘Beyond the cringe – Artists with Development Officer, City of Disabilities and Cultural Practice in Darebin, Jane Trengrove, Local Government’ Disability Planning Officer City of Yarra 3.00- Concurrent Verity Higgins, Sarah Poole, Public Art Putting the Public in Public Art: 4.00 sessions Regional Arts ‘Multiple Public Officer, Arts & Cultural public art as a means of building Development Voices: working Development Unit, City of and strengthening inclusive Officer, Ballarat with diverse Whittlesea, Mark Wilkinson, community cultural development and district communities’ Darebin City Council

Catherine Rinaudo, Arts & Cultural Development Coordinator, City of Kingston ‘Umoja=Unity’

Angela Bailey, photographer and Helena Spyrou, writer, ‘Are you from the Commish?’ Carlton Public Housing Estate 4.00- Afternoon tea 4.30 4.30- Peter Redden and Wrapping Up the Jude Bloomfield Review of conference and 5.15 Helen Baker, Conference and responses from local discussion about future directions Conference, Co- Moving Forward delegates for the sector. Chairs from Here- do we have another conference?

5.15- Final chance 6 pm for networking: farewell drinks and nibbles

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