Information and Cultural Exchange 23Rd Annual Report January to December 2006 Contents
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Information and Cultural Exchange 23rd Annual Report January to December 2006 Contents 2 Overview of ICE 4 ICEMAP: the Visual Guide to ICE 6 Chairperson’s Report 7 Director’s Report 8 Artfiles 10 Artfiles: Dis/Place: Making Work in Exile 11 Cultural Development Program (CDP) 12 CDP: Sydney Writers’ Festival 13 CDP: Lost in the Waters 14 CDP: Siren Call 15 CDP: Sydney Arab Film Festival 16 CDP: Cultural Collaborations 16 Emerging City Exhibition 17 CDP: ARTiculate 18 CDP: Remembering Minto 19 CDP: Emerge 21 CDP: Darkness Over Paradise 22 CDP: Youth Digital Cultures 23 Switch Multimedia and Digital Arts Access Centre 24 Switch: Suburban Grooves Urban Music Project 26 Switch: Urban Music Artist-in-Residence 28 Switch: Originate 30 Switch: Western Sydney Screen Culture 31 Switch: Digital Storytelling 32 Community Information Technology Program (CITP) 34 CITP: Engaging Communities 35 People and Partners 38 Treasurer’s Report 39 Financial Statements Overview of ICE Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) region’s artists and creative practitioners. works at the intersection of arts, culture, ICE has expertise and success in developing technology and community. ICE works across multimedia, community development and Greater Western Sydney, Australia’s most arts programs that engage thousands of culturally diverse region, on a range of individuals, artists and communities annually programs and projects that seek to and is known and respected for undertaking creatively engage diverse communities and projects with newly arrived migrant and artists to build capacity, generate new forms refugee communities and young people. of cultural expression, build cultural and ICE has grown rapidly in recent years, community infrastructures, encourage responding to increasing demands of Recognition ICE Director Lena Nahlous, Asialink Fellowship 2006 | Finalist, intercultural dialogue and tell the stories of Western Sydney communities for creative Stockholm Challenge 2006 | Winner, Western Sydney Industry Awards 2004 and this extraordinary place. opportunities and cultural expression, ICE manages Switch, Western Sydney’s information, digital arts and technology 2003 | Finalist, national Multicultural Marketing Awards 2003 | Finalist, Australia state of the art multimedia and digital arts access, skills and support. Stretching our Post Small Business Awards 2003 | Fadia Abboud, Switch Program Manager, Western resources to capacity, ICE has built access centre. We produce Artfiles: the Arts Sydney Arts Fellowship 2005 | Rotary Pride of Workmanship Awards for contributions Directory of Western Sydney, a print momentum from successful programs that publication and online resource, and also a seek to deliver new, creative ways to meet to Community and Cultural Development in Western Sydney to ICE Program Managers program of support and development for the these needs. Mouna Zaylah and Liliana Ruti 2004 and 2005 2 3 ICEMAP: the Visual Guide to ICE 1 Innovation 2 Incubation 3 Capacity 4 Communication 5 Alliances 6 Continuity Generate fresh forms of Seed new arts, community Build capacity of socially- Amplify Western Sydney’s Build strategic alliances Develop sustainable cross-cultural expression and digital media excluded communities to diverse and creative and partnerships to operations so programs and models of community enterprises, projects and share their stories, voices through the strengthen operations build momentum and GOALS digital engagement. practices to sustainability. deepen participation and exhibition and promotion and boost creativity. provide genuine pathways effect change. of bold new work. for ongoing participation within and beyond ICE. 123 5 1342236234 56 Cultural Development Program Switch Community IT Program Artfiles Encourages innovative collaborations A program and space to provide access to Strengthening Western Sydney communities Professional development, profile, between culturally diverse communities new media technologies to communities by building regional IT capacity, improving employment and recognition for Western and the arts sectors, to develop new models who typically lack access information exchange, and targeting gaps Sydney artists, arts and culture. for CCD practice and produce new work and needs. (with a focus on digital media). KEY KEY PROGRAMS 1 Support and resource cultural development in 1 Incubate emerging artists, projects and 1 Develop IT skills and infrastructure 1 Professional development and capacity- Western Sydney creative enterprises Resource community networks, NGOS, libraries, building for artists Initiatives assist communities and young people Artist residencies; mentorships; incubation workers; support access centres. to self-sustainability; provide advice and program. 2 Resource artist business and employment information in response to requests. 2 Build digital capacity of organisations and Incubate arts enterprises, employment 2 Skills and capacity-building for artists and service providers brokerage, information, referral. 2 Generate dialogue and research around artsworkers Multimedia training; capacity-building intersections of culture, arts, technology and Digital arts training; refugee radio initiative; collaborations (Connecting Parramatta). 3 Cultural brokerage with local government in community in Western Sydney web/design workshops; ‘active flix’ video project. Western Sydney Research with University of Western Sydney and 3 Develop innovative IT capacity-building Contribute to cultural planning; build networks; University of Technology Sydney (Digital Cultural 3 Deliver cutting edge community digital arts initiatives collaborations. Atlas, dig. stories). initiatives Digital access for excluded groups; Connect Out Africa On Screen; Suburban Grooves; hip hop project with isolated and recently-arrived 4 Interactive and dynamic information resource 3 Produce high quality community-led cultural projections; Arabic v-logging. communities. New website; biannual publication; e-bulletin. projects Remembering Minto; Hip-hop and urban culture 4 Increase isolated communities’ access to 4 Spearhead innovative research and 5 Profiling artists and resourcing arts projects. digital arts development marketing Mobile kits; access programs. Community IT mapping; conferences: Our Media, Artfiles showcase; artist profiling and marketing; 4 Progress CCD practice in Western Sydney Making Links. residency and skills program attached to Mentorships; master classes, youth initiatives 5 Switch Academy training and cost-recovery incubator. (Youth Digital Cultures). Open, fee-paying digital arts training. 6 Regional cultural mapping 5 Connect communities and cultural institutions 6 Switch Productions Dis/place project (refugee artists with Museum Revenue-generating service to produce of Contemporary Art & CAC); Sydney Writers’ specialist, culturally-savvy multimedia resources. Festival. 7 Maintaining facilities, equipment and Synergy 6 Develop strategic cultural interventions programming capacity Arabic youth film initiative; incubating Sydney Work across and between ICE programs to mutually reinforce and support outcomes, Arab Film Festival. 8 Hire of Switch and portable equipment fill gaps, break new ground and make connections. 4 © Information and Cultural Exchange (2007) 5 Chairperson’s Report Director’s Report ICE’s reputation as a key cultural Young Australians and the Vodafone The past year has been one of consolidation, consolidation on our fragile infrastructure. development organisation and a creative Australia Foundation. creative challenges and of tremendous These are challenges we are planning to centre of Western Sydney continues to grow. I would like to thank our partners — their recognition. Never before have we seen so address through a strategic planning and ICE is an important voice in the Australian support not only allows us to survive in the many significant and far-reaching review process in 2007. arts scene, shaping our understanding of our physical sense but it is also a kind of moral partnerships and collaborations, from our ICE would not have achieved its many community’s artistic resource. support that the arts sector always work with grass-roots filmmakers and successes without our valuable and talented This is because, increasingly, appreciates! The achievements of ICE are emerging African artists to collaborations team, an inspiring and dedicated ICE is a place that people come to. It has due to the ongoing support of our principal with artists, community and cultural management committee, the support and become a central hub of activities for funding bodies, Arts NSW, the NSW institutions, both locally and internationally. participation of our partners, and the diverse Western Sydney. Look through this report Department of Community Services and the Participant and audience numbers have communities, artists, and individuals we and you will read about a huge range of Australia Council for the Arts. The support of continued to grow, with tens of thousands of work with. We were also sad to say goodbye activities — artistic, creative, spiritual and our organisational sponsor the Australian people connecting with our festivals, events, to two valuable team members in 2006. At educational. ICE’s vision, which is to Manufacturing Worker’s Union (AMWU) has films, CDs and publications and over 6,000 the completion of her three-year Engaging ‘creatively engage diverse communities and been invaluable — the AMWU provides a directly participating in our professional Communities Project, Therese