Speakers: Key Sessions
Jennifer Bott
CEO, Australia Council
Cultural Sustainability and the National Agenda
Jennifer Bott was appointed Chief Executive Officer and member (ex officio) of the Australia Council for five years on 8 February 1999. She is a member of Council's Finance, Audit, Nominations and Governance and Decisions Review Committees. Jennifer is a member of the Australia International Cultural Council, the Commission for International Cultural Promotion and the Australian National Commission for United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Cr David Brand
City of Port Phillip
Four Pillars in Practice at the City of Port Phillip
David Brand is an architect and a coucnillor and former deputy mayor at the City of Port Phillip.
Sally Calder
Director, Community and Cultural Vitality, City of Port Phillip
Four Pillars in Practice at the City of Port Phillip
Sally Calder is the director of the Community and Cultural vitality Division, City of Port Phillip
Dr Christine Dew
La Trobe University
Neighbourhoods Talking: Graffiti, Art and the Public Domain
Christine Dew is a writer, photographer and academic with an interest in public space, community and landscape; particularly in urban areas. She teaches in the History Program at La Trobe University and is working on a study of graffiti in the City of Yarra.
Anne Dunn
The Cultural Journey
Anne Dunn was a public servant in South Australia and the Northern Territory for 23 years, holding the positions of Commissioner - Public Service Board, Director - Department of Local Government and Chief Executive Officer of the Departments of Arts & Cultural Heritage and Family & Community Services. Following a period as the CEO of the City of Port Phillip Dunn has returned to her consulting practice, working in the areas of facilitation, mediation, community consultation and organisational development.
Penny Eames
Executive Director, Arts Access Aotearoa
The Fourth Pillar in Three Countries
Penny Eames is a Cultural and Community consultant working with local government and community groups in New Zealand and internationally on projects that incorporate the arts and cultural well-being in their programmes. Until November 2004 she was the Executive Director of Arts Access Aotearoa, an organisation she set up in 1995. She has also been Programme Manager at the Arts Council of New Zealand (now called Creative New Zealand); Director of the New Zealand Workers Educational Association; a free lance writer, Justice of the Peace and civil marriage celebrant. She has an extensive publishing record and experience as an international public speaker.
Marla Guppy
Cultural Planner, Guppy and Associates
The Spaces Between the Pillars of Sustainability
Marla Guppy is the principal of Guppy and Associates, a cultural planning consultancy with a twenty year track record in planning and rejuvenating cultural environments. Marla is a qualified urban planner with a particular interest in creative community involvement in the planning process.
Jon Hawkes
The Fourth Pillar Revisited - Key Questions about Cultural Sustainability
Jon Hawkes is an independent advisor specialising in cultural issues. He is author of �The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability: culture�s essential role in public planning� (Cultural Development Network & Common Ground, 2001) and has been Director of Community Music Victoria since early 2001. He was the Director of the Australian Centre of the International Theatre Institute for eight years (1991-1998), Director of the Community Arts Board of the Australia Council (1982-1987) and founding member of Circus Oz and the Australian Performing Group.
Richard Holt
Cultural Vitality Project Officer, City of Port Phillip
The Fourth Pillar in Three Countries
Richard Holt works for the City of Port Phillip, promoting cultural vitality and the four pillars approach to public policy. He was formerly coordinator of Port Phillip Library Services. He is an artist and writer and was co-founder and co-ordinator of Platform Artists Group.
Professor Donald Horne
Considering Cultural Imperatives
Donald Horne is the writer of more than twenty books and has contributed to many journals and newspapers in Australia, Britain, Europe and the United States. As an academic, he became a professor at the University of New South Wales and subsequently Chancellor of the University of Canberra. He was twice editor of The Bulletin and also edited The Observer and Quadrant. He was contributing editor to Newsweek International. He has played an active part in a number of cultural organisations, including the Australia Council, which he chaired for six years.
Dr Onko Kingma
Director, Capital Agricultural Consultants Pty Ltd (CapitalAg)
Restructuring Communities: Economic and Social Policies for a 'Different' Society
Dr Onko Kingma is a Director of the company Capital Agricultural Consultants Pty Ltd (CapitalAg) based in Canberra and aimed at providing analytical help and advice in areas of agriculture, natural resources management and rural growth and development. Until 1999 Dr Kingma held a senior policy position in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Canberra, with responsibilities to Ministers in areas of economic, environmental and social policies for rural areas. He is presently involved in the development of water resources policies and sustainable farming syste for the Murray-Darling Basin.
June Moorhouse
Moorhouse Consulting
Shifting Ground: Negotiating Values in a Gentrifying Community
June Moorhouse has lived and worked in Fremantle on and off since the mid-1970�s. She has over 25 years experience working in the arts, much of that in senior management positions and as a consultant. The values of community cultural development are at the heart of her work and she has recently completed a two-year Fellowship from the Community Cultural Development Board.
Dr Martin Mulligan
Globalism Institute RMIT University
Alive to Storied Landscapes: Storytelling, Sense of Place and Social Inclusion
Dr Martin Mulligan is a senior research fellow at the Globalism Institute at RMIT University where he is working on community sustainability in Australia and Papua New Guinea. He recently completed a report for VicHealth on sense of place and community wellbeing in Daylesford and Broadmeadows. He was joint author (with Stuart Hill) of Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action (Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2001) and co-editor of Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-Colonial World (Earthscan, London, 2003).
Sue Nattrass A.O.
Cultural Consultant
Sue Nattrass AO has been working in the arts for forty years in capacities as varied as stage manager, company manager, lighting designer, director and artistic director. Sue worked at the Victorian Arts Centre from 1983 and was appointed General Manager in 1989. In 1996 she was appointed Artistic Director of the groundbreaking 1998 and 1999 Melbourne Festivals. She was appointed Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival in 2001. Through the many projects to which she contributes Sue continues to play an invaluable part in the cultural life of Australia.
Mandawuy Yunupingu
The Garma Festival: An Indigenous Cultural Perspective
Mandawuy Yunpingu is a community leader teacher and musician. He became the first Aboriginal principal in Australia at Yirrkala school in 1990. There he developed a curriculum which incorporated both white and Aboriginal knowledge traditions. He founded the internationally acclaimed band Yothu Yindi in 1986. he has been a driving force behind the success of the Garma Festival.
Yalmay Yunupingu
The Garma Festival: An Indigenous Cultural Perspective
Yalmay Yunupingu has been a teacher for 27 years. She now teaches at Yirrakala Community School, which has a "two way learning" (bi-lingual) system, an integrated cultural approach to learning. The school teaches English, 'Yolngu Matha', (the local Garma language) and maths. Yalmay graduated in 1996 through Bachelor College, Darwin where she gained a Diploma of Teaching. She is also an artist who paints and weaves.
Speakers: Panel Sessions
Lindy Bartholomew
Director, Regional Arts Victoria
Festivals and Community Involvement
Lindy Bartholomew is currently CEO of Regional Arts Victoria, a position coveted from afar until April 2004 and one she now regards as the best job in the world. A distant career as a performing artist led her slowly through more stable, family-friendly positions that included Fundraising Manager, Conservation Council of Victoria, Business Manager, North Richmond Community Health Centre and back into the arts sector as Festival Director and General Manager, Mallacoota Festival and Festival Director and later Artistic Director, Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival. Two years as Sponsorship Manager at Melbourne Theatre Company preceded her recent move to Regional Arts Victoria. Lindy has a Bachelor of Arts with a Double Major in Fine Arts from Melbourne University and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Arts Management from the University of South Australia.
Morris Bellamy
Manager, Arts & Culture, City of Melbourne
Artplay Site Visit / City of Melbourne cultural program
Morris Bellamy is Manager, Arts and Culture at the City of Melbourne
Richard Bladel
Kickstart Arts Inc
Festivals and Community Involvement
Richard Bladel is Artistic Director of Kickstart Arts, a dynamic community arts organisation based in Hobart. Kickstart is a multi art form arts company with a total focus on community cultural development. It produces bold and challenging community focused arts projects which link art/cultural issues with other sectors such as industry, welfare, health, education and tourism.
Tricia Cooney
Director/Performer Circus Solarus, Festival Entertainment
Festivals and Community Involvement
Tricia Cooney has been working as an artist on community festivals for 20 years. In 1998 she formed aprofessional street thetre group, Circus Solarus, which perfor at festivals throughout Australia and overseas. In addition she has worked since 1983 at an organisational level on committees such as the Central Coast Community Arts Network, ArtsWest and the board of CCDNSW.
Kiersten Coulter
Models of Inclusion (2)
Kiersten Coulter is a PhD candidate in the department of Criminology, Melbourne University. Kiersten originally trained as a performer and theatre technician. She has worked extensively as a community artist/performer with young people at risk and young offenders as well as with prisoners in the adult prison system.
Jane Crawley
Team Leader, Cultural Development, City of Melbourne
Models of Inclusion (2)
Jane Crawley has worked in community cultural development since 1985. She has specialised in developing arts projects across the range of artforms and practices with people whose visibility and power has been compromised because of circumstances such as age, income and cultural identity. Jane’s work in the arts and community development spans the community sector, local government, arts companies and festivals and community media. Jane is currently employed by the City of Melbourne as Team Leader of Cultural Development. She manages a wide range of programs including Community Cultural Development, Indigenous Arts, Arts Grants, mentorship and traineeship Programs.
Jason Cross
Artistic Director Big West Festival
Festivals and Community Involvement
Jason Cross is a performing artist and the Artistic Director of the Big West Festival. Through the facilitation of arts projects Big West links and creates relationshipsbetween community service organisations, community groups, schools, individuals and professional artists.
Nancy Duxbury
Local Government - New Thinking
Nancy Duxbury is Director of Research and Education at the Creative City Network of Canada, a national non-profit organization she co-founded that facilitates sharing of knowledge and expertise among municipal cultural staff in over 125 communities across Canada. She is also a member of Statistics Canada's National Advisory Committee on Culture Statistics, and Special Projects Editor of the Canadian Journal of Communication. Between 1995 and 2003, she worked as Cultural Planning Analyst for the Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Vancouver. She holds a doctorate in Communication and a master's in Publishing from Simon Fraser University, and a bachelor of Commerce degree in management from Saint Mary's University (Halifax).
Jeanine Gribbin
Director, Creative Compass
Local Government - New Thinking
Jeanine Gribbin is the Director of Creative Compass, New Zealand. She previously worked with the Manukau City Creative Communities Committee. She has a long history of involvement in innovative arts and cultural development projects.
Phil Heuzenroeder
Director, Club Wild
Models of Inclusion (1)
Phil is a community artist who is passionate about the capacity for participation in the arts to create well being, community and powerful cultural expressions, in particular for people with disabilities. Phil is the Director of Club Wild, a community cultural development organization run by and for people with disabilities working in modern music and video media and creating the dance party as the social gathering place for this emerging community. Phil is music director for the 80 voice Melbourne Singers of Gospel choir and the Bipolar Bears band for people living with mental illness as well as being a film maker.
Sharon Jacobson
Models of Inclusion (2)
Sharon jacobson worked as a dramaturg on a number of productions for Sydney�s Darlinghurst Theatre between 1995 and 2001. Since 1998 she has been using theatre to work with socially excluded communities, beginning with facilitating drama workshops and directing community theatre at a long term drug and alcohol therapeutic community just outside Melbourne. Between 2000 and 2002 Sharon facilitated two performance projects inside Barwon Prison, Victoria�s male maximum security prison, as well as a number of other drama progra in Victorian men�s prisons. In 2003 Sharon co-facilitated the �Making Waves� performance project for people with mental illness to be used as an educational tool in secondary schools
Rosemary Joy
Models of Inclusion (1)
Rosemary Joy is Accessible Arts Development Officer, City of Port Phillip. In this capacity she has actively supported the development of several accessible arts initiatives, including the BiPolar Bears, Rawcus, RAG Theatre Troupe, JustUs Drama, KickstART, and the Art of Difference Festival.
Jenny Merkus
Director, Social Development, Moreland City Council
Local Government - New Thinking
Jenny Merkus is the Director, Social Development at the Moreland City Council. She is also President of the Local Government Community Services Association of Australia.
Professor Angela O'Brien
Models of Inclusion (2)
Angela O'Brien is Head of School, Creative Arts, University of Melbourne. Her major research area has been the use of theatre for social purposes in the Australian context. Her doctoral work on the socialist theatre movement has been followed by further related research. As an arts educator she has presented papers on the ways in which the arts impact on the lives of young people.
Steve Payne
Director, The Torch Project
Models of Inclusion (1)
Steve Payne is Executive Officer of The Torch Project. For over 25 years Steve has worked as a project manager, educator/trainer, performing artist and producer - in the community sector, private industry, tertiary institutions, the trade union movement and labour market progra. He has worked with Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians and people from other countries in many different contexts including: committees of management, paid and unpaid staff in community organisations, union trainers and shop stewards; owners, managers and workers in factories. local government workers and councillors and parents, teachers and students from kindergarten through to tertiary level.
Jerril Rechter
Director, Footscray Community Arts Centre
Festivals and Community Involvement )
Jerril Rechter is the Director of Footscray Community Arts Centre, a world class community arts precinct based around historic Henderson House on the banks of the Maribyrnong River, Melbourne. The Centre has established a national and international reputation for its innovative work in community cultural development, and its pioneering support and development of multicultural arts in Australia.
Fiona Smith
Chairperson, Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria
Models of Inclusion (1)
Fiona Smith is chairperson of the Equal Opportunity Commission, Victoria. A barrister and solicitor since 1982, she was previously the chair of the Victorian Business Licensing Authority.
Judy Spokes
Director, Cultural Development Network
The Culture of Places
Judy Spokes is Executive Officer of the Cultural development Network, an independent non-profit group that links communities, artists and local government councils across Victoria. The work of the Network, and of Judy, has played a key role in expanding the understanding of cultural vitality in the context of local government policy development.
Natalia Valenzuela
Models of Inclusion (2)
Natalia Valenzuela is Community Development Officer, Environment Team, Hume City Council. Since arriving in Australia as a refugee from El Salvador in1987 she has studied Community development and Womens Studies and now works in the field of Environmental Community Development. She has a passsion for creative community engagement.
Speakers: Workshop Sessions
Christine Burton
Senior Lecturer in Arts Management, Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney
Animating Heritage
Christine Burton has worked in cultural planning for the past 15 years both in Australia and great Britain. From 1994 to 1998 Christine worked in the UK as lead consultant with Positive Solutions and Art & Society as well as undertaking research into social impact and cultural strategic planning with Comedia. She is currently the Director of the postgraduate program in arts management in the Facultu of Business, School of Leisure Sport and Tourism, UTS, Sydney.
Susan Conroy
The Culture of Places
Susan Conroy has been working professionally in community cultural development and cultural planning since the late 1980s. Susan has extensive experience in designing and managing integrated planning projects linking environmental, social, cultural and economic factors in urban design and developing projects.She has also successfullyintegrated cultural development intiatives into strategic planning and policy development in local government.
Linda Corkery
'Health and Wellbeing'
Linda Corkery is a landscape architect and Head of the School of the Built Environment at the University of NSW. She teaches design studios, environmental planning, environmental sociology and professional practice subjects. Her research work is focused on ecological design/landscape design for sustainability and people-place relationships.
Matthew Ives
Arts / Culture: Nexus and Separation
Matthew Ives is a Team leader and Community Arts Officer at the Parks Arts and functions Office for Port Adelaide Enfield Council. He has extensive experience working with diverse urban and regional communities both in Elngland and in South Australia. He is also convenor of the Creative Communities Network.
Dr Elaine Lally
Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
Animating Heritage
Dr Elaine Lally is Assistant director of the Centre for Cultural research at the university of Western Sydney. Dr Lally conducts research into contemporary cultural change in western Sydney. She is chief investigator for the 'Greater Western Sydney Electronic Cultural Atlas' project, developing information support tools for cultural planning in the Western Sydney region. dr Lally is author of At Home with Computers (Berg, 2002).
Tiffany Lee-Shoy
Regional Cultural Planning Coordinator, Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
Animating Heritage
Tiffany Lee-Shoy is regional Cultural Planning Coordinator at the Western Sydney regional Organisation of Councils, an association of eleven local government bodies in Western Sydney. Her project seeks to expand resources and collaboration between councils to promote the cultural life arts and creativity of the region.
Glenda Masson
Senior Planning Officer, Community Renewal, Queensland Department of Housing
Health and Wellbeing
Glenda Masson is a Senior Planning Officer with Community Renewal, Department of Housing. Glenda has a background in social planning both in government and non-government sectors.
Malcolm McKinnon
Artist
Animating Heritage
Malcolm McKinnon is an artist and planner with bases in Melbourne and in the southern Flinders Ranges region of South Australia. His work encompasses research and planning assignments, community development intiatives and public and community art projects. he has particular interest working in aregional and rural context, including numerous projects with farmers and Aboriginal communities.
Clare Meyers
Social Policy Officer, City of Wanneroo
Health and Wellbeing
Clare Meyers is the Social Policy Officer at the City of Wanneroo, W.A.
Deborah Miles
Acting Program Manager, Regional Arts Queensland
Health and Wellbeing
Deborah Miles is a Principal Policy Officer with Arts Queensland. Deborah has a background in social policy and community development in Local Government.
Deborah Mills
Health and Wellbeing
Deborah Mills has thirty years experience in community and cultural development. She has worked for local, state and federal governments and in the not-for-profit sector. She has extensive experience in social and cultural policy and is the co-author (with Paul Brown) of a recent book "Art and Wellbeing". This book explores the policy connections between community arts, sustainablity and wellbeing. In particular, the book highlights ways in which community arts can resolve some of the challenges in achieving sustainability.
Monir Rowshan
Living Streets Coordinator, Liverpool City Council
The Culture of Places
Monir Rowshan is a visual artists with extensive experience in Ceramics and mosaics. She has worked in the field of community cultural development, multicultural art and puclic art in the last 14 years. Based at Liverpool City Council, currently she is coordinating the"Living Streets Project", a project which deals with complex issues of community partnerships, community building and creativity within the context of place making."
Simon Spain
Manager, Artplay
Artplay site visit / City of Melbourne Cultural Program
Simon Spain is the Manager of Artplay. Located in Birrarung Marr, Melbourne, Artplay is designed especially for children aged between 5 and 12 years. ArtPlay runs progra for school groups on weekdays as well as weekend and holiday workshops for families and children. Incorporating indoor and outdoor play, exhibition and performance spaces, ArtPlay offers a range of creative workshops where children can work alongside professional artists in a unique environment encouraging play, creativity and collaboration.
Suzy Stiles
Team Leader, Arts and Cultural Development, City of Marion
Arts / Culture: Nexus and Separation
Jared Thomas
Nukunu Peoples Council
Animating heritage
Jared Thomas is a Nukunu person from the soutyhern Flinders Rangs in South Australia. Currently employed as an indigenous Arts Development Officer for Arts SA, Jared is also a writer. His first major work, a play called 'Flash red Ford' toured Uganda and Kenya in 1999 and his first novel, 'Sweet Guy' was short listed for the 2002 Adelaide festival Awards for Literature. He is also involved in film writing and editing and was Assistant Director on the film 'One Night the Moon,' directed by Rachel Perkins.
Dr Susan Thompson
Associate Professor, Planning and Urban Development Program, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW
Health and Wellbeing
Susan Thompson is an urban planner whose work bridges academia and practice. She is Associate Professor in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of NSW. Her teaching and research encompass social and cultural planning, local and neighbourhood planning, and the application of qualitative methods in urban planning.
Pat Zuber
Arts / Culture: Nexus and Separation
Pat Zuber is Senior Advisor Cultural Services at Redland Shire Council in South East Queensland. Pat is responsible for strategic planning and policy development in relation to the provision of Council�s cultural services and facilities. Recently this has included the planning and development of a new regional gallery and performing arts centre. She previously held the position of Council�s Cultural Development Officer. Prior to her work in Redland Shire Council Pat worked in the field of community cultural development for many years for a number of organisations including Queensland Community Arts Network.