Event Session - Keynote: First Peoples First - fair play and diversity in the creative sector

Day 1 - Tuesday 26th, 9:40am - 10:25am AEDT

Keynote: First Peoples First - fair play and diversity in the creative sector
The Wheeler Centre - Performance Space
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Genevieve Grieves, artist, curator, Head, First Peoples Dept, Museums Victoria

Keynote (30 min) followed by Q&A facilitated by Eleanor Jackson (15 min).

Media Contributions

Key Points

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    Genevieve Grieves: First Peoples experience since 1770 has been framed by colonisation. Colonisation is a structure not an event.
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    Genevieve Grieves: The whiteness of our politics or High Court bench and other power structures give the false impression that 'Australia is a white country'.
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    Genevieve Grieves: It is our responsibility to tell our stories, share our knowledge, imagine our future.
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    Genevieve Grieves: How do you acknowledge that the sovereignty of this land was never ceded?
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    Genevieve Grieves: It takes time and relationships and trust (and false starts and mistakes) to work with communities.

We would like to acknowledge that we are meeting today on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation, to pay our respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging, and to honour their long lineage of creative practice.

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