Event Session - Panel: Learning from each other – the INTERSECT project

Day 2 - Wednesday 27th, 1:15pm - 2:30pm AEDT

Panel: Learning from each other – the INTERSECT project
The Wheeler Centre - performance space
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Deborah Williams (Participating chair), Executive Director, Creative Diversity Network (UK)

Candy Bowers, 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)

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?

Panel (45 min) followed by Q&A (30 min) facilitated by chair.

Media Contributions

Key Points

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    Candy Bowers: I always feel like an outlier everywhere I am.
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    Natalie Ibu: Our audiences are diverse. They are engaging with culture. Just not your culture. The definition of culture is community.
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    Mikala Tai: Leadership can come in many forms. Even at the same time and on the same topic.
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    Candy Bowers: It is a white thing to compartmentalize artfroms. 'Theatre' over here. It doesn't include dance or music. That is 'Dance theatre' and 'Music theatre'.
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    Jacob Boehme: First Peoples arts and culture is always cross-discipline.
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    Jacob Boehme: Netflix is our biggest competition.
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    Natalie Ibu: Trying to fit ourselves into a broken model feels like a waste of energy. We need to map a new model.
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    Jacob Boehme: We all know how to do cultural business.
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    Abdul Shayek: It is exhausting to continually say, 'Nothing is changing'. I need the sun!
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    Adelaide Bannerman: Maybe the best thing is to talk away from the money that is there (because of the system that comes with it).

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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