Day 2 - Wednesday 27th, 3:45pm - 4:15pm AEDT
The Wheeler Centre - performance space
Citizen journalists report back (10 min)
MC invites participants to check-in with their goals and notes any actions or takeaways. Also encourage participants to complete online feedback. (15 min)
Lena Nahlous will give closing acknowledgements (5 min)
Media Contributions
Key Points
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discClaire G Coleman: Maybe we need to pull colonisation out by the roots and destroy it first.
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discClaire G Coleman: Maybe a big space like this isn't the right space to discuss diversity?
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discClaire G Coleman: We would not need to fight for diversity if colonial and patriarchal structures were dismantled.
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discLena Nahlous: There are many more areas of cultural equity that we should be interrogating and including in this conversation. That's a learning for us at Diversity Arts Australia to take back.
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discLena Nahlous: At Diversity Arts Australia we need to ensure that we are truly diverse. We will be taking away many learning from this Symposium. And we hope other organisations will as well. Please give us your feedback: the good, the bad, the ugly.
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.