Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action

Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture

The 2022 lecture is provided by Dr Richard Twine,  Reader in Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University. Talk title - 'Val Plumwood’s contribution to intersectional veganism and why the use of the term ‘intersectionality’ need not be seen as appropriation'

Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.

Unpacking the Canada Council's $85m Digital Strategy Fund. What worked and what can the arts sector in Australia learn from it? 

An online symposium exploring ideas of basic income and the need for an approach to economy that puts creativity and care at its centre. Led by a panel of artists, researchers, economists, scientists and philosophers, the symposium responds to current and ongoing planetary crises, and positions creativity and social ecology as integral to shaping policy and systems of value.

The Symposium is a joint initiative of Arts Front, BLINDSIDE and Next Wave and was supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.

Little Lunch Online (LLOL) was a daily online meetup and creative exchange to support the Australian arts sector during the Corona Virus pandemic in 2020.