Creative Equity Toolkit

ACCA Equity Action Plan

ACCA’s strategic plan for equity and diversity includes specific measures for ensuring best practice when working with First Nations people and ensuring a fair workplace. It contains specific short and long term goals for advancing First Nations arts and culture and recognition of First People’s sovereignty.

Adjust Your View: Multicultural Arts Marketing Toolkit

Adjust Your View was intended to provide a framework for the development of multicultural audience strategies for the arts and cultural products. It also features leading Australian, US and European practices and case studies.

While the toolkit was written in 2009, it is still used across the arts for those wishing to develop multicultural audiences. This toolkit is divided into four sections - each part can used stand-alone or integrated together.

Amazon Studios Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Playbook

The Amazon Studio diversity, equity and inclusion playbook offers tools and resources to guide decision making and 'disrupt biases' that occur across the lifecycle of a series or movie. Content covers storytelling, hiring behind the camera, casting, production, resources, reporting & documentation.

The resource provides tools to make inclusive decisions. It also suggests criteria for 'informed and consistent' creative choices and fosters thinking beyond the 'status quo'.

An Unsettled Settler Response to Open Cut

This article discusses the ways in which colonial development funding is implicated in the arts industries, using the example of Jacky Green’s 2018 exhibition Open Cut. The author probes the meaning of how we, in the arts, are implicated in the settler colonial processes of mining and dispossession.

Assessing your organisation's capacity for successful audience development

Worksheet 2.6 on p. 135 of the Increasing Cultural Participation Handbook is a worksheet to evaluate an organisation's current ability to implement an audience development initiative. Question topics include not only vision and resources, but the willingness of the organisation to evolve.

The Handbook also contains a step-by-step 'how to' for audience development, including other practical tools.