Creative Equity Toolkit

Engaged Communities

Infographic with top tips on engaging respectfully with communities, including outlining different types of community engagement (such as the difference between collaborations, co-creations and consultations) and tips on managing power, responsibility and the project's legacy.

Filmmaking and Worldmaking: An Interview with the Karrabing Film Collective

This interview details the process of filmmaking undertaken by the Karrabing Film Collective, a grassroots Indigenous based media group, which moved away from initially engaging non-Indigenous collaborators and usual ways of working in film production, to a methodology that suited the collective’s needs and goals.

How To Co-Create: Practical Lessons From The Field

Co-creation can be misused, and the various risks that come with co-creation are explored in this guide. Alongside this are tips for using ethical methods that can help to reap the benefits of shared power and authorship. This guide warns against generic solutions, stating that local, societal factors must always be taken into account.

Megan Evans: Owning her Colonial Past

This interview with settler artist Megan Evans, whose work explores privilege, oppression and the impacts of colonisation on First Nations people, and brings attention to the way that the violence and oppression of whiteness is layered. She questions the meaning of collaboration with Indigenous artists and Community, since it implies coming together on “equal” terms and overlooks the power held by non-Indigenous actors and entities in this dynamic.

Partner Power

This 'Technique for Building More Authentic Community Partnerships Right from the Start' offers a model of consultation and collaboration used by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in the US to build an exhibition in collaboration with the community. Includes a video on conducting a meeting and worksheet with sample questions, using active listening and open-ended questions.

“It felt more equal...rather than appearing as though we were just trying to tick a box on community engagement.”