Creative Equity Toolkit

Blood Feuds in Western Sydney Comedy

Bee Cruse discusses their role in the ABC production Nightwalkers, a collaborative production with a non-Indigenous filmmaker. They discuss how they succeeded in directing a portion of the royalties from the series to the Dharug people, Traditional Owners of Western Sydney, where the film was produced and shot.

Collaborative performances with migrant women

Tu cuerpo/El mío (Your Body/My Body) is a series of creative works featuring performance, action, texts and videos that are collaboratively created by women from migrant and non-migrant backgrounds.

"Tu cuerpo/El mío provides support and generates empathy through artistic exchange. The project stems from individual problems of exclusion, migration, poverty, machismo, racism and xenophobia. It responds by presenting society with collective artistic, collaboration and networks of support."

Connecting with Wounded Spaces

Genevieve Grieves discusses the complexities of working on creative projects with First Nations people who have experienced colonial trauma in a culturally safe way.

Cultural governance, cultural equity and self-determination in the dance sector: Merindah Donnelly

Wiradjuri woman Merindah Donnelly is the co-CEO and Executive Producer at BlakDance.

'Let’s not get distracted from our own self-determination by trying to ensure that non-Indigenous organisations are doing cultural engagement better. They got to do that. But we also have our own thing and that’s a human right and we can live in a world where both of those things coexist.'

Cultural immersion for young people through dance

At Nigeria's prestigious Hadiza Ibrahim Aliyu Schools Festival, performers are required to present a dance from a different cultural group, fostering engagement and understanding across the nation’s 450-plus ethnicities.

“We want to accommodate these cultural and ethnic diversities and see how we can harness them for our growth and the unity of Nigeria” - Makama Shekwo’aga, Festival Curator