Creative Equity Toolkit

Living Music Report

Survey of programming in Australian Major Performing Arts Organisations in 2019, measuring the diversity of the repertoire of Australia's largest orchestras.

Out of the 2006 works performed across 2019:

'3% were written by female composers
9% were written by Australian composers
19% were written by living composers
0.45% were written by CALD Australian composers
0.05% were written by First Nations composers'

Seeing Ourselves

Second edition of Screen Australia's Seeing Ourselves, charting slight improvements in representation since the first edition on 2016. The report found that there was uncertainty in the industry around who can tell stories, and that stereotypes, gaps and tokenism persists in storytelling and that power structures contribute to poor representation. However there is greater recognition of both the cultural and commercial value of diverse content and increased demand for authentic diverse stories.

Speed Museum Turns to a Spreadsheet to Increase Diversity

Article on the strategy of the Speed Art Museum in the US to diversify their board of trustees and governors, by auditing the attributes of members.

'Ghislain d’Humières, the French-born director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., uses a long and detailed spreadsheet to recruit people for the museum’s board of governors and board of trustees. His “board matrix” assigns columns to race, age, gender and profession, and to less concrete categories like “creative thinker.”'

Statement: The Black Writers' Guild

A powerful letter from UK Black authors to the publishing industry requesting action to tackle the deep-rooted racial inequalities in the major corporate publishing companies. They put forward on eight key steps for the industry to adopt.