Creative Equity Toolkit

Cultural Appropriation vs Appreciation

Andean Textile Arts is an organization dedicated to supporting the communities of the Andes to preserve and revitalize their textile traditions. The author of this article asks: where is the line between appreciating and appropriating? and draws on the instructive categorization of the three types of cultural borrower - the 'Invader, the Tourist, and the Guest' (originally coined by Diantha Day Sprouse).

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

Curator/Confidant

Hannah Presley speaks to the curatorial approach that has guided her through working with individual artists, community groups, not-for-profit galleries, international art Biennales and national institutions. Hannah shares her belief in the central role of transparency, vulnerability and humour in forming valuable relationships with artists, and examines the deeper values of knowledge-sharing and exchanging ideas that inform her practice.

DARTS Community Arts and Cultural Development presentation

A presentation for Arts Tasmania by Diversity Arts Australia which gives the basics on community arts and cultural development, the backstory and nuances of the terminology, principles of community and cultural development practice and the critical elements of the practice: practice, empowerment, responsiveness and relevance to community.

It includes guiding questions to help you ensure cultural safety, respecting agency - giving resources for building a more critical practice.

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.