Creative Equity Toolkit

Collaboration with Greek-Australian communities

The British Museum’s controversial collections include the Parthenon Sculptures, or Marbles, taken in 1804 by Thomas Bruce (also known as Lord Elgin) from the Parthenon with the collusion of the Ottoman colonial rulers of Greece and the museum has refused to repatriate them.

When Canberra’s National Museum of Australia (NMA) planned to exhibit 170 Ancient Greek art works housed at the British Museum, they knew they needed the support of the Greek community in Australia. Here's how the did it.

Creative Practitioners

Short film interviewing the eight UK and Australian practitioners in the INTERSECT peer mentorship, offering advice for institutions and artists of colour.

'While the programming of galleries, major art institutions supports diversity in terms of the art works and the artists that they programme, unfortunately behind the scenes it's very different. That type of diversity is not seen in staffrooms, in meeting rooms and in the board room.' Tian Zhang

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

An article from Dr Tim Soutphommasane, Race Discrimination Commissioner, on his experiences of discrimination, and how and why leaders should be actioning our organisations to reach harmony and stability in the workplace.

Cultural education has to be about improving outcomes for mob, not making white people feel better

'I don’t think the problem of racism, now or at any point in history, is because of a lack of ‘cultural awareness’. The myth that colonisation happened to us because the colonisers didn’t understand us...
That isn’t a ‘cultural awareness’ problem, it’s a colonisation problem; a white supremacy problem. If you want to understand why colonisation happened then you need to learn about racism and colonisation, not about Indigenous cultures.'

Decolonization Is for Everyone

Discussion of the brutal history of colonisation in Canada and the processes of historical amnesia that prevents its affects being addresses.

'Whether you have ancestors that were colonisers or colonised, we are all colonised people.'