Creative Equity Toolkit

Ngaluri: Our First Nations Framework

In partnership with INDIGI LAB, Science Gallery Melbourne created a discussion paper to support a First Nations Framework to guide better engagement with First Nations peoples. This link contains both the initial discussion paper as well as the resulting First Nations Framework.

Promoting Cultural Safety and Addressing the Power Gap

How can arts and creative organisations diversify their Boards and overcome historic and structural power imbalances? Watch this session to learn how inclusive structures enhance governance and lead to improved outcomes. In addition, our discussion will focus on the practical implementation of cultural safety and First Nations engagement protocols, as well as empowering individuals with the knowledge and skills they need.

Racial Equity Tools Glossary

The Racial Equity Tools Glossary defines a wide range of terms used in work to achieve racial equity and racial justice at every level, including board and senior management in systems, organisations and communities.

Re-Tool: Racial Equity in the Panel Process

A tool that provides effective strategies to intervene in ways that expand and empower collective work for racial equity in arts organisations, including sections on how to make your grant panel, application forms, recruitment process and board more racially diverse. It also includes a concise glossary of terms.

Safety considerations when working with people from diverse genders, sexualities and cultures

According to NAVA, Institutions and arts workers have a duty of care to ensure the safety of artists and communities engaged in their spaces.

The aim of this guide is to help the reader consider the specificities and complexities of experiences of gender, sexuality and culture and to share suggestions for adopting culturally safer practice. It touches upon intersectionality, cultural competency, prioritising discretion and disclosure of identity and includes safety tools for action.

Strong Gains in Indigenous Governance

Michelle Deshong, CEO of the Indigenous Governance Network, is interviewed on the idea of Indigenous governance. She provides her own definition of Indigenous governance and gives some context for thinking about the problems with the western and corporatised models of governance.