Creative Equity Toolkit

Native Land Digital

Interactive mapping project covering the globe, showing Indigenous nations with a global address search that enables you to check the Indigenous country. Produced in Canada by Indigenous-led Native Land Digital.

The map includes a disclaimer 'This map does not represent or intend to represent official or legal boundaries of any Indigenous nations. To learn about definitive boundaries, contact the nations in question.'

Participatory Grantmaking Aims to Dismantle Power Imbalances between Funders and Communities

An interview with Urban Institute fellow Jasmine Johnson about participatory grant making. It provides insights into some of these knowledge gaps through a qualitative study of 10 funders in small, midsize, and large cities across the USA. Johnson gives key takeaways from her study in this interview, three things to consider before adopting participatory grant making and the challenges of using this funding model.

Korin Gamadji Institute, the Sovereignty exhibition and contemporary Indigenous youth culture

This is a discussion between young First Nations participants in workshops by the Victorian Digital Storytelling Project, which eventually culminated in an exhibition outcome at the Sovereignty show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. The writers reflect on Indigenous inclusion into non-Indigenous institutions like ACCA, and the constraints these spaces - consciously or not - impose on First Nations speaking about their art, culture, and history.

Pride and passion in arts from poor communities

Teatro Zona Norte means ‘North Zone Theatre’, referring to a territory in Rio de Janeiro where middle class and poor people live. The theatre began in March 2019 and holds drama, dance, visual arts and performance workshops for predominantly Black communities with low socioeconomic backgrounds.