Creative Equity Toolkit

RE-Tool: Racial Equity in the Panel Process

A toolkit for applying a racial equity lens to grant decisions, looking at the whole process including the diversifying the applicant pool, selection and training of panelists and communications with applicants.

"We must ask ourselves: Who submits applications? Who do we award? How do we train panel moderators, panelists, and facilitators? In what ways can we interrupt racial bias and contribute to systemic change?'

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.

reWorked: The Diversity and Inclusion Podcast: Building an anti-racist and inclusive culture

EW Group’s Luke Robinson, sits down with Safina Nadeem and Yvonne Howard to look back on 2020 from the perspective of Covid-19 and anti-racism. They explore the changes to the world of work, with training going online, and the positive actions organisations are making in response to Black Lives Matter. Find out what organisations can do year-round to create a truly inclusive and anti-racist work culture for their Black, Asian and minority ethnic employees, customers, and stakeholders.

Rob Guest Endowment cancels lucrative theatre prize over diversity controversy

Article on the cancelling of a $50,000 endowment for Australian musical theatre in 2020 amid criticism of the lack of racial diversity among the 30 semifinalists, including from the semifinalists themselves.

The semifinalists said "We fervently denounce the actions of the endowment, including but not limited to silencing POC and First Nations voices, misrepresenting us and our stance on the matter, and the lack of transparency that has occurred from within the endowment.”

The diversity panel to end all diversity panels: It's Not A Race

Podcast: A live panel discussion with Beverley Wang, Paola Balla, Santilla Chingaipe and Benjamin Law on the double-edged sword of standing in for 'diversity' and where they would like to see the conversation progress.

Towards Equity: A Research Overview Of Diversity In Australia’s Arts And Cultural Sector

This Australia Council report presents information for eight focus groups or demographics in the Australian community: First Nations people; cultural and linguistic diversity; people with disability; gender; LGBTIQ+ people; Australians living in regional and remote locations; children and young people; and older people.

This useful resource brings together published and unpublished data and research on representation in the arts and cultural sector in Australia.