Creative Equity Toolkit

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Webinar

Transforming Communities

Featuring Imagine case studies from Ethiopia (Fekat Circus), Egypt (Orchestra Al-Nour Wal Amal) and Australia (ActNow Theatre), this online session looks at organisations and initiatives that use various art forms, such as dance, theatre, film, storytelling, and music, to empower marginalised communities, promote social change, challenge stereotypes, and advocate for human rights.

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  • 60+ minute
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  • Published: 2024
    Country: International

  • Author: Diversity Arts Australia

Film

Watch now: Using First Nations Protocols for Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts

Lucy Byrne with Patricia Adjei, Dr Paula Abood, Travis De Vries and Jake Smithers as they discuss the First Nations Protocols. Together they highlight the importance of everyone understanding these Protocols to ensure care of First Nations Intellectual Property through appropriate permissions, acknowledgement and consent. This discussion illustrates how everyone can be an ally in holding these Protocols up to accomplish safe consultation and consent when using First Nation stories & knowledge.

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  • 40 minute
    watch

  • Published: 2023
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Australia Council for the Arts

Article

What Does It Mean to Decolonize a Museum?

An article looking at different interpretations of what decolonizing a museum means. Challenging white supremacy, reflecting diversity, choice of language and the importance of having conversations about power and authority are discussed. The piece ends with a quote from Olga Viso: museums "must position themselves as learning communities, not impenetrable centers of self-validating authority.”

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  • 12 minute
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  • Published: 2021
    Country: UK

  • Author: Elisa Shoenberger

Article

Illustration with two identical figures with brown skin and shoulder length black hair wearing a long flowy yellow elbow length jacket pulling a rope. The picture is somewhat abstracted and simple and boldly, solidly coloured. Facial features were not drawn in.

Writing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Characters in Fiction

This article discusses the problem of cultural awareness in Australian publishing when it comes to writing First Nations characters. It presents a series of prompts and further reading for non-Indigenous writers who want to include First Nations characters in their work and who want to avoid stereotyping and insensitive portrayal.

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  • 20 minute
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  • Published: 2022
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Grace Lucas-Pennington