Creative Equity Toolkit

ARIs and Whiteness (In An Act of Showing: Rethinking Artist-run Initiatives Through Place)

This publication analyses the racial dynamics of artist run initiatives (ARIs) in Naarm/Melbourne and considers the power dynamics of including First Nations peoples. Paola Balla considers the important functions of acknowledgement, healing and repair and invitation and reciprocity in how ARIs engage with First Nations workers.

Relevant excerpt begins at pages 69-77

Australia’s media has been too white for too long. This is how to bring more diversity to newsrooms

Article outlining ways to bring more diversity to Australian newsrooms, including offering increased training to CALD journalists, strengthening talent pipelines through better CALD networks, mentorships and events; improving CALD talent pipelines and consulting with people of colour. It also recommends undertaking and publishing regular diversity audits.

'The ABC and SBS publish regular diversity reports, and arguably, the very existence of these reports shows some progress is being made.'

Australia's Music Festival Diversity Problem By The Numbers & Some Steps To Improve It

This article calls out the 'top 5 cop-outs for booking a lineup that is not diverse' and has statistical information on the lack of diversity in music festivals - and by extension the music industry. It interviews women of colour and non-binary artists like the Papua New Guinea-born musician Ngaiire who tells us it's time to "look outside of what the 'industry gods' tell us what’s marketable".

Cultural Responsibility

This article analyses, in the context of Norway, questions about what it means to democratise culture and what role institutions have to play in this. It looks at frameworks of cultural responsibility and the challenges and failures the Arts Council Norway has faced in its "diversity" initiatives, and how it has recalibrated it goals in light of this.