Creative Equity Toolkit

The Relationship is the Project: Working with Communities (Audiences and Cultural Diversity)

Cultural diversity of audiences is as significant as diversity on stage. This chapter examines the importance and use multicultural media as a vital communication tool for diverse audiences.

Best Practice Flows From My Connection to Community: Libby Collins

Libby Collins, Tiwi Islander and Producer at GARUWA, gave her checklist:

Engage early with mob when developing blak-specific work
Value the information you receive and the people who have given it to you
Have the cash to pay people what they’re worth
Value the connections they bring that you wouldn’t have without them
Ensure that your people are with you throughout the whole process
Bring community in and find initiatives that allow for your finished projects to be accessible for community mob.

Chapter excerpt from The Relationship is the Project

A good primer on "community-engaged practice" and ways to think about working with people in communities and building relationships without gatekeeping.

This book is published in Australia and this chapter excerpt has be posted by the UK based organisation Co-Creating Change

Considering Co-Creation

A report commissioned by the Arts Council England that shares thoughts on principles, ethics, and references in the area of co-creation by two organisations that deal with socially engaged arts - and presents new ideas that challenge current paradigms of community arts. While it is not an exhaustive work, it features a literature review and a survey of 77 practitioners and contributors.

Supplementary materials such as podcasts and a survey analysis are included as part of this research.

Cultural governance, cultural equity and self-determination in the dance sector: Merindah Donnelly

Wiradjuri woman Merindah Donnelly is the co-CEO and Executive Producer at BlakDance.

'Let’s not get distracted from our own self-determination by trying to ensure that non-Indigenous organisations are doing cultural engagement better. They got to do that. But we also have our own thing and that’s a human right and we can live in a world where both of those things coexist.'

Diversity in governance – from good intentions to action and impact

A blog post by Hilary Carty, who is the Director at Clore Leadership for the Calouste Gublenkian Foundation. Hilary cover ways to promote change, engage, audit, reach out and recruit in a more diverse and inclusive way.