Whats happening at CAN SA

 

 


Whats happening in the sector
(if you want to know more become a friend or member of CAN SA)

example of recent Broadcast

A National Cultural Policy to 2020
28 October 2009

The launch of the National Cultural Policy web forum will allow all Australians to contribute to the development of a national cultural policy. Launched by the Hon. Minister for the Arts during his speech to the National Press Club on 27 October this forum gives all Australians an opportunity to help shape our cultural future.
The Hon. Peter Garrett AM identified three key themes for consideration: 1.Keeping culture strong;
2.Engaging the community; and,
3.Powering the young.
These key points, along with other ideas, are expanded more fully in the forum’s discussion framework. This is not an exhaustive list. The National Cultural Policy web forum is a place to share your thoughts - whether you are talking about cultural issues in your region or a grand national vision. With your help, the Australian government will create a policy which celebrates and strengthens our culture.
Visit the forum and be part of the conversation at http://nationalculturalpolicy.com.au/

 

Cultural Ministers Council
The 22nd meeting of the Cultural Ministers Council (CMC) was held in Adelaide Friday 9 October 2009. At this meeting the Ministers:

  • Discussed a Cultural Ministers Council Strategy which sets out opportunities for collaboration across jurisdictions over the next five to ten years.
  • Approved a National Arts and Disability Strategy to support, encourage and promote access and participation in the arts by people with a disability. For more info visit http://www.cmc.gov.au/ or click here to download PDF
  • Endorsed an Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct for the industry and agreed to an Indigenous Australian Art Charter of Principles for Publicly Funded Collecting Institutions. The code and charter fulfil recommendations of the Senate Inquiry into Indigenous Visual Arts. For more info visit http://www.indigenousartcode.org/ or click here to download PDF
  • Discussed progress in the implementation of the Indigenous Contemporary Music Action Plan and agreed to the extension of the successful Breakthrough initiative to support emerging Indigenous musicians.
  • Considered outcomes of reviews conducted in 2009 of the Cultural Ministers Council, the Statistics Working Group and the Collections Australia Network.
  • Discussed the findings of the Third Review of the Major Performing Arts Funding Model.
  • Considered delivery options for an Indigenous Intellectual Property Toolkit

For more info visit http://www.cmc.gov.au/

 

Speaker Series: Eric Booth in discussion (NSW)
Australia Council Speaker Series Insights from Obama: a peace corps for artists?
Wednesday 2 December 2009 5.30 - 7.30 pm
This third event in the Australia Council Speakers Series brings you Eric Booth, one of America’s leading experts on arts-learning and creativity, and advisor to the Musicians National Service Initiative. This musical ‘peace corps’ places artists in struggling urban communities for up to two years of community service. Expanding it was a key component of President Obama’s arts platform. The Obama administration is now set to create a National Arts Corps, placing artists, across all artforms, in fulltime service in public schools and struggling communities.

Join Eric Booth, Professor Brad Haseman, Chair of the Australia Council’s Community Partnerships Committee, and Andrea Hull AO, former director of the Victorian College of the Arts in discussion. Q & A and drinks will follow the forum. Attendance is free and open to the public.

 


For information on our Community Arts Development Program
This program of workshops and forums will offer professional development opportunities for anyone working or participating in community arts practice. They will cover both arts practice and arts business topics and will use ccd philosophy. The CADP will occur on a regular basis over this 18 month period. Several exciting Forums and Workshops have already happened and more are being planned.

Click here from more details of our upcoming Forums & Workshops

 

2009 Membership
Become a member of CAN SA to help support the organisation build long term partnerships with other community sectors such as local government, health, housing, youth, prisons and disability, where the use of the arts is seen as an effective development tool.

As a financial member you will receive monthly Bulletins, fortnightly Broadcast emails, consultations and member rates for Workshops and Forums, get voting rights at our AGM and you will be eligible to stand for the Board of Management. Membership is based on calendar year starting from February.

Download 2009 Membership form

 

CAN SA Monthly Bulletin

CAN SA produces a monthly Members Bulletin containing information such as:

  • what's happening in CAN SA
  • what's happening nationally
  • funding and grant opportunities
  • conference and workshop news
  • other opportunities
  • etc

To view previous Bulletins. To receive the Bulletin and other member benefits please join CAN SA now. Phone (08) 8231 0900.

 

New Creative Community : The Art of Cultural Development

An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. Through personal stories, rousing accounts, detailed observation and histories, Arlene Goldbard describes how communities express and develop themselves via the creative arts. This comprehensive, photographically-illustrated book, which covers community-based arts such as theater grounded in oral history and murals celebrating cultural heritage, will appeal to the curious non-specialist reader as well as the practitioner and student. Author Arlene Goldbard is one of the best-known authors on community cultural development. Her seminal books and essays are widely read in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries -- among them, Community, Culture and Globalization and this book's antecedent, Creative Community.

Click on link below to visit the website

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CAN is assisted by
the Commonwealth Government
through the
Australia Council,
its arts funding and advisory body.