{"id":17467,"date":"2021-11-22T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2021-11-23T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T03:36:12","slug":"arts-and-culture-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2021\/11\/22\/arts-and-culture-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts and culture in the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flinders University provided strong support for the Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts<\/a> initiative, which held a two-day conference this month, looking at ways to revamp arts and cultural policies in light of the COVID-19 slowdown, funding and other issues.<\/p>\n

Resetting policy to acknowledge First Nations voices and the public and individual value of arts and culture to society was also top of the conference agenda.<\/p>\n

The conference on 11-12 November, which engaged with 200 delegates attending and 150 more online from around Australia, was organised by the Arts Industry Council of South Australia, the Dunstan Foundation and Reset, a collective of arts sector professionals and academics from all three SA universities.<\/p>\n

In one session, Flinders Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries Dr Tully Barnett, who has worked with Reset since its inception earlier this year, was joined by Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) Associate Professor Simone Tur to discuss the importance of applying anti-colonial thinking to cultural policy and practice.<\/p>\n

Reset has been an important step in drawing together people, voices and ideas all calling for some action to support First Nations leadership in arts and culture, Dr Barnett says.<\/p>\n

“We need to help the sector express its value in terms of the public good, and to campaign for fair working conditions, amongst other important needs,” she says.<\/p>\n

“There has been a wonderful response from this event and the work doesn\u2019t stop here; we will take this momentum forward to keep a spotlight on these important issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful that politicians and senior leaders in the industry locally and nationally see the importance of contributing their voices to a public value agenda for the arts.\u201d<\/p>\n

A keynote address from Tony Burke MP, Federal Shadow Minister for the Arts<\/a>, outlined a plan for a cultural policy process built on cultural value, and that emphasises the sector’s economic value is understood and evidenced.<\/p>\n

The Reset group is developing a series of written outputs as a result of the conference and planning for activities in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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