Junction 2010 will unleash an explosion of creativity through a stimulating and intellectual conference program that encourages celebration, dialogue and connections.
It will provide an opportunity for artistic and cultural exchange, cross cultural collaboration and best practice approaches to working in the arts.
Artists, academics, arts workers, students, volunteers, all levels of government and the wider community will gather in Launceston to discuss, celebrate and experience the arts and cultural achievements of regional Australia.
Together we will explore a range of critically important questions, issues and ideas such as:
- How can we ensure the arts are part of conversations about how we live in a fragmented and fragile world?
- What new ideas and approaches are there for developing sustainable communities?
- What should we be doing to attract and engage new generations?
- How can we preserve and learn traditional skills and adopt these in contemporary practice?
- How do we make the arts a meaningful part of social and community enterprise?
- What can we learn from the experience and knowledge of other sectors?
- How should we forge stronger alliances between art forms and artists, between communities and regions, and between arts and non-arts organisations?
- How can we talk about innovation without resorting to meaningless rhetoric and tokenism?
- How can we measure and argue arts benefits effectively to governments and communities?
- Where are all the men in regional arts?
What questions or conversations would you like to see at the conference?
Have you got a comment to make? Join the discussion
1 Posted at 2009-10-30 22:47:56 by Judith Stephens Ingram:
I am interested in pursuing the traditional craft of rag rug hooking in a contemporary society - for various reasons, including the social and emotional benefit to women in our changing and unsettled times. Because I am largely interested in the recycled aspect of the craft, I think it is important to promote the old techniques, as they are adaptable to our modern lifestyle, and we can make a statement as individuals.