Another New Year, another book tally… which tells me that I read 127 books over the course of 2019 (twenty shy of last year’s personal best). That means I read a total of 753 books during the 2010s decade, averaging just over 75/year or almost 1.4/week during that time.
Continue reading “Reading and writing in 2019”Celebrating Dion Beasley
It was a great privilege to nominate NT artist Dion Beasley for the inaugural National Arts and Disability Awards. So I was thrilled to learn that the Australia Council for the Arts awarded Dion with the inaugural award for an emerging artist in Canberra yesterday evening. Continue reading “Celebrating Dion Beasley”
Positive Negative Space
From June to September 2019, the doors of Adelaide’s Minor Works Building were thrown open to the city’s broad communities thanks to an international collaboration between artists from Australia, the Philippines and South-East Asia. Continue reading “Positive Negative Space”
RESOURCE: Disability models and language
There are a number of different ways of thinking and talking about disability. This document provides some historical context and resources around some of the more commonly used disability models and language. Continue reading “RESOURCE: Disability models and language”
RESOURCE: Best practice arts language
The words we use to describe ourselves, our work and our communities can be personal, political, and can change over time. The arts sector is often at the forefront of this change. Continue reading “RESOURCE: Best practice arts language”
Taking the lead
Kate Larsen and Emma Bennison discuss Arts Access Australia’s transition to disability leadership in Taking the Lead (2012). Continue reading “Taking the lead”
RESOURCE: How to be the best Board member you can be
In my work supporting not-for-profit clients, I’m often asked about the role of the Board (and the Chairperson in particular) in supporting their organisations.
What are the most important things for a Chair to remember? What are the things they most often get wrong? Continue reading “RESOURCE: How to be the best Board member you can be”
On rates and reparations: a personal approach
In 2019, my partner and I bought a house in Adelaide, our first small piece of ground. But with the excitement, paperwork, moving boxes and money story came a serving of white colonial guilt and responsibility that we hadn’t yet realised for our previous apartment in the sky. Continue reading “On rates and reparations: a personal approach”
The new #SAArtsPlan: a (draft) response
Artists, arts workers and audience members are being encouraged to have their say on the arts in SA. Continue reading “The new #SAArtsPlan: a (draft) response”
Reading and writing in 2018
2018 was another huge year of reading and writing… Thanks both to my looser, freelance lifestyle and judging of the Territory Reads Awards, I once again re-set my personal best record to 147 books read over the course of the year (averaging just under 3 books a week – not counting literary journals or children’s books).
Continue reading “Reading and writing in 2018”
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