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TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER
Speaking
for Ourselves - Dissent in the Ranks
11.00am,
Tuesday 22 October: Room 3
Are young people being sold
out? An exploration of the empowerment and dynamism cultural
activism amongst young people.
- What is
the role of artists working with young people?
- Does this relationship change
when multiple layers of disadvantage are involved?
- Is there a gap between rhetoric
and reality?
- Who speaks for young people?
- Is it possible to have a
long-term presence working with disadvantaged young people?
- What real change is possible?
Moderator - Martin THIELE, formerly co-ordinator at Connexions
Jesuit Social Services and recently wrote a book with Sally Marsden
on evaluation of cultural development work with young people.
Panel
- Kara BEAVIS, attached to Contact Youth Theatre
researching models for working with young people from refugee
backgrounds.
- Philip CRAWFORD, Coordinator of Big hArt projects.
- Natasha CHO, Chair of Victorian Writers Centre,
young writer and writer and advocate.
- John HARVEY, Co-ordinator of Young People's
program, Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjarra Yankunytjatjurra.
- Lena NAHLOUS, Program Manager of Information
and Cultural Exchange (ICE), a community cultural and information
development organisation based in Parramatta NSW, working with
disadvantaged communities in western Sydney.
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