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TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER
Democratising
Culture
3.00pm,
Tuesday 22 October
To create a new reality,
we have to imagine that it is possible. Having focussed on Dissent,
how do we go about promoting change in our society?
- Can the
creative realm transform reality and society?
- How can cultural activists
engage more fully in the issues facing our society?
- Does Dissent have to remain
in the margins or does 'going mainstream' kill it?
- Should we refuse the boxes
we are put in?
- Can dissenting practice
be encouraged by institutions or must it always arise from the
grass roots to be effective?
- What can we do to valorise
dissent?
Moderator - Mary KALANTZIS, Dean, Faculty of Education, Language
and Community Services at RMIT. She is and co-author of a number
of books including A Place in the Sun: Recreating the Australian
Way of Life.
Panel
- Florencia BERINSTEIN, an award-winning Argentinean-born
artist working in Ontario Canada working with a range of communities
on Public Art and Urban design projects.
- Alissar CHIDIAC is a cultural development worker
with over twenty years experience in a wide range of community
based projects, including community arts and theatre work, community
development and education with young people and women, as well
as adult education with migrants
- Richard ECKERSLEY, one of Australia's leading researchers
in quality of life isues, is a Fellow at the National Centre
for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National
University.
- Jon HAWKES, director of Community Music Victoria
and author of The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability: Culture's
Essential Role in Public Planning. Jon was Director of the Australian
Centre for International Theatre (1991-98), a founding member
of Circus Oz and a former director of the Community Arts board
of the Australia Council.
- Alan ROGERS, Manager of Community and Lifestyle
at Brisbane City Council.
- Megan SPENCER, a maker of 'transgressive' documentary
film, a film reviewer at JJJ and passionate advocate of taking
transgression mainstream.
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