Archive for June, 2009

BrisCulture: The online newsletter

One thing we’ll be doing as part of the BrisCulture project is a regular online newsletter of stuff happening about town, interesting links, discussions of cultural and cultural policy developments, and suchlike. This isn’t intended to be an events or gig guide per se, but rather a heads up to things that fit in with [...]

Arts Queensland releases Sector Development Plan 2010-2012

Flloyd Kennedy has kindly alerted us to the fact that Arts Queensland has released its Sector Development Plan for public comment. We have til 31 July. I haven’t had a chance yet to read the draft plan comprehensively, but I’ll be doing so and putting in a submission in due course.
Flloyd’s message is here on [...]

‘Creative Brisbane’ one week on and the BrisCulture project

Well, a week ago as I write, there was a stimulating discussion taking place in the Bleeding Heart Gallery between the ‘Creative Brisbane’ panelists, academics, artists and arts workers, and all manner of folk involved in creating and co-creating our collective civic culture. We’ve had some great feedback from the event, and I think it’s [...]

‘Creative Brisbane’: The videos of the event

Courtesy of the very kind labours of Tim London of Eidos, we’re in the process of uploading video of last Tuesday night’s ‘Creative Brisbane’ event to the internet. It’s something of a work in progress, as the various segments are edited and the sound quality improved, and this post will be updated as more vision [...]

Cheryl Kernot and the Participation Society

While the ‘economic management debate’ rumbles along its predictable partisan grooves, something interesting has been taking place elsewhere – something of a concatenation of the better legacies of the communitarianism of the 90s and a shift in values which has gained traction with the Global Financial Crisis. There has been increasing talk of the creation [...]