I’m speaking on the 11th of August at an event organised by the Queensland Writers Centre:
Books in the Digital Age:The Future of Writing
With the rapid changes in Australia’s writing and publishing industry, where will books fit in the digital future and how will this affect how we read and write?
As part of QWC’s Wordpool series [...]
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BrisCulture: The online newsletter #2
Published by 7 months, 2 weeks ago Uncategorizedin . 1 CommentAugust is almost upon us and there are quite a few intriguing events coming up in the next couple of weeks that BrisCulture folks will be interested in. So welcome to the second edition of our online newsletter.
One of the speakers at our Creative Brisbane event, Marcus Westbury, has recently begun writing a regular culture and cultural policy column for The Age. In a post on his blog this week, Marcus calls for crowdsourced ideas on:
non cash/funding related things that governments could do to help artists. Or even just areas where they [...]
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
Published by 9 months ago Uncategorizedin . 0 CommentsFlloyd 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
Published by 9 months, 1 week ago Uncategorizedin . 3 CommentsWell, 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
Published by 9 months, 1 week ago Uncategorizedin . 0 CommentsCourtesy 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
Published by 9 months, 1 week ago Uncategorizedin . 0 CommentsWhile 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 [...]
Images of the event courtesy of Tony Robertson. The full hi-res set can be seen at Picasa. Thanks, Tony!
Thanks so much! ‘Creative Brisbane’ was a lovely start to the BrisCulture experience!
Published by 9 months, 2 weeks ago Uncategorizedin . 1 CommentI think the general consensus was that the ‘Creative Brisbane’ event was both a really lovely and incredibly stimulating and interesting conversation and a very enjoyable night! It’s perhaps for others to judge, but I really felt that we began as we intended to go on – by creating a space where we could connect [...]
