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Communicating the Arts
by Communicating the Arts
Connect with the latest ideas and best practices, tackle the big issues and engage with your peers at Communicating the Arts (formerly known as Communicating the Museum) – the international conference for cultural leaders.Each edition brings together 300 senior arts professionals and innovators for three days of immersive learning, masterclasses and visits in a leading international city of culture.
Episodes
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Episode 20: Leading by design - reinforcing the value of theatre
Forward thinking, bold and ambitious – as the home of new Australian writing, the tiny Griffin Theatre in Sydney’s King’s Cross has always punched above its weight. But it has recently faced severe funding cuts. Design agency Re shares how it partnered with Griffin to evolve its brand year on…
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Episode 19: Made in Hong Kong: a new reference point in museum storytelling
M+ is the new museum of 20th and 21st-century visual culture in Hong Kong. Currently under construction in the West Kowloon Cultural District. This case study provides insight into how M+’s bilingual (Chinese/English) storytelling platform, M+ Stories, establishes the museum as a leader and...
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Episode 18: Who owns the stories of our institutions: notes from the Louvre, Abu Dhabi
For museums, we know that being a repository of stories, although admirable, is no longer enough and that to be ‘Cultural Leaders’, we have to stand for more than we own. All of this is set against a global climate of growing nationalism, restitution cases, funding debates, questions of access…
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Episode 17: A Library for All in a Changing World Introducing StartSpace, powered by State Library Victoria
Founded in 1854, State Library Victoria is a venerable temple to knowledge and the fourth busiest library in the world, with over 2 million annual visitors. What happens when you introduce the quiet halls of a library to the contemporary demands of a bustling digital community? The Library…
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Episode 16: Hyde Park Barracks - Sydney Living Museum
The UNESCO World Heritage-listed Hyde Park Barracks holds the key to understanding our city’s convict foundations, its impact on Aboriginal Australia, and early contribution to immigration and institutional care. The Renewal project delivers on the established Interpretation Masterplan, and…
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Episode 15: Organisational Creativity for Creative Organisations
We work in creative organisations so let’s harness some creative approaches to our strategy and leadership! Amy will explore processes that keep creativity beating, no matter how resource or time poor we are. By Amy Maiden, AKA - The Global Arts Marketing Agency , Australia This podcast has been...
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Episode 14: Managing your Energy in Arts Environments
Whilst the creative sector’s growing ambition is met with increasing pressure on resources and staff, this workshop looks at practical ways to strengthen our resilience and bring more of ourselves to work every day. Edinburgh International Festival’s Tina Walsberger hosts a workshop with Energx...
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Episode 13: The Big Sky
A case study on utilising a Country Centered Design approach to develop a curatorial vision and interpretive strategy for a new public site that explores the interconnected, seasonal and cyclical knowledges related to Indigenous astronomy. The session will include details about processes used…
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Episode 12: John Mawurndjul - the Old and the New
A digital resource space, johnmawurndjul.com—driven and owned by the artist—was developed by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) to support the major retrospective exhibition “John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new.” The website is a keeping place and digital platform to share the...
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Episode 11: Arts Centre Melbourne: Collaboration at the centre
Over the past few years, the breadth and range of performing arts presentations at Arts Centre’s Melbourne’s own risk has increased and diversified. Reflecting the transformation that was happening across Australia’s largest performing arts centre, the programming decisions had at its core the...
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Episode 10: HOTA - The Arts Centre as Community Leader
When Criena moved from Melbourne to develop the Gold Coast’s Culture Strategy 2023 the city had a reputation as Australia’s playground, a cultural desert best known for meter maids, schoolies and the glitter strip. Turns out, the GC is now investing more in artists, creative industries and…
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Episode 9: Leadership in inclusivity and practice, identity and building brand for a start up theatre company
The National Theatre of Paramatta is one of Australia’s most dynamic theatre companies. In addition to producing high quality works it is also taking a fresh approach to theatre making where shows are not the end point, but part of the continuum of an evolving circle which encompasses artists,...
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Episode 8: Rising heart: steering the ship in times of change
The only constant in life is change, often though unforeseen events occur at once. Ashleigh Campbell, Director of KickArts Contemporary Arts is tasked with charting a new vision for the 27-year-old organization, currently undergoing building and internal redevelopment. This case study covers…
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Episode 7: Collaborative Cultural Leadership
In January 2019 Belvoir St Theatre embarked on its biggest ever production in its 35 year history – Counting and Cracking, a collaboration with Western Sydney based Co-Curious. Featuring a cast of 16 actors from six different countries, speaking in five languages and performing 50 characters…
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Episode 6: Inclusion and owning the pipeline
Diversity advocate and leader Darin Conley-Burnley discusses diversity issues across the organisational matrix of the board, staff, art, patrons, donors. By Darin Conley-Buchsieb, San Francisco Ballet, United States This podcast has been recorded at Communicating the Arts Sydney 12-14 November…
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Episode 5: Sydney Opera House: Engaging Chinese audiences
Nic discuss how Sydney Opera House relies on technology and partnerships to engage with Chinese audiences. The customer journey for a performing arts centre often starts online, transitions to an on-precinct experience, and ideally continues after a visitor has returned home. Should a cultural...
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Episode 4: Are we missing out on the biggest new audience in our cities? Asia Pop Fest 2017
Over 200,000 international students call Melbourne home and Mandarin is now the top language spoken by residents of Melbourne’s CBD (above English). But how many cultural institutions engage with this huge young demographic, or even know what they are interested in? 6500 international students…
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Episode 3: Make a U-turn. The Paradoxes of Artistic Leadership
Expectations are high of today’s arts leaders. We need to be careful and consistent but also nimble and daring. What happens when things don’t go to plan? Today’s cultural leaders are defined less by the end result and more by how they deal with the challenges along the way. How do you navigate...
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Episode 2: The Producer as a Leader
Producers are a critical component in creating space for art and preventing burn-out, turn-over and drop-off in the performing arts sector, finding and creating resources and developing audiences and artists. After receiving the Rose Byrne Scholarship for an Emerging Female Leader in the Arts...
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Episode 1: Practice Based Leadership: When artists disrupt hierarchies to guide strategic vision
This podcast has been recorded during Communicating the Arts Sydney 12-14 November 2019. It explores how generative practise and emergent methodologies interrupt traditional approaches to leadership in large institutions. Lily curates and invests in hidden moments of impact, and it is from this...
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Connect with the latest ideas and best practices, tackle the big issues and engage with your peers at Communicating the Arts (formerly known as Communicating the Museum) – the international conference for cultural leaders.Each edition brings together 300 senior arts professionals and innovators for three days of immersive learning, masterclasses and visits in a leading international city of culture.
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