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Creative Responders
by Creative Recovery Network
Creative Responders is a podcast from the Creative Recovery Network that explores the unique power of the arts and creativity in disaster management by sharing stories and insights from artists, emergency management experts, creative leaders and impacted communities across Australia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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In Conversation with Latai Taumoepeau
Latai Taumoepeau is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice fuses ancient and everyday temporal practice using mediums like performance, dance, installation and social engagement. Her faivā (body-centred practice) is grounded in the traditions of her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga and…
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In Conversation with Kerry Jones
Kerry Jones is the Director of Systems Initiatives for the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI). We spoke with Kerry in Meanjin / Brisbane, during the Australian Disaster Resilience Conference where she presented a program of work that is enabling communities to lead their own disaster...
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Indigenous leadership in disaster management: Girringun Aboriginal Corporation responds to Cyclone Yasi (RE-RELEASE)
When Cyclone Yasi hit the coast of North Queensland in 2011, the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation and its active community of rangers and artists took a position of leadership in the recovery process and galvanised a devastated community. In this episode, Girringun’s Founder and Executive Officer...
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In Conversation with Bhiamie Williamson
Bhiamie Williamson is a Euahlayi man from North West NSW and one of Australia’s leading researchers into Indigenous peoples’ experience of disasters. Bhiamie’s work in this field has led to his current leadership of the National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Project which sits within Monash...
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In Conversation with Annette Carmichael
Annette Carmichael is an award-winning choreographer and dance artist based in Western Australia with community engagement at the core of her work. She joins Scotia to discuss The Stars Descend, an ambitious and inspiring performance work that consists of five chapters, crafted with and for five...
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In Conversation with Dr Margaret Moreton
Dr Margaret Moreton is Executive Director of the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) and leads the work of AIDR to develop and share knowledge and learning to support a disaster resilient Australia. Margaret joins Scotia to talk about the work of AIDR and the importance of…
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In Conversation with Megan Sheehy and Volker Kuchelmeister
Hard Place / Good Place is a project developed by the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum following a devastating storm that swept through the region in June 2021. It was thoughtfully designed in collaboration with the fEEL lab at the University of New South Wales as a way to work with young people in…
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In Conversation with Vic McEwan
Vic McEwan is the Artistic Director and co-founder of The Cad Factory, an artist-led organisation whose work and practice aims to enrich broader conversations about the role the arts can play within our communities. Vic is a leading practitioner in the field of socially engaged practice and joins...
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In Conversation with Zena Armstrong
Zena Armstrong joins us to share the story of community recovery following the Black Summer bushfires that devastated the village of Cobargo and the surrounding regions. Zena is a former Australian diplomat and director of the Cobargo Folk Festival where she works with a close-knit team of...
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In Conversation with Dr Naomi Sunderland
Dr Naomi Sunderland is a lead researcher on The Remedy Project - an Australian Research Council supported project exploring music as a primary cultural determinant of health for First Nations communities. She joins us to discuss the healing power of music and her investigation into its role…
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In Conversation with Anna Kennedy-Borissow
Anna Kennedy-Borissow joins us to discuss her PhD research into creative recovery projects in Australia. Anna is an arts manager, academic and theatre maker and currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne where she is researching the interplay of arts practice, community wellbeing…
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In Conversation with Jonathan Craig
Writer, policy adviser, audio producer and accessibility consultant, Jonathan Craig, joins Scotia for a discussion about how disaster planning can be improved by connecting with people as individuals and bringing the lived experience of community members to the table. Jonathan is a policy advisor...
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Putting the pieces together: How the City of Melbourne is strengthening disaster preparedness through creativity
As cities and communities all over the world look to new models of disaster preparedness and response, how do we successfully activate a whole of community approach where everyone has a role to play and disaster management services are working with not for the community? In this episode of…
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In Conversation with Nathan Harrison
Nathan Harrison is part of the creative team at Boho Interactive, a collective of Australian artists and game designers who create interactive performances and games exploring concepts from systems science, complexity theory, resilience thinking, game theory and network theory. Nathan and Scotia...
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In Conversation with Elly Bird and Katie Cooper-Wares
From the epicentre of the Northern Rivers flood recovery, we are joined by Elly Bird and Katie Cooper-Wares. Both have been instrumental in the founding and development of the Resilient Lismore community recovery organisation, alongside other roles –Elly as a Councillor for Lismore City Council…
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In Conversation with Melinda Rankin
Melinda Rankin is the Director of Fabrik Arts & Heritage, located in Lobethal, a small regional town nestled in a picturesque valley on Peramangk and Kaurna Country in the Adelaide Hills. Fabrik is an arts and heritage hub, run by Adelaide Hills Council. Its public program started in early 2019…
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In Conversation with Melissa Lubke
Melissa Lubke is an artist based on the island of Lutruwita (Tasmania) who utilises manual arts practices and a variety of mixed media materials to create installations exploring themes of light, loss, community, and hope. Melissa’s recent works in her solo exhibition ‘Confronting the Negative’,...
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In Conversation with Dr Debra Parkinson
Doctor Debra Parkinson is the Director of Gender and Disaster Australia, an organisation established to promote an understanding of the role played by gender in survivor responses to natural disaster, and to embed these insights into emergency management practice. Debra’s research following the...
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In Conversation with Natalie Egleton
Natalie Egleton joins us to discuss the future of community-led recovery and her work across rural and regional Australia as CEO of the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal. This is a timely discussion about how we approach community-centred and community-led recovery: what does it really mean...
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The healing capabilities of Country and Culture: a story of cultural revitalisation in Woorabinda
In this episode of Creative Responders, we’re heading to Woorabinda, an Indigenous community in Central Queensland on the Traditional lands of the Wadja Wadja and Ghungalu Aboriginal peoples. Nickeema Williams, Director of the Woorabinda Arts and Cultural Centre, shows us around the burgeoning…
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In Conversation with Sam Savage
Sam Savage is the Northern Queensland Emergency Services Regional Coordinator for Australian Red Cross where he manages response, recovery and community resilience programs with a focus on psychosocial support. He is also the Chairperson of the First Nations Recovery Group, a national network...
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Growing community connection: a story of renewal after the Beechmont bushfires
In 2019, Jessica Brown established The Little Pocket nature play space from her home in the peaceful hinterland village of Beechmont to reduce isolation and nurture connections between young families. She had no idea that a few months later, this network of community members would evolve into…
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In Conversation with Anika Molesworth
Scientist, farmer and storyteller Doctor Anika Molesworth joins us for a conversation about her courageous and optimistic vision for the future of agriculture and the motivation behind writing her new book, “Our Sunburnt Country”. Anika is a founding director of Farmers for Climate Action, a...
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In Conversation with Darren Moffitt
Darren Moffitt is a Bidjigal man who joins us to discuss his recent work in North-East Victoria as a Recovery Coordinator for Aboriginal Culture and Healing. Darren’s role is part of the Black Summer recovery initiative activated by Bushfire Recovery Victoria (BRV) and is one of the first…
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In Conversation with June Moorhouse
June Moorhouse, co-CEO of Community Arts Network (CAN) joins us for a deeply insightful discussion about community arts in Australia. From its roots in the social activism of the 1960s and the early international community arts movement through to contemporary practice and its vital role in...
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In Conversation with Jen Rae
In this episode we are speaking with Jen Rae, an artist-researcher, facilitator and educator whose work focusses on environmental communication with a particular emphasis on cultural responses to climate change. Jen’s work around the climate emergency has focussed on discourses around food…
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In Conversation with Kellie Sutherland
Kellie Sutherland is a Creative Recovery Coordinator, working with Regional Arts Victoria to support bushfire affected shires in Victoria’s North East. In this episode, we discuss what the role of a Creative Recovery Coordinator entails and the capacity for this work to provide continuity between...
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In Conversation with Rosie McKeand and Leigh Tesch
This episode of Creative Responders features artists, Rosie McKeand and Leigh Tesch, who share their experience working with three to six-year-olds on ‘Afloat’, a creative recovery project created in response to the May 2018 flood event in Hobart, Tasmania. Many early learning centres were...
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In Conversation with Alex Wisser
Alex Wisser is an artist and creative producer based in the township of Kandos in mid-western New South Wales. In 2013 he co-founded the Cementa Contemporary Arts Festival in Kandos and took up permanent residence there with his family. Along with Cementa, Alex is a co-founder of the Kandos…
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In Conversation with Louise Scheidl
Louise Scheidl is an Occupational Therapist and Mental Health Promotion Officer for Albury Wodonga Health. Louise joins us to discuss My Place My Home, a community-based arts project focussed on young people affected by the 2019/2020 bushfires in Victoria's Corryong area. In this conversation,...
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In Conversation with Caroline Alcorso
Doctor Caroline Alcorso is currently directing the Natural Disaster Mental Health and Wellbeing Framework for the National Mental Health Commission. She has an extensive background in social policy, programs and research in both community sector organisations and government. Along with her...
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Working Sustainably in Community Practice
Arts workers in remote or trauma-impacted communities are often sent in to complex environments with little preparation or adequate peer support for the situations they will encounter. In this episode, we head to one of the most remote areas of Australia - Warburton community, Western Australia…
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Storytelling in a changing climate: Indigenous art and tourism on the Great Barrier Reef
The climate crisis is one of the greatest disasters we may ever witness. In the face of such enormous challenges, what is the place for creativity and storytelling? In this episode, guest producer Nicole Hutton takes us to the Great Barrier Reef to hear how reef coast Traditional Owners are using...
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Community-led Recovery in a Time of Cascading Disasters
The Blacksmiths’ Tree is a stunning nine-metre steel and copper gum tree which stands in the small town of Strathewen, Victoria, as a memorial to the people and communities impacted by Black Saturday and the 2009 Victorian bushfires. The project began with designer and metal artist, Amanda Grant,...
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Growing new possibilities in the Snowy Valleys
Just down the road from the charred silence of the iconic Sugar Pines Plantation in the Snowy Valleys, is the Pilot Hill Arboretum, in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. On 28 December 2020, exactly one year after the Dunns Road Fire wrought havoc for 50 days, the Arbour...
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In Conversation with Vivien Davidson
What happens when your community goes through a devastating experience and you feel compelled to reach out to those most in need? Like many who witnessed the impact of the Australian bushfires last Summer, Vivien Davidson wanted to find a way to express her solidarity and connect with people in…
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In Conversation with John Richardson
As National Resilience Adviser for Red Cross Australia, John Richardson is someone who spends a lot of time thinking about disasters - how we make sense of them, how we can better prepare for them, and how they transform the individuals and communities who go through them. We spoke to John during...
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In Conversation with Alex Kelly
Alex Kelly is an art maker, organiser, activist and filmmaker whose work is anchored by a deep commitment to social and climate justice. She joins Scotia to discuss her most recent project, Assembly for the Future, a series of digital gatherings in which participants collectively imagine better...
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In Conversation with Kate Sulan
Kate Sulan is a performance maker, director, dramaturge and facilitator. Along with her role as founding Artistic Director of Melbourne’s Rawcus theatre company, Kate is also one of the artists working on the five year Refuge project at Arts House which brings together emergency management,...
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In Conversation with Amanda Lamont
What would it look like like if different phases of emergency management were approached as an interconnected whole? What is missing from Australia’s royal commission into the response to the recent bushfire season? How do we recognise and celebrate the contribution of women in emergencies and...
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In Conversation with Jeremy Smith
This month, we speak to Jeremy Smith as he exits his tenure with the Australia Council where he has worked as Director – Community, Emerging and Experimental Arts for the past four years. Scotia caught up with Jeremy just ahead of his return to his hometown of Perth and a new role with the Perth...
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In Conversation with John Lane
Welcome to the first episode of our new monthly conversation series featuring in-depth, one-on-one discussions with the people working on the front lines of the arts and emergency management sector. John Lane is Artistic Coordinator for the Festival for Healthy Living. He speaks with Creative...
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Artist's Well-Being: Sustaining artists working with trauma impacted communities
When artist’s are called upon to work in remote or trauma affected communities, the impacts can be intense, usually without access to the psychological services available to other support agencies. So how do artist’s find the balance between dealing with a community’s trauma and their own...
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The Tin Sitters Club: Farming, Creativity, Connection
Farming communities across Australia are dealing with the slow-building emergency of the worst drought the country has ever experienced. When the challenges of isolation, financial hardship and psychological distress arise, how can these communities make sense of the unimaginable and work…
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Caring for Country: Indigenous leadership in disaster management
When Cyclone Yasi hit the coast of North Queensland in 2011, the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation and its active community of rangers and artists took a position of leadership in the recovery process and galvanised a devastated community. In this episode, we explore how this particular First...
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A Sense of Safety: What young people are capable of in the face of disaster
How does a tight-knit community in rural Victoria approach disaster preparedness when its youngest residents have lost their sense of safety? Ten years on from the Black Saturday bushfires, we visit Strathewen Primary School to hear from Principal Jane Hayward and a group of Year 6 students about...
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Coming soon: Creative Responders
How can a sculptural forest trail in Western Australia reunite a community after bushfire? How does a tight-knit community in rural Victoria approach recovery when its youngest residents have lost their sense of safety? How is storytelling creating opportunities for connection among farmers in...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Creative Responders is a podcast from the Creative Recovery Network that explores the unique power of the arts and creativity in disaster management by sharing stories and insights from artists, emergency management experts, creative leaders and impacted communities across Australia.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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