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Arts Queensland’s monthly update of arts and culture

May 2013

This month we reveal the first project to receive Super Star funding, learn more about the history of music in Queensland with Live!, celebrate the leading Indigenous artists making a mark on the world stage, find inspiration in the story of Songs of Roma House and get great practical advice on sponsorship from the team at Swell Sculpture Festival.

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The Mouldy Lovers perform at Live! Queensland Band Culture, State Library of Queensland

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It’s been another eventful and diverse month for me as Arts Minister, announcing rugby league

player Scott Prince as a co-winner of the inaugural kuril dhagun Prize, welcoming new CEO Suzanne Miller to the Queensland Museum and revealing the first Super Star Fund recipient.

Earlier this month I also attended a lunch organised by Creative Partnerships Australia and Queensland Theatre Company, sponsored by Brisbane Airport Corporation. It was a great opportunity to get business and arts folk in the same room to see how we can work together to build more arts and culture into our lives. I’m looking forward to being part of more great initiatives like this one.

I was also delighted to announce the Queensland Ballet as the first recipients of the Super Star Fund to support an Australian

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exclusive of Romeo and Juliet in 2014. This world-class production will star dancers Tamara Rojo and Carols Acosta and feature the choreography of the late Sir Kenneth MacMillan, one of the world’s leading choreographers. My congratulations to Queensland Ballet for winning this funding.

This week I will attend another cultural highlight, the Bolshoi Ballet’s production of Le Corsaire, and launch the Queensland Music Festival 2013 program. Queensland certainly is a great state of the arts.

The Honourable Ian Walker MPMinister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts

The Minister (right) and two young readers get a sneak peak at the children’s book, Deadly D and Justice Jones – Making the team, written by rugby league star Scott Prince (centre) and Dave Hartley (left).

Minister for the Arts

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The program highlights for CIAF Presents 2013 were announced by the Arts Minister Ian Walker in Cairns on Tuesday 28 May. The event was announced in front of the CIAF Presents stakeholders including Traditional Owner Henrietta Fourmile Marrie, Cairns Mayor Bob Manning and representatives from UMI Arts, Indigenous Art Centre Alliance and KickArts.

The four-day CIAF Presents from 15-18 August will include a feast of music, dance and visual arts with a major highlight being a free concert on 16 August headlined by Dan Sultan as part of CIAF Presents UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire. This concert also showcases emerging and established Indigenous performers and musicians from Far North Queensland and market stalls at Fogarty Park.

Exhibitions will be held around Cairns including showcases by respected senior Indigenous artists Roy McIvor and Ken Thaiday Snr. Professional development opportunities will be available through a number of symposiums, workshops and forums.

to wow at CIAF PresentsCIAF Presents visitors will be invited to enjoy seafood treats as part of the Gimuy Fish and Food Festival and access affordable Indigenous art at the Kinship Art Market at Tanks.

There is still time to be part of the CIAF Presents final program. Queensland’s Indigenous artists and arts and cultural organisations are encouraged to submit an event, exhibition or activity to feature in the final CIAF Presents program. The event, exhibition or activity must take place during the event dates of 15-18 August and be less than two hour’s drive from Cairns CBD. To apply or for more information download the Expression of Interest information sheet and application form. Expressions of interest applications must be submitted by Friday 14 June, 2013.

For more information contact CIAF Acting General Manager Evelyn Golding at evelyn.golding@arts.qld.gov.au

Dan Sultan stars at the CIAF Presents UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Concert. Photo courtesy The Harbour Agency

Dan Sultan

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One of the most exciting dance productions ever staged will leap into Queensland next year, supported by the Queensland Government’s Super Star Fund.

An exclusive season of Romeo and Juliet delivered by the Queensland Ballet and featuring internationally-acclaimed dancers Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta is the first Super Star project to become a reality.

Arts Minister Ian Walker and Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director Li Cunxin made the announcement last week.

“This is a major coup for our state,” Mr Walker said. “The Super Star Fund is a $3 million dollar commitment over four years to bring international stars to our own backyard.

“This famous production of Romeo and Juliet, choreographed by the late Sir Kenneth MacMillan, has never before been seen in Australia.”

Tamara Rojo is an acclaimed Spanish ballerina and Artistic Director of the English National Ballet, while Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta is a principal guest artist with The Royal Ballet.

Li Cunxin said: “Kenneth MacMillan was one of the world’s most highly regarded choreographers, and classical companies from around the world vie for the opportunity to stage MacMillan’s works with his Romeo and Juliet widely considered the best in the world.”

“This is a true honour for our state ballet company. Audiences can enjoy a world-class production while our state ballet company will benefit from a unique and exclusive partnership,” he said.

Romeo and Juliet will be at Queensland Performing Arts Centre between 27 June and 5 July 2014, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the work’s creation and the 450th anniversary of the Shakespearean play.

Tickets will go on sale later in the year or visit Queensland Ballet http://www.queenslandballet.com.au/ for more information.

Arts Minister Ian Walker and

Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director

Li Cunxin with principal dancers at

the Super Star announcement – May

2013. Photo: Christian Aas, courtesy

Queensland Ballet.

Queensland’s Ballet’s

Romeo and Juliet first to tap Super Star Fund

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Secure your spot at regional arts conferenceEarly bird registrations are now open for Articulate: Queensland Regional Arts and Culture Conference, to be held at Rockhampton 21-23 August. Articulate features talks, workshops and panels that focus on vibrant arts communities, regional identities, urban activation, cultural tourism and community participation. The conference features a stellar cast

of Australian and international speakers, including Helen Palmer, Lindy Hume, Glen Murray, Amy Saunders, Bridget Boyle, John Smithies, Paul Osuch, Merryn Spencer, Chloe Goodyear and Robyn Adams. The conference is presented by Arts Queensland in partnership with Rockhampton Regional Council.

Register via: http://www.articulate2013.com/

Bolshoi

Ahead of their exclusive season in Brisbane Principal Dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet, Ms Ekaterina Shipulina, Ms Maria Alexandrova, Mr Mikhail Lobukhin, and Mr Vladislav Lantratov joined members of the Queensland Ballet in a class led by QB Artistic Director Li Cunxin.

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Laurel Dingle, one of three of the curators, sounded stumped at first when asked about Live! Queensland Band Culture because this multi-dimensional celebration is close to her heart and there’s so much to say.

“This exhibition is about Queensland bands and not just the famous ones. It digs deeper, looks at why ordinary people play in bands or support them,” Laurel says.

“Prior to the mid-20th century, people joined a band for the sake of their community. It was a bonding thing, a show of support. In the ‘50s, jazz and rock’n’roll bands came to be about rebellion.

“We’ve pulled together items from the library’s collections but there

are gaps. So, as well as being a

showcase of the importance of

music, Live! is also a collection

drive. Memorabilia relating to

culturally diverse music from the

Asia Pacific, Greece and Africa

are especially needed since the

music of our migrants is integral to

today’s culture.

“In June we are organizing a

Collection Box. People can come

and show us their sheet music,

old records, CDs, posters, photos,

brochures, tickets, programs and

even hard drives and digital stuff.

We will be on the spot to assess

whether it is collectable.”

Paul Curtis, who manages iconic

Queensland act Regurgitator, is

chuffed about his involvement.

State Library makes some noiseState Library of Queensland got loud, funky and made a whole lotta noise when it launched this massive, multi-media event, Live!, on the 11 May with music, film screenings, sound installations, photograph displays and collections of musical curios.

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“I’ve managed Regurgitator for 20 years,” he says.

“I got excited when I heard about the State Library’s archival happening about Queensland bands. I handed over all kinds of stuff and a series of posters I designed for Regurgitator. The nature of any history, particularly band history can be arbitrary and subjective. The music scene is so distorted by late nights, drugs, alcohol, individual preferences and ego. Everyone has their own perspective.

“I was contacted about two posters for records I’ve released. I told them about the tees and 150 posters I’ve designed. I handed in a box of CDs and 10 posters for the launch’s timeline wall. I’ve been given the opportunity to make an installation later in the year”.

Of all the fascinating curios exhibited, The Community Band’s Digital Story is one of Laurel’s favourites since she and a colleague produced this. There are interviews with instrumentalists from Excelsior Brass (formed in 1912) the St John Ambulance Concert Band – formerly the Brisbane Citizens Concert Band

(formed 1919), the City of Brisbane Pipe Band (formed 1950) and the Queensland Irish Association Pipe Band (formed 1898).

From May to August, SLQ will be hosting live performances from local bands, including Steve Towson, Last Chaos, The Mouldy Lovers, The Ragtag Band, and La Trav. Screenings of documentaries, dance classes, interactive exhibitions, talks, fashion, technology workshops, audiovisual displays and opportunities for pop-up performances where anyone can jam are also on the menu.

On the ground floor are three venues, a jazz bar from the ‘30s and ‘40s and a rock music club with hundreds of posters up on the wall like Zoo. There’s also a screening, by interdisciplinary artist Sarah-Mace Dennis, who documents how Queensland music changed and was influenced by American servicemen.

Live! Queensland Band Culture, State Library of Queensland til 15 September. www.slq.qld.gov.au

Sandgate Convent School Band, ca 1939 and The Mouldy Lovers. Photos courtesy State Library of Queensland

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Voices of the homeless raised in song in inspiring albumMusic means different things to different people and increasingly many are calling on its therapeutic power.

“Clearly, it has made a big impact helping the homeless to shake their demons,” she says.

“Now they all have plans. It’s been heartening to witness their commitment week after week. One didn’t even speak at first he was so switched off from the world. But each week he brought in reams of poem and these were turned into song.”

Two recipients of the Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship Chris Dale (2008) and Danny Widdicombe (2010) as well as singer songwriter Talea Goold and Deb Suckling have all been mentors.

“If you have music and expression in your life you can’t go wrong,” says Talea.

Talea who started writing songs herself as a means of self-expression at the age of 15 says she loved sharing her passion for songwriting.

Jonathan Welch’s Choir of Hard Knocks was one transformative program involving people living on the streets.

Recently, Mission Australia and QMusic, have trail blazed another. This project paired homeless residents from Roma House, Mission Australia’s transitional residence for the homeless, with four of Queensland’s popular songwriters as mentors.

The idea behind the scheme was to give homeless people who suffer trauma and deprivation routinely on the streets the chance to tell their story, gain self-respect and be empowered by channeling their experiences into song.

Martine Cotton, a project manager QMusic says Songs of Roma House “has been a fantastic program and has encouraged the participants to express themselves and communicate through music. It’s been an incredible, moving experience for us”.

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“It was wonderful to sit down and have input and give a listening ear to their ideas,” she says. “We had to get to know them and their backgrounds. Jamie really shone as a performer and surprised everyone in what he could do. Deb Suckling showed them a few chords on guitar. The songs were so honest and heartfelt it was a pleasure to help.

“I would love to do it again. Songwriting gave them all a focus, taking them out of the acute stresses in their lives. Alex Dirgham, Jamie Taylor and Wayne Duncan were the stayers.”

Martine says there have been many positive outcomes, not the least of which has been the participants’ growing confidence.

“We recently launched the CD in the Visy Theatre of The Powerhouse. Jamie and Alex performed. It was beautiful hearing them on stage,” she says.

“We are seeking grants to do similar projects again but next time we want to grow the idea to be more inclusive and involve more people.”

Listen to Songs of Roma House here http://youtu.be/62jbd6ynj1s

Songs of Roma House CD launch. Photos: Dan Lewis, QMusic.

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Now in its 11th year, Swell champions three-dimensional art. And, there is much on offer besides; artist talks, children’s workshops, twilight walks, master classes, great refreshments and all the buzz and thrum of alfresco bands.

So what makes this event so popular with artists, visitors and sponsors and how do they manage their business so effectively? Swell boasts numerous awards, attracts effusive publicity, has healthy sponsorship agreements, attendance figures of around 180,000 and enjoys strong support within the arts industry. They may have some lessons for others.

Natasha Edwards, who founded the event says: “We had no budget at first, only the grand idea of putting sculptures on the beach.”

“I sold a share portfolio and an old tinny so I could inject my own money.

A swell

“The Neumman Family, our

founding patron, and Currumbin

RSL sponsored us enough to pay

the artists for the very first two-day

exhibition. We set up the company

as a not for profit organisation and

scored pro-bono legal advice to

set up artist agreements. We’ve

had huge community support ever

since.”

Attracting arts sponsorship in

these fiscally awkward times is

a tough call. Yet Edwards has

brokered three-year and long-term

sponsorships and manages to hold

onto them. What are her tips for

fundraising?

Know in your head what you want

to achieve then work backwards

to achieve it, is her first piece of

advice. “It also helps Swell is the

air I breathe,” she says

“Have structures and systems

in place to fall back on. Gather a

broad base of financial sources

of supportSwell is a Queensland success story. In this thriving festival, 50 sculptures are installed along the beautiful foreshore of Currumbin Beach.

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including philanthropic trusts, donations, funds from arts organizations and businesses.

“In-kind support is helpful too. Lovely Platypus Graphics Printing has sponsored Swell by a part cash and part contra deal since year dot. And some generous metalworking companies install sculptures for nothing.

“l’ve learned to step back or step up when necessary. Making sponsorships work is about getting out of the office. Talking to people. Going into schools.

“Rather than always up-sell in meetings, I ask questions to find out what’s important to them.

Sometimes, businesses want to cancel an arrangement. When this happens be gracious. Give them recognition anyway. Times change and they may resume support. I make it fun.

“Social media is great to keep people in touch. After a meeting, I can post relevant photos or tweet. It’s instant communication. Being transparent is important. The advantages to sponsors are identified on our website.

“We also encourage artists to find sponsors. Whenever an artist finds one we reward that company through posting their logo on our website. “And I’m committed to writing funding submissions and, when I put something in writing, I deliver.”

Natasha says sound financial management is crucial.

“Co-director Ruth Della and I budget for every stage. Everything

has to be paid and actioned before moving on.”

Jonathon Fisher, CEO of Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, explains that he supports Swell because the coastal setting creates such a dramatic backdrop for the sculptures and the Festival contributes a sense of place. Plus Natasha is a no nonsense type who sticks to her ideals.

“We like Natasha and Ruth’s clarity of purpose,” he says.

Swell Sculpture Festival, 13-22 September 2013, receives s2m funding from Arts Queensland.

Favourite works from previous festivals include Glen Sanders, White Death. Photo: Steve Holland Mariana Martin, Journey Music. Photo: Rowly Emmett

Natasha Edwards, Director, Swell Sculpture Festival. Photo: Brian Usher, Ocean Road Magazine

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Chang Hsien-Ching says the trip was inspiring because the company’s theatre was only built in 2010 and it has such a short history.

“QPAC has 25 years of experience and we learned such a lot from talking to staff,” she says.

“We were especially impressed by how the programming department divides into two. One section manages festivals and the other commercial programs, with the commercial arm supporting the festivals. We thought this a special idea.”

Chang says the company also went to visit Opera Queensland.

“It was great. The company does much community outreach and we want to do that here in our neighbourhood,” she says.

“We have two opera productions of Cantonese opera a year, but opera,

and especially western opera, is not that popular in Guangzhou. Involving kids in educational outreach is important. Children are our future audience.”

QPAC’s children’s festival, Out of the Box, greatly impressed the company, as did QAGOMA’s 7th Asia Pacific Triennial exhibition and Children’s Art Centre.

Rebecca Lamoin, QPAC’s Associate Director, Strategy, is thrilled about QPAC’s involvement with the Guangzhou Opera Company.

She thinks the recent visit by the company executive staff was invaluable for staff from both QPAC and Guangzhou as it generated an understanding and first-hand information about each other’s arts sector.

Rebecca explains that earlier in the year, John Kotzas, QPAC’s CEO went to Korea, Japan and China to broker relationships with flagship

Wonderful’ is the word Chang Hsien-Ching, Associate Director of Programming and Marketing Department of the Guangzhou Opera Company, on the phone from China, chose to describe her visit to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in March.

QPAC on song with Chinese opera

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arts centres in these countries. This recent visit is one of the productive outcomes that came from his trip and is QPAC’s first potential partnership in the Asia Pacific Region.

In 2004, Queensland and Guangdong signed a sister-state friendship agreement. QPAC’s developing relationship with Guangzhou Opera House builds strategically on this arrangement.

Guangzhou is China’s third largest city and the futuristic Opera House, said to resemble a shimmering

sprawling spaceship designed by architectural sensation Zahah Hadid, is a global talking point.

Guangzhou Opera Company and QPAC have ambitious goals including the eventual commission of a joint Queensland and Guangzhou Opera. The next step though will be the co-signing of an official Letter of Intent. Rebecca is keeping her fingers crossed this will happen later in the year.

QPAC Chair Henry Smerdon AM with Chang Hsien-Ching, Deputy Director Programming, Guangzhou Opera House. Photo: James Robertson

Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) will stage its largest exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art when My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia goes on display from 1 June until 7 October, 2013. Be part of the community celebrations for

My Country, I Still Call Australia Home

its opening on Saturday 1 June. For more information visit www.qagoma.qld.gov.au

Gordon Hookey, Waanyi people, QLD/NSW b.1961 The Sacred Hill 2013. Oil on canvas. Commissioned by the Children’s Art Centre, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Collection.

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London, Moscow, Canada: Queensland Indigenous artists taking world by stormThe work of seven esteemed Queensland artists - Fiona Foley, Brian Robinson, Christian Thompson, Danie Mellor, Vernon Ah Kee, Judy Watson and Richard Bell - is going global later in the year with support from Backing Indigenous Arts.

“I’m really proud I’ve been invited to give the keynote address at Origins: Festival of Nations, a leading festival of Indigenous art, in London in October,” says artist Fiona Foley.

“It’s a huge honour to be acknowledged like this internationally. I’ll be nervous for the first five minutes but will speak strongly.”

Fiona hasn’t decided on the content of her talk yet but says, ‘people do stereoptype Indigenous art and think it is all angry and political’.

“I try and get round this and say it’s educational,” she says.

“I love reading about early frontier history. Some of my work is related to hidden histories that the Australian public is not aware of. I examine why white Australians hold particular views towards Aboriginal people and what these opinions are founded on.”

Fiona is not only giving the opening address at Origins but one of her works Vexed will be included in the associated exhibition. Vexed, a digital work is based on Germaine Greer’s publication On Rage and looks at Aboriginal traditional marriages and the disruption of Aboriginal society because of white men taking Aboriginal women.

“Black cockatoos mate for life and there are big flocks out at Alice Springs. “Vexed” juxtaposes footage of their sheer beauty with a male aboriginal voice quoting from Greer’s text. A sound recordist is composing music to go with the imagery. When I give the keynote I’m going to wear black and red like a black cockatoo”.

Brian Robinson is ‘over the moon’ that around 12 of his prints from a recent exhibition Men and Gods at KickArts Contemporary Arts in Cairns are going on display at the Berlin Art Fair.

“After 15 years of showing work at a regional gallery I grabbed this opportunity with both hands,” he says.

Sydney Gallery Director Michael Reid selected Brian’s work for the group landscape show because “his work is consistently museum quality”.

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“I like the vision of gods and the mash up of the neo-classical with the popular art of Torres Strait Island in his piece,” Michael says. “Curatorially, Christian Thompson, Danie Mellor and Robinson sit well together.”

Thompson and Foley have also been selected for representation in the exciting Australia exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Art (21 September-8 December). Their work will be exhibited alongside Albert Namatjira, Sydney Nolan, Margaret Preston, Russell Drysdale, Rover Thomas, John Olsen, Tracey Moffatt, Judy Watson, Gordon Bennett and many others.

Richard Bell’s artwork is set to feature at the fifth Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, while he joins Vernon Ah Kee in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.

Left: Fiona Foley Bliss 2006. Single-channel digital video, sound. 11:20 minutes Videography: Troy Melville. Edition 100. Image courtesy of the artist, Andrew Baker art Dealer, Brisbane and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.

Above: Brian Robinson Handline, Ngurupai wharf, (detail) 2011. Linocut printed in black ink from one block, BFK white 300 GSM, edition of 40. Courtesy the artist & Djumbunji Press, KickArts Contemporary Arts, Cairns

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The Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship is accepting applications for singer/songwriters until 28 June 2013. Established in 2007 in honour of the late Queensland singer-songwriter Grant McLennan, the $25,000 Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship offers the recipient an opportunity to travel to New York, London or Berlin for up to two months and use the experience of being immersed in a foreign and vibrant musical culture to further develop their own artistic skills.

Past recipients include Louise O’Reilly and Paul Hannan (Laneway) in 2012, Scott Spark in 2011 and Danny Widdicomb and Andrew Morris (Wilson Pickers) in 2010.

The next round of the Jupiters Casino Community Benefit Fund, the Breakwater Island Casino Community Benefit Fund and the Gambling Community Benefit Fund close on 31 May 2013. The latter fund has one-off grants of up to $35,000 inclusive of GST (and more for applications that have substantial community benefit) which are allocated to approved

not-for-profit organisations to help them provide community services or activities that benefit the Queensland community.

Arts organisations have been funded in past rounds. Look at the list of past recipients to see what has been funded. If you can’t get an application in for the current round, there are four per year. http://www.olgr.qld.gov.au/grants/CBFU/

Also applications can be made at any time to the Super Star Fund and the Playing Queensland Fund and details of both funds are on the Arts Queensland Funding page http://www.arts.qld.gov.au/funding/index.html

I am happy to assist with any funding enquiries and I can be contacted by phone on 07 3034 4077 or email linda.dreghorn@arts.qld.gov.au

Please feel free to contact me at linda.dreghorn@arts.qld.gov.au / 07 3234 1092 if you have any enquiries.

Funding Update with Linda Dreghorn

Grant news

Australia Council 2013 Funding

The Australia Council funding guide is available at: http://bit.ly/Wduryx

Grants closing in June 2013 include:

• Music–ContemporaryMusic Touring Program, Key Organisation Multi-year, Creative Australia, New

Work, New Work, Writing and Recording, Presentation and Promotion

• Theatre–CulturalLeadershipProgram, Key Organisation Multi-year, Program Presenter

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Resources update

Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM)

Applications to present work in the APAM 2014 program close on Monday 22 July 2013. Early bird registration opens on 15 May 2013. Visit: http://bit.ly/18jmwqR

Call for papers for the 6th World Summit of Arts and Culture

The International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies (IFACCA) and the National Council for Culture and the Arts, Chile (CNCA) are inviting arts professionals, academics, producers, administrators, creators and arts workers to submit proposals for presentation at the 6th World Summit on Arts and Culture. Closing date 19 May 2013. Visit http://bit.ly/10B9IXX

Facilitated Board Reflections

BoardConnect recommends board audits should be undertaken at least once every three years, but if you’re not due for a board audit there’s now an interim option for a fraction of the cost: Facilitated Board Reflections. BoardConnect consultants provide an impartial view and are able to share insights from their work with other boards for more information see http://bit.ly/10CFmUg

Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Legacy online survey

Have your say on how the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games™ can create positive and lasting benefits for you and your community at http://www.legacy2018.com/

Media releasesRegional Queensland reaps touring rewards

Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts Ian Walker has announced six new touring arts productions to hit the road as part of the Playing Queensland Fund – Boost to Touring. http://bit.ly/16QXm5G

New CEO announced for Queensland Museum

The Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, Ian Walker, welcomed Professor Suzanne Miller as the new CEO of the Queensland Museum Network. http://bit.ly/186al30

Articles & ReportsResearch on Young Emerging Arts Practitioners for Creative New Zealand http://bit.ly/10zKS9F and http://bit.ly/195zZUx

Library and information services: the future of the profession themes and scenarios 2025 Australian Library and Information

Association (ALIA). See http://bit.ly/12ZnMNt

Art, money and society: Private funding, public benefit and creative social enterprise Grace McQuilten and Anthony White.

See http://bit.ly/UQsBWE