• home |
• about |
• people |
• joining |
• history |
• contact us |  
• CDN events |
• publications |
• projects | 
• e-bulletin |
• resources | links

 

HOT LINKS

Forthcoming events: Networking the Diaspora and Homelessness and Cultural Democracy
•

Making the Case for Culture: Creative City Network of Canada
•

Poems about Community Spaces
& other papers from Connecting Schools & Communities conferences, June 2008
•

Meet, Meld, Merge Art Bringing a Community Together:
the Toil Art Project, in Yea, N.E. Victoria
•

Home Lands: Internet TV program which connects young refugees to their home lands
•

The Agenda 21 for Culture is the first document with worldwide mission that advocates establishing the groundwork of an undertaking by cities and local governments for cultural development.
•

 

Search the CDN site:

CDN Events & Papers

Coming Events | Past Events & Papers

Our main advocacy work has been through running and supporting forums and conferences at which individuals can meet and debate face to face. Details of our plans for the future as well as past events can be found on these pages.

We began hosting forums to stimulate discussion among and between various sectors about the implications of applying a cultural perspective to local development. Always extending our research work (still best exemplified by The Fourth Pillar - pdf flyer and order form), our forums have meant that people from disparate disciplines have forged new relationships, considered new ideas and been inspired by the possibilities of ‘fourth pillar’ thinking.

Forums & Artists' Talks Program 2008

Our forums bring together people from disparate disciplines to forge new relationships, consider new ideas and be inspired by the possibilities of ‘fourth pillar’ thinking. They also seek to highlight lead practice and to contribute to a steady improvement in the quality of public discussion and practice in community cultural development.

Networking the Diaspora

Thursday October 30, VicHealth Seminar Room, Carlton

This exciting half day forum looks at the possibilities of modern technologies to facilitate, develop and maintain communication between dispersed communities. Networking the Diaspora aims to include refugee community leaders, human rights lawyers, and the broader community service sector to discuss new ideas in refugee resettlement policy and the premise that refugee youth resettlement is more successful if young refugees are able to identify, communicate and engage with their home communities.

Networking the Diaspora considers the home land of birth, the interim 'home land' of refuge and the adopted 'home land' of hope. The UN Declaration of Human Rights is not specific about geography when affirming the right 'to participate in the cultural life of the community' and the forum will examine how cultural participation can happen with dispersed refugee communities through new communications, technologies and media channels.

Panellists will discuss the rights of communities to communicate with each other, new policy developments, the possibilities of new technologies, and building cultural continuity across diasporas.

Panellists to be confirmed.

This event is free. Presented by the Cultural Development Network in partnership with the City of Melbourne.

Please RSVP using this form: Event RSVP.

   

Homelessness and Cultural Democracy

Thursday 27th November, 2 - 5pm City Library Seminar Room, Melbourne

Homelessness and Cultural Democracy is a half day forum to discuss and debate ways to facilitate the inclusion of homeless individuals and families in the cultural life of the community. Homelessness can be understood as an ‘inadequate experience of connectedness with family and or community’ and is not determined only by an individual’s status of housing. This half day forum will provide an opportunity for discussion about the right of homeless individuals and families to participate in the cultural life of the community and the city as part of that support.

A panel of speakers will address the barriers that exist and the solutions that need to be expanded or developed for the future, rights to access and broadening access, and mainstream platforms and opportunities for marginalized art and artists.

Taking a broad definition of homelessness, this half day forum brings together a range of stakeholders, including arts and community workers, artists, local government, and people who have experienced homelessness to discuss ways in which social inclusion through cultural participation can impact on the lives of homeless individuals and families.

This event is free.

Presented by the Cultural Development Network in partnership with the City of Melbourne.

Please RSVP using this form: Event RSVP.

   

Artists talk: The International Perspective

Friday December 12, 3-5 pm
North Melbourne Town Hall - FREE

Artists and artsworkers who have recently been overseas discuss their adventures and learning. Speakers include:
Marcus Schutenko, AsiaLink Resident at the Arts Council of Mongolia
Katrina Rank, Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellow, University of Otago (NZ)
Caroline Farmer, Asialink resident at Arts Network Asia in Singapore
Join us for interesting presentations, a chance to ask questions, networking, and of course drinks and nibbles to celebrate another great year!

This event is free.

Please RSVP to rsvp@culturaldevelopment.net.au

---

 

We would be pleased to hear from you with enquiries or suggestions about any of these activities or any other ideas

Kim Dunphy 9658 9976 or info@culturaldevelopment.net.au