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Regenerating Community Conference Report

RMIT have now issued a report from the ReGenerating Community: Arts Community and Governance’ National Conference, Sept 2 – 4, 2009. RMIT University, Melbourne

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Art, Governance and the Turn to Community: Putting Art at the Heart of Local Government

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2008, Assessing the Intrinsic Impacts of a Live Performance, WolfBrown, USA

This report attempts to define and measure how audiences are transformed by a live performance.

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VicHealth, 2007, Evaluating the Mental Health and Wellbeing Impacts of Community-Based Festivals: VicHealth report released September 2007

This report examines the impacts of community-based festivals on mental health and wellbeing from a population health perspective, through evaluation of two Victorian festivals Awakenings and Braybrook’s Big Day Out.

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Griffith Review: ‘Essentially Creative’ Issue 23

When the Prime Minister included the arts and creativity in the 2020 Summit in early 2008, it was more than political window-dressing with famous actors. It was a sign that after a decade artists, actors, writers and others engaged in the creative economy were being taken seriously. This issue of Griffith Review proposes a bold new agenda to restore the arts to centre stage.

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‘Meet, Meld, Merge’: Art Bringing a Community Together: the ‘Toil Art’ Project, in Yea, North-eastern Victoria, May 2008.

A unique, community art project, Toil Art, focuses on the much utilised facilities of the Yea Public Toilets; with the aim of people now stopping for a ‘Wee and a See!’ The concept for the project began at the ‘Meet, Meld Merge’ forum run by Berry St with the support of the Cultural Development Network, in September 2006. On this day, participants were asked to brainstorm a new project for their community, and the first idea for ‘Toil Art’ was born.

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Kapetopoulos, F., 2009, Adjust Your View: developing multicultural audiences for the arts a toolkit.

Multicultural marketing is not rocket science. But it is complex and needs passion, commitment and a willingness to learn. This toolkit is divided into four sections and each section can be used as a stand-alone component or be integrated to assist in attracting multicultural audiences to arts and cultural events.

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Art is Good for Your Health, Northern Ireland.

An award presented to charity, Arts Care underlines the Arts Council’s assertion in its current five year plan that contributing to the health and well being of the wider community is one of the ways in which the arts can contribute to a new Northern Ireland.

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2006 Australian Bureau of Statistics report: Attendance at Selected Cultural Venues and Events, Australia, 2005-06

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Macaffer, J., 2007, ‘Wild Earth Blanket: Wildscapes of Warringine Community Art Project’.

Article by Jenny Macaffer, Coordinator, Social Planning & Community Development, Mornington Peninsula Shire. The Wild Earth Blanket (WEB) encourages us to engage in a dialogue with ourselves and others. It is a symbol for self reflection, a beautiful piece of community art, and a story of the sacred ways of nature, and our place in the world. The WEB started as a community art project to connect health and well being with the natural bushland of Warringine Park in Western Port, Victoria. It was initiated at Wild Discovery Day at the Park on 6 October 2007.