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The book provides the reader with a deep insight into the history of Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) that for four decades has undertaken and celebrated cultural diversity in the arts in Australia. http://www.multiculturalarts.com.au/events2011/givingvoice.shtml

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This book investigates wide ranging issues raised by the interaction between art practice, community participation and the environment.

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Castanet is a network of Victorian arts organisations, artists and government agencies working with Arts Victoria to strengthen community-based arts practice.

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This guide will help not-for-profit cultural organisations and individual artists understand the formalities associated with receiving philanthropic gifts. This is your one-stop-shop for tax and legal information about philanthropic fundraising.

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In Rediscovering the Wealth of Places: a municipal cultural planning handbook for Canadian communities, Greg Baeker provides a practical introduction to core planning concepts and tools for municipal cultural planning and includes an exceptional methodology for cultural mapping and cultural planning. A strong focus is placed on the effective integration of culture in planning across municipal departments, and with a look at some leading practices from Canada and around the world.

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 IBIS is a new resource showcasing international good practice around migrant and refugee social inclusion and related multicultural community relations. IBIS is an international on-line community of practitioners, government policy makers and administrators and academics.

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This book is a series of interviews with social theorists and scholars, philanthropists, scientists, theologians, artists, community development and community arts activists. Several recent books, including The Great Turning by David Korten, and A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, have made the argument that a new way of organizing our relationships to each other and to nature will be necessary in the coming years. The subjects, some 30 in all, were all asked to comment on this eventuality and to provide their perceptions of what role that artists and arts organisations should play in contributing to a more just and sustainable society.

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The Office for the Community Sector (OCS) has now completed work on the Community Sector Workforce Capability Framework. This framework will assist Victorian not-for-profit (NFP) community organisations with the recruitment and retention of staff, performance management and career planning, by listing the skills, knowledge and attributes needed in a wide range of emerging and current job roles in the NFP community sector. The Framework has been designed to help both individuals and organisations.

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The Arts Industry Council Victoria’s new website is now live! The new site includes all of the latest information outlining our activities, campaigns, hot topics of discussion in the arts, as well as past submissions and useful links.

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 This book contains contributed chapters on a theory of creativity as an innate capacity, the therapeutic benefits of creativity, factors that encourage or inhibit creativity and current research on these, and accounts of creativity both as individual projects and as group work.

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