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ABC Arts: 'Air' at QAGOMA
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ABC Arts: Richard Bell at documenta fifteen
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Museum of Contemporary Art

Sydney Morning Herald: Hustle Harder

You can read my interview with Adam Linder about his new work, Hustle Harder, that has just opened at MCA Australia here.

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MCA GENEXT Goes Online

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I can’t imagine that anybody’s 2020 is unfolding in quite the way they had imagined. At some point I hope to have the headspace for reflection and clarity and calls to action (assuming we ever get to a post-COVID world…) but the temporary shuttering of the MCA has meant the cancellation of all my scheduled programs this year, including GENEXT.

Over the last few months I’ve been supporting the MCA Youth Committee and Young Guides, experimenting with new forms of digital communication, art-making, activism, wellbeing and youth-led public programming, to re-imagine GENEXT for an online audience, taking inspiration from the 22nd Biennale of Sydney and this strange, exhausting, uncertain time we’re now living in.

On Sunday 31 May 2020 we launched GENEXT Goes Online, which included live-streamed performances and panel talks, all MC’d by the Youth Committee, as well as a (frankly phenomenal) collection of digital content including zines, quizzes, artist interviews and guided making activities, VR exhibition spotlight talks, an Auslan visual storytelling workshop, interactive creative prompts and a live dance class.

At some stage I will find the time to come back to this post and reflect more thoughtfully on what I’ve learned from this experience but for now, I’d just encourage you to take a digital wander through the program here.

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Upcoming SAMAG Panel - Youth arts: why we should care what young people think

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Strikers! Youth leading change change panel, Conversation Starters 2019: Temperature Rising, MCA Australia, 2 June 2019. Photo: Jodie Barker, Image courtesy: MCA Australia

Since getting back from my Churchill Fellowship, I’ve been working with the Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group (SAMAG) to co-produce the upcoming panel conversation Youth Arts: why we should care what young people think.

I’m going to be sharing some of my Churchill findings, as well as insights from the MCA GENEXT impact report before a panel of brilliant young people offer their insights and experiences working with six different Sydney arts organisations across the theatre, visual arts, music and heritage sectors.

Wednesday 11 September at MCA

5pm - MCA Young Guides tour of Shaun Gladwell: Pacific Undertow

6pm - Panel conversation with Q&A to follow

Tickets available here.

This quick style insight conversation will focus on the developing role and growth of youth committees and young people’s advisory groups within our arts and cultural organisations. What kinds of expertise do young people bring – as creative producers or advisors? What is their impact and how is the practice of our arts organisations responding to their contribution? How are young people being reached, communicated with and included in the arts beyond being sought as audience members? What does the arts sector look like to newcomers and what are some of the barriers to their involvement?

Join us if you can for a MCA Young Guide-led tour of Shaun Gladwell: Pacific Undertow at 5pm, and then hear from a panel of young people and youth arts workers about their experiences and advice on where organisations should start if they haven’t already.

Panel:
MCA Australia
• Lucy Achhorner (MCA Youth Committee and Young Guide)
• Em Lienert (MCA Youth Committee and Young Guide)

Australian Theatre for Young People
• Emily Buxton
• Daisy Millpark

Casula Powerhouse Art Centre
• Madelaine De Leon (CPAC Youth)
• Stephanie Nguy (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Youth)

Shopfront Arts Co-Op
• Carlee Heise (Young Leader)
• Daniel Potter (Executive Director/CEO, Shopfront Arts Co-Op)

Information Cultural Exchange
• Liliana Occhiuto (New Age Noise Collective)
• Jessica Paraha (New Age Noise Collective)

Sydney Living Museums
• Hayden Walsh (Producer of Indigenous Programs)

Presenter & Co-Producer
Jo Higgins (Young Creatives Coordinator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2018 Churchill Fellow)

Moderator
Sophie Harrington, SAMAG Committee Member and Public Program Manager, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences

This seminar is a partnership between SAMAG and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

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I acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal peoples of the Eora nation, the traditional owners of the unceded land on which I live and work and I pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.