In mid-February 2018, Griffith Asia Institute (GAI) Director Professor Caitlin Byrne and Professor Ruth Bereson, Dean (Academic) Arts, Education and Law group, designed and led the project “Regionally Speaking: Cultural Advocacy, Diplomacy and Leadership from ASEAN to Australia”.
ASEAN-Australian Art Practitioners, GAI Director Professor Caitlin Byrne and Professor Ruth Bereson, Dean (Academic) Arts, Education and Law group.
The five-day Regionally Speaking project, made possible with funding from the Australia-ASEAN Council (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), brought together cultural practitioners from ASEAN and Australia to explore, through personal narrative, how contemporary arts and cultural practice can serve to shape engagement within and between nations.
The process aims to develop a network of influential “regionally minded” cultural advocates and leaders and to form a sense of collective agency and responsibility. Attention was paid to the diplomatic skills from which arts leaders can benefit, engendering understanding of participants’ respective countries and cultures, and deepening
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