Griffith Asia Institute Director, Professor Caitlin Byrne and Professor Ruth Bereson, Dean (Academic) Arts, Education and Law Group have recently been awarded a grant through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australia-ASEAN Council for their project Regionally Speaking – cultural leadership and advocacy from ASEAN to Australia.
This project builds on a unique model of engagement and capacity building that will bring 15 arts practitioners (10 from the ASEAN region and 5 from across Australia) together for 5-day workshop to explore and interrogate what it means to be a cultural leader or advocate in the Asia-Pacific region today.
The workshop program will leverage Brisbane’s distinctive cultural expertise and landscape – particularly in visual, screen and performing arts as vehicles for engagement in the Asia-Pacific. It has been timed to coincide with the 2018 Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM), and participant’s will have the opportunity to part in inter-cultural dialogues and observe
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