"When you don’t see yourself or people like you reflected in our media or in our arts, the message that can be sent is that you don’t truly belong to our society." Hear Tim Soutphommasane Tim Soutphommasane on why visibility in the Arts is vital: youtube.com/watch?v=qXEOIV… #BeyondTickBoxes

"I just wanted the organisations working and supporting #asylumseekers and #refugees to get more budget and funding to make the real story." Ali Mousawi on his journey from being an established artist in Iran to creating stories: youtu.be/I5GAjIU_zw8 #BeyondTickBoxes

"Mauna Kea is technically "ceded land", the legal term for native Hawaiian lands that indigenous leaders relinquished to the US when the...

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Call for culturally diverse creatives, artists, arts workers, filmmakers, performers & writers! Join us for #StoriesFromTheFuture, a workshop series to imagine a future where cultural #diversity is present at every level in the #Arts! goo.gl/forms/shAqxCw7… #DiversityArtsAu

Join our Livestream of #FairPlayCreative Symposium on 26 - 27 Feb from 9am - 4:15pm AEDT! Don’t miss First Nations, Disability & CALD communities on improving Equity & Inclusion in the Arts. Presented by #DiversityArtsAu, The Wheeler Centre & our partners: facebook.com/DiversityArtsA…

We’ve made progress spreading the benefit of the arts across the country and to more diverse communities. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#artsfront Arts Front x.com/cathyhunt66/st…

This is a message to musicians, to artists, to families, to businesses. Don't celebrate dispossession #changethedate changedate.com.au

Black arm band for 26 Jan - IndigenousX @cathyhunt66 Jade Lillie

Another $9m secretly slashed from the Australia Council: my article today in Crikey bit.ly/2luaqqQ#.WJ0Xd…

Happy #InternationalWomensDay everyone! @cathyhunt66 Jade Lillie #artsfront x.com/WOWtweetUK/sta…

82% that's a big number! Hope they all vote!! #auspol x.com/GhostWhoVotes/…

Amazing US Rural Women #womensday ruralassembly.org/blog/2017/3/6/… @Qld_Rural_Women Rural Strategies Mimi Pickering Dee Davis #WOWLDN

Devil is in the detail - Great summary of the catalyst changes by Richard Watts ArtsHub artshub.com.au/news-article/o… … @KimAroundTown

Arts funding update from Ben Eltham on ABC Radio National abc.net.au/radionational/… …

Good overview by Matthew Westwood on what the end of Catalyst means for @auscouncilarts #artsfront theaustralian.com.au/arts/opinion/a… …

Decolonisation, collaboration, challenges to power dynamics: 2030 here we come! Diversity Arts Jeremy Smith facebook.com/ArtsFront/post…

Great new resource from US Department of Arts and Culture #ArtResponds arlene usdac.us/artisticrespon… … #artsfront Scotia Monkivitch Jeremy Smith @arlenegoldbard