Cultural Heritage

June 26, 2006

Treating employees well important to consumers!

US Survey rocks established beliefs on CSR I was really interested to read – in ProBono’s latest newsletter – about a new US opinion survey. Contrary to what has been generally accepted to date, nearly one in two American consumers […]
June 14, 2006

Australia Post, Beechworth & sustainable development?

Beechworth’s struggle – you can help Beechworth Chamber of Commerce, Beechworth residents and visitors and Indigo Shire are working together to try to get Australia Post to reconsider their decision to convert the local postal service from a corporate Australia […]
May 15, 2006

Innovation – the four ‘C’s

What is the Australia-wide Innovation Festival? It is an event that encourages networking and business opportunities across all industry sectors – focussing on creativity, connections, collaboration and commercialisation in 2006; It aims to increase public awareness of innovation and entrpreneurship; […]
May 9, 2006

Trends in community-arts collaborations – PhD Scholarship advertised

A Western Sydney focus that also considers national? & international perspectives This?research topic for a PhD Scholarship is currently being advertised at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) Centre for Cultural Research (CCR) in Arts and Community Collaboration. The?project is […]
April 2, 2006

Greenwashing the gullible?

Until January I had not heard the term ‘greenwash’ – what about you?? While chasing up info on green power, I came across the term term “greenwash” on a website called www.ecoshout.org. I found this site very interesting and certainly […]
March 30, 2006

BHP Billiton & the WA PALS Awards

PALS stands for Partnership, Acceptance, Learning & Sharing The PALS Schools Reconciliation Awards help students learn more about Australia’s Indigenous history and culture and encourage the younger generation to build new relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. These ‘PALS’ are […]
March 28, 2006

Mornington Peninsula’s arts/community day

Opening the Cocoon – Arts, Community & Culture In Victoria the Peninsula Community Theatre is running an arts/community ‘awareness raising’ day on 6 April. Its for ANYONE interested in the arts and getting arts out into the community – have […]
March 24, 2006

A ‘gigantic’ performance at Powerworks – Natimuk and Latrobe

‘Y Space’ to run community workshops and perform with local artists There are heaps free arts activities as part of Festival Melbourne 2006 across Victoria during the twelve days of the Games. The idea is that local artists will work […]
March 22, 2006

NT Arts Communities & Tourism joint venture

People can share their story about holidaying in the Northern Territory and have a chance to win $3000 worth of travel in the NT. The ‘Share Your Story’ competition calls on writers to put their Territory travels on paper and […]
February 21, 2006

Ending Indigenous disadvantage THE priority!

I have obviously been living under a rock as only LAST week did I hear about the Australian Future Directions Forum where 90 “emerging young leaders” voted at a four day live-in forum to make “ending Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]
February 19, 2006

“Different but the same – all Victorian”

‘Celebrate our Cultural Diversity Week’ 17-23 March, coincides with the Commonwealth Games this year. It gives Victorian community groups, local councils and schools a tremendous opportunity to demonstrate the state’s rich cultural diversity to the world as multicultural communities across […]
February 8, 2006

From little things big things grow!

In Warragul, Gippsland, a very small group – part of the ‘Women who Mean Business Project’ some time ago started a series of workshops making mosaic tiles to be placed along Warragul’s 1.5 km Linear Park Trail. After the low […]