Saturday 7 November

Panel Multi-disciplinary Co-Creation: Combining Creative Arts & Science

9:45am – 10:45am

Where does the arts fit into the world of Extended Reality? Extended Reality is immersive technology encompassing Augmented Reality (objects and information are overlaid in the real world), Virtual Reality (users are immersed in a simulated digital environment) and Mixed Reality (where digital and real-world objects exist). This panel will reveal how these technologies help us blend virtual and real worlds, moving from story telling to story living and creative uses of this technology across different disciplines to create tomorrow’s world.

Morning Tea

10:45am – 11:10am

Keynote The Ultimate Disruption

11:15am – 11:45am

COVID-19 has forced us to reconsider how our industry works, the stories we tell and most importantly how we reach and connect to our audiences. My own experiences and the journey that Sydney Dance Company has been on have led to some interesting new approaches and some beautiful outcomes. Disruption has its upsides!

Panel No limits

11:50am – 12:50pm

Being regionally based has not deterred these artists in pursuit of excellence in their arts practice and achieving national recognition for their work. This panel discusses three very different artistic journeys and the advantages of a regional base.

Panel Creative Education Looking Forward

CSU Riverina Playhouse

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Join a conversation with arts practitioners and educators on topics, skills needed for creative training in education and the skills needed to gain practical creative employment. Highlighted by maintaining Regional Creative course delivery, keeping creatives in the regions allows for creative growth, continued part-time employment in the regions during study, maintaining a creative face in the region. 2020 saw the launching of TAFE NSW newest degree, Bachelor of Creative Practice at the Wagga Wagga and Albury sites with additional campus locations being rolled out in 2021.

Workshop Grad Show

Museum of the Riverina - Historic Council Chambers

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Every year thousands of creative arts students finish their studies and are forced to juggle casual jobs with freelancing to get by. Grad Show is both workshop and networking opportunity for young regional creatives and those who support them, focussed on practical tips to help them prepare for the future.

Panel Walking Together to Shape the Artists 0f Tomorrow

Romano's Hotel - Chandelier Room

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Mighty Playwrights, a partnership project between Goulburn Mulwaree Library and the Lieder Theatre Company, developed a new model inspired by US educators to empower children through storytelling and playwriting. Eleven children, mentored by professional arts workers, created original plays which were performed live, and now feature in a documentary chronicling the powerful journey from imagination, to page, to stage.

The Mighty Playwrights Project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Department of Communication and the Arts’ Festivals Australia Program.

HANDS ON Conversations in Clay

Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Art Workshop

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Participants will engage in simple reflective making processes with clay found in the local area. The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for artists/participants to spend meaningful time reflecting on their own self-care and good health

Forum Artstate NSW - Focus Group (1)

Wagga Wagga City Library

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Western Research Institute has been commissioned by RANSW to evaluate the four years of Artstate NSW. We have our annual surveys but we’d like to know more about your personal experience of this event. Have you had new opportunities? Changed your practice? Met new collaborators? . We’d love to hear your thoughts about this event and discover l your interesting stories we can’t capture in a survey. Please join our researchers for an hour’s conversation if you’d like to contribute, especially if you have been to previous Artstates.

Break

3:15pm – 3:45pm

Forum Artstate NSW - Focus Group (2)

Wagga Wagga City Library

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Western Research Institute has been commissioned by RANSW to evaluate the four years of Artstate NSW. We have our annual surveys but we’d like to know more about your personal experience of this event. Have you had new opportunities? Changed your practice? Met new collaborators? . We’d love to hear your thoughts about this event and discover l your interesting stories we can’t capture in a survey. Please join our researchers for an hour’s conversation if you’d like to contribute, especially if you have been to previous Artstates.

Presentation From ideas to purpose: How Wagga Wagga crafted a 10 year plan for arts and culture

Romano's Hotel - Chandelier Room

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Everybody has a good idea, but how can we synthesise lots of different ideas into a cohesive cultural development strategy?

Hear the learnings from a process that involved face to face consultations with more than 600 people and extensive online community engagement to craft a blueprint for a creative city that is thriving, innovative, connected and inclusive.

HANDS ON Conversations in Clay

Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Art Workshop

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Participants will engage in simple reflective making processes with clay found in the local area. The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for artists/participants to spend meaningful time reflecting on their own self-care and good health

Presentation The Power of Partnerships – developing arts at home with regional young people

Museum of the Riverina - Historic Council Chambers

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Outback Theatre for Young People (OTYP) grew directly out of the NSW Riverina and has flourished because of their embedded, sustained engagement with communities. Beginning in 1989, OTYP has spent 31 years developing and refining a model in the context of the region: small, rural communities spread out across vast plains of bush and agriculture with limited services and little or no arts infrastructure. In 2017, OTYP was awarded a Create NSW Regional Partnerships grant for their project: REGIONAL ARTS CONNECT, enabling them to work in four new regions with West Darling Arts, Arts OutWest, Arts North West and Outback Arts to deliver opportunities for young people in Wilcannia, Walgett, Lake Cargelligo and Curlewis. REGIONAL ARTS CONNECT is a case study in best practice of sustainable engagement. It’s about developing regional capacity, building opportunities for creative leadership in regional areas, artistic and financial sustainability, resource sharing, collaboration to overcome isolation through connection and partnerships.

Presentation The Role of Art in Colonisation and Decolonisation

CSU Riverina Playhouse

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Members of Charles Sturt Universities Critical Research in Indigenous Studies group will explore a survey of the ongoing role of art in colonisation and decolonisation. The group will speak to historic and contemporary issues including – cultural appropriation, the role of statues/memorialisation, choices in public art and agricultural-imagery.