RAA National Consultancy

Regional Arts Australia is asking regional Queenslanders to participate in a national consultation to inform their future directions in strengthening Australia’s regional communities through arts and culture.

Regional Arts Australia (RAA) is an independent organisation and the key national body for promoting the development for the arts for the one-in-three Australians who live in regional, rural and remote parts of the country.  As an advocate, RAA has achieved significant results over recent years in winning better recognition and support for regional communities, and the enormous contribution that regional arts makes to the cultural, economic and social wellbeing of the nation.

You can attend the Queensland consultations in Millmerran and Yeppoon in July or complete the online survey. Queensland Arts Council is Queensland’s representative for RAA, and is facilitating the consultations alongside its fellow member organisations for Australia’s states and territories.

The public consultations will be facilitated by Anne Dunn who is a former chair of the Community Cultural Development Board of the Australia Council and has a career that spans 30 years in community arts and community cultural development.

Your input will directly assist RAA is achieving its goals, which include advocating to the Commonwealth and its agencies to ensure that they make an appropriate, equitable and ongoing commitment to the development of regional arts practice and to the role of the arts in developing and sustaining regional communities.

Queensland Consultations

Millmerran
10.30am-2.30pm, Thursday 16 July 2009
Millmerran Community and Cultural Centre

Yeppoon
9am-1pm, Saturday 18 July 2009
St Ursula's Library

To book your place by Thursday 9 July, email carley.commens@qac.org.au or phone 3004 7512.  Follow this link for more information on the Regional Arts Australia website.

Online survey

If you are unable to attend the consultation, complete the online survey. The survey results will be combined with the outcomes from the public consultations to find out what communities really want and to help regional Arts Australia to determine its future directions.

Image: Tea-Time with Sue Taylor (Shifting Ground 2007) by Alice Springs artist Franca Barraclough