I’m looking forward to presenting at Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue — an extraordinary gathering of researchers rethinking the role of culture in sustainable futures. 🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
Ep 48 of Decoding Cultural Leadership: RESONATE participants on neurodivergence in classical music, inclusive performance design, and why culture matters more than policy.
Ep 47 of Decoding Cultural Leadership: Simon Hinton on transforming Merrigong Theatre Co. into Australia’s largest regional producing theatre, leading with community, and resisting echo chambers in polarised times.
On the Bendigo Writers Festival, I commented in The Guardian: “Restricting speech and freedom of expression is the antithesis of what a cultural organisation in contemporary Australian society should be doing.”
Bookish in Bendigo have pulled out as Bendigo Writers Festival's bookseller - this principled move comes at great cost to them as an independent store. If you've been thinking of purchasing a book (esp. one by someone who's also pulled labour from BWF), consider going to them! +61 3 5406 0596
20+ writers walked out of Bendigo Writers Festival after a last-minute code of conduct bound them to contested definitions of antisemitism/Islamophobia.
Again, cultural institutions capitulating; weaponising risk management as pre-emptive censorship.
@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social @drjd.bsky.socialHappy to say that after 5 x years devoted listening to @onthereg.bsky.social I've finally joined the @omnifocus.omnigroup.com family :) Looking forward to getting everything off multiple task managers...Thank you for your continued support & inspiration!
Action Point (n.): something to be avoided in a meeting at all costs, except when suggesting on behalf of a colleague with their camera off and mic muted.
Final post in The Orchestra Papers is live: how orchestras shape public memory — and what they forget. From repertoire to reconciliation, it’s all here. open.substack.com/pub/samuelca...
I’m thrilled to have had a paper accepted for the 2025 ADSA conference Manaakitanga – Performing Welcome, Care and Respect, this December in Wellington.
