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The 2002 Australia Council Artists Survey collected information relating to practicing professional artists in Australia. The survey included full-time and part-time artists; employed and self-employed artists; and artists regardless of whether all, some or none of their income was from art practice.
Country of birth - employment, attendance and participation
The five-yearly Census of Population and Housing collects information relating to the occupation and industry of each person’s main job, meaning the job in which a person usually works the most hours.
Professional development for multicultural arts workers: critical issues for action
Reports on professional development experiences and needs of multicultural arts workers in Australia.
The world is your audience: case studies in audience development and cultural diversity
Focussing specifically on the development of audiences of a culturally diverse nature and of non-English speaking background, The world is your audience follows the path from planning through to development, marketing and presentation so the reader can refer to specific topics or use it as a step-by-step guide.
Who goes there? National multicultural arts audience case studies
Our cultural diversity has gained increasing relevance for arts and cultural organisations both as a management and marketing issue. Who goes there? Multicultural arts audience case studies provides the first national market research into audiences for multicultural arts product undertaken in Australia.
Culture, difference and the arts
A collection of essays addressing questions of culture and difference.
Multimedia, multiculturalism and the arts
A report commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts to address the question: are multimedia trends in Australia leading to increasing homogeneity or do they suggest tools for cultural pluralism?
Open up! Guidelines for cultural diversity visitor studies
A result of research into the views, motivations and experiences of museums by people from non-English speaking and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.
The findings of this report prompt some fundamental questions about how well and how fully the arts community draws upon the extraordinary diversity in our community. It asks how we react to and what we experience on our stages and screens and ultimately how we then present ourselves on the world stage.
A newsletter of the Australia Council for the Arts containing information about arts in a multicultural Australia.
Making creative cities: the value of cultural diversity in the arts
In March 2008, the British Council joined with the Australia Council for the Arts to present a one-day forum in Melbourne, Making creative cities: the value of cultural diversity in the arts.
