CHASS

Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

2008 The Arts, and the Innovation Agenda Workshop

Monday 31 March 2008, Sydney

Program

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Updated 11:30 am, Friday 28 March 2008

Time Presentation and speaker(s)
9:00 - 9:10 am Welcome
» Stuart Cunningham, President, CHASS
» Andrew Upton, Co-Artistic Director, Sydney Theatre Company
9:10 - 10:35 am Innovation and the Government's agenda: What's on the Government's agenda and what are the possibilities for the sector?
» Narelle Kennedy, National Innovation System Review Panel

3 respondents - How they plan to respond to the innovation agenda.
» Catrina Vignando, Craft Australia
» Su Baker, ACUADS
» Sue Nattrass, Collections Council
Chair: Mandy Thomas, ANU
10:35 - 11:05 am Morning tea
11:05 - 12:00 noon The $17 million question: The Government will spend $17 million on a new Creative Industries Innovation Centre, modelled on the precinct at Queensland University of Technology. What goes on at QUT and how was it set up?
» John Hartley, QUT
Respondent and Chair: Craig Bremner, UC
12:00 - 12:45 pm Aesthetics, design, ideas, performance and imagination: How do they contribute to an innovative economy?
» John H Howard, CHASS and Helen O'Neil, AMPAG
Chair: Helen O'Neil
12:45 - 1:45 pm Lunch
1:45 - 2:25 pm Generating New Creativities: artist-led innovation: How do you seed R & D to achieve innovation
» Melinda Rackham and Gavin Artz, ANAT
Chair: Stuart Cunningham
2:25 - 3:25 pm Issues in the Arts Sector: Over the past decade have Australia's policies in arts and culture been aligned with policies in research and innovation? The answer is definitely no…
» Brad Haseman, QUT
Discussion on a consolidated list of the recommendations contained in the various reports.
Chair: Anne Marsh, Monash
3:25 - 3:45 pm Afternoon tea
3:45 - 4:15 pm The Australia Council and the Innovation Agenda: The Australia Council perspective
» Kathy Keele, The Australia Council
Chair: Huib Schippers, Griffith University
4:15 - 5:00 pm ArtsPeak, AbAF, and the Innovation Agenda: ArtsPeak and AbAF perspectives
» Julie Dyson, AusDance
» Jane Haley, AbAF
Chair: Huib Schippers, Griffith University
5:00 - 5:25 pm Action Agenda: What actions can the sector undertake?
» Toss Gascoigne, CHASS
5.25 - 5:30 pm Thanks and farewell
» Stuart Cunningham
6:30 pm Dinner - 6:30 for 7:00pm start