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CDU’s Dean of the College of Indigenous Futures Education and the Arts Professor Ruth Wallace says a new Arts Academy will liven up Darwin's creative scene · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Ok Now, we know that Charles Darwin University is creating
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  Speaker 1: a new arts academy. It's set to be up and
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  Speaker 1: running by twenty twenty four, and the university says that
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  Speaker 1: it is going to en life in the territory's creative
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  Speaker 1: scene and nurture local artists. Now joining me on the
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  Speaker 1: line is Charles Dalwen University's Dean of the College of
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  Speaker 1: Indigenous Futures, Education and the Arts. It is Professor Ruth Wallace.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Professor Wallace.
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  Speaker 2: Morning Katy on this lovely Friday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's lovely to have you on the show. It
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  Speaker 1: is a very nice day, Ruth. Where is the academy
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  Speaker 1: going to be?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think you've got to think about it, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: that the territory is the place of innovation of the
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  Speaker 2: How could we contain that in one justice at one place.
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  Speaker 2: So it'll be on our campuses in Alice Springs and Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: But I'd also envisage us being able to move into
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  Speaker 2: the places where in re engaging with so the Noullen Boy,
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  Speaker 2: the Working Catherine, the Working Tenant Creek. So I'd love
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  Speaker 2: to be seeing pop up events in those places. But
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  Speaker 2: also on country. Can you imagine we could take people
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  Speaker 2: out on a study tour maybe to be painting or
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  Speaker 2: to be learning about weaving or dancing and sharing culture
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  Speaker 2: out on country. So the theater needs to follow where
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  Speaker 2: artists are and their practices.
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  Speaker 1: And do you know what kind of new courses are
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  Speaker 1: going to be established as part of this new venture.
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  Speaker 2: So we've already been thinking about that, and we've got
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of work that we're already starting to
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  Speaker 2: develop around the music industry and the art industry. There's
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  Speaker 2: some fabulous new techniques around screenprinting, around ways to use
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  Speaker 2: three D glasses and technology in creative practice. People are
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  Speaker 2: starting to make movies with their phones, people are using
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  Speaker 2: online orchestras. People are changing their creative practice all the time.
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  Speaker 2: So we want courses that reflect that change, but also
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  Speaker 2: recognize that being an artist is not just being an artist.
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  Speaker 2: It's also running a business, or it might be running
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  Speaker 2: a admin sent running a art center or something. So
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  Speaker 2: we will have courses across music, screen and new media administration,
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  Speaker 2: the music industry, and also very importantly live production. So
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  Speaker 2: we've got some amazing work that is growing around how
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  Speaker 2: do you get festivals to work effectively. How do you
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  Speaker 2: found to work, how do you make sure that everything
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  Speaker 2: is transmitted well and effectively? And our students in that
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  Speaker 2: are just sellings.
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  Speaker 1: How wonderful I reckon? This sounds like it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a great thing for the territory roots. And you've
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  Speaker 1: touched on our indigenous culture and some of the different
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  Speaker 1: ways that that can really be brought into the different
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  Speaker 1: courses and into things, but also some of the wonderful
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  Speaker 1: events and even when you look at some of the
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  Speaker 1: wonderful territory talent that we've got as well.
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  Speaker 2: Look, there's so many amazing people here, so you think
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  Speaker 2: the bush bands that do their event down in Central
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  Speaker 2: Australia and getting behind young people who are going to
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  Speaker 2: be the artists of the future. We're doing some amazing
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  Speaker 2: work with Hermansburg who are developing ceramics for the art industry,
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  Speaker 2: thinking about how to do that at a production level
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  Speaker 2: so that every conference or large event they would be
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  Speaker 2: handing out beautiful work from those places by building economies
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  Speaker 2: for those Virtual reality We've got one place we're working
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  Speaker 2: with Dulling Boy. They're actually building ways to use three
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  Speaker 2: D glasses to have an experience of their community and
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  Speaker 2: their culture and their historic history through engaging the language
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  Speaker 2: and the art. It is fine telling work, and I
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  Speaker 2: think people will really be very excited about it and
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  Speaker 2: will bring a lot of people to the territory. One
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  Speaker 2: other thing we're going to do is a research center,
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  Speaker 2: and that's actually going to be led by Yongnu and
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  Speaker 2: baland are working together to think about how we work
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  Speaker 2: in new media, to share knowledge and to think about
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  Speaker 2: our place in new ways and share that through all
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  Speaker 2: forms of digital media. And I think that will be
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  Speaker 2: very exciting as well.
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  Speaker 1: ROAs has that been quite a bit of work happening
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes here already, because twenty twenty four doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem that far away. It sounds as though there's been
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit of planning happening for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, we like a bit of plotting and scheming,
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  Speaker 2: so yes, we have been working on that and we
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  Speaker 2: have already got people who will be committed as part
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  Speaker 2: of the program to start this year as visiting artists,
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  Speaker 2: as visiting research fellows in the art to start building
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  Speaker 2: the community and building the partnership. We've also just about
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  Speaker 2: to go out with an advertisement for our director, who
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  Speaker 2: will be someone who can really lead the academic but
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  Speaker 2: also the artistic conversation, the how will work. And we're
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  Speaker 2: really interested in thinking about building a reference group that
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  Speaker 2: will start to have a voice of the territory and
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  Speaker 2: lead the work and have a interaction with community all
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  Speaker 2: the time. There's so much going on. We want to
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  Speaker 2: connect and we want to partner with everybody else and
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  Speaker 2: we need ways to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And Ruth, do you think that the arts academy that
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  Speaker 1: we will have in the Northern Territory through Charles Dalen University,
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  Speaker 1: how do you reckon it's going to differ and be
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  Speaker 1: more attractive than what those are that are maybe running
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  Speaker 1: in other states already.
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  Speaker 2: Territory.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know that, Ruth.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that we have people here who have
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  Speaker 2: gone on to the leaders nationally and internationally in the
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  Speaker 2: movie sector, in dance, in music. We have people in
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  Speaker 2: communities who are bangaradaptist. We have people who are starring
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  Speaker 2: in films like Moran Tatsil, We have people who are
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  Speaker 2: singers like Jessica Mailboy. People here are leaders in their
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  Speaker 2: craft and we'll be able to demonstrate what that looks
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  Speaker 2: like in this place. But what will be quite different
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  Speaker 2: is we're not centered in just one place. We'll have
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  Speaker 2: the theater here and certainly we'll use it. We'll make
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  Speaker 2: sure there's lots of events going on in activities, but
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  Speaker 2: will also be where the artists are. So if it
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  Speaker 2: means there's something great happening in Barunga, why wouldn't we
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  Speaker 2: have the academy as part of those and connect to
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in country that I think is going
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  Speaker 2: to be unique about the events that we'll be able
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  Speaker 2: to hold and the people we can engage.
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  Speaker 1: And is there going to need to be additional funding
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that or is this you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a done deal. It's happening no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: The Vice Chancellor Scott Bowman has very generously put some
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  Speaker 2: innovation funds in to get us started, so that means
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  Speaker 2: that we have got the startup funds, it's definitely happening.
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  Speaker 2: We are building our courses so that we'll have a
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  Speaker 2: pathway from certificate through certificate two three four diploma degree
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  Speaker 2: so you can do you undergraduate, do you a postgraduate
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  Speaker 2: and go on to research. So it will mean that
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  Speaker 2: we're building pathways that will underpin and build the program.
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  Speaker 2: We also going to build micro credentials and short courses
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  Speaker 2: of people get out on country. They will generate the
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  Speaker 2: income that will keep the programs going and we'll work
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  Speaker 2: with all of our partners. We don't want to do
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  Speaker 2: anything without working with the creative industries across the region,
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  Speaker 2: and I think together we can make this viable. So
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, yes it's definitely happening, Yes we have
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  Speaker 2: the investment already, but we want to hear from others
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  Speaker 2: and what we could do that's a great idea, or
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  Speaker 2: what's the next opportunity. Always open for that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Professor Ruth Wallace, it is always lovely to speak
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  Speaker 1: to you. I really appreciate your time this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: this sounds like an exciting thing for the territory.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Katie, have a lovely weekend you two