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<\/a>by Mathew Beaumont<\/p><\/div>\n
On our walks we want to draw your attention to issues around safety at night and to invite people to enjoy the night together.<\/p>\n
By inviting you to participate in our night walks we are asking you to join us in challenging women\u2019s invisibility in our public spaces.\u00a0This invisibility is perilous as it supports troubling notions women are somehow less creative, less effective, less human.\u00a0Of course, only the reverse is the case and we are missing out in large part on a wealth of talent, leadership and humanity<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>We love working with Neil, Karina, and the Canberra Art Biennial team because they are fascinated in the same things we are. They get it. Localjinni is a Virtual Artist Run Initiative. Our ambition, like first wave feminists, is to find a more sustainable, feminist economy based on reciprocity.<\/p>\n We are giving it a crack, investing in equipment, re-investing ticketing income to commission and license new works and putting them in the flow of audiences on the street.<\/p>\n Our nighttime walks take people on a deep dive to discover some of the pearls in our national collections, fishing for missing narratives and bringing submerged parallel monuments to light.<\/p>\n Along the way, we project local artists, site responsive works.\u00a0It\u2019s an inside out story, joining the dots between tangible and intangible arts, and culture.<\/p>\n Think a moving biography of place, told through art, animation, community histories, film, song, dance, and social yarning.<\/p>\n We love walking because a walk can be great exercise, a cultural or social experience or a powerful political action.<\/p>\n But it is night walkers, noctambulant, noctivagants and flaneurs who reveal the true hearts and souls of cities.<\/p>\n On our walks we want to draw your attention to issues around safety at night and to invite people to enjoy the night together.\u00a0By inviting you to participate in our night walks we are asking you to join us in challenging women\u2019s invisibility in our public spaces.<\/p>\n This invisibility is perilous as it supports troubling notions women are somehow less creative, less effective, less human.\u00a0Of course, only the reverse is the case and we are missing out in large part on a wealth of talent, leadership and humanity<\/p>\n We love working with Neil, Karina, and the Biennial team because they are fascinated in the same things we are. They get it.<\/p>\n They are enablers, building cultural capacity in place over time with every festival.<\/p>\n Festivals like this are keyways artists get to experiment with audiences and to pilot new, innovative approaches to creating art and arts tourism experiences.<\/p>\n Localjinni is a Virtual Artist Run Initiative. Our ambition, like first wave feminists, is to find a more sustainable, feminist economy based on reciprocity.<\/p>\n We are giving it a crack, investing in equipment, re-investing ticketing income to commission and license new works and putting them in the flow of audiences on the street.<\/p>\n Over 50 artists \/ arts workers use Localjinni as a platform to collaborate and exchange ideas across art forms.\u00a0You can find information about them and links to their websites on Localjinni\u2019s About us<\/a> page. Our partners<\/a> contribute much more than money. Their ideas, volunteer power and in-kind support and confidence keeps us afloat.<\/p>\n Our survival has always depended on our ability to work collectively, to adapt to change with our environment and to share our cultural knowledge.<\/p>\n This is why the Canberra Art Biennial is so important because it opens up conversations about questions, like:<\/p>\n For this year\u2019s CAB we are launching Shirnrin-Yoku or Forest Bathing. It\u2019s a walk in the cork forest at the National Arboretum, inspired by the myths and fairy tales of childhood. Thanks to support from the Alastair Swayn Foundation<\/a> 6 new site responsive works by artists Sally Clarke, Tracey Benson, Nicole Voledin\u2013Cash, Jane Duong, Caroline Huf and myself have been created.<\/p>\n
\n(Festival Program<\/a>)<\/a>They are enablers, building cultural capacity in place over time with every festival.\u00a0<\/span>Festivals like this are keyways artists get to experiment with audiences and to pilot new, innovative approaches to creating art and arts tourism experiences.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/a>The ACT Government too has been a great support too. Funding from the Zero Emissions program earlier this year enabled us to run Scoot and Screen tours, in partnership with Neuron Mobility Scooters. It is public funding that gives private donors confidence.<\/a>To adapt to future disruptions, we need to build sustainability in place and create business models based on strong public and private partnerships.\u00a0\u00a0Neil and his team have been building these relationships incredibly well and many CBR artists including Localjinni have benefited great.<\/p>\n\n
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