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Communities Continued Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Day of Celebration (NAIDOC). • Implement the first Arts Queensland- Local Government Cultural Protocol to improve partnership opportunities between the Government and local authorities in the delivery of arts and cultural services. • Develop a five-year Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts and Cultural Reconciliation Strategy. • Support local councils through the Regional Arts Development Fund to conduct an annual Living Treasure award to acknowledge the significant contribution of an arts and cultural worker. • Assist local councils to build a filmfriendly reputation and attract film production through a film protocol developed in partnership with the South-East Queensland Regional Organisation of Councils (SEQROC). Cultural Tourism Tourism is a major contributor to economic activity in Queensland. Cultural tourism provides communities with an opportunity for economic development through showcasing a region’s distinct and unique cultural heritage and natural assets. Coordinated tourism development across the State through, for example, the Government’s Growing Tourism Strategy, will enhance regional Queensland’s economic and social development. Narjic Fogarty and daughter perform in Storylines Songlines by Jagera Jarjum. Commissioned by Queensland Performing Arts Centre for Out of the Box 2002. Photo courtesy of QPAC. To promote cultural tourism, the Government will develop initiatives including: • Establish an Indigenous cultural network which will link a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and cultural activity and new facilities in Brisbane to provide opportunities to explore Indigenous cultures, contribute to reconciliation, and present a wide range of Songs of the East Coast EXCERPT Indigenous experiences to visitors to Brisbane and locals. • Market cultural tourism destinations in regional Queensland through the Drive Tourism Program. • Deliver training which links regional arts development to the promotion of Indigenous cultural product and supports Indigenous heritage tourism planning and development. • Deliver a statewide cultural tourism training program on CD-ROM. • Support the appreciation of Queensland’s history and cultural heritage and the documentation and conservation of sites and heritage places through the Queensland Community Cultural Heritage Incentive Program. • Develop publications to promote key heritage places and cultural tourism destinations such as Heritage Trails of the Tropical North and Indigenous Rock Art in Queensland. • Showcase Queensland in international films and television series and through Tourism Queensland, create cultural tourism opportunities. I am of the east coast country; Not from the great cities that play Faust, With flats for souls, but where the Queensland hills Bite the blue skies with their emerald teeth, And where the sun sets witches’ fires on the waterline. Here I was born. Val Vallis MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY 1983 Access Arts established. 1983 Northern Australia Regional Performing Arts Centres Association (NARPACA) began. 1983 Street Arts established and from this organisation Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus and Icy Tea developed. 1984 4RPH, Queensland’s first radio for the print handicapped, goes to air. 1984 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act (Commonwealth) provided for the preservation and protection of places, areas and objects of particular significance to Aboriginals and for related purposes. 2. 1984 Expressions Dance Company established. 16 Creative Queensland Queensland Government Cultural Policy 2002 1984 Far North Queensland Institute of TAFE establishes its Associate Diploma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. 1984 Thomas Shapcott publishes White Stag in Exile based on emigre experience in Brisbane in the later 1890s. 1985 12 Edmondstone Street by Brisbane-born David Malouf ▼ enshrines nostalgic family life in a Queenslander. 1985 Activist actor Justine Saunders wins first Aboriginal of the Year Award. Returns the 1991 Order of Australia in protest against claims there was no stolen generation. 1985 Duke and Duchess of Kent open the Queensland Performing Arts Complex in Queensland’s Cultural Centre on Brisbane’s South Bank. 1985 Launch of Aboriginal (Murri) Radio through 4ZZZ. Becomes independent in 1990 as 4AAA. 1985 Walkabout Creek Hotel in McKinlay used for the shooting of Paul Hogan’s hit movie Crocodile Dundee. 1985 Laura Dance and Cultural Festival starts in the mid-1980s in Far North Queensland to celebrate Indigenous song, dance and music. 2. Photo courtesy Thomas Shapcott.
Places, Collections and Traditions We collect, preserve and present those objects which establish and maintain a sense of community, and to assert Queensland’s identity in all its diversity. Queensland is home to a substantial network of cultural facilities – galleries, libraries, archives, museums, performance spaces, heritage centres, cinemas, tourist attractions and keeping places. These cultural storehouses provide an opportunity to connect with the past and understand that history. The State’s public collections are rich historical, scientific and cultural archives. They provide the basis of research, benchmarking and creative development of ideas. The Government has been consulting on cultural heritage legislation to provide effective recognition, protection and conservation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage in Queensland. The key strategies for the Government in supporting and protecting public places, public collections and cultural traditions are to: promote adoption of new technologies in the cultural industries; enhance cultural infrastructure and services; and enhance public places. New Technologies New technologies that boost the capacity to deliver information and moving images and increase interactivity through television and the Internet provide the opportunity to make collections and traditions more accessible in a highly decentralised State. They also provide the scope to expand the nature of arts and cultural experiences available to audiences. The Government’s Communication and Information Strategic Plan and E-Commerce Policy will provide skills development and enable business, the community and local government to take advantage of the opportunities provided by information and communication technologies and e-commerce. Boiyool Michael Anning, Frogs shield/sword, 2001, (shield) natural ochres and charcoal on softwood; (sword) hardwood. Photo courtesy of the artist and Artbank. Artist represented by Redback Art Gallery, Brisbane. and collections of the State Library, and other libraries and cultural institutions in Queensland, Australia and throughout the world. The Queensland Museum at the Queensland Cultural Centre. Photo courtesy of the Queensland Museum. To promote the adoption of new technologies in the cultural industries, the Government will develop initiatives including: • Implement the Queensland Information Portal to provide 24-hour access to the information • Encourage a coordinated approach to the digitisation of the State’s collections to enhance public access to cultural resources. • Distribute and promote adaptive technologies to Queensland public libraries to support computer and Internet access by people with a disability, children and older people. 1985 Queensland Art Gallery opens at South Bank Cultural Centre. 1985 – 2002 Black Womens Film Group evolved into Murri Image Unikup. 1986 Launch of Brisbane Indigenous Media Association. 1986 New Queensland Museum at South Bank completed. 1986 Poet Thomas Shapcott’s Hotel Bellevue published with characters protesting the destruction of the landmark hotel. Bought by State Government in 1967 to house rural MPs; demolished 1979. 1986 Regional Galleries Association of Queensland established. 1986 Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus established. ▼ 3. Photo Aaron Tate, courtesy Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus. 1986 The Queensland Writer publication was launched. 1986 Umbrella Studio Inc visual artists collective established. 1987 BEMAC, Brisbane 3. Ethnic Music and Arts Centre, established. 1987 Cultural Record (Landscapes Queensland and Queensland Estate) Act made provision for the preservation and management of all components of Landscapes Queensland and the Queensland Estate. 1987 Eyeline Magazine established promoting contemporary and experimental art in Queensland and nationally. 1987 First Maleny Folk Festival now the Woodford Folk Festival held. 1987 Inaugural Artist Day (13 October) established. 1987 Queensland Film Development Office of the then Arts Division was established. 1987 Queensland Indigenous artist Fiona Foley founds Boomali Aboriginal Co in Sydney with fellow Queenslanders Avril Quaill and Arone Raymond Meeks spearheading the emerging phenomenon of ‘urban’ Aboriginal art. Creative Queensland Queensland Government Cultural Policy 2002 17
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