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Talking Points, Arts Value Forum

Michael Chappell, Managing Director Culture Counts. Wednesday July 26th 2017, Canberra Theatre Centre. The arts needs an evidence-based value story. Without it, resources allocated to the arts will always be under threat. The plural of anecdote is not data. Investment...

Measuring Impact – 2017 WA Day Festival

Each June, Western Australians celebrate WA Day with a three-day festival culminating in a free concert. The event combines the best of Western Australian Music with community activities and range of high quality food vendors. This year Celebrate WA and...

Connecting Australians: The National Arts Participation Survey

In the last week, the Australia Council for the Arts released the results of a survey detailing national participation in the arts throughout 2016. Connecting Australians collected data from a nationally representative sample of 7537 Australians aged 15+ and is the third...

The Relationship Between Music and Wellbeing

The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index has revealed some very positive results for those of us who love music. The survey, which monitors how satisfied Australians feel about their own life and life in Australia, has been conducted 34 times since...

John Berger, Ways of Seeing: The Impact of Context

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” John Berger, Ways of Seeing. Our experience of art is inherently affected by context; our own lived experience, our assumptions and expectations of art, our exposure to...

Insights from Queensland Pilot 2016

Following a successful 2015 pilot involving 12 organisations, Arts Queensland funded a further 11 arts organisations to use Culture Counts throughout 2016.  20 events were evaluated by the 11 organisations, capturing over 1,600 public, 91 peer and 98 self-survey responses....

Ian Potter Foundation Arts Evaluation Forum

The Ian Potter Foundation (IPF) has long been a pioneer and leader in supporting the arts and cultural sector, encouraging and facilitating excellence, innovation, creativity and capacity building since its inception in 1964. Recognising that grant recipients often experience difficulty...

Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc.

With very special thanks to Clark Crystal, Artistic Director and founder of Brisbane’s inclusive theatre company Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc., for sharing their results and insights for this case study originally published on the Arts Queensland blog on 12...

Celebrating impact beyond attendance figures

Australian artists and galleries achieved record visitor numbers in 2016. Melbourne based contemporary artist Patricia Piccinini was listed as having the second most popular exhibition in the world. Her free exhibition Consciousness at Centre Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro...