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First Nations Dance Program: BlakDance workshops

Photo: Luke Currie-Richardson and Tjarutja Dance Collective.

The Mill is facilitating a series of professional development workshops at The Mill, Adelaide, with dance industry leaders from BlakDance QLD.


Workshop 1: Intro Yarn, April 21

Getting to know each other, discussing each others practice/creative goals, about BlakDance, the organisations history, programs, how we operate and work with artists.

Workshop 2: Business Basics for Independent Artists, April 28

Business Basics for Independent Artists - the decision to set up as a business, minimum things needed to apply for funding, enter contracts etc, auspicing vs self-managed.

Workshop 3: The First Nations Dance Ecology, July 28, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

A workshop on how new work is funded and developed, overview of the sector, who is making work, where is it being produced, the different business models/structures in which artists are making work e.g. independents, companies and collectives presented. BlakDance will be delivering this workshop online from Brisbane.

Workshop 4: Managing Cultural Protocols, September 8, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Merindah Donnelly (Wiradjuri) Co-CEO & Executive Producer and Kate Eltham Co-CEO & Business Director from BlakDance will be facilitating the workshop and will have guest speaker Olivia Adams (Wulli Wulli) who is Associate Producer and Associate Artist at Blakdance.

Workshop 5: Grant Writing/Producing skills, November 3, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Co-CEO & Business Director Kate Eltham from BlakDance will be leading this workshop about grant writing and producing skills.


This program is supported by: