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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 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