WHY PARTICIPATE
- Build CULTURAL CAPITAL and a sense of community identity
- Create a safe and culturally APPROPRIATE environment for current and future Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees
- ENGAGE staff through the lens of the visual arts
- INVEST in People & Culture and acknowledgement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity through arts
- Organisational capacity ensues SOCIAL BENEFITS
- ENCOURAGE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander conversations and topics within the workplace
- Be a diverse and inclusive workplace—working towards RECONCILIATION
- Lateral APPROACH to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander topics and barriers
- Create powerful and innovative RESOURCES based on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts
- DISPEL myths, stereotypes and assumptions
- Use the arts to COMMUNICATE acceptance of diversity, inclusion and reconciliation
- SHIFT the current paradigm through visual arts initiatives
- CHALLENGE preconceptual and assumptive ideas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia
- APPLY 21st century technologies via multi-modality and digital platforms
- Have robust CONVERSATIONS via educational and communication tools
- Review and record OUTCOMES of employees engaging in arts and education through case studies
- Employ and engage directly and indirectly ABORIGINAL and TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ARTISTS, businesses and entrepreneurs
- Social benefits – EMPOWERING Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and entrepreneurs
- Set the STANDARD of acceptance for diversity and inclusion
- STRENGTHEN internal and external reach through a multi-faceted approach
- ALIGN company directives through multiple departments including communications, properties, facilities, marketing, diversity & inclusion and people & culture
- Be a part of an internalised organisation SHIFT based on place, respect, acknowledgement and cultural relevance
- Make reconciliation an on going JOURNEY, not the end point
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples feel less cultural security than other Australians.
Source: State of Reconciliation Report