LEAD

Leading and supporting the organisation of Community Arts and Cultural Development practices in preparedness and response to natural disasters.

Creative Recovery, as a framework and a process, requires skilled facilitation, consistent support and resourcing. It is a process of connecting and embedding creative approaches with the activities of the broader community, particularly with local decision-making in collaboration with community members, community organisations and private industry. When implemented, this approach creates more effective opportunities for sustainable delivery and community support. There is a range of opportunities and methods to engage local artists, organisations, service bodies, training institutes and government employees, agencies and departments to join the broader community recovery process.

Currently, arts and cultural development are not a well represented in broader community recovery in Australia. However, an opportunity exists through this initiative, and others, to build the case for arts and culture in community recovery and resilience.

Building the Creative Recovery Network helps build the arts and culture industry at large. The network offers Australian artists an opportunity to foster long-term collaborative relationships within a diversity of sectors and with their local and national communities.

Principles

First Peoples First

First People’s culture and arts are the foundation blocks of Australia. Care for Country is a driving force for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The Creative Recovery Network works with the First Peoples of Australia to ensure their culture, arts and knowledges around caring for and healing this country are the guiding structure for our vision and working processes.

Cluster Development

The Cluster structure we are developing follows the management framework of the United Nations Emergency Response process. Clusters act as a model for preparedness and response, ensuring clear communication, strong local, state and national connections and a repository of key information and relationships across the disaster management sectors.

Arts-Led

Arts and culture are the central elements of our work and why we come together. We strive to ensure that all aspects of our work are seated within and through arts engagement and practice.