*CANCELLED*
We apologise that this talk will not go ahead as planned. Lindy is unwell and can't do the talk. Thank you for your understanding. 

Having tentatively lifted our finger from the Covid-enforced 'pause' button,  Artistic Director Lindy Hume argues that we have no excuse for springing back into the post-pandemic world with pre-pandemic shapes, structures and mindsets. 

"We need paradigm-shifting ideas to energise us: new thinking, a refreshed sense of purpose, alternative systems, structures, ways of problem solving, new ways of gathering."

In this keynote address, Hume offers for our consideration the genesis of her own post-pandemic manifesto for creative and community leadership: "Landscape Oriented" creative practices, in which the familiar shift from portrait to landscape orientation is a metaphor for a rearrangement of aesthetic and cultural values, and where socially engaged and regional artists step forward in the bigger cultural picture. In this context, she offers insights from her 20 years' experience directing major Australian arts festivals, how festival curation has radically evolved over that period, and where the future of Tasmania's festivals may lie. 

Introduction by Prof Kate Darian-Smith, Pro Vice-Chancellor; College of Arts, Law and Education 

Speaker
Dr Lindy Hume AM, Artistic Director, Ten Days on the Island (2019 - 2023) 

Image credit
Ten Days on the Island and The University of Tasmania