In this episode of Why Change host Rachel Jacobs connects with Alethea Beetson about the role and responsibility of artists and arts supporters in honoring and acknowledging indigenous people and their art as well as confronting and understanding existing structures of colonization in the world of arts. They also discuss the importance of transitioning power and leadership to youth as part of your organization’s infrastructure.

In this episode you’ll learn:

1) How young people can be built into the growth and development of an organization with a pathway to transitioning power.

2) How to start thinking more intentionally about language, specifically as it relates to decolonization.

3) What non-indegenous people can do to start their own work and support First Nation Artists.

ABOUT ALETHEA - Alethea Beetson is a Kabi Kabi + Wiradjuri artist and producer who has worked extensively with Indigenous communities across multiple art forms to inspire new works responding to societal issues, cultural heritage and colonisation. She is the Artistic Director of Digi Youth Arts, and QMusic’s First Nations Programmer. Based in Brisbane. She was previously the curator of the First Nation programme at BIGSOUND, and Indigenous Engagement Coordinator at the Queensland Museum. Alethea has completed her Doctorate in Creative Industries (QUT) exploring the function of ritual, resistance and resurgence in the creative development and production of Indigenous performance.

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