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Each year, AMAG runs workshops, referral services and produces additional workshops and events. Below are some of the additional events AMAG has run in previous years.

ARTS LAW WEEK
Arts Law Week is now an annual program fixture and features a comprehensive series of seminars and free legal advice sessions presented by the Victorian Arts Law Consortium. 

Formed in 2004, the consortium is a representative body committed to ensuring that the Victorian arts community has access to quality legal information and education. Members of the consortium include
Arts Access, Arts Industry Council (Victoria), Arts Law Centre of Australia. Arts Management Advisory Group (Victoria), Ausdance Victoria, Multicultural Arts Victoria, OPEN Channel and the Victorian Writers’ Centre.

Arts Law Week 2006
15 – 22 May
Click here to view a detailed program

Arts Law Week 2005
16 – 23 May

SNAPSHOT

A series of diverse and informative seminars on current issues in arts law presented in one day, for arts workers with limited time for independent legal research and study.  Participants may attend the entire program or individual sessions and have the opportunity to participate in discussion during Q&A sessions.

2005
Snapshot 3

20 May 2005, Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts
Program
Fair Games:  The Who, What, Why & Why Not of Extending Australia’s “Fair Use” Copyright Laws
Speakers: Kimberlee Weatherall, Richard Harris, Colleen Boyle & Matt Black
More Than Law:  Navigating Corporate Governance Complexity in the Arts Context
Speakers: Tony Harford, Steven Bowman, Robina Burton, Fiona McLeod & Kevin Brennan

2004
Snapshot 2

5 August20 05, Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts
Program
Moral Rights and Marketing, Indigenous Art & Intellectual Property
Speakers: Esmai Manahan, Robynne Quiggin, Kim Kruger & Judith Ryan
Privacy, Piracy & Property in the Digital Age
Speakers: Geoffrey Shiff, Kent Davey, Belinda Findlay & Lisa Gye
Fiction, Truth & Answers:  The Latest on the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement and its Implications for the Arts
Speakers: Joel Becker, Kimberlee Weatherall, Scott Morris & Senator Kate Lundy
Law by Order
Speakers: Anna Reeves, Mark Williams & Kimberlee Weatherall

2003
Snapshot 1

21 October 2003, Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts
Program
The ABC of the Rupert Myer Report
Speakers: Rupert Myer, Robyn Ayres, Anna Schwartz & Kay Campbell
Moral Rights and Indigenous Communities
Speakers: Robyn Ayres, Doris Pilkington Garimara, Kevin Lucas & Esmai Manahan
Censorship and Artistic Expression
Speakers: Des Clark, Anna Reeves, Joel Becker & Professor Andrea Hull, AO
Copyright in a Digital and Online World
Speakers: Dan Pearce, Antoanetta Ivanova, Rosie Allimonos & David Thrussell
A Free Trade in Culture? The US-Australia Free Trade Agreement and its Implications for the Arts
Speakers: Kimberlee Weatherall, Bruce Mildenhall MP, Jock Given & Megan Elliott

brain foodBRAIN FOOD

BRAIN FOOD is a program of professional development seminars targeting arts managers and cultural workers, across all artistic disciplines, interested in learning from industry peers and colleagues, within the relatively informal context of breakfast lunch or dinner.

Each BRAIN FOOD session will present a guest speaker or speakers of interest and relevance to the arts industry.  Over food, BRAIN FOOD attendees will hear from guest speaker/s and have the opportunity to ask questions and join in discussion with their colleagues.

Conscious Leadership: Governance roles for the arts managers & their board
Presented by Steven Bowman, past President of the Australian Society of Association Executives
27 June 2006
The Garden Restaurant, National Gallery of Victoria

Cultural Sustainability:  Community Indicators and Cultural Industries
Presented by Professor John Wiseman, Institute for Community Engagement and Policy Alternatives, Victoria University (Professor Wiseman has since left the Institute)
16 December 2005
The Garden Restaurant, National Gallery of Victoria
For more information about the Victorian Community Indicators Project

The Cultural Program of the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Presented by Sue Nattrass, Chair of the Working Group
20 October 2004
Zargatt Café, Federation Square

OTHER AMAG EVENTS

Principles of Producing
5 March & 4 June 2005
Four workshops over two days at The Malthouse Theatre, Southbank for independent artists and producers.
Program
Getting the Edge in Arts Funding
Representatives from City of Melbourne, Arts Victoria, The Australia Council & Our Community
Project Management for Arts Events
Jennifer Barry (AMAG) & Alicia Darvall (GM, Melbourne Fringe)
Getting an Audience
Michelle Buxton (Publicist, Melbourne Fringe), Laura Mike (Producer) & Moira Finucane (Artist)
Beyond the Premiere Season
Kara Miller (MIAF), Anni Davey (Circus Oz) & Phil Jones (Arts Vic Regional Touring Program)

Under New Management
23 May 2004, Opera Australia Studios, Southbank
Program
Coming Soon for young independent arts managers and producers
Dean Francis (film-maker) & Nina Bonacci (Arena Theatre Company)
New Stock Just In for young arts managers working in organisations
Sally Beck (Geelong Performing Arts Centre) & Sian Waruszynski (Ozopera)
Not The Good Old Days, a free public forum discussing the generation gap in arts management
Liz Jones (La Mama), John Romeril (playwright), Alicia Darvall (Melbourne Fringe) & Lee Christofis (University of Melbourne)

Influencing Policy & Funding
20 – 21 March 2003, CMA Centre, Melbourne
A two-day seminar designed for organisations, local government, arts managers and artists which explored issues such as running a successful campaign, how policy is developed and influenced and the evolution of arts policy.
Program
Policy – how to make it work for you
Andrea Hull (VCA)
A History of Arts Funding
Justin Macdonnell (consultant & author)
How to Save Your Organisation
Robert Hughes (Gasworks) & Mark Wilkinson (City of Darebin)
Increasing the $’s
How Policy is Developed

Jim Kennan SC (past Victorian Minister and Deputy Premier)
Thoughts on Cultural Policy
Donald Horne AO (author & former Chair of the Australia Council)
Ministers, Ministerial Advisors


  Arts Management Advisory Group Kevin Brennan
Executive Officer
Arts Management Advisory Group
14 Berry St, Richmond Vic 3121
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