Provocateur:
Scotia Monkivitch, Creative Recovery Network
Provocation:
How might we as creatives step up as active citizens in supporting our communities through disaster impact, practice resilience building and grow positive futures?
Where does the voice of children and young people sit as leaders in the development of effective and responsive disaster management?
What does leadership mean for us with the growing impact of climate change and the cascading disaster impact that our country will be experiencing into the future?
The breadth of the insights and skills that creatives share with the world can be instrumental in supporting our communities to find connection, tell stories and support the processing of unimaginable experiences, all necessary for recovery.
The Creative Recovery Network is a national agency advocating for and supporting the role of culture and the arts in the disaster management cycle - preparedness, response and recovery. Working with the lead agencies in disaster management to acknowledge the power of the arts and to institutionalise its place within policy and planning. We work to support and grow the skills of creatives to understand the disaster context and have the tools and knowledge necessarily to work safely with and in trauma impacted communities.
BIO
Scotia has a broad range of professional experiences in the community arts and cultural development sector, which have taken her throughout Australia and internationally. She has diverse experience in training, mentoring, strategic planning, project management, research and facilitation of community cultural development programs and strategies, specializing in working with people experiencing disability and disadvantage, creative aging and rural and remote communities.
Scotia is currently Manager of the Creative Recovery Network, advocating and supporting the role arts and creativity plays within disaster preparedness and response. The Creative Recovery Network aims to gather, critique, develop and share the knowledge gained nationally and internationally for engagement of the arts in disaster recovery and preparedness, along with developing tools and support for artists working in this field.
Scotia has a performance background spanning 25 years in movement based theatre, devised performance, and coordination of projects and theatrical productions, performance crosses through traditional theatre forms, installation performance, film, live-art and on-line exchanges. She established Australian chapter of the Magdalena International Project, which aims to give voice and recognition to the skills and achievements of women in theatre.
Creative Recovery Network and how to join:
https://creativerecovery.net.au
Creative Recovery Network podcasts
https://creativerecovery.net.au/podcast/
ZOOM LINK for this session:
ArTELIER Satellite session - Creative Recovery Network Time: Oct 8, 2020 10:00 AM Hobart
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