CREATIVE EQUITY TOOLKIT

Launched from the Sydney Opera House on 21 July 2020, the Creative Equity Toolkit is a knowledge-exchange website and program to support arts and creative organisations in reaching their diversity and inclusion goals. The website focuses on ethno-cultural and migrant racial equity in the arts, cultural and creative industries.

Diversity Arts Australia (DARTS) is partnering with the British Council, Creative Victoria, Create NSW and Western Sydney University (WSU) on the project.

Why build a toolkit?

Research consistently reveals how very Anglo-focused our creative industries remain. While many organisations know the value of cultural diversity in the arts, it’s not always easy to know how to create change. The Creative Equity toolkit is a digital platform of practical resources to help arts leaders, creative workers and practitioners and organisations take action on creating diversity in their sector. Creative Equity Toolkit will feature toolkits, guidebooks, directories and how-to instructions, along with links to research, case studies, and policy documents. The site adopts an instructional, hands-on conversational tone—something akin to a travel guidebook.

We want to see more culturally diverse actors, screen producers, published writers, musicians, visual artists, dancers, as well as more culturally diverse arts professionals in decision-making roles in Australia’s creative sectors. This requires organisational and structural change. In order to support organisations to make these changes, we are creating a website with links to available resources. However rather than providing a simple list of links, we are curating resources and providing reviews and interpretations on how and when they may be used, clustered around clear calls to action.

Find out more at Diversity Arts Australia

To access the toolkit resources: Creative Equity Toolkit