Special Projects

Apart from the Residency and Exhibitions program, Asialink Arts develops and manages other projects in response to particular needs or opportunities which arise. Many of these 'Special Programs' often operate across art forms and can be accessed through the buttons at the top right of this page.

Current Projects include:
Australia Japan Visual Arts Program 2006-2008 - Expressions of Interest CLOSED
Australia Japan Art Exhibitions Program 2002-2004
Asialink Japan Dance Exchange
Australia Indonesia Arts & Community Program
Indonesia Australia Arts Management Program
Literature Touring Program

Previous Projects include:
Museum Training Programs
South Asia
Australia Japan Arts Network (AJAN)
The Playbox-Asialink Playwriting Competition

Advocacy

Providing opportunities for arts practictioners, organisations and government and to discuss and share their skills and knowedge about the issues facing arts and cultural exchanges in Asia and Australia.

Asialink Arts undertakes arts advocacy perceived needs or opportunities. An important aspect of Asialink Arts is to maintain the capacity to develop such projects as well as respond to outside requests for involvement. A key principle underlying all projects is 'partnerships' - with people and organisations in Australia and the region. A further issue is our desire to work bilaterally, so all programs have contributions from countries of the region as well as Australia.

Asialink Annual Arts Forum
Asialink conducts an annual arts and industry forum. The papers from these forums are then published online.

• Annual Arts Forum 2006 - Blind Dates & Foreign Affairs
• Arts Forum 2004: Floating Worlds
• Knowledge Forum 2003
• Asia & the Arts - Policies and Possibilities for the Future 2002
• Cultural Exchange with China Forum 2001
• Arts and Community Forum 2000
• Future Directions Forum 1999

Public Forums
Panels and talks by artists, performers, writers and managers associated with Asialink Arts help to inform the broader community about the various programs we manage and their impact on the arts and culture of Australia and the region.

2002
Residency Information Sessions
NSW, ACT and SA sessions in August 2002

Sydney Writers Festival 2002
Writing Other Cultures: Imagination and Reality. Panel featuring former Asialink literature residents Christopher Kremmer, Mark Mordue, Cathy Cole with Chris Wallace-Crabbe as Chair.

2001
Ten Days on the Island Festival, Tasmania
Presentation on the residency program by Penelope Aitken
Sydney Writers Festival, NSW
Australian Writers in Asia. Panel featuring Adam Aitken, Rebecca Edwards, Steve Kelen and Bem Le Hunte with Christopher Kremmer as Chair.
Trading in Imagination Conference, Wollongong University, NSW
The Ancestor Game: Panel featuring Bem Le Hunte, Satendra Nandan, Cheryle Yin-Lo and Megan Keating with Susan Strano as Chair. Wollongong University, Sept 2001
Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, Melbourne Victoria
Paper presented on Australian Writers in Asia by Amanda Lawrence
Asialink Arts Residency Information Session presented by Arts SA, Adelaide
Featuring Stephanie Luke, Damon Moon, Andrea Kleist and Amanda Lawrence as Chair.

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