Women in Leadership Forum: Creative Change

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Women in Leadership Forum: Creative Change

The AWDA Women in Leadership Forum is an opportunity for women in theatre to participate in a vibrant discussion to invigorate our professional future. The Women in Leadership forum will address the challenge of creating a more diverse representation in leadership positions across our industry. Visionary women, leaders in their fields, will be invited to inspire this debate as we investigate new models for work, artistic practice, and the psychology of change - how workplaces and communities can transform to authentically represent contemporary social values and concerns.

The AWDA Women in Leadership Forum: Creative Change will explore how we might reshape the professional environment by adopting accessible models of arts practice that promote women’s skills and potential. Panellists and guest speakers from other sectors will inspire us to consider how transformational practices in other fields might be applied to reinvigorate existing theatre structures.

In Victoria there are many skilled, dynamic, exciting, emerging, experienced and visionary women directing theatre across a myriad of projects, genres and sectors. If we put our considerable minds together, what might our collective vision be for accessible and sustainable work structures that support women in key creative roles? What can we propose to replace some of the opaque patriarchal structures and habits prevalent in current industry practice?

As well as considering models for sustainable practice that already exist in other industries, The AWDA Women in Leadership Forum will identify successful leadership practices adopted by innovative women in theatre. The Forum will invite theatre practitioners to consider what an ideal career path could look like. In doing so, we will envisage initiatives that enhance women’s leadership skills, beyond mentoring schemes.

The forum discussions will be inspiring for directors at all levels of practice, theatre companies, artistic directors and arts funding bodies. A list of conclusions and recommendations will be created to inspire key organisations to move towards becoming authentically equitable workplaces.

The AWDA Women in Leadership Forum will consist of panel discussions, breakaway discussion, and Q & A sessions. Delegates will also have the option of attending a ‘Leadership Skills’ panel to explore strategies for representing themselves and their practice to industry decision makers.

If you are interested in being part of this dynamic event, please fill out an expression of interest form CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT FORM.

Should you have trouble filling in the form please email back to the directors.alliance@gmail.com address:

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Whether you intend to attend the whole conference or just the Friday night or Saturday day.