Kate Larsen
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Are Australia’s arts governance models setting us up to fail?
The actions of Adelaide Festival’s former board prompt important questions about the governance of statutory authority arts boards.
Bendigo Writers Festival 2025: why we cancelled our panel
33 writers have cancelled their appearances at Bendigo Writers Festival in protest over a last-minute request to sign a ‘self-censoring’…
AI and arts governance
Generative AI promises much in arts, cultural and non-profit governance. But beware, there are pitfalls ahead...
Organisational ethics: walking the talk
With artists and companies in crisis, ArtsHub shares some tips on how to move values from the page into practice…
Book review: In Bed with Animals, Bronwyn Lovell
Lived experience of gender discrimination in poetic form.
National Cultural Policy revives unfamiliar hope
Is Revive a game-changer or simply a starting point? Whichever it is, the arts sector can now at least feel…
What does ‘less is necessary’ look like?
Arts organisations and Boards need to move from a ‘less is more’ to ‘less is necessary’ mindset. Kate Larsen outlines…
Post-COVID or post-burnout: less is necessary
Australian’s artists and arts workers are at breaking point, says Kate Larsen, with sector-wide burnout, It’s time to address the…
Bad news Boards
Last year, Kate Larsen asked our sector to imagine a radically different structure for its arts Boards – or a…
Resetting our arts boards
At the Reset Conference in Adelaide, Kate Larsen asked the sector to imagine a radically different structure for our arts…