You’re listening to a recording of “Talking In the Time of Refuge”, a conversation held at Arts House on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation Saturday 19 March 2022. 

Refuge has been one of Arts House’s most significant undertakings – a multi-year project bringing together a range of people to explore how collaboration with community is critical for how we prepare for climate emergency. 

In this conversation you’ll hear from Elders, artists, emergency services and researchers as they think through insights gathered over the last six years’ work.

Speakers:
Jodie McVernon, Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology
Steve Cameron, Manager – Community and Volunteer Development Emergency Management Victoria
Faye Bendrups, SES Controller
David Pledger, Author/Editor In the Time of Refuge
Dr Jen Rae, Latai Taumoepeau, and Lorna Hannan, Refuge Artists

More information visit:
https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/talking-in-the-time-of-refuge/

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Arts House is Melbourne’s home for contemporary performance.

With a year-round program of dance, theatre, music, sound, new technologies and community projects, Arts House is one of the major forces shaping Melbourne’s cultural and social landscape. We cultivate diverse new audiences for independent artists’ ambitious new work, and we build relationships at both local and international levels.

This is a house where change happens. From the crisis of extinction to the rapid transformations of technology, we know that the futures of humanity and art are entwined. We want to be hopeful.

As part of Melbourne’s cultural landscape, Arts House expresses the deep forces that shape that terrain. Our programming pays respect to Traditional Owners and the land on which our work takes place, and reflects Australia’s ongoing history of migration and displacement.

Arts House also seeks to ask questions about power: who has the power to speak, and what is the power of listening? We explore new ways of distributing curatorial power, and commit to an artistic vision that is transparent and connected.