Inspire60: Esther Anatolitis

What inspires an arts manager whose work is tied up in frameworks and strategies?
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Writer and curator Esther Anatolitis is Director of Regional Arts Victoria and a passionate advocate for the arts. Her practice rigorously integrates professional and artistic modes of working to create collaborations, projects and workplaces that promote a critical reflection on practice. 

Her past leadership roles span craft and design, literary arts, multicultural arts, public art, festivals, and old and new media. She is a board member of ACMI and Contemporary Arts Precincts, a trustee of the Australian Children’s Theatre Foundation, and Chair of Elbow Room Productions. Esther fosters sector-wide arts networks with a Victorian focus. Her work is widely published and translated, and she also serves on the Programming Committee of the Melbourne Writers Festival.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts