Breaking out of the multicultural ghetto

Multiculturalism is not a feelgood word to all the culturally diverse artists meeting at the Kultour Gathering at Brisbane Multicultural Art Centre this week.
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Multiculturalism is not a feelgood word to all the culturally diverse artists meeting at Brisbane Multicultural Art Centre this week.

The Kultour Gathering 2013 entitled Right Here/Right Now provides artists and arts workers from across Australia with a unique opportunity to share their experiences – one of which is an apparent aversion to the term ‘multicultural’.

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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