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‘Community practice is in danger of resting on clichés,’ according to Dean Merlino, coordinator of the Community Cultural Development Graduate Program at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music’s Centre for Cultural Partnerships.
‘We look to the easiest spaces to work, and that’s not just in terms of the ideas but also the funding models. Often the competition for funds leads people to move towards spaces which are easier to work in … [and so] the sector kind of closes in on itself rather than looking to expand and to move into new and interesting spaces of practice.’
