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Getting to grips with cultural participation in the arts

If we want to see more culturally diverse audiences and artists, we have to develop hands on – not token – engagement with CALD communities.

4 Jul 2017 12:00

Richard Watts

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Australians as a whole are becoming more culturally diverse, as illustrated by the recently released 2016 census figures. Between 2011 and 2016, the total number of people living in Australia who were born overseas rose from 24.6% to 26.3% – more than one in four.

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Richard Watts

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