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KultureJam services include: Indigenous employment opportunities, Recording & Production (music & film, Musical Tuition & Training, Youth & Community Development, Project or Cultural Event Design & Coordination, Indigenous Cultural Education & Awareness Workshop packages, Art & Craft Exhibitions including traditional demonstrations, Didgeridoo Performers & Dancers, Funding Application Assistance, Administration and Management Services (Artist Agency), Cultural Tourism, Advocacy, promotion and preservation of Australian Indigenous traditional and contemporary music, art and cultural heritage.
Aims & Objectives
"To further the economic, social and cultural development of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people through the promotion and support of Australian Indigenous music, art and cultural heritage."
KultureJams aims are:
- To encourage economic self-sufficiency in Indigenous communities
- To develop successful cultural tourism ventures in this region
- To advocate for and on behalf of Indigenous artists across Western Australia.
- To support the development of Indigenous traditional and contemporary art forms.
- To help enrich and preserve Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island culture.
- To improve the opportunity for Indigenous youth in the music, arts &
cultural tourism industries.
- To support Indigenous artists and performers in their efforts to practice and promote their cultural heritage.
KultureJam specific objectives are to:
- Advocate for and on behalf of Indigenous musicians, artists and performers.
- Promote a positive and professional approach through our services, programs and initiatives the delivery and development of independent Indigenous artists and performers in local as well as global markets.
- Raise the level of awareness in the local as well as international community as to the high quality of Indigenous talent in this region and across the state.
- Offer support and guidance to Indigenous artists in managing their careers and future aspirations in a culturally appropriate and professional manner.
- Create through our services, programs and initiatives sustainable economic and employment opportunities for Indigenous people - in particular youth.
- Be an access point for the non-Indigenous community in engaging and experiencing both traditional and contempory forms of Indigenous music, art and culture throughout Australia - to make Indigenous culture more accessible to mainstream society.
We;
- Ensure the rights of Indigenous artists and performers to their own 'cultural heritage' is protected and maintained.
- Recognise the rights of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to be the true and original custodians of this land we now call Australia.
- Acknowledge the right of consent by Indigenous artists and performers as paramount to any work that incorporates the use of any form of Indigenous cultural heritage.
- Maintain the integrity and authenticity of cultural heritage particularly regarding the performance and exhibition of Indigenous works through close consultation with artists and communities.
- Accept the right of Indigenous people to control their own work.
KultureJam
ABN 55495211835
P.O Box 5, Leederville Western Australia, 6007
266 Oxford Street, Leederville Western Australia
6007
Lead Organisation/Agency
KultureJam
Type of Mentoring Needed
Community Partnership
Subject(s)
Cultural Development
Media
Youth Development
Region(s)
Western Australia - Perth
Western Australia - South West
Most Recently Presented At
Yawuru Trading Floor, 19 May 2004
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