Surely there’s a better way. Here’s another quick extract from my recent chat with Astrid Edwards for the Garret Podcast about the hidden costs of the arts sector (from my Overland article #TearsForPeers). https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNL7tFWe/.

You can listen to our full conversation on your favourite podcast app or read the transcript at link in bio (or
thegarretpodcast.com/kate-larsen-on-poetry-state-arts-funding-online-world.)

#ArtsLeadership #RethinkingArtsLeadership #LessIsNecessary

My wrap-up of last month’s #VolumeSymposium about how to make Australia even more of a reading nation is now up on the @AustraliaReads website (https://australiareads.org.au/news/volume-wrap-up/).

#Reading #AustraliaReads #ArtsLeadership #RethinkingArtsLeadership #PayTheWriters #WeNeedDiverseBooks

Well, #TimGurner certainly derailed my vlog plans this week. My latest instalment of ‘and another thing’ is about our ongoing workforce crisis, the regressive nonsense of employers wanting to punish workers for standing up for their rights, and the one-year anniversary of my #LessIsNecessary campaign. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLErwQPr/

#ArtsLeadership #RethinkingArtsLeadership #TimGurner #FutureOfWork #Workforce #Burnout #DutyOfCare #SelfCare

My words, thoughts and ponderings for September include a link to my latest governance discussion, thoughts on why poetry has bad PR (and why you read more of it than you think), my recent interview with the Fremantle Shipping News and a rant about employers needing to read the room. Read/subscribe https://katelarsenkeys.substack.com.

#ArtsFunding #ArtsLeadership #AustralianPoetry #PublicOpenSpace #TheSealeyChallenge #LessIsNecessary #RethinkingArtsLeadership #TimGurner #FutureOfWork #Burnout

When Zoom has Zoom fatigue, what hope for the rest of us? This month’s ‘and another thing’ vlog talks about the depressing trend of employers ditching digital ways of working and the importance of fighting for #OurHybridFuture. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLgXUxGA

#RemoteWork #ArtsLeadership #RethinkingArtsLeadership #LessIsNecessary

“Funders are seeking more information than they can credibly audit from organisations who are desperate for funding.” YES THEY ARE.

Proud to find my recent rant about Australian #ArtsFunding for Overland cited in Aden Date’s latest cleverness on bad faith arts sector practices (https://adendate.substack.com/p/bad-faith-evaluation).

#TearsForPeers #ArtsLeadership #RethinkingArtsLeadership #AustraliaCouncil #PeerAssessment

Proud to have my latest governance rant in such good company within the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-star rated new edition of Meanjin. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSL4DH6Vu/

#ArtsLeadership #RethinkingArtsLeadership #Boards #ArtsBoards #ArtsGovernance #RethinkingArtsGovernance

Pro rata or pro writer? Actually, I like the typo better that way. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLQrjooy/

#ShowMeTheMoney #PayTheWriters #ArtsLeadership
#RethinkingArtsLeadership #FourDayWeek
#lessisnecessary

It’s time for us to reject the idea that too-much-work-for-too-little-pay is a problem our sector can’t solve. This month’s ‘and another thing’ vlog talks about why and how we could make it happen). https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSL5AXNNP/

#ArtsLeadership
#RethinkingArtsLeadership #FourDayWeek
#LessIsNecessary

Proud to have an essay in the upcoming Winter edition of the new-look Meanjin, out next month.

#ArtsLeadership #RethinkingArtsLeadership #ArtsBoards #ArtsGovernance #NonProfitGovernance #NotForProfitGovernance #Governance #RethinkingArtsGovernance