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Anna Kuroda at Speak Local, Critical Path, 2015. Photo: Heidrun Lohr
Gandhi with Blacktown Hospital in Sydney where she ‘transformed and warmed’ the foyers of the Hospital into an unconventional creative space and environment of music and dance as part of the Sydney Sacred Music Festival. Speak Local Cultural practice needs organised forums that specifically cater to the development of artists and their works.
New ideas need opportunities to be tested and experimented with smaller groups from diverse backgrounds, ethnic, artistic and cultural sensitivity on a small scale. Formalised and informed feedback assists in the re-development of new works and form the building blocks in balancing cultural practices in Australia. Speak Local provided a muchneeded forum where artists expressed their emerging ideas and works through the now fast