Cultural Mediation Training - Centre of the Centre
Centre of the Centre Cultural Mediation
The sessions will each be broken down into 4 sections:
1. Introduction to cultural mediation practice. This session takes the form of a collaborative knowledge sharing and Q&A session.
This session aims to deepen and build on participants’ understanding of cultural mediation practice through an inquiry-based discussion. Led by UQ Art Museum Mediators, this session is informed by semi-structured questions that encourage participants to consider their own ideas and interpretations of cultural mediation practice. UQ Art Museum Mediators will build on participants’ understanding by sharing their own experiences practicing cultural mediation.
2. Active listening activity
In this practical session, participants will practice active listening skills and using other’s perspectives as a starting point for meaningful conversations about artworks and exhibitions.
3. Mind map activity.
This session aims to get participants to consider and share their own interpretations of and learnings from Centre of the Centre. Together, participants will reflect on what resonates with them and build a mind map of concepts, questions, and ideas found in Centre of the Centre. Participants will be encouraged to use this mind map to inform further research and conversations starters with visitors.
4. Reflection.
The aim of this session is to help participants consider what 'tools’ or ‘supports’ for Mediator’s might use to empower their practice. UQ Art Museum Mediators will draw upon their own experiences and tools in order to help participants consider and reflect upon theirs.
Pre-reading
Please read and watch the resources on this page before your session, especially the handbook and Mediation in Practice at UQ Art Museum video.
Dive deeper
Please find additional password protected videos here to watch. Mel is keen to make these available to gallery staff and mediators and volunteers (but not the general public, so please do not share these otherwise). Each use the password: mel
Cultural Mediation Training Booking
Open Hours
Tues - Fri: 9am-5pm
Sat - Sun: 9am-1pm
Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks.
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408 Flinders Street,
Gurambilbarra (Townsville),
Qld, 4810 Australia
PO Box 2394,
Gurambilbarra (Townsville),
Qld, 4810 Australia
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Acknowledgement of Country
Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts respectfully acknowledges the Wulgurukaba of Gurambilbarra and Yunbenun and the surrounding groups of our region - Bindal, Gugu Badhan, Nywaigi, Warrgamay, Bandjin and Gudjal - as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather, share and celebrate local creative practice. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first people of Australia. They have never ceded sovereignty and remain strong in their enduring connection to land and Culture.
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Acknowledgements
Umbrella is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments. | Umbrella is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. | Townsville City Council is a funding partner of Umbrella's program.
