Beyond Hero Narratives: Reflections on Wesley Enoch’s Lecture
Wesley Enoch’s lecture framed cultural leadership as relational, embodied, and enacted through practice rather than authority. His concept of a currency of favour and the rotation of leadership within an unelected cultural parliament disrupts dominant Western hero narratives, aligning instead with First Nations knowledge systems where authority is distributed, contextual, and relational, which resonates with Yunkaporta’s pattern-thinking, where knowledge […]
Creative Wellbeing Manifesto
CREATIVE WELLBEING IS CULTURAL LEADERSHIP A Manifesto for Artistic Endurance I have left the arts industry and returned more times than I can count. At twenty, I entered acting with devotion and discipline, but when the work could not sustain me financially, I left to become a teacher. I returned, only to leave again to […]