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Expanding the Horizon: Conversations with artists in communities was presented by Country Arts SA on 28 February 2014 in Adelaide. For more information about future events, subscribe to Country Arts SA E-news.


CHRISTIAN (BONG) RAMILO

Christian (Bong) Ramilo is Executive Officer of Darwin Community Arts (DCA). He has been a community artist for over thirty years. He received an Australia Council Fellowship in 2000 to explore new technologies and community cultural development; he continues this exploration through projects at DCA, and elsewhere. He also plays ukulele for The Darwin Rondalla.

My role as Executive Officer at DCA involves working with our Board, staff, volunteers, and members towards getting everyone in our region to make and share art, particularly at the local (neighbourhood) level. I also run two projects for DCA: the Darwin Regional Arts Mesh (DRAM) and Frontline Media. DRAM will be a mesh (a form of network that relies on protocols rather than a formal, hierarchical structure) for makers and sharers of art and culture across the Darwin Region; it will have online facilities such as a regional and multisectoral arts and culture calendar, a cultural workers' registry, and a resources reservation and booking system. Frontline is a locative media and digital arts projects (that started in 2009) that explores, through digital technologies, the relationships between community, place, art, media, and technology. I also run ukulele classes from time to time.



ABOUT DARWIN COMMUNITY ARTS

Darwin Community Arts (DCA) is a non-profit, incorporated Association that focuses on community-based arts and cultural development.

DCA began as Brown's Mart Community Arts Project (BMCA) in mid-1970s; it was incorporated in 1979. BMCA played a significant role in arts development in Darwin for over thirty years. BMCA undertook the Reinventing Brown's Mart program in 2007 to focus on community cultural development at a grassroots level; BMCA changed its name to Darwin Community Arts in April 2008. DCA started piloting grassroots arts development activities in Malak in mid-2007. It ceased managing Brown's Mart Theatre in 2008 and moved offices to Malak Shopping Centre completely by the second half of 2009.

Since focussing on grassroots arts development and moving to Malak, DCA has significantly increased: partnerships with non-arts organisations; engagement with multicultural and Indigenous individuals and community groups; attendance among local community groups at arts events; patronage and usage of arts-based facilities at Malak; increased funding and resourcing from non-NT arts sources and non-arts sources; production of songs, theatre, and other material by amateur artists; activities in Palmerston and other communities outside Darwin City; awareness and usage of new technologies and digital media in arts education and production.