Hannah Suarez

My first exposure with British Council was via their Realise Your Dream Awards where I have released an entry of the top Queensland contenders on Brisbane Creative Industries.   Subsequently, it has lead me to finding out about another program by British Council called Creative Cities:

The project is set up to facilitate discussions around the central focus of creative cities where each month, a theme will be focused on the following:

1. September/October: Social Spaces
2. October/November: Sustainable Cities
3. November/December: Creative Communities
4. December/January: Future Visions

I am looking forward to contributing to Creative Cities 2.0 to:

1. Recognise Brisbane and other cities Australia to be key creative cities by bringing to light people, projects and ideas.
2. Bring forward the work on creative cities from the surrounding regions and the UK to Brisbane and other cities in Australia.
3. Facilitate discussion around the themes for each month on social spaces, sustainability, community and on future visioning for the long term in terms of people, projects and ideas
4. Facilitate discussion on how Brisbane can be fully recognised as creative city with developing creative industries
5. Help promote the professional development opportunities that Creative Cities 2.0 will be releasing

Have a look at the website to see what the contributions are so far and please contact them on how you can contribute to the project.

I hope to see you joining in the conversations between now and end of 2009!