Cirrus@Austlit

'Paul Carter's chapter...considers the interconnectedness of Indigenous and non-Indigenous presence in regional communities. Carter focuses on the deserts of central Australia in his work...He explores how storytelling and place-making affect sociability and community in profound ways. His chapter opens a window to ways in which change might be achieved through negotiation across time and space to connect people from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Based on a collaborative project with community members, Carter traces the transformation of stories into places and services that reflect community identities and needs.' (Introduction 7-8)

'This chapter is concerned with creativity in inland Australia and pays close attention to creative and innovative activity generated in regional and non-metropolitan settings.' (65)

'In 2011, the Indigenous Research Network (IRN) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia brought together a team of playwrights and researchers to tell the story of the Boathouse dances as its firs community-driven research project. The Boathouse dances were held in the late 1950s and early 1960s and were a significant meeting place for Aboriginal people of Brisbane and the greater South East Queensland region. The dances were organized by an Aboriginal man, Uncle Charlie King, to fund the first Aboriginal football team in Brisbane and an Aboriginal women's virago team. The Boathouse dances were a time of celebration, reconnecting, establishing new relationships and falling in love.Te dances were also a focal point of significant social change in the lives of many Aboriginal people and were driven by Aboriginal people who were experiencing a new agency. To date, this story is untold; it is a part of Australia's hidden histories.' (83)

'Susan Luckman's chapter explores [...] transformation through migration and population movement.' (8)

'...Richards gives insight into how Sub-Saharan African refugees in regional Australia developed an anthology of stories about their experience of multi-generational displacement.' (8)

'Van Luyn and Klaebe discuss innovative use of digital technologies to enhance storytelling from regions that have experienced crisis. In this way, they point to new ways to improve community resilience and inclusion. (8-9)

From 2009-2011 Patrick Mitchell 'undertook a three-year study to gain a detailed understanding of the nature, and relevance, of the relationship between the Gold Coast region and the types of theatre that are produced from within it.' This chapter relates one of his key findings in this study.

'The chapters of this book offer serious consideration of how examples of arts practices in the regions create a nexus of connectivity, story and transformation across community/ies. This chapter offers a similar trajectory that is informed my my own pedagogic practice as an enabler of emerging artists through a Bachelor of Creative Arts offered at the University of Southern Queensland (Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia)' (207