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Decoding Cultural Leadership
Arts Podcast · Updated Weekly · Decoding Cultural Leadership is a podcast that explores the intersection between the arts, culture and society and interrogates what it means to be a cultural leader in...
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Dr Samuel Cairnduff, lecturer & researcher at the University of Melbourne.
My focus is cultural leadership & I host @dclpod: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...,
Write on Substack: substack.com/@samuelcairn....
Consultancy, RESONATE, works with arts organisations on strategy, voice, and impact.
My focus is cultural leadership & I host @dclpod: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...,
Write on Substack: substack.com/@samuelcairn....
Consultancy, RESONATE, works with arts organisations on strategy, voice, and impact.
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Cultural Trends Roundtable 2: 2 December, 10:00am GMT:
Does Cultural Policy Research Need Theory?
With Tony Bennett, Sigrid Røyseng and Jennifer Lena, chaired by Patrycja Kaszynska.
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the field.
Join link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8849746902...
Does Cultural Policy Research Need Theory?
With Tony Bennett, Sigrid Røyseng and Jennifer Lena, chaired by Patrycja Kaszynska.
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the field.
Join link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8849746902...
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Cultural Trends Roundtable 2: 2 December, 10:00am GMT:
Does Cultural Policy Research Need Theory?
With Tony Bennett, Sigrid Røyseng and Jennifer Lena, chaired by Patrycja Kaszynska.
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the field.
Join link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8849746902...
Does Cultural Policy Research Need Theory?
With Tony Bennett, Sigrid Røyseng and Jennifer Lena, chaired by Patrycja Kaszynska.
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the field.
Join link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8849746902...
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Day 2 of the Global Dialogues at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) featured powerful keynotes from Mark Taylor and Brea Heidelberg, tackling enduring inequalities in the cultural sector.
#CulturalTrends #GlobalDialogues #PUCP #CulturalPolicy
#CulturalTrends #GlobalDialogues #PUCP #CulturalPolicy
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Day 2 of the Global Dialogues at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) featured powerful keynotes from Mark Taylor and Brea Heidelberg, tackling enduring inequalities in the cultural sector.
#CulturalTrends #GlobalDialogues #PUCP #CulturalPolicy
#CulturalTrends #GlobalDialogues #PUCP #CulturalPolicy
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Now underway: a powerful keynote conversation between Néstor García Canclini and Susan Oman, exploring what kinds of cultural policies we need in an age shaped by digital platforms.
#GlobalDialogues #CulturalTrends #CulturalPolicy #Lima #PUCP
#GlobalDialogues #CulturalTrends #CulturalPolicy #Lima #PUCP
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Now underway: a powerful keynote conversation between Néstor García Canclini and Susan Oman, exploring what kinds of cultural policies we need in an age shaped by digital platforms.
#GlobalDialogues #CulturalTrends #CulturalPolicy #Lima #PUCP
#GlobalDialogues #CulturalTrends #CulturalPolicy #Lima #PUCP
Feeling like a local in Lima when a Jehovah's Witness representative rings the doorbell of my Airbnb...we had a brief and pleasant conversation in (my) broken Spanish, but I'm not converting just yet.
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Feeling like a local in Lima when a Jehovah's Witness representative rings the doorbell of my Airbnb...we had a brief and pleasant conversation in (my) broken Spanish, but I'm not converting just yet.
Away writing for a weekend. Typewriter for collection purposes, not functional
October 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Away writing for a weekend. Typewriter for collection purposes, not functional
My new book Harmonising Cultural Leadership in Professional Orchestras, out next week with Routledge, @tandfresearch.bsky.social .
It explores how orchestras, and cultural institutions more broadly, can lead with authenticity, purpose and public value.
More here: www.routledge.com/Harmonising-...
It explores how orchestras, and cultural institutions more broadly, can lead with authenticity, purpose and public value.
More here: www.routledge.com/Harmonising-...
Harmonising Cultural Leadership in Professional Orchestras
This book interrogates the widespread yet ill-defined use of
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October 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
My new book Harmonising Cultural Leadership in Professional Orchestras, out next week with Routledge, @tandfresearch.bsky.social .
It explores how orchestras, and cultural institutions more broadly, can lead with authenticity, purpose and public value.
More here: www.routledge.com/Harmonising-...
It explores how orchestras, and cultural institutions more broadly, can lead with authenticity, purpose and public value.
More here: www.routledge.com/Harmonising-...
I’m looking forward to presenting at Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue — an extraordinary gathering of researchers rethinking the role of culture in sustainable futures.
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
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#GlobalDialoguePUCP #CulturalPolicy
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
@ctjournal.bsky.social
#GlobalDialoguePUCP #CulturalPolicy
International Conference
PUCP and the scientific journal Cultural Trends organize the 2025 edition of the International Conference
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October 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’m looking forward to presenting at Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue — an extraordinary gathering of researchers rethinking the role of culture in sustainable futures.
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
@ctjournal.bsky.social
#GlobalDialoguePUCP #CulturalPolicy
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
@ctjournal.bsky.social
#GlobalDialoguePUCP #CulturalPolicy
Ep 48 of Decoding Cultural Leadership: RESONATE participants on neurodivergence in classical music, inclusive performance design, and why culture matters more than policy.
Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast
#CulturalLeadership #Neurodivergence #ClassicalMusic
Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast
#CulturalLeadership #Neurodivergence #ClassicalMusic
August 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Ep 48 of Decoding Cultural Leadership: RESONATE participants on neurodivergence in classical music, inclusive performance design, and why culture matters more than policy.
Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast
#CulturalLeadership #Neurodivergence #ClassicalMusic
Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast
#CulturalLeadership #Neurodivergence #ClassicalMusic
Ep 47 of Decoding Cultural Leadership: Simon Hinton on transforming Merrigong Theatre Co. into Australia’s largest regional producing theatre, leading with community, and resisting echo chambers in polarised times.
Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts
Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts
August 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Ep 47 of Decoding Cultural Leadership: Simon Hinton on transforming Merrigong Theatre Co. into Australia’s largest regional producing theatre, leading with community, and resisting echo chambers in polarised times.
Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts
Listen: samuelcairnduff.com/podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts
On the Bendigo Writers Festival, I commented in The Guardian:
“Restricting speech and freedom of expression is the antithesis of what a cultural organisation in contemporary Australian society should be doing.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
“Restricting speech and freedom of expression is the antithesis of what a cultural organisation in contemporary Australian society should be doing.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
How the Bendigo writers’ festival’s code of conduct caused a walkout and claims of censorship
The last-minute code of conduct and the backlash are the latest in a string of controversies ‘symptomatic of the current environment’ in the arts
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August 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
On the Bendigo Writers Festival, I commented in The Guardian:
“Restricting speech and freedom of expression is the antithesis of what a cultural organisation in contemporary Australian society should be doing.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
“Restricting speech and freedom of expression is the antithesis of what a cultural organisation in contemporary Australian society should be doing.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
My piece in @artshub.bsky.social today, on codes, censorship and crisis at Bendigo Literary Festival
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Bendigo Writers Festival: when risk management becomes censorship
The unfortunate situation at Bendigo Writers Festival over the weekend is yet another example of cultural leadership failure.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
My piece in @artshub.bsky.social today, on codes, censorship and crisis at Bendigo Literary Festival
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
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Bookish in Bendigo have pulled out as Bendigo Writers Festival's bookseller - this principled move comes at great cost to them as an independent store. If you've been thinking of purchasing a book (esp. one by someone who's also pulled labour from BWF), consider going to them! +61 3 5406 0596
August 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Bookish in Bendigo have pulled out as Bendigo Writers Festival's bookseller - this principled move comes at great cost to them as an independent store. If you've been thinking of purchasing a book (esp. one by someone who's also pulled labour from BWF), consider going to them! +61 3 5406 0596
20+ writers walked out of Bendigo Writers Festival after a last-minute code of conduct bound them to contested definitions of antisemitism/Islamophobia.
Again, cultural institutions capitulating; weaponising risk management as pre-emptive censorship.
My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/samuelca...
Again, cultural institutions capitulating; weaponising risk management as pre-emptive censorship.
My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/samuelca...
Bendigo Writers Festival: Culture, Codes, and Crisis
The Bendigo Writers Festival crisis strips away any remaining illusions about the state of cultural leadership in Australia.
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August 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
20+ writers walked out of Bendigo Writers Festival after a last-minute code of conduct bound them to contested definitions of antisemitism/Islamophobia.
Again, cultural institutions capitulating; weaponising risk management as pre-emptive censorship.
My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/samuelca...
Again, cultural institutions capitulating; weaponising risk management as pre-emptive censorship.
My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/samuelca...
Proud to launch the new Cultural Trends Roundtable podcast in my role as Social Media Editor at @ctjournal.bsky.social.
🎧 Ep 1 — Cultural Practices, the Arts & Democracy
Now on Spotify, Apple & YouTube coming soon.
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5O3v...
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🎧 Ep 1 — Cultural Practices, the Arts & Democracy
Now on Spotify, Apple & YouTube coming soon.
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5O3v...
Follow: open.spotify.com/show/27Lkgua...
Episode 1 — Cultural Practices, the Arts, and Democracy
Cultural Trends Roundtable · Episode
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August 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Proud to launch the new Cultural Trends Roundtable podcast in my role as Social Media Editor at @ctjournal.bsky.social.
🎧 Ep 1 — Cultural Practices, the Arts & Democracy
Now on Spotify, Apple & YouTube coming soon.
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5O3v...
Follow: open.spotify.com/show/27Lkgua...
🎧 Ep 1 — Cultural Practices, the Arts & Democracy
Now on Spotify, Apple & YouTube coming soon.
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5O3v...
Follow: open.spotify.com/show/27Lkgua...
🎙 New podcast from Cultural Trends — Cultural Trends Roundtable now streaming on Spotify.
Conversations with researchers, policymakers & cultural practitioners exploring the ideas shaping arts, culture & creative industries.
Follow: open.spotify.com/show/27Lkgua...
Conversations with researchers, policymakers & cultural practitioners exploring the ideas shaping arts, culture & creative industries.
Follow: open.spotify.com/show/27Lkgua...
Cultural Trends Roundtable
Podcast · samuelcairnduff · Cultural Trends Roundtable is a recorded discussion series from the international journal Cultural Trends, bringing together researchers, policymakers, and cultural practit...
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August 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🎙 New podcast from Cultural Trends — Cultural Trends Roundtable now streaming on Spotify.
Conversations with researchers, policymakers & cultural practitioners exploring the ideas shaping arts, culture & creative industries.
Follow: open.spotify.com/show/27Lkgua...
Conversations with researchers, policymakers & cultural practitioners exploring the ideas shaping arts, culture & creative industries.
Follow: open.spotify.com/show/27Lkgua...
Source: ABC listen
August 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Source: ABC listen
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Cultural Trends – Volume 34, Issue 3
From street art in Porto to artists’ working lives in South Korea, our new issue tackles big questions in cultural policy and practice.
Read the highlights: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccut20/3...
#CulturalTrends #ArtsResearch #CulturalPolicy #Artists #StreetArt
From street art in Porto to artists’ working lives in South Korea, our new issue tackles big questions in cultural policy and practice.
Read the highlights: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccut20/3...
#CulturalTrends #ArtsResearch #CulturalPolicy #Artists #StreetArt
Cultural Trends
Volume 34, Issue 3 of Cultural Trends
www.tandfonline.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Cultural Trends – Volume 34, Issue 3
From street art in Porto to artists’ working lives in South Korea, our new issue tackles big questions in cultural policy and practice.
Read the highlights: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccut20/3...
#CulturalTrends #ArtsResearch #CulturalPolicy #Artists #StreetArt
From street art in Porto to artists’ working lives in South Korea, our new issue tackles big questions in cultural policy and practice.
Read the highlights: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccut20/3...
#CulturalTrends #ArtsResearch #CulturalPolicy #Artists #StreetArt
@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social @drjd.bsky.socialHappy to say that after 5 x years devoted listening to @onthereg.bsky.social I've finally joined the @omnifocus.omnigroup.com family :) Looking forward to getting everything off multiple task managers...Thank you for your continued support & inspiration!
August 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social @drjd.bsky.socialHappy to say that after 5 x years devoted listening to @onthereg.bsky.social I've finally joined the @omnifocus.omnigroup.com family :) Looking forward to getting everything off multiple task managers...Thank you for your continued support & inspiration!
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Action Point (n.): something to be avoided in a meeting at all costs, except when suggesting on behalf of a colleague with their camera off and mic muted.
March 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Action Point (n.): something to be avoided in a meeting at all costs, except when suggesting on behalf of a colleague with their camera off and mic muted.
Final post in The Orchestra Papers is live: how orchestras shape public memory — and what they forget. From repertoire to reconciliation, it’s all here.
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#orchestras #memory
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#orchestras #memory
8. Orchestras as Memory Machines: What Australia's musical institutions reveal about our past and our blind spots
Memory isn't neutral. Neither are the institutions that preserve it.
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August 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Final post in The Orchestra Papers is live: how orchestras shape public memory — and what they forget. From repertoire to reconciliation, it’s all here.
open.substack.com/pub/samuelca...
#orchestras #memory
open.substack.com/pub/samuelca...
#orchestras #memory
Dr Samuel Cairnduff, lecturer & researcher at the University of Melbourne.
My focus is cultural leadership & I host @dclpod: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...,
Write on Substack: substack.com/@samuelcairn....
Consultancy, RESONATE, works with arts organisations on strategy, voice, and impact.
My focus is cultural leadership & I host @dclpod: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...,
Write on Substack: substack.com/@samuelcairn....
Consultancy, RESONATE, works with arts organisations on strategy, voice, and impact.
Decoding Cultural Leadership
Arts Podcast · Updated Weekly · Decoding Cultural Leadership is a podcast that explores the intersection between the arts, culture and society and interrogates what it means to be a cultural leader in...
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August 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Dr Samuel Cairnduff, lecturer & researcher at the University of Melbourne.
My focus is cultural leadership & I host @dclpod: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...,
Write on Substack: substack.com/@samuelcairn....
Consultancy, RESONATE, works with arts organisations on strategy, voice, and impact.
My focus is cultural leadership & I host @dclpod: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...,
Write on Substack: substack.com/@samuelcairn....
Consultancy, RESONATE, works with arts organisations on strategy, voice, and impact.
Remembering Dame Cleo Laine on the occasion of her passing, and reflecting on my experiences with the Dankworth family.
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Samuel Cairnduff, PhD (@samuelcairnduff)
Dame Cleo Laine’s passing marks the end of an extraordinary era in British cultural history. Reflecting on her legacy, the institution she built with John Dankworth, and my own brief encounters with t...
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August 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Remembering Dame Cleo Laine on the occasion of her passing, and reflecting on my experiences with the Dankworth family.
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substack.com/@samuelcairn...
Latest Substack post:
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Samuel Cairnduff, PhD (@samuelcairnduff)
Hobart City Councillor Louise Elliot recently proposed that council meetings should abandon their Acknowledgment of Country, drawing what she sees as a parallel with the earlier removal of the Lord’s ...
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August 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I’m thrilled to have had a paper accepted for the 2025 ADSA conference Manaakitanga – Performing Welcome, Care and Respect, this December in Wellington.
www.adsa.edu.au/next-confere...
www.adsa.edu.au/next-confere...
ADSANext Conference
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August 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I’m thrilled to have had a paper accepted for the 2025 ADSA conference Manaakitanga – Performing Welcome, Care and Respect, this December in Wellington.
www.adsa.edu.au/next-confere...
www.adsa.edu.au/next-confere...