About Multicultural Arts Victoria
Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is Victoria's peak arts organisation promoting cultural diversity in the arts.
MAV is a not for profit organisation and proudly represents artists and communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
MAV is a highly regarded organisation with a reputation for delivering high quality art and cultural product.
The organisation continues to grow as a celebration of multicultural arts, diverse and dynamic, a celebration of multiculturalism.
Our Mission
To foster cultural diversity and respect through the promotion, enhancement and celebration of multicultural arts in Australia.
Multicultural Arts Victoria offers unique opportunities and support structures to artists and communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as well as showcasing their amazing talents to the public at large.
Purpose
The three main dimensions to MAVs purpose are
- to produce and promote an outstanding high quality culturally diverse artistic program,
- to provide vital connections, support structures and pathways that enable culturally diverse artists and communities to create exceptional art, and
- to play a critical advocacy role in providing a forum, through the arts, to ensure acceptance and understanding of cultural diversity.
Vision & Information Brochure
Download Vision & Information Brochure.
Our Goals
Multicultural Arts Victoria encourages:
- access and participation in the arts by all cultures,
- acceptance and understanding of cultural diversity by all cultures, and
- and excellence and innovation in multicultural arts practice.
Background
Multicultural Arts Victoria shares common ground with both the ethnic communities and the arts sector.
Working in partnership with many of Victoria’s leading multicultural artists, communities and arts agencies, MAV is positioned strategically between both sectors – providing an important bridge between culturally and linguistically diverse communities, artists, the arts industry and audiences.
MAV has successfully encouraged innovative program development and design that reflects the diversity of Victoria and has facilitated the development of linkages, networks and collaborations between existing arts and non arts providers, artists, agencies, organisations, and community groups.
Multicultural Arts Victoria has made a very big, creative contribution to the presentation and promotion of high quality programs and events that have invigorated and enhanced Victoria’s greatest strength, our diversity.
Multicultural Arts Victoria has a responsibility not only to multicultural artists and communities but also to the public at large in exposing them to all forms of art and educating them about cultural difference.
It is essential that we ensure access and participation and actively engage artists and communities from Non-English speaking backgrounds in the arts and celebrate cultural diversity as a State asset.
As a leading exponent of multicultural arts, MAV will continue to encourage excellence in the arts and it recognises that the organisation must position itself to meet the challenges of operating in a rapidly changing social and economic context.
MAV plays a critical role in providing a forum through the arts to ensure acceptance and understanding of diversity.
MAV has demonstrated through its program, operation and services that cultural diversity is a fundamental characteristic of Victoria’s identity and heritage and provides a valuable resource in shaping our state’s artistic future.
Philosophy
Multicultural Arts Victoria values cultural diversity in the arts as a necessary and integral aspect of Australia’s social and cultural fabric and believes that diverse cultural traditions form the building blocks of innovative and exciting new creative developments and programs.
Through the presentation and promotion of quality artistic programs Victoria’s position is enhanced nationally and internationally.
Long-term artistic growth and development has always been found in societies that value and respect their cultural diversity.
Annual Report
Annual reports
Purpose & Rules of Association
MAV provides support for established as well as new and emerging artists and communities through arts practise. Read MAVs
Statement of Purpose
Rules of Association
|
