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Strategies for Diversity: Performing Lines WA

Performing Lines WA is an example of a Western Australian arts organisation that is leading the way in terms of diversity and inclusion. Performing Lines WA produces transformative contemporary works by West Australian independent artists. They champion the unconventional, the marginal, the rebellious and the new.

In 2019, Performing Lines WA collaborated with poet and scholar Feraidoon Mojadedi and culturally and linguistically diverse artists from WA to bring 'Layla Majnun' to the stage in Australia for the very first time.

'Layla Majnun' is an epic tale of love and separation which has been told across the Islamic world for centuries—and yet, it is largely unknown in Australia.

This case study has been developed by a Diversity Working Group comprising artists, art workers, representatives from arts organisations, community groups, and academics, facilitated by Community Arts Network. The group discussed what best practice, in terms of cultural and linguistic diversity, could look like for arts organisations and projects. This video case study is a resource developed to support arts organisations that are seeking to diversify their arts practices and become more inclusive.

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