Taking Care of your Practice and Yourself

Facilitator

Scotia Monkivitch: Scotia is an arts leader with a broad range of professional experience in the community arts and cultural development sector that has taken her throughout Australia and internationally. She has expertise in training, mentoring, strategic planning, project management, research and facilitation of community cultural development programs and strategies, specializing in working with people experiencing disability and disadvantage, mental health, creative aging and rural and remote communities. With 25 years in arts and management, Scotia has worked in genres across theatre, dance, visual arts, film, live-art and on-line exchanges.

Scotia is the founder and Executive Officer of the Creative Recovery Network, advocating and supporting the role arts and creativity plays within disaster preparedness, response and recovery. The Creative Recovery Network aims to gather, critique, develop and share the knowledge gained nationally and internationally for engagement of the arts in disaster recovery, along with developing tools and support for artists working in this field. It has recently launched Creative Responders, a new podcast that explores the power of arts and culture in disaster, with Scotia visiting communities around Australia and exploring how art and creativity can repair, rebuild and reunite.