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Just to note other “open source” pedagogical projects going on around old Sydney Town. Lisa Kelly and I have started up a local branch of Feedback Sessions, which a group of us offer as a kind of a service to artists when they have a show. The idea is that instead of having an “artist talk”, the artist is in fact the ONLY one who is NOT allowed to talk! It’s a model we’ve borrowed and adapted from the Clubs Project Space kids in Melbourne.
There’s a website we’ve set up for it, over here, which is just in its early stages, but will grow into a kind of archive of itself.

Also, the If You See Something Say Something project organised by Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg hosted some DIY workshops with international groups Etcetera and Contra File, as well as a Tour of Beauty by SquatSpace, which is in itself a pedagogical art project (combining education and art in the one fun package!)

Down at Sydney on Cleveland St, Surry Hills, regular “infotainment” nights are hosted where an artist will give a talk or powerpoint presentation about some aspect of their work, or after a trip to some interesting place overseas. These are informal, chatty, and intimate.
Finally, with the Teaching and Learning Cinema, Louise Curham and I are interested in hosting experimental film screenings in an atmosphere of open discussion (rather than passive spectacle.)

Look forward to hearing of more autonomous activities out there!