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Kia ora music people of Ōtepoti Dunedin!We here at Save Dunedin Live Music have decided it's time to flex the academic muscles and dive into the Behind The Music Symposium by organising our very own panel session, aptly named "You Can't Dance to Bureaucracy." In this panel session, we will explore the contentious realms of music and governance, and what happens when those two worlds collide.
Music scenes around the world are seemingly in a constant battle for survival — whether it's the gentrification of the spaces where they exist, new laws and regulations that change how they have to operate, or the chilling effect that local and national issues can have on the audiences and musicians who keep these special places alive.
Local governments often become battlegrounds where music scenes and other competing interests collide. When these factors become existential for a music scene, what does that look like from both sides of the conversation? When tensions, emotions, and stakes are all running high, how do music scenes keep advocacy effective, keep the work collaborative, and ensure representative outcomes that protect and build music scenes?
This panel discussion hopes to explore all those questions from a variety of viewpoints and a scope ranging from the local to the international.
We are super stoked to have the amazing Shane Homan from across the ditch joining us on this panel. He's renowned for his research in music policy, the cultural industries, and cultural histories. Many of these projects have directly influenced industrial and government practice, including local cultural industry planning, music funding, music copyright, and live music venue regulation in Australia.
Joining Shane are two other juggernauts of the local scene and no strangers to the topic at hand: Craig Monk and Dr Louise Kewene-Doig.
Dr Louise Kewene-Doig (Tainui, Ngāti Maniapoto) is a researcher, writer, musician, and community activator whose work brings together Indigenous knowledge, creativity, climate justice, and community empowerment. Holding a BMus, MMus, and PhD from the University of Otago, Louise specialises in applied ethnomusicology using kaupapa Māori methodologies.
Lou moves across a diverse professional landscape spanning local government, philanthropy, academia, and the creative sector. In her current role as Policy and Research Manager at Otago Community Trust, she moves between strategic research, policy development, climate action, and community investment, helping shape initiatives that strengthen equity and resilience across Otago.
Craig Monk is a musician and music educator who writes, produces, arranges, records, performs, and teaches. A member of beloved 90s/00s Ōtepoti bands Cloudboy, Suka, Mink, and Swarm, he's fortunate to have worked recently with OMMU, Welling, Jeremy Beck's Project Momentum, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, The Broken Heartbreakers, Keira Wallace, Tall Folk, Lara Rose, Koilē, and David Kilgour.
Craig's teaching practice combines mentoring and community development with instrumental music teaching. His work on Amped Music Project provided solid foundations for much of the young, noisy rock music attracting notice from Ōtepoti. Between music careers, Craig worked as an arts funding and development advisor for a decade in the UK (Arts Council England) and in Aotearoa NZ (Dunedin City Council).
Bringing up the tail end and feeling rather dwarfed by the mana of the rest of this panel is myself, David Bennett from Save Dunedin Live Music (AKA that sound guy with the ginger beard).
The session will also be moderated by the lovely Dr Fairleigh Gilmour, who is also a member of SDLM and our policy genius. She will make sure I don't talk the whole time, which is what I tend to do.
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141 Union St E, Dunedin Central, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand, 141 Union St, Dunedin Central, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand, Dunedin
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