Lighting the fire, fanning the flame: The Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development

Abstract

IN 2022 THE Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development celebrated its twentieth anniversary. It was established in 2002 at Southbank on Bunurong Country as part of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), and from 2007 it joined what is today known as the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne, which incorporates both the VCA and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. The anniversary also marked twenty years of advocating for Indigenous voices in academia, arts industries and society in general; creating opportunities for First Nations artists to advance their practices and careers; and transforming University curricula and spaces to better include Indig..