Creativity and Enterprise

Creativity

Much of SpeakOut’s work involves creativity and creative industries practices.

The creative industries encompass a number of creative sectors, including: Design, Craft, Print Media, Advertising, Fashion and Textiles, Music, Visual and Performing Arts, Software and Digital Publishing, Photography, Film, Television and Video.

We actively encourage creative endeavour and define this to include:

Engagement. Active engagement in creative and cultural activity can begin to address issues of social disconnection and encourage active citizenry.

Expression. Inherent in all stages of creative practice, creative expression empowers people to be cultural creators rather than passive consumers and recipients.

Education. Creative arts education can develop an individual’s capacity and ability to communicate effectively, think critically, collaborate and apply ideas to find solutions.

Enquiry. Critical and creative enquiry allows people to examine and learn from the past, confront the present, adapt to change and imagine the future.

Enterprise. Creative enterprise and entrepreneurialism supports the building of sustainable practices and prosperous futures.

Enterprise

SpeakOut engages with, develops and models social and creative enterprise on a number of levels - as an organisation, in our programs, and through stakeholder support.

Social Enterprise can be defined as a business venture where social purpose is the principal driver and is achieved in full, or in part, through enterprise activity.

Social Entrepreneurs are people who use enterprise to pursue social objective/s.

Social Enterprise subverts the traditional welfare or charity paradigm by empowering both the organisation and the communities it serves through economic, social and cultural inclusion and sustainability.

It's about a 'hand-up' not a 'hand-out'.