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Association of ADFAS Strategic Plan 2020-2026: ‘Embracing the Arts, enriching Australia’

5.8 ADFAS Achievements 5.9 Roles and Relevance of ADFAS

• The value of the Arts to Australia’s culture, community and ADFAS is relevant and makes a difference:
economy is defended and promoted.
• Connect with the Arts: Arts education made easy
• Intellectual stimulation is nurtured by the depth of knowledge
shared by Australian and international experts to speak with our • Connect with people: Social engagement on tap
members and their friends.
• Possibilities and opportunities opened up to the younger
• Community links are established through accessible lectures generation
(face-to-face and virtual), ADFAS travel opportunities and
philanthropic activity. • Added dimension to rural living, readymade community brings
people together in a metropolitan environment
• Australia’s cultural heritage is preserved through the research and
recording of historic buildings. • Ethical society - not for profit.
• Value for money.
• The ethos of volunteering is encouraged and supported
• A welcoming, social, inclusive environment is created in which
members enjoy the diversity of the arts.
• Social cohesion is strengthened.

• Through the Young Arts philanthropic program, we provide
encouragement and support to young artists and conservators.
• In 2020 by necessity due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, the Lectures
Committee and individual Societies’
committees showed commendable
versatility by creating virtual lectures
at very short notice, along with
eNewsletters, ADFAS@Home,
eWorkshops, ADFAS Insights, EDMs,
etc. This resilience was greatly
appreciated by members who were
‘stuck at home’.
• Similarly, the Sept. 2020 Council meeting and 2020 AGM were
successfully held via teleconferencing, thus permitting the
Association to fulfil its legal/constitutional imperatives. Ditto for
some individual Societies’ AGMs thus permitting them to fulfil their
legal/constitutional imperatives and maintain contact with their
members.

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