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=**Connecting Communities**= toc

**RTO**
Kiama Community College

**Contact**
Su Bowing Helen Zwicker

**Category**
Empowering learners/RTO-Business Partnership

**Business Partner**
Boolarng Nangamai Art Studio

Executive summary
The two key players in this project are Kiama Community college and the Indigenous artists from Boolarng Nangamai Art Studio.

Boolarng Nangamai is an Indigenous Artists Studio which aims to deliver artists a livelihood. Over the past two years Kiama Community College has worked with the Studio to take their art and culture “online” to other indigenous communities and world wide to earn a living and sustain their culture.

The Aboriginal Artists of Boolarng Nangamai ( BN) in Gerringong are an innovative group of professional artists working under the auspices of the Boolarng Nangamai art gallery.

Kiama Community College (KCC) operates as an independent, incorporated, non-for-profit association to provide high quality, adult education courses and activities to meet the expressed learning needs of the community.

Utilising funding from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) in 2008 KCC facilitated an innovations project with this group to develop facilitation skills for web conferencing. This project enabled the participants to participate in online sessions and facilitate their own session in a rudimentary way. In 2009 KCC secured funds through the Framework to extend the range of skills so that participants could embed online conferencing into their business practices.

**Final report**
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