Community arts in Australia: an overview -- Challenges for local cultural development -- Maggie Maguire: interview with Martin Comte, 2011 -- Jennifer Barry: interview with Martin Comte, 2011 -- Community arts in Timor-Leste 2001-2011: the contribution of the arts to international development goals -- Marion Matthews: interview with Martin Comte, 2011 -- Pans on fire - from Trinidad to Taggerty: the arts of community recovery -- Upper Yarra Community Arts at ECOSS Environmental Park -- Fire and water: an exploration of two community arts projects -- The intangible conduit of cultural brokerage in the Global Poetics Tour