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The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
Please note that NAVA staff are working from home where practical. Throughout this time we encourage all enquiries to be made via email rather than by phone, so that we’re best placed to respond to you wherever we are.
Email nava@visualarts.net.au
Facebook /NAVA.VisualArt/
Instagram @nava_visualarts
Twitter @NAVAvisualarts
LinkedIn National Association for the Visual Arts
iTunes NAVA: in conversation
Freecall number within Australia between 9 - 10am and 2 - 4pm AEST Monday to Thursday
1800 046 282 (18000 4 NAVA)
Phone between 9 - 10am and 2 - 4pm AEST Monday to Thursday
+612 9368 1900
Postal Address PO Box 60 Potts Point 1335 NSW Australia
NAVA’s Quiet Fridays
Working nine to five might be a great way to make a living, but it’s not the only way – and at NAVA, our way is a little different.
Quiet Fridays allow full-time staff to work those hours across four extended days, devoting the fifth day to our creative practice.
It may be that you’ve been observing Quiet Fridays, too? We’ve noticed for a while now that our phones ring a lot less on a Friday, and so we know that this arrangement will work well.
This means that the NAVA office is closed on Fridays, you can send us email or leave a message on our answering machine and we will get back to you on Monday.
NAVA’s former Executive Director, Esther Anatolitis, has given a lot of thought to reflective practice in the context of work-life balance, and she’s tried this before. At Regional Arts Victoria, Quiet Fridays became policy for all staff, including the regionally-based Creative Arts Facilitators. At Melbourne Fringe, staff were granted an additional week’s leave and the office was shut down for five weeks over the summer, in recognition of the intense peaks of festival work.
NAVA encourages all organisations to consider the working hours and days that are most conducive to their purpose and their values.
