Creative Exchange Event - The Ethics of Community Arts Practice

The Ethics of Community Arts Practice – a perspective from the USA

with Arlene Goldbard

Organised by Creative Exchange

18 July 2007 From 2pm – 5pm

Development House, 56-64 Leonard St, London EC2A 4JX.

We are delighted to offer a half-day seminar with US writer and consultant Arlene Goldbard. Arlene will draw on her lengthy experience working with practitioners to address the ethics of community arts practice and cultural development.

As more and more artists get involved in the exciting field of community cultural development, they encounter the unique ethical challenges of participatory arts practice. How is it possible to balance the commitment to a funder or sponsoring organization with commitments to community participants? Is the community artist’s role to channel others’ creativity without intruding, or should the artist’s own aesthetics, values, and priorities be part of the mix? How do you handle censorship, conflict, disruption?

Arlene Goldbard is a writer and consultant whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics and spirituality. Her most recent book, New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development was published by New Village Press in November 2006. Her essays have been published in In Motion Magazine, Art in America, Theatre, Tikkun, and many other journals. She has addressed countless academic and community audiences and recent topics include “Converging Worlds: Art, Politics and Community and “Higher Ground: Community Arts as Spiritual Practice”. She has provided advice and counsel to hundreds of community-based organizations, independent media groups, and public and private funders and policymakers. For more information on Arlene Goldbard and her publications visit http://www.arlenegoldbard.com/

Places are limited and must be reserved and paid for in advance.

General Public: £25
Creative Exchange Partners: £15
Concessions: £5

For further information and to book your place contact Clodagh Miskelly
Email: info@creativexchange.org
Tel: 020 70650980

Creative Exchange
Development House
56-64 Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4LT

For more information on Creative Exchange visit our website: www.creativexchange.org