News from the Network
Creative Exchange closes – but will the network go on?
It is with great regret that we announce that Creative Exchange will cease operations at the end of July 2008 after ten years. The closure is due to a lack of ongoing financial support for its work. But we hope the network will have new life elsewhere.
Thank you to the hundreds of people and organisations around the world who have been Creative Exchange partners – some of you since the very beginning when we held an inaugural event at Church House in London in 1997. Your vision, moral support and contributions have been one of the major drivers of our work.
We also support a network of thousands via our email systems and website. The team are working to find a way of maintaining the web resource to enable others to build on the research and knowledge we have accumulated on Culture and Development.
Creative Exchange - News from the Network - April 2008
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Events & Training
1. Exiled Lit Café – An evening of Latin American Women: poetry and music (London, Monday 7 April)
2. Rare lecture to be given by legendary British fashion and celebrity photographer John Swannell in aid of PhotoVoice (London, Tuesday 8 April)
3. RAIN – a concert of new music and words inspired by an exploration of the themes of climate change (Glasgow, Thursday 10 April)
4. Magic Day – A three-day event for children and families in Lawrence Weston (Bristol, 17-19 April)
5. My City Mediascape (Bristol, 3-5 May)
6. Community Dance in the 21st century: challenges and opportunities? (Leicester, 10 May)
7. PhotoVoice Exhibition: Side By Side (London, 6 March – 1 May)
8. Bangladesh 1971 (London, 4 April – 31 May)
9. Performing the World '08: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (New York City, 2–5 October)
Creative Exchange - News from the Network - February 2008
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Events & Training
1.Exiled Lit Cafe programme (London, UK - March & April 2008)
2. Photovoice Exhibitions (London, UK, March - May 2008)
3. 2nd Student Puppet Theatre Festival (London, UK - 12-14 March 2008)
4. Anger management with art – with Marian Liebmann (Birmingham, UK, - March & November 2008)
5. Somali-Exiled Voices Fusion event: Young, Talented and Exiled (London, UK - 19 March 2008)
6. Tales From The Shed (London, UK - April – July 2008)
Opportunities & Calls for Participation
7. Sound It Out are recruiting a Programme Officer
8. Club du Lac aux Oiseaux "INTASHIKIRWA" - opportunities for collaboration and exchange in the East African Community
9. Chobi Mela V – call for submissions
10. ESoDoc (European Social Documentary) are looking for NGO workers to join their workshops in 2008.
11. Scenarios from Africa: AIDS Contest - Africa
Culturally diverse arts provision in criminal justice settings
Dear Creative Exchange newsletter subscribers,
Re: Culturally diverse arts provision in criminal justice settings
Creative Exchange and Penny Eames (PSE Consultancy) have been
contracted by the Anne Peaker Centre to conduct research on
culturally diverse arts provision in criminal justice settings. We
would be grateful if you could contribute thinking from your work
with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups in England and Wales to
this process:
Our research objectives include:
- Exploring interests of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) offenders in
arts work.
- Identifying relevant arts organisations, trainers and practitioners.
- Identifying current good practice as well as gaps in provision
- Identifying areas where capacity building is required
- Identifying areas where professional development may be required
We are interested in existing arts work with BME groups in criminal
justice settings as well as other good practice with culturally
diverse groups, and how this might be transferable to criminal
justice settings.
A short questionnaire is available here in PDF and Word.
Creative Exchange - News from the Network - 12 December 2007
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Events and Training
1. Cardboard Citizens – Dreams -, London, UK– 14 December 2007
2. Somali and Exiled Voices Fusion: Event 5 - London, UK - 19 December 2007
3. Exiled Lit Café -Jewish Exile - London, UK - 7 January 2008
4. Cardboard Citizens – Training – London, UK – 15-16 January & 25-29 March 2008
5. Exiled Writers INK - Poetry Workshops - London, UK - 11 February 2008
6. Anger management with art - Birmingham, UK, - 12-14 March & 21 -23 November 2008
Project News
7. Ice and Fire – Protect the Human playwriting competition
8. FilmAid International: Film Festival in Kakuma Refugee Camp
9. ‘SeaChange’ - Chickenshed
News from the Network - 14 October 2007
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News from Creative Exchange
1.HIVAIDS The Creative Challenge
2.Peer Leadership Network on Arts, Culture and Refugees
3.Culture and Conflict Transformation in Burundi
Features
4. World Creativity Summit
5. IDEA
New from the Network - 12 September 2007
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Events and Training
1. Drik celebrates 18th birthday with new exhibition – Bangladesh Now (Dhaka, Bangladesh; to 13 Sept 07)
2. Refugees and Asylum Seekers Planning Event (Cardiff, Wales, UK – 25 or 26 Sept 2007 TBA).
3. The British Sari Story ( London, UK ; 28 Sept 07 – 30 Jan 08)
4. Cardboard citizens Forum theatre Training (London, UK; Oct 07 – Spring 08)
5. 2007 Magnum Photographers Lecture Series - Martin Parr: Photobiography (London , UK; 13 Nov 2007)
Opportunities
6. Themba visit the UK – some help needed
7. Drama for Life - 28 Scholarships in Applied Drama and Theatre Postgraduate Studies.
8 .Intern / Volunteer with Cardboard Citizens
9. Exiled Ink Magazine
A few places left:Towards a conceptual framework for culture and development
Towards a conceptual framework for culture and development: An introduction to the Creative Exchange Levels Model
with Helen Gould and Mary Marsh
There are still a few places available for this workshop
12 September 2007, 2-5pm
Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4LT
Creative Exchange is pleased to announce its next half-day workshop with Mary Marsh and Helen Gould.
Mary and Helen will present the Levels Model an evolving conceptual framework for understanding the role of culture in development.
Creative Exchange Event - Towards a conceptual framework for culture and development:
Towards a conceptual framework for culture and development: An introduction to the Creative Exchange Levels Model
with Helen Gould and Mary Marsh
12 September 2007, 2-5pm
Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4LT
Creative Exchange is pleased to announce its next half-day workshop with Mary Marsh and Helen Gould.
Mary and Helen will present the Levels Model an evolving conceptual framework for understanding the role of culture in development.
The workshop will include an introduction to the model, its history and rationale and how it is evolving as it draws on ongoing Creative Exchange research projects. Mary and Helen will then look at how the model can be used and present examples of its application.
News from the Network - 27 July 2007
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Events and Training
1. Colors from Hills at the Drik Gallery (Dhaka, Bangladesh, to 1 August)
2. Asylum Road (London, UK, 30 July – 1 August 2007)
3. "as the mother of a brown boy..." (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK, 3-27 August)
4. Curfew – Ashe Music Theatre Ensemble (London, UK, 16 August - 16 September)
Resources
5. Cultural Well-being and Cultural Capital by Penny Eames
6. New Creative Community : The Art of Cultural Development by Arlene Goldbard
7. Focus on Community Dance in Arts Professional
8. The South looks back - a photo special
9. “Dealing with the marks of their origin”