socially engaged net

New space for socially engaged & participatory artists, collectives & orgs. A commons. Support, share, develop.

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

I've been working on this with @intobodmin for a long time.

3 year-long opps to be part of #Bodmin's @ace_national funded community art & #culturaldemocracy programme.

2 community artists (1 local) & 1 local young apprentice!

£10,000 programme budget.

https://t.co/cfp4KPuK4U

[Helix Arts @HelixArts]

JOIN US AS A CREATIVE PRODUCER!

Hours of work: 22.5 hours (3 days per week) subject to negotiation.

Salary: £26,000 pro rata (plus pension contribution for permanent contracts).

DEADLINE: 12 noon on Friday 16th April 2021.

DOWNLOAD OUR JOB PACK: https://t.co/RLovrHBtDV...

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

Cultural Democracy, Community Development and the Old/New Normal

In a world turned upside down, is it time to re-enchant our lives and re-connect with our cultures?

Happy to be speaking @ImagineBelfast on 28th March!

Tickets here:

https://t.co/ue3ro2tnDa

[Dave O'Brien @DrDaveOBrien]

New paper! 'Class and the problem of inequality in theatre' https://t.co/WmYKvtg8hc Free to read, with thoughts on measuring class, the class problem in the theatre industry, and how social science can work with theatre studies

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

"Who cares? At what price? The hidden costs of socially engaged arts labour and the moral failure of cultural policy."

An essential, free access read for community, participatory & socially engaged artists by @elebelfiore... So what are you waiting for?

https://t.co/LhBNivivzU

[Social Art Library @Social_Art_Lib]

We'll be announcing a bunch of super-exciting commissions in the next couple of weeks - for both social practice artists and writers. Keep watching this space for details - and please share with anyone you think might be interested... ❤️

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

Reviewing @arestlessart's book "A Restless Art", @StephenClift argues we should pay attention to Mike Smith's warning that arts & health must take "The Lantern Road", not the "The Empirical Highway...to probable damnation by way of austerity culture".

https://t.co/mX0BhBwJnB

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

Very happy to have joined @HelixArts as Business Development Manager.

Starting today!

https://t.co/h4df82NDli

[HeartofGlass @TheHeartofGlass]

Hey Northern Folk apply by this Friday! Interested in Social Arts Practice? The Faculty is an alternative learning space for exchange, growth & exploration led by @chrissietee and @kerrymmorrison, & produced by @InSitu_1 & ourselves. For all the info: https://t.co/G70t7oPnQp

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

Anyone interested in a Citizens' Assembly for Culture? @davidjubb & I are calling for one! The time is now for openness & a radical overhaul of arts & culture. My own hopes are for cultural democracy (@culturaldemo) & Artists' Mutual Aid (@MutualAidArt).

https://t.co/X0AWs1E9On

[David Jubb @davidjubb]

And link to previous blog in case you’re interested

[David Jubb @davidjubb]

A callout for anyone interested in the idea of a Citizens' Assembly for culture in England. Please add your name to googledoc (no email address required) https://t.co/0iNA1O3Jxg

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

Let’s Create An Artist in Every Community (& let’s create it now).

IMAGINE ARTISTS IN EVERY COMMUNITY.

Paid £25k to work full-time with communities to support change.

£3m will pay 120 freelance artists to work with communities for a year. Do the maths!

https://t.co/dIEoPc5mFO

[poetmd @martindaws]

@ArtMaterialist @SusanJonesArts That’s approx 1330 particpnts engaged regularly over 12 months. This is without special events etc that could add 500 to the figure. And doesn’t cost in potential for contributions in $£€ and resources from community partners 3/3

[poetmd @martindaws]

@ArtMaterialist @SusanJonesArts Theoretically: £25K pa employs 1 x community artist to engage their community for 12 months. This could realistically involve a whole High School (1K particpnts), a June School (200 particpnts), a care home (100 particpnts) and two smaller community groups (30 particpnts) 2/2

[poetmd @martindaws]

@ArtMaterialist @SusanJonesArts Exactly. @ArtMaterialist the concept of funding artists to work consistently in a community into the medium term is so far removed from the 1hr to 1day to 1 month contracts #communityartist are usually offered

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

Arts, cultural and heritage institutions must not celebrate. Why? Because whilst we get a £1.5 billion "rescue" package, the poorest in our society - those most in need - have not been rescued. They never have been rescued. They've been systematically exploited and betrayed!

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

Let's therefore make sure we understand:

1) Arts and cultural institutions cannot and do not enable art, and do not help communities develop their cultures. They can play a part, but that's it.
2) People and communities most in need of support will not and never have had any!

[Dr Stephen Pritchard @etiennelefleur]

As we begin hearing of government support for cultural institutions, let's not forget two things:

1) Artists make art.
2) Communities make cultures.

[Movement for Cultural Democracy @culturaldemo]

The current crisis is creating the conditions to realise #CulturalDemocracyNow.

There is no going back to normal.

The arts and cultural sector cannot go back to its old ways.

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