As I see it the purpose of this blog is to:
1. Do introductions
2. Share ideas as they emerge
3. Set up dates and act as a central point of information.
So far, the main things I want to share are:
1. The Residential is set for the 21/22nd February and while not everyone can come for all of the time we hope that everyone will drop in and introduce themselves during those two days.
2. Some reading. I appreciate all of you are really busy, but if you have a moment, have a look at the Arts Council England stuff on diversity see here: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/how-we-make-impact/diversity-and-equality
Also, Mike has been working with this person: Gillie Moriaty and I have linked her name to the book.
3. Another thing that would be useful is to think about responding to some feedback. Our feedback from the grant was this:
The panel provided feedback which recommended that the project team further consider the following aspects: the critical treatment of the notion of 'social cohesion' and the relationship between the arts and social cohesion; achieving sustainability of the project beyond its immediate context, particularly in relation to issues of sustainability of arts practice from a community perspective; greater contextualisation of the research in the creative abnd performing arts literature on community arts; a critical reflection on the outputs (e.g. capacity of on-line resources to support social change) and impact of collaborations.
Thoughts on that would be great....
Twitter - it would be great if people could tweet about the project. What about #takingyourselvesseriously?
When you get the invitation from Steve can you each put up a 50 word post that introduces yourselves, and then, maybe, puts up something which helps us understand what you think art is, and the relationship between social cohesion and art - not more than a paragraph?
I leave you with an image Zanib sent through of the art work in her house, thank you Zanib.
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