Archive for April, 2008
Community Art or Finding the Way Back Home?
Beginning in 2002, Engrenage Noir’s LEVIER Project has encouraged Quebec-based community groups and artists to work together co-creatively. Here you can download a PDF file that contains excerpts from a report by Louise Lachapelle about this event. In this text she critically explores the values and motives influencing and guiding artists working with and for community settings.
Platform Culture Brokers
This platform is an informal network of community arts officers and other intermediaries between communities and artists. It is led by the longest serving culture broker in the Netherlands, Sikko Cleveringa. Surf to his site.
UCEE Station
Ucee Station is a participatory neighborhood radio and internet television station based in Stefanus cultural centre in Overvecht. Surf to the site.
Kaasschaafcollectief
Kaasschaafcollectief is a Utrecht-based arts organization that produces community arts events in the neighborhood of Kanaleneiland on the west-side of the city. It collaborates with CAL on annual events like the Blend Festival. Surf to the site.
Merkx en Dansers
M & D is a dance company now based in the Utrecht neighborhood of Overvecht, where the six professional dancers make performances for children aged 4 to 14. More and more M & D seek ways to involve the children in this multicultural area and, in the process, explore the possibilities of what could be […]
SANe The Social Arts Network (UK)
SANe is an interactive self-supporting virtual network for people interested in socially inclusive arts. It was established earlier in 2008. CAL’s Eugene van Erven met SANe initiator Matthew Taylor at a recent conference in Lund, Sweden (14-16 March 2008), where Matthew spoke about his ‘Escape Artists’, an organization that works within prisons. Click here to […]
