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COMMUNITY Engaged Arts​
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Why Use Art or Culture in Engaging with Community?
A WORKSHOP
16 July 2017, Sunday
Time: 9am – 5 pm
Ruang by ThinkCity (5, Jalan Stesen Sentral, City Centre, 50470 Kuala Lumpur)
This is the second of two workshops on Community Engaged Arts (CEA) organised by the Community Engaged Arts Network. The workshop is aimed at practitioners (individuals or groups) who are currently involved in delivering or organizing community engaged arts work.
Objective:
Practitioners (i.e. artists and cultural workers) have expressed that they would like to know more about “how” and “why” use arts in socially driven activities. This workshop aims to facilitate a discussion about this topic to develop a deeper theoretical understanding of practice and the application of arts for social good in the community context.
Workshop format:
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This workshop will reflect on and analyse THREE CASE STUDIES that use arts or culture
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Case studies will be presented by three different practitioners to illustrate a specific method of arts or culture activity applied for social good in the community context.
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The three presentations will be highly participatory and involve presentations, hands-on experience, questioning and discussing.
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Each presentation will be followed by a facilitated discussion led by an experienced discussant
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The workshop will also look at creating assessment indicators to measure the effectiveness of such work.
Logistics:
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No fee required, participation is fully sponsored
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Lunch and coffee/tea breaks will be provided
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Participants are free to use Bahasa, English or Chinese in this workshop.
Those who are multilingual will help facilitate interpretation.
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EMAIL cea.asia@gmail.com TO REGISTER
About the organisers:
Janet Pillai and Sunitha Janamohanan are the administrators of a regional network of CEA practitioners, aimed at connecting practitioners and researchers in the Asian region. The CEA Network was started in recognition of an increase in Malaysia of artists stepping into communities to conduct arts activities and also an increase in activists and socially conscious individuals using the arts as a catalyst for change; but that there was a dearth in information about these individuals and, specifically, their practice. Workshops such as this are a step in trying to facilitate stronger relationships between practitioners and to equip artists and culture workers with new skills and knowledge that will help them in their work.
http://ceaasia.wixsite.com/home
This workshop is made possible with support by the Krishen Jit Astro Fund and Think City.
Registration Open for Symposium on "The Art of Anti-Exclusion"
5th-6th September, 2016
Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore
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This symposium brings together 12 Singaporean, Asian and European artists and arts groups who address the issue of exclusion based on arts practice in the particularistic social contexts of excluded communities. Organized by Community Cultural Development (Singapore) and supported by the National Arts Council (Singapore).
For more details, please visit
Conference On "Working With People-Centred Processes: Art, Education & Cross-Sector Collaboration"
15 – 17 October 2016.
Opening evening, 14 Oct 2016.
Asia Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
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This conference seeks to engage with art and cultural practitioners and researchers in the Southeast Asian region to deepen understanding and deliberate on methodologies of working in public with people-centred processes. It aims to nurture criticality and investigate processes and structures in a constructive manner ad develop cross-sector collaborations. These panels and workshops will expand on participants’ capabilities in areas such as arts & health, holistic research, and social entrepreneurship.
For more details, please visit
Regional Conference
BORAK ARTS SERIES: Bringing Arts Closer To Home
26–28 August 2016
George Town, Penang
The Borak Arts Series regional conference will look at how artists and creative workers can improve and strengthen communities through its keynote addresses, panel discussions, round robin sessions, networking platforms and performances. It will examine the role of arts in conflict resolution and recovery. It will dissect the different facets of communities to understand how creativity unleashes internal strength, voice, self-expression and a sense of belonging in addition to discussing social impact and evaluating output.
Community Engaged Arts (CEA) Network Meeting
Date: 26th August 2016
Time: 2.00-5.00 pm
George Town, Penang
As part of the Borak Arts Series, the CEA Network will convene a meeting to discuss how the network can help advance the field of community/ socially-engaged arts. CEA Network is an informal network of scholars, intermediaries and practitioners from Asian countries who are interested to interrogate and develop the field of Community Engaged Arts/Socially Engaged Arts at a regional level. The Network communicates online (www.ceaasia.wix.com/home) to provide information about events, useful resources and links to what is happening in the region. If you are active in this field and familiar with CEA practitioners/practice in your own country, do join this face-to-face- meeting. There is no fee to participate, but it is a closed meeting and registration is required.
Email cea.asia@gmail.com to register (and tell us something about yourself).
