December 13, 2013

Creative Gathering, #SocialArt by RSA in London

Arts & Social Change, a project of the Citizen Power Peterborough programme, supported by RSA.http://www.thersa.org/action-research-centre/public-services-arts-social-change/citizen-power/arts-and-social-change

RSA (Royal SOciety for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) is a London NGO established in 1754. Its mission is public Enlightment.

Its programme Citizen Power Peterborough is focused on citizenship connections building.

Creative Gathering is the most important action of Arts & Social Change project.
http://www.thersa.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/707162/RSA_Arts_Social_Change-Creative_Gathering.pdf

(a) Short-term goal: space where people can meet, share & learn.  and practise. 
(b) Long-term agenda: better arts community 4 citizenship empowerment.RSA

It promotes "the role of arts and imagination in creating new connections between people and where they live in order to strengthen participation in community life".

It places artists at the centre of re-imagining the possibilities of what a place could be.

"The ‘gathering’ has emerged from a broader trend in community activism that Peter Block, in a paper entitled ‘Civic Engagement and the Restoration of Community’, defi nes thus: “ We use the term 'gathering’, because the word has more signifi cance than what we think of as just a ‘meeting’. A  gathering is hosted; it is the product of an act of hospitality. Meetings are called or scheduled. They are intended for production rather than hospitality… They either review the past or embody the belief that better planning, better managing or more measurement and prediction can create an alternative future. In this way they become just talk, not powerful conversation."



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