On April 17th, ArtWorks Alliance, in partnership with the What We Do Now network, will be hosting our first joint gathering for 2024. Taking the theme of Crossing Boundaries, Katharine Wheeler will be facilitating the session, based on her experience of Creative Placemaking.
Katharine is a Visual and Social Practice Artist who co-ordinates Partnerships and Project Development for ArtWorks Alliance member organisation The Stove Network in Dumfries. She has just published Embers: a handbook aimed at groups and individuals who are active, or wanting to be active, in bringing about positive change in the places they live. It introduces creative placemaking as a way of making those changes led from within communities.
Katharine will be running an online workshop for the ArtWorks Alliance, based on the Embers Handbook.
“How do we work together in communities with others to provoke new ways of doing things? What is our contribution to the foundations required for places to take work forward in the long-term? In this workshop we will look at this through the different lenses of Creativity, Community, Space / Place, Activism, Power, and Impact to think about how participatory practice supports a form of creative exploration that is about asking questions together and trying on possible answers in ways that make room for different experiences and perspectives.”
Event Details:
Date: 17th April 2024
Time: 10am – 12pm
Location: Hosted on Zoom (Link to be provided upon registration)
Book Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6252685
Image credit: Atlas Pandemica by Katie Anderson
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Artworks Alliance is a self-organising Community of Practice for people who are actively involved in using creativity to achieve positive social change and who believe in the transformative power of creative processes.
Our members:
- want to share experiences, ideas, opportunities and understanding of their work in effecting positive change in social and community settings.
- recognise the dual importance of artistic and social aspirations and are committed to sustaining and developing both their own part in this practice, and the sector as a whole, in a spirit of mutual support.
- recognise we are experiencing an environmental and ecological crisis and are interested in being part of a collective effort to limit further damage, addressing the causes and impact of climate breakdown.
In 2024
Artworks Alliance is taking the theme of “Crossing Boundaries” for its gatherings, blogs, podcasts etc—what does it mean to work and to think across boundaries, to be interdisciplinary. Our three gatherings will focus on creative placemaking; on cross art-form work, and on working across national boundaries.
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