Welcome to Creative Exchange

Sadly this is one of our last mailings from Creative Exchange.

Many of you have contacted us to express concern at the loss of the Creative Exchange network and interest in finding other ways to share information and ideas about culture and development.

In response to these concerns we have set up a new online networking space for culture and development:

http://cultureanddevelopment.ning.com

This is open to everyone and it is free. You can post information about events, create groups on particular themes, post images, video, audio and messages, create a profile about your work, contact other organisations and individuals host discussions in the forum.

It does not belong to Creative Exchange but the Creative Exchange team will be joining as individuals.

Thanks for your support and interest in the work of Creative Exchange.

New Web Resources on Culture and HIV/AIDS, Conflict, International Development and Refugees.

Creative Exchange is launching four new microsites on the relationship between Culture and these four key themes. These sites bring together in one place work from our international research and our international and UK based networking projects. They include research papers, resources and case studies.

HIV/AIDS: The Creative Challenge
Engaging culture and creativity in HIV/AIDS prevention

HIV/AIDS - The Creative Challenge aimed to make HIV/AIDS strategies more effective by enabling policymakers, development practitioners and NGOs internationally to develop new and more sensitive methods of working with local cultures. It been developed with the support of Healthlink, the UNESCO/UNAIDS joint programme on A Cultural Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care and more recently the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

It is with great regret that we announce that Creative Exchange will cease operations at the end of July 2008 after ten years. The closure is due to a lack of ongoing financial support for its work. But we hope the network will have new life elsewhere.

Thank you to the hundreds of people and organisations around the world who have been Creative Exchange partners – some of you since the very beginning when we held an inaugural event at Church House in London in 1997. Your vision, moral support and contributions have been one of the major drivers of our work.

We also support a network of thousands via our email systems and website. The team are working to find a way of maintaining the web resource to enable others to build on the research and knowledge we have accumulated on Culture and Development.

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Events & Training

1. Exiled Lit Café – An evening of Latin American Women: poetry and music (London, Monday 7 April)
2. Rare lecture to be given by legendary British fashion and celebrity photographer John Swannell in aid of PhotoVoice (London, Tuesday 8 April)
3. RAIN – a concert of new music and words inspired by an exploration of the themes of climate change (Glasgow, Thursday 10 April)
4. Magic Day – A three-day event for children and families in Lawrence Weston (Bristol, 17-19 April)
5. My City Mediascape (Bristol, 3-5 May)
6. Community Dance in the 21st century: challenges and opportunities? (Leicester, 10 May)
7. PhotoVoice Exhibition: Side By Side (London, 6 March – 1 May)
8. Bangladesh 1971 (London, 4 April – 31 May)
9. Performing the World '08: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (New York City, 2–5 October)

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Events & Training

1.Exiled Lit Cafe programme (London, UK - March & April 2008)
2. Photovoice Exhibitions (London, UK, March - May 2008)
3. 2nd Student Puppet Theatre Festival (London, UK - 12-14 March 2008)
4. Anger management with art – with Marian Liebmann (Birmingham, UK, - March & November 2008)
5. Somali-Exiled Voices Fusion event: Young, Talented and Exiled (London, UK - 19 March 2008)
6. Tales From The Shed (London, UK - April – July 2008)

Opportunities & Calls for Participation

7. Sound It Out are recruiting a Programme Officer
8. Club du Lac aux Oiseaux "INTASHIKIRWA" - opportunities for collaboration and exchange in the East African Community
9. Chobi Mela V – call for submissions
10. ESoDoc (European Social Documentary) are looking for NGO workers to join their workshops in 2008.
11. Scenarios from Africa: AIDS Contest - Africa

Dear Creative Exchange newsletter subscribers,

Re: Culturally diverse arts provision in criminal justice settings

Creative Exchange and Penny Eames (PSE Consultancy) have been
contracted by the Anne Peaker Centre to conduct research on
culturally diverse arts provision in criminal justice settings. We
would be grateful if you could contribute thinking from your work
with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups in England and Wales to
this process:

Our research objectives include:
- Exploring interests of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) offenders in
arts work.
- Identifying relevant arts organisations, trainers and practitioners.
- Identifying current good practice as well as gaps in provision
- Identifying areas where capacity building is required
- Identifying areas where professional development may be required

We are interested in existing arts work with BME groups in criminal
justice settings as well as other good practice with culturally
diverse groups, and how this might be transferable to criminal
justice settings.

A short questionnaire is available here in PDF and Word.

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Events and Training

1. Cardboard Citizens – Dreams -, London, UK– 14 December 2007
2. Somali and Exiled Voices Fusion: Event 5 - London, UK - 19 December 2007
3. Exiled Lit Café -Jewish Exile - London, UK - 7 January 2008
4. Cardboard Citizens – Training – London, UK – 15-16 January & 25-29 March 2008
5. Exiled Writers INK - Poetry Workshops - London, UK - 11 February 2008
6. Anger management with art - Birmingham, UK, - 12-14 March & 21 -23 November 2008

Project News

7. Ice and Fire – Protect the Human playwriting competition
8. FilmAid International: Film Festival in Kakuma Refugee Camp
9. ‘SeaChange’ - Chickenshed

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News from Creative Exchange

1.HIVAIDS The Creative Challenge
2.Peer Leadership Network on Arts, Culture and Refugees
3.Culture and Conflict Transformation in Burundi

Features

4. World Creativity Summit
5. IDEA

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Events and Training

1. Drik celebrates 18th birthday with new exhibition – Bangladesh Now (Dhaka, Bangladesh; to 13 Sept 07)
2. Refugees and Asylum Seekers Planning Event (Cardiff, Wales, UK – 25 or 26 Sept 2007 TBA).
3. The British Sari Story ( London, UK ; 28 Sept 07 – 30 Jan 08)
4. Cardboard citizens Forum theatre Training (London, UK; Oct 07 – Spring 08)
5. 2007 Magnum Photographers Lecture Series - Martin Parr: Photobiography (London , UK; 13 Nov 2007)

Opportunities

6. Themba visit the UK – some help needed
7. Drama for Life - 28 Scholarships in Applied Drama and Theatre Postgraduate Studies.
8 .Intern / Volunteer with Cardboard Citizens
9. Exiled Ink Magazine

Towards a conceptual framework for culture and development: An introduction to the Creative Exchange Levels Model

with Helen Gould and Mary Marsh

12 September 2007, 2-5pm

Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4LT

Creative Exchange is pleased to announce its next half-day workshop with Mary Marsh and Helen Gould.

Mary and Helen will present the Levels Model an evolving conceptual framework for understanding the role of culture in development.

The workshop will include an introduction to the model, its history and rationale and how it is evolving as it draws on ongoing Creative Exchange research projects. Mary and Helen will then look at how the model can be used and present examples of its application.

 

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Events and Training

1. Colors from Hills at the Drik Gallery (Dhaka, Bangladesh, to 1 August)
2. Asylum Road (London, UK, 30 July – 1 August 2007)
3. "as the mother of a brown boy..." (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK, 3-27 August)
4. Curfew – Ashe Music Theatre Ensemble (London, UK, 16 August - 16 September)

Resources

5. Cultural Well-being and Cultural Capital by Penny Eames
6. New Creative Community : The Art of Cultural Development by Arlene Goldbard
7. Focus on Community Dance in Arts Professional
8. The South looks back - a photo special
9. “Dealing with the marks of their origin”

To celebrate UK Refugee Week, Creative Exchange has produced a themed bulletin with news and events on culture and arts work with and by refugees, migrants and asylum seekers.

For more information on UK Refugee Week (18 - 24 June)
visit www.refugeeweek.org.uk

The Ethics of Community Arts Practice – a perspective from the USA

with Arlene Goldbard

Organised by Creative Exchange

18 July 2007 From 2pm – 5pm

Development House, 56-64 Leonard St, London EC2A 4JX.

We are delighted to offer a half-day seminar with US writer and consultant Arlene Goldbard. Arlene will draw on her lengthy experience working with practitioners to address the ethics of community arts practice and cultural development.

As more and more artists get involved in the exciting field of community cultural development, they encounter the unique ethical challenges of participatory arts practice. How is it possible to balance the commitment to a funder or sponsoring organization with commitments to community participants? Is the community artist’s role to channel others’ creativity without intruding, or should the artist’s own aesthetics, values, and priorities be part of the mix? How do you handle censorship, conflict, disruption?

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Feature

1. Condoms and Clowns in Guatemala – A Health Unlimited Project

Events

2. The No-ones – acta Community Theatre (Bristol, UK, May 2007)
3. Exiled Lit Café (London, UK – May & June 2007)
4. Shape Arts – Open the Door training events (London, UK – May- July 2007)
5. Conflict Zone (London, UK – 18 - 19 May 2007)
6. Link Up Event at Tate Modern (London - 30 May 2007)
7. Krocodile Klubs (Gateshead, UK June & July 2007)
8. Writing Resistance: The Literature of Exile (London - 21 June 2007)
9. Action space mobile - ‘ Cross the Sky’ (UK, June – September 2007)
10. Magnum Photographers Panel Debate (London, 11 July 2007)

Cultural Well-being and Cultural Capital – a seminar with Penny Eames

Organised by Creative Exchange

Friday 4 May 2007. From 2pm – 4pm
Room 1a, Development House, 56-64 Leonard St, London EC2A 4JX.

We are delighted to offer an afternoon seminar with New Zealand culture and community action specialist, Penny Eames. Penny will be exploring concepts in her latest research – Cultural Well-being and Cultural Capital - which is the result of 25 years experience working with arts and culture in the context of ethnic diversity, communities, prisons, hospitals, youth, local authorities, government departments and business.