Do you use creative practices to enliven and animate specific places or spaces?
The Understanding Place and Community masterclass will use accessible creative techniques and critical exercises to give you new tools for asking questions about how power works in your neighbourhood and the spaces around you, and how this may affect your place-based cultural work.
This workshop is for artists, creative practitioners and cultural producers who are working at a place-based or hyper-local level and are looking to develop new tools to support communities they work with and build a more equitable practice.
You might be working with practices such as outdoor arts, site-specific theatre, community-based practice, environmental or ecological art, urban or rural public art and placemaking initiatives.
Attendees will gain an understanding of -
- How place and space are socially constructed at the intersections of power.
- Conceptual mapping tools to better understand place at a hyper-local level.
- Asset-based approaches to understanding place and community.
- The potential of mobilising community knowledge in place-based creative work to enact community-led change.
Booking details: This training will take place online, via Zoom. It is 3 hours in total. Due to the participatory nature of this training it will not be recorded.
Ticket Cost:
- For attendees supported by their organisations the full price of a ticket is £40.00
- For freelancers and non-regularly funded organisations, the price of a ticket is £30.00
- For those on low income the ticket price is £18.00
We also have a small number of bursary places available for those with limited funds.
Access: This event will use live transcription. If you require BSL interpretation, please get in touch no later than two weeks in advance of the training.