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Art in Other Places: Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions
Bill Cleveland
Cleveland traces the history of twenty five arts programmes in a wide range of alternative settings including prisons, hospitals, nursing homes for the elderly, mental institutions and youth detention systems. The book offers an insight into the life and vision of those artists that work with and for the community and the empowering qualities of the arts. Central to the book is the idea that the power of the creative processes extends beyond the aesthetic realm.
ISBN: 0275940543
2000, Arts Extension Service Press, USA, 286 pages
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Arts and the Changing City: An Agenda for Urban Regeneration
British American Arts Association
Based on the symposium of the same name, this book covers the key issues in urban regeneration from the perspective of those actively involved in their own city's revitalisation in the US and UK. It also has a list of funding sources and a photo-essay on regeneration in London. (Photocopy available only)
ISBN: 0951476300
1989, BAAA,UK, 96 pages
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Arts and the Changing City: An Agenda for Urban Regeneration- Case Studies
British American Arts Association
Part of an extensive research project into the use of the arts in urban regeneration, this booklet contains seven case studies drawn from the UK and US, representing models of good practice, problems, pitfalls and benefits. (Photocopy available only)
1989, BAAA,UK, 30 pages
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Common Threads Uncommon People
Jennifer Williams, Centre for Creative Communities
As a society, we seem incapable of seeing ourselves as an integral part of nature. Instead, we cast our role as the dominant species, and the rest of nature as a set of 'natural resources' to be used. With no balancing or renewing strategies in place, this position is clearly untenable, even in the short term. Curiously, within this rather kamikaze ecology, at least one resource goes virtually ignored and certainly underused: the 'uncommon person.' They are those committed, uncommon individuals frequently found to be the agents behind creative change. Weaving their personal stories, the author highlights the contributions of these unsung heros and encourages us to disover and nurture others like them. As the author puts it, the people in this book are 'just the tip of the human iceberg.'
ISBN: 095147636X
2004, Centre for Creative Communities,UK, 136 pages
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Common Threads: The Arts for Life
Jennifer Williams and Ray Orley (eds.)
This publication follows BAAA's 1997 Liverpool conference of the same name which focused on how to involve the arts, education, health and other sectors of society with different age-groups and cultures. It includes transcripts of the keynote speeches by Bill Cleveland, Bart McGettrick and Bert Mulder. An extended introduction draws on a number of other conference topics and the discussions surrounding them, as well as detailing the community-development work being done by a number of arts organisations in the UK.
ISBN: 0951476335
1998, BAAA,UK, 58 pages
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Community, Culture, and Globalisation
Don Adams & Arlene Goldband
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The essays and stories in this book illustrate the vital role that arts can play in bringing about understanding and fostering social development and community development, particularly in the face of today's challenges of the globalization process. The essays are ilustrated with stories and projects from around the world, and address a number of community development processes that unite diverse fields and sectors.
ISBN: 089184063X
2002, Rockefeller Foundation, USA,376 pages
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Creative Community Building Through Cross Sector Collaboration
Centre for Creative Communities, MELINA Project
Change dominates the beginning of the 21st century. The rate of change is so rapid that it is no longer possible for professionals in the traditional sectors such as the arts, education, health work, social services and others to operate in isolation from one another. This book looks at the types of policy, practice, and theory developing around the need for society to foster creativity in every citizen and fight social exclusion. In Europe there is a slow but definite emergence of a group of hybrid sectors that combine the talents of artists, teachers, social, health and community practitioners to address these complex challenges.
ISBN: 9608063914
2004, CCC,UK; Melina Project, Greece, 159 pages
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Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development
Don Adams & Arlene Golbard
Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, this book traces the history of the community cultural development movement in the United States, looking at the underpinning values, the working methods and the common ethos shared by practitioners active in the field. This report also stresses the effectiveness of community cultural development practice to act as a response to globalisation, the proliferation of mass media and the pervasive passivity of consumer culture.
ISBN: 0891840524
2001, Rockefeller Foundation, USA, 119 pages
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Investing in the Changing City: Arts Intiatives Beyond Sponsorship
British American Arts Association
This booklet, with contributions among others by J. Mark Schuster, suggests ways for business to become more involved with the economic and social revival of Britain's cities and communities. Including papers by corporate, government and arts representatives, and case studies from the UK, US and Europe.
1990, BAAA,UK, 20 pages
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Joining In: An Investigation into Participatory Music
Anthony Everitt
This first-ever account of participation in music offers an extraordinary insight into the largely uncharted world of amateur music-making, within the contemporary British social context. The report addresses the value of amateur music-making and community-based practice, and the potential of the new technologies, suggesting solutions to ensure that it continues to develop and flourish in the future.
ISBN: 0903319764
1997, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,UK, 191 pages
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Research in the Arts and Cultural Industries: Towards New Policy Alliances
Jennifer Williams, Centre for Creative Communities
This report is based on a two-and-a-half day seminar held in 2001 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The aim of the meeting was to compare the states of arts and cultural research on both sides of the Atlantic, so that transatlantic collaborations could be considered and developed. Thirty specialists from the cultural policy and research fields in both Europe and the US participated in the meeting including Centre for Creative Communities Director, Jennifer Williams.
2001, UNESCO, 60 pages
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The Artist in the Changing City
British American Arts Association
This is the first book on the arts and urban regeneration to have the individual artist as its focus. Covering North America and continental Europe as well as the UK, The Artist in the Changing City looks at: how issues of practice, place, pay and property confront artists in cities and which mechanisms can be used to provide artists’ space in cities; it profiles the most innovative artist-run urban housing and workspace projects. An indispensable tool for artists and administrators, local authorities and urban planners, funders and policy-makers, as well as being of interest to the general reader.
1993, British American Arts Association, 104 pages
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The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability: Culture’s Essential Role in Public Planning
John Hawkes
A groundbreaking and thought-provoking work, this book stresses the belief that the way a society governs itself cannot be fully democratic without there being clear avenues for the expression of community values, and advocates the need to reintroduce the notion of culture into the language of politicians and policy makers. With this in mind, the author explores the different ways in which culture affects and relates to patterns of human activities, illustrates practical ways in which culture can be applied to public policy as well as featuring examples of models that can be drawn upon from around the world.
ISBN: 1-86335-049-7
2001, Common Ground, Australia, 78 pages
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The Politics of Culture: Policy Perspectives for Individuals, Institutions, and Communitie
Gigi Bradford et al (eds.)
Decision makers in government, the non-profit sector, and commercial entities all face the challenges of a complex cultural sector in the century ahead. This volume brings the concept of cultural policy into sharper focus, and the articles included provide new perspectives and tools for understanding an expanded relationship between culture and policy. The essays explore the ways in which new technologies, demographic change, and global forces are altering the policy landscape in the United States.
ISBN: 1-56584-572-2
2000, CAC, USA, 364 pages
Towards a Local Culture Index: Measuring the Cultural Vitality of Communities
François Matarasso
Participation in the cultural life of the community is guaranteed by Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But how can a community measure its level of cultural activity? This working paper proposes a set of indicators by which cultural vitality might be measured and compared across areas. In doing so it contributes to the on-going debate of the essential role of culture in sustainable communities and local vitality.
(Now available in photocopy only)
1999. Comedia, 16 pages
With Flying Colours: Final Report
Flemish Centre for Amateur Arts and Art Education
Originally inspired by the Urban Gateways in Chicago, With Flying Colours employs arts as a central medium to help pupils attain educational goals and develop positive relationships with their neighbourhoods. The report looks at the social, educational and community objectives of the project as well as offering a broad perspective on both the theory and practice of the initiative.
(Now available in photocopy only)
1999, Flemish Centre for Amateur Arts and Art Education, Belgium,
103 pages
CITIZENSHIP & DIVERSITY
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Many Voices Many Opportunities
Clement Alexander Price
This book traces the idea of cultural pluralism in the US back to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to thinkers such as W.E.B. Dubois. Focusing on arts policy as one of the primay battlegrounds of the multiculturalism controversy, Price argues for a pluralistic approach to culture and for a definition of national culture that is dynamic rather than rigid.
ISBN: 1-879903-16-4
1994, American Council for the Arts, USA, 95 pages
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Celebrating Pluralism: Art, Education, and Cultural Diversity
Graeme Chalmers
"Educational trends will change and research agendas will shift, but art teachers in public institutions will still need to educate all students for multicultural futures." Art educators will find Dr. Graeme Chalmers's "Celebrating Pluralism" invaluable to negotiating the approach to multicultural art education that makes the most sense to their students and their community.
ISBN: 0892363932
1996, Getty Foundation Institute for the Arts, USA, 112 pages, 15 b&w/ illustrations
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Culture, Creativity, and Citizenship in Scotland
Cristina Losito, Centre for Creative Communities
The happy synergy between culture, creativity and citizenship, and the role of the school as a creative centre of the community are beginning to be recognised and acted upon in many areas of Scotland. Recent intiatives such as the Cultural Co-ordinators programme and the Scottish Arts Council-funded Creative Links project, are clear signs of a renewed interest in the values of arts and culture in education. This publication springs from the Scotlinks Project, a three year intiative funded by the Scottish Arts Council, with the aim to determine what effect additional arts input would have on the lives and learning of a cluster of schools and its surrounding community. Other examples of good practice are also described along with some challenges for the future.
ISBN: 1851191240
2002, Scottish Arts Council, UK, 20 pages
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Democracy is a Discussion: Civic Engagement in Old and New Democracies and Democracy is a
Sondra Myers (ed.)
These two handbooks are the products of Connecticut College's project "Democracy is a Discussion: Civic Engagement in Old and New Democracies." The first handbook aims to capture the basic essence and fundamental value of democracy. It acts as a tool for all those who seek to create and recreate democracy by organising and conducting civil discussions in informal groups, voluntary associations and academic institutions in every part of the world. The second handbok addreses some of the major complexities and obstacles to democracy, and offers some approaches and strategies for dealing with them. The first part of the book focuses on the challenges, such as religious and ethnic conflicts, and political and economic structures; the second part focuses on "promise" and positive new approaches, for example in education, while also addressing the moral question. Available as two-book set.
1996 & 1998, Connecticut College,USA
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Nourishing the Heart: A Guide to Intergenerational Arts Projects in the Schools
Shari Davis & Benny Ferdman
This book is designed to encourage the participation of seniors in the classroom, engaging young and old in joint ventures to reconstruct their own, their families’ and their communities’ cultural heritage in writing, theatre and visual-arts projects. It looks at what the different generations learn from each other and can produce together.
1993, Elders Share the Arts, USA, 116 pages
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Across the Street Around the World: A Handbook for Cultural Exchange
Jennifer Williams
Offers both a conceptual framework for thinking about the process of cultural exchange and practical advice for participants. It covers planning, fund-raising, evaluation, international contacts and useful publications and includes 25 original illustrations. ‘Well-informed, intelligent, and useful’—Animated.
ISBN: 0951476327
1996, BAAA, UK, 56 pages, 25 illustrations
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Art Education and Human Development
Howard Gardner
An incisive rethink of priorities in arts education with profound implications for all other areas of education. Dr Gardner, Professor of Education at Harvard University, proposes a new curricular model based on an integration of developmental psychology, art & education.
ISBN: 0892361794
Getty Education Institute for the Arts, USA, 80 pages
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Artists in the Community. Training Artists to Work in Alternative Settings
Americans for the Arts
A practical handbook offering advice for anyone designing, leading or hosting an arts programme in a community setting. The guide seeks to help artists by examining specific issues that seem to recur in sites where community arts programmes are implemented. It also looks at the various ways arts organisations have addressed these issues in the training of community artists.
1996, Americans for the Arts,USA, 52 pages
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Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections: A Guide to Promising Pr
Grady Hillman
This detailed report describes a two-year intiative between the U.S. Department of Justice, through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the National Endowment for the Arts which offerred arts programming specifically for young offenders in juvenile detention and corrections facilities. Hillman examines how this programming could be used as a model for other regions and provide "promising practice" for arts initiatives nationwide.
OJJDP and NEA, USA, 40 pages
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Common Threads: Exhibition Catalogue
CCC & SCCC
This publication describes the Common Threads: Participation for a Better World exhibition, featuring 14 projects from 10 European countries united through an exploration of six themes. The colour catalogue outlines the concepts behind the exhibition, highlighting the strengths and benefits of collaborative efforts as people take responsibility for the development of sustainable communities for the future, providing inspiration and models of good practice.
1999, CCC & SCCC, UK, 20 pages
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Seeing, Making, Doing: Creative Development in Early Years Settings (English Edition)
Sam Perkins, Centre for Creative Communities
This practical guide, part of the National Early Years Network’s ‘Starting Points’ series, provides a child-centred approach to integrating creative activity into the educational development of preschool children. Designed for early-years workers in many settings, the publication contains practical ideas and suggestions, as well as a summary of the educational theory that underlies them. It is well-supplied with illustrated case studies of arts projects successfully involving the under-fives.
ISBN: 1870985435
1998, National Early Years Network, UK, 39 pages
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Seeing, Making, Doing: Creative Development in Early Years Settings (Scottish Edition)
Ray Orley (ed.), Centre for Creative Communities
Seeing, Making, Doing is an invaluable guide for anyone involved in early learning work. This edition, written jointly by CCC and the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum (SCCC), adapts the text of the original English edition (see above) and draws on Scottish case studies to offer practical advice to staff of nurseries and early learning centres on ways to provide creative opportunities for young children.
ISBN: 1859556671
1999, SCCC, UK, 47 pages
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The CD-ROM of Common Threads: Participation for a Better World
Centre for Creative Communities
This CD contains the original text and images of the exhibition, the stories of each of the participating projects as well as all the papers delivered during the Common Threads conference, held in Glasgow during September 1999. The CD is PC and Macintosh compatible.
2001, CCC, UK
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Thoughts on Art Education
Rudolf Arnheim
Internationally noted psychologist and art educator, Arnheim summarises his ideas and insights about art education. His incisive views on what humans do to create art and what art does for humanity provide new insights into creative growth and the value of art in society.
ISBN: 0892361638
1989, Getty Education Institute for Arts, UK, 68 pages
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Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaning
Gail Burnaford et al (eds.)
This book invites readers to consider the possibilities for learning and growth when artists and arts educators come into a classroom and work with teachers to engage students in drama, dance, visual art, music and media arts. It is a nuts and bolts guide to arts integration, describing how students, teachers and artists get started with arts integration.
ISBN: 0-8058-3819-8
2001, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), USA, 265 pages
You Might Not Call It Singing
Roger Hill
This report draws on evidence from The Arts of Life, a study that was conducted to look at the role of creative expression in self-education. Hill presents case studies from the UK and features testimonies from people of all ages and social backgrounds in support of the the role creative activities play in our lives.
1993, Arts Council Print Unit, 48 pages
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