	CCC's Work Artists Without Frontiers; International Artistic Exchanges: Today's Trends and Challenges: Speech given by Jennifer Williams at UNESCO's Artists Across Frontiers roundtable on June 28 and 29, 1993. The speech focuses on the trends and challenges then faced by international artistic exchanges. Speech Common Threads: An Agenda for Active Citizenship: Overview of this international symposium, organised by the Centre for Creative Communities, which took place in February 2003 in London. Report Creating Healthy Communities: The author discusses the growing acknowledgement that health involves more than the absence of disease and that there is a place for the arts in the prevention and treatment of illness. Article Culture, Creativity and Citizenship in Scotland: (PDF: 393 KB)This report discusses the links between culture, creativity and citizenship, illustrating the challenges faced by Scotland today with a number of engaging case studies. Report New Strategies for the UK Women's Sector: This is a description of our latest project, commissioned by the List Family Foundation Ltd. that is exploring the social, political and economic contexts in which UK women's organisations operate. The consultation aims to lay the groundwork for a sector-wide strategic development facility. Project \| Back to top \|
	Citizenship and Civil Society A Call To Action: The Civworld Citizens’ Campaign: The CivWorld Citizens’ Campaign for Democracy, a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, is a call to action—an appeal for interdisciplinary work across the boundaries of theory and practice that issue in meaningful civic action for a more democratic planet. Article Activists Speak Out: In Activists Speak Out, a group of 15 American activists from all backgrounds, walks of life and points of view, speak out about how and why they struggle for change. Their causes and strategies vary – in the areas of civil rights, gay and lesbian rights, the environment, women's issues, health, youth, education, labour, freedom of expression, and the arts. Book Summary Arts under Pressure: Promoting Cultural Diversity in the Age of Globalization: This book analyses how the processes of globalisation have endangered basic cultural rights and creative diversity, and argues for the protection of cultural diversity and the rethinking of intellectual property rights. Book Summary Better Together: Restoring the American Community: In Better Together, the authors describe some of the diverse locations and ways in which civic renewal is taking place today. The book tells the stories of people who, in response to civic crisis and local problems, are building and strengthening communities to solve specific problems. Book Summary Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community: Drawing on vast data that reveals Americans’ changing behaviourBowling Alone investigates how social structures have disintegrated in the country. It highlights the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on the country’s physical and civic health, and the importance that these bonds have in creating a society that is happy, well educated and safe. Book Summary Common Threads: The Drawing Together: This is the concluding paper from the international symposium Common Threads: An Agenda for Active Citizenship and analyses the thoughts and ideas on promoting active citizenship broached by the conference. Article Connexity: Responsibility, Freedom, Business and Power in the New Century: Connexity addresses the fundamental conflict that exists between the freedoms enjoyed by many, mainly in the Western world, and the growing economic interdependence of so many more worldwide. The book seeks to determine whether the achievements of freedom and the growth of interdependence are compatible. Book Summary Cosmopolitan Britain or the Politics of Fear?: This essay discusses the problems faced by a politics that links citizenship and culture and questions how we can collectively deal with perceived threats and cultural difference. Article Culture and Citizenship: This collection of essays analyses the relationship between culture and citizenship and their significance in the context of contemporary society. Book Summary Culture and Civil Society: New Relationships with the Third Sector: The intention of this paper is to formulate better the nature of the relationship between culture and civil society. It looks at the implications of this relationship and highlights examples of interesting practice. Book Summary Culture, Citizenship and Identity in the Global Age: This article discusses how, as the importance of national borders decreases, culture becomes the crucial factor in shaping identities, affiliation and conflict in contemporary societies. Article Democracy is a Discussion I & II: These two handbooks, edited by Sondra Myers, are the products of a Connecticut College project based on the premise that civil civic discussion is at the heart of the democratic process. Book Summary Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity: Disclosing New Worlds argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the everyday practices of their culture - that is, when they are making history. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the cultivation of solidarity as three major arenas in which people make history. Book Summary Habits of the Heart and The Good Society: These books, published in 1985 and 1991 respectively, have helped a generation of people interested in community building appreciate on the one hand the relationship of individualism and commitment (Habits of the Heart) and how our institutions - political, economic, educational and religious bodies - are what we make them (The Good Society). Book Summary Organised Citizens for Power: (PDF: 89 KB)This article discusses the organisation Young Citizens, and analyses political power within and for young people in the modern world. Article Restoring Civil Society: In this chapter taken from the Cato Handbook for Congress, Palmer offers suggestions to the members of the US congress as to how civil society may be restored in the U.S. Report Something for Everyone: (PDF: 374 KB)In this paper, Jenny Watson, British Institute for Human Rights, analyses the impact of the Human Rights Act and proposes further steps which might be necessary if human rights culture is to take root in England and Wales. Research/Report The Democracy Reader: This reader is a compendium volume that combines a collection of civic stories with a revised and updated version of the Democracy is a Discussion handbooks. Book Summary The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society: In The New Golden Rule, Etzioni, the founder of the communitarian movement, invites us to examine how a communitarian society should operate in practice and what social values we must bring to our social interactions if we are to achieve stronger and more enduring communities. Book Summary \| Back to top \|
	Culture and Identity Allen County Theatre Project: (PDF: 167 KB)This report summarizes the history and development of this successful Allen County Common Threads Project, an arts-based civic dialogue and community development theatre project based in Lima and Allen County Ohio, USA. Research/Report Artists Without Frontiers; International Artistic Exchanges: Today's Trends and Challenges: Speech given by Jennifer Williams at UNESCO's Artists Across Frontiers roundtable on June 28 and 29, 1993. The speech focuses on the trends and challenges then faced by international artistic exchanges. Speech Arts Access Aotearoa: Arts Access Aotearoa is a charitable trust whose objectives are to ensure that people and communities of New Zealand have unhindered access to the arts, and opportunities to create, perform and develop their own arts. Case Study Arts in Their View: A Study of youth participation in the arts: Using interviews from 700 people aged between 14- 24, this book investigates young people’s attitudes and experiences of the arts. It summarizes the results of empirical research from five areas across the UK, demonstrating trends and offering pointers for policy makers and youth arts facilitators on art provision both within and outside the school curriculum. Report Summary Better Together: Restoring the American Community: In Better Together, the authors describe some of the diverse locations and ways in which civic renewal is taking place today. The book tells the stories of people who, in response to civic crisis and local problems, are building and strengthening communities to solve specific problems. Book Summary Charnwood Arts: This independent community arts and media organisation based in Charnwood in the East Midlands of the UK encourage cultural development through combined arts work and a wide range of approaches from long term community arts projects, performances, outdoor events and publications to websites, CD-ROM and video productions, school and community residencies, exhibitions and ongoing groups. Case Study - UK Globalisation, Music & Identity: (PDF: 132 KB)This paper explores some of the ways in which musicians might respond to the issues identified by Simon Mundy (2000) in his background guide Music and Globalisation. Article Globalizing Audiences: Kiasma Museum: This paper discusses the way globalization is transforming art and describes two school-year-long projects that took place at the museum, involving immigrant children and their parents. Article More, Better, Different: (PDF: 409 KB)This report addresses the challenge of facilitating intercultural understanding and cultural diversity within the countries of the Council of Europe, looking in particular at the roles of cultural provision for young people. Report Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture: The essays in this book illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums and communities, examining the often controversial interactions between museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation and the communities they profess to represent and serve. Book Summary Reclaiming the Centre: Engaging speech by Bill Cleveland that argues for the need to re-establish the arts and their creative processes as basic elements of all aspects of our communities. Speech Shaming the Devil: (PDF: 122 KB)One of 13 essays in Critical Perspectives: Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue, published by American for the Arts in September 2005. It explores art, civic dialogue, and reflective critical writing by focusing on three compelling and very different projects supported by Animating Democracy, a programme that fosters civic engagement through arts and culture. Visit www.AmericansForTheArts.org The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena: An anthology of articles featured in the magazine High Performance, from 1978-1998. The collection brings forth the voices of artists who formed the backbone of debates about issues facing the public artist today. Book Summary The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era: This book presents an alternative approach to ‘multiculturalism’, developing an understanding of cultures as continually creating, re-creating and renegotiating the imagined boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’. Book summary The Journey: A charming and beautiful book brought to life by Macia Hutchinson, a lawyer and writer from Huddersfield. Each chapter, through photos and text tells the story of someone who emigrated from the West Indies to the UK. Book Summary The Public Culture: An Argument with the Future: In The Public Culture, Horne examines how a society constructs its culture through its political and moral rhetoric and media. This second edition analyses specifically how societies, no longer able to rely on the eroding concept of the nation, will be structured in the future. Book Summary The Twinned Choirs Project: A large-scale community based choral project organised by Cross-Border Music Projects and funded by Co-operation Ireland which aimed to develop relationship through music in a cross-border context. Case Study - UK/EU \| Back to top \|
	Health and Well-Being Arts for Health: This non-profit organisation aims to work with and unite artists, designers and health professionals in improving the quality of life for those involved in providing and receiving health and community care. Case Study - UK Arts, Health and Community: This book is a study of five community-based arts in health projects in the UK funded through grants from the King’s Fund, the Nuffield Trust, and Northern Rock Foundation carried out between 1999 and 2001. Book Summary Chelsea and Westminster Hospital: This is a case study of Chelsea and Wesminster Hospital's innovative art programme, which boasts an impressive contemporary art collection and used to be a regular host to performance arts, including music, dance, theatre, storytelling, mime and puppetry. Case Study - UK Common Knowledge: (PDF: 88 KB)A description of Common Knowledge, the major programme of experimental work which began in 2000 and used arts based approaches to examine health in Newcastle. Case Study Core Arts: This arts charity exists to promote, freely and without prejudice, the artistic and creative abilities of people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems. Case Study - UK Creating Healthy Communities: The author discusses the growing acknowledgement that health involves more than the absence of disease and that there is a place for the arts in the prevention and treatment of illness. Article Creative Connections: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing through Community Arts Participation: This document details learnings from the Community Arts Participation (CAP) Scheme funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation in Australia. The programme marked a move away from investment in the arts through sponsorships with a health message toward a more integrated and involved partnership with arts and community organisations. Report Summary Do You Do Queen? - Music In Hospitals: Mike White describes the effects of an innovative music programme in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a North East hospital. Article Entelechy: Entelechy is an arts company dedicated to the arts to enable adults with learning disabilities to work with others from their communities in new and valued ways. Working in partnership and collaboration with their members and other organisations, they aim to produce high quality theatre, dance, music, and video productions through investment in, rather than exclusion of, those with the greatest needs. Case Study - UK Imagining a Perfect World: (PDF: 57 KB)This is a report on Imagine London, an ambitious five-year programme that provided a unique opportunity for young people across the capital to build and articulate their own visions of a healthy city. Report Lime: This arts organisation acts as a channel between the arts world and the health world by developing, coordinating and implementing a wide range of arts projects in healthcare settings. Emphasis is placed on collaborative artistic practice involving health service staff and those they serve. Case Study – UK The Arts in Healthcare: Learning from Experience: This King’s Fund publication looks at some very different arts in healthcare projects, from design in hospitals to the use of the visual and performing arts. Book Summary Walsall Community Arts: Walsall Community Arts uses an innovative approach to linking the arts with health education without compromising quality production. The Men's Health 2000 project revealed the flexibility and versatility of the arts, and the manner in which trusting partnerships can gradually be formed with great results for the community and for health awareness. Case Study - UK Well-Being: The Arts and Community Involvement: (PDF: 127 KB)Jennifer Williams discusses how the arts help to achieve the goal of promoting human well-being. Speech \| Back to top \|
	Social Inclusion and Exclusion Acting Out Company: A description of Acting Out Company, founded in 1996 by Saul Hewish, who has extensive experience of working in prisons, young offenders institutions, residential units, special hospitals and a variety of local authority settings throughout the UK and the US. Case Study - UK Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice: Formerly The Unit for the Arts and Offenders, this is the national umbrella organisation that supports the development of the arts within criminal justice settings. Case Study - UK Artibarri Project, Barcelona, Spain: A description of this Catalan network of projects, professionals and associations that advocate the importance of creativity, culture and education within processes of social inclusion and community development that concern at-risk youth. Case Study - EU Arts and Social Exclusion: This report, which was commissioned by Arts Council England to support its two-year social inclusion research programme, examines the impact of arts in addressing social exclusion. The study covers a range of practice, stretching from community-led projects where the initiative for arts activity comes from local communities, to established arts organisations who are relatively new to this area of work. Report Arts in Prisons: This publication has been compiled by the Unit for Arts and Offenders (now the Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice) to highlight examples of purposeful arts programmes in prisons, and to encourage those concerned with the provision and development of such programmes. Report Summary Cardboard Citizens: A description of Cardboard Citizens, the only homeless people professional theatre company in the UK. Case Study - UK Changing Lives: the social impact of the arts: This report is one of a series produced by the Scottish Arts Council looking at the role of the arts in Scotland today. Through ten case studies, it examines in detail the social impacts of the arts on individuals and on communities. Report Summary Cooperations: COOPERATIONS, based in Luxembourg, is a non-profit enterprise acting in culture, education and social inclusion. Its programmes promote the interaction between art, social participation and rural development. Case Study - EU Creative Solutions and Social Inclusion: Culture and the Community: This publication from Arts Access Aotearoa, New Zealand, looks at partnerships between the social service and arts sectors, which strive to encourage social inclusion through the arts. Book Summary Developing the Role of the Arts in UK Social Policy: (PDF: 335 KB)In this discussion paper, Gould aims to provide greater clarity and background information on current strategic directions in government linked to arts and social inclusion. It is primarily targeted at stimulating discussion in Arts Council England and within the community of artists and arts organisations working in social policy arenas. Please note that this report is not to be reproduced without permission of the publisher. Report From Ice to Fire – Arts in Health for Social Inclusion: The Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM) was invited to speak at a Downing Street seminar in May 2003 on arts and social inclusion. Mike White and Mary Robson present here some of the issues they raised at that seminar. Article Nourishing The Heart: A Guide to Intergenerational Arts Projects in the Schools: Nourishing The Heart is about encouraging interchange between the ages in a schools environment. It is a resource book for teachers, based around innovative intergenerational workshops. Book Summary Sharing Practice: A Guide to Self Evaluation: This report is the outcome of a two-year Social Inclusion Programme launched in 2000 by Arts Council England, and is a guide for artists, arts organisations and funders working in the context of social exclusion to develop their own practice. Report Social Exclusion – Can human rights make a difference?: Candy Whittome, British Institute of Human Rights, argues that human rights are an essential and basic aspect of combatting social exclusion and promoting active citizenship. Speech Theatre of the Oppressed: Augusto Boal developed a series of imaginative theatre exercises which promote awareness of one’s social situation and its limitations. Combining analysis and practice, this book is indispensable to those interested in dramatic theory and performance technique. Book Summary Use or Ornament: The Social Impact of Participation in the Arts: This influential publication analyses the social benefits of arts-based projects, from amateur to professional to community work, clearly revealing the important role that the arts can play by drawing on case studies in the UK, Ireland, Finland and New York. Book Summary \| Back to top \|

	CCC's Work Artists Without Frontiers; International Artistic Exchanges: Today's Trends and Challenges: Speech given by Jennifer Williams at UNESCO's Artists Across Frontiers roundtable on June 28 and 29, 1993. The speech focuses on the trends and challenges then faced by international artistic exchanges. Speech Common Threads: An Agenda for Active Citizenship: Overview of this international symposium, organised by the Centre for Creative Communities, which took place in February 2003 in London. Report Creating Healthy Communities: The author discusses the growing acknowledgement that health involves more than the absence of disease and that there is a place for the arts in the prevention and treatment of illness. Article Culture, Creativity and Citizenship in Scotland: (PDF: 393 KB)This report discusses the links between culture, creativity and citizenship, illustrating the challenges faced by Scotland today with a number of engaging case studies. Report New Strategies for the UK Women's Sector: This is a description of our latest project, commissioned by the List Family Foundation Ltd. that is exploring the social, political and economic contexts in which UK women's organisations operate. The consultation aims to lay the groundwork for a sector-wide strategic development facility. Project \| Back to top \|
	Citizenship and Civil Society A Call To Action: The Civworld Citizens’ Campaign: The CivWorld Citizens’ Campaign for Democracy, a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, is a call to action—an appeal for interdisciplinary work across the boundaries of theory and practice that issue in meaningful civic action for a more democratic planet. Article Activists Speak Out: In Activists Speak Out, a group of 15 American activists from all backgrounds, walks of life and points of view, speak out about how and why they struggle for change. Their causes and strategies vary – in the areas of civil rights, gay and lesbian rights, the environment, women's issues, health, youth, education, labour, freedom of expression, and the arts. Book Summary Arts under Pressure: Promoting Cultural Diversity in the Age of Globalization: This book analyses how the processes of globalisation have endangered basic cultural rights and creative diversity, and argues for the protection of cultural diversity and the rethinking of intellectual property rights. Book Summary Better Together: Restoring the American Community: In Better Together, the authors describe some of the diverse locations and ways in which civic renewal is taking place today. The book tells the stories of people who, in response to civic crisis and local problems, are building and strengthening communities to solve specific problems. Book Summary Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community: Drawing on vast data that reveals Americans’ changing behaviourBowling Alone investigates how social structures have disintegrated in the country. It highlights the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on the country’s physical and civic health, and the importance that these bonds have in creating a society that is happy, well educated and safe. Book Summary Common Threads: The Drawing Together: This is the concluding paper from the international symposium Common Threads: An Agenda for Active Citizenship and analyses the thoughts and ideas on promoting active citizenship broached by the conference. Article Connexity: Responsibility, Freedom, Business and Power in the New Century: Connexity addresses the fundamental conflict that exists between the freedoms enjoyed by many, mainly in the Western world, and the growing economic interdependence of so many more worldwide. The book seeks to determine whether the achievements of freedom and the growth of interdependence are compatible. Book Summary Cosmopolitan Britain or the Politics of Fear?: This essay discusses the problems faced by a politics that links citizenship and culture and questions how we can collectively deal with perceived threats and cultural difference. Article Culture and Citizenship: This collection of essays analyses the relationship between culture and citizenship and their significance in the context of contemporary society. Book Summary Culture and Civil Society: New Relationships with the Third Sector: The intention of this paper is to formulate better the nature of the relationship between culture and civil society. It looks at the implications of this relationship and highlights examples of interesting practice. Book Summary Culture, Citizenship and Identity in the Global Age: This article discusses how, as the importance of national borders decreases, culture becomes the crucial factor in shaping identities, affiliation and conflict in contemporary societies. Article Democracy is a Discussion I & II: These two handbooks, edited by Sondra Myers, are the products of a Connecticut College project based on the premise that civil civic discussion is at the heart of the democratic process. Book Summary Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity: Disclosing New Worlds argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the everyday practices of their culture - that is, when they are making history. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the cultivation of solidarity as three major arenas in which people make history. Book Summary Habits of the Heart and The Good Society: These books, published in 1985 and 1991 respectively, have helped a generation of people interested in community building appreciate on the one hand the relationship of individualism and commitment (Habits of the Heart) and how our institutions - political, economic, educational and religious bodies - are what we make them (The Good Society). Book Summary Organised Citizens for Power: (PDF: 89 KB)This article discusses the organisation Young Citizens, and analyses political power within and for young people in the modern world. Article Restoring Civil Society: In this chapter taken from the Cato Handbook for Congress, Palmer offers suggestions to the members of the US congress as to how civil society may be restored in the U.S. Report Something for Everyone: (PDF: 374 KB)In this paper, Jenny Watson, British Institute for Human Rights, analyses the impact of the Human Rights Act and proposes further steps which might be necessary if human rights culture is to take root in England and Wales. Research/Report The Democracy Reader: This reader is a compendium volume that combines a collection of civic stories with a revised and updated version of the Democracy is a Discussion handbooks. Book Summary The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society: In The New Golden Rule, Etzioni, the founder of the communitarian movement, invites us to examine how a communitarian society should operate in practice and what social values we must bring to our social interactions if we are to achieve stronger and more enduring communities. Book Summary \| Back to top \|
	Culture and Identity Allen County Theatre Project: (PDF: 167 KB)This report summarizes the history and development of this successful Allen County Common Threads Project, an arts-based civic dialogue and community development theatre project based in Lima and Allen County Ohio, USA. Research/Report Artists Without Frontiers; International Artistic Exchanges: Today's Trends and Challenges: Speech given by Jennifer Williams at UNESCO's Artists Across Frontiers roundtable on June 28 and 29, 1993. The speech focuses on the trends and challenges then faced by international artistic exchanges. Speech Arts Access Aotearoa: Arts Access Aotearoa is a charitable trust whose objectives are to ensure that people and communities of New Zealand have unhindered access to the arts, and opportunities to create, perform and develop their own arts. Case Study Arts in Their View: A Study of youth participation in the arts: Using interviews from 700 people aged between 14- 24, this book investigates young people’s attitudes and experiences of the arts. It summarizes the results of empirical research from five areas across the UK, demonstrating trends and offering pointers for policy makers and youth arts facilitators on art provision both within and outside the school curriculum. Report Summary Better Together: Restoring the American Community: In Better Together, the authors describe some of the diverse locations and ways in which civic renewal is taking place today. The book tells the stories of people who, in response to civic crisis and local problems, are building and strengthening communities to solve specific problems. Book Summary Charnwood Arts: This independent community arts and media organisation based in Charnwood in the East Midlands of the UK encourage cultural development through combined arts work and a wide range of approaches from long term community arts projects, performances, outdoor events and publications to websites, CD-ROM and video productions, school and community residencies, exhibitions and ongoing groups. Case Study - UK Globalisation, Music & Identity: (PDF: 132 KB)This paper explores some of the ways in which musicians might respond to the issues identified by Simon Mundy (2000) in his background guide Music and Globalisation. Article Globalizing Audiences: Kiasma Museum: This paper discusses the way globalization is transforming art and describes two school-year-long projects that took place at the museum, involving immigrant children and their parents. Article More, Better, Different: (PDF: 409 KB)This report addresses the challenge of facilitating intercultural understanding and cultural diversity within the countries of the Council of Europe, looking in particular at the roles of cultural provision for young people. Report Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture: The essays in this book illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums and communities, examining the often controversial interactions between museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation and the communities they profess to represent and serve. Book Summary Reclaiming the Centre: Engaging speech by Bill Cleveland that argues for the need to re-establish the arts and their creative processes as basic elements of all aspects of our communities. Speech Shaming the Devil: (PDF: 122 KB)One of 13 essays in Critical Perspectives: Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue, published by American for the Arts in September 2005. It explores art, civic dialogue, and reflective critical writing by focusing on three compelling and very different projects supported by Animating Democracy, a programme that fosters civic engagement through arts and culture. Visit www.AmericansForTheArts.org The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena: An anthology of articles featured in the magazine High Performance, from 1978-1998. The collection brings forth the voices of artists who formed the backbone of debates about issues facing the public artist today. Book Summary The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era: This book presents an alternative approach to ‘multiculturalism’, developing an understanding of cultures as continually creating, re-creating and renegotiating the imagined boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’. Book summary The Journey: A charming and beautiful book brought to life by Macia Hutchinson, a lawyer and writer from Huddersfield. Each chapter, through photos and text tells the story of someone who emigrated from the West Indies to the UK. Book Summary The Public Culture: An Argument with the Future: In The Public Culture, Horne examines how a society constructs its culture through its political and moral rhetoric and media. This second edition analyses specifically how societies, no longer able to rely on the eroding concept of the nation, will be structured in the future. Book Summary The Twinned Choirs Project: A large-scale community based choral project organised by Cross-Border Music Projects and funded by Co-operation Ireland which aimed to develop relationship through music in a cross-border context. Case Study - UK/EU \| Back to top \|
	Health and Well-Being Arts for Health: This non-profit organisation aims to work with and unite artists, designers and health professionals in improving the quality of life for those involved in providing and receiving health and community care. Case Study - UK Arts, Health and Community: This book is a study of five community-based arts in health projects in the UK funded through grants from the King’s Fund, the Nuffield Trust, and Northern Rock Foundation carried out between 1999 and 2001. Book Summary Chelsea and Westminster Hospital: This is a case study of Chelsea and Wesminster Hospital's innovative art programme, which boasts an impressive contemporary art collection and used to be a regular host to performance arts, including music, dance, theatre, storytelling, mime and puppetry. Case Study - UK Common Knowledge: (PDF: 88 KB)A description of Common Knowledge, the major programme of experimental work which began in 2000 and used arts based approaches to examine health in Newcastle. Case Study Core Arts: This arts charity exists to promote, freely and without prejudice, the artistic and creative abilities of people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems. Case Study - UK Creating Healthy Communities: The author discusses the growing acknowledgement that health involves more than the absence of disease and that there is a place for the arts in the prevention and treatment of illness. Article Creative Connections: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing through Community Arts Participation: This document details learnings from the Community Arts Participation (CAP) Scheme funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation in Australia. The programme marked a move away from investment in the arts through sponsorships with a health message toward a more integrated and involved partnership with arts and community organisations. Report Summary Do You Do Queen? - Music In Hospitals: Mike White describes the effects of an innovative music programme in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a North East hospital. Article Entelechy: Entelechy is an arts company dedicated to the arts to enable adults with learning disabilities to work with others from their communities in new and valued ways. Working in partnership and collaboration with their members and other organisations, they aim to produce high quality theatre, dance, music, and video productions through investment in, rather than exclusion of, those with the greatest needs. Case Study - UK Imagining a Perfect World: (PDF: 57 KB)This is a report on Imagine London, an ambitious five-year programme that provided a unique opportunity for young people across the capital to build and articulate their own visions of a healthy city. Report Lime: This arts organisation acts as a channel between the arts world and the health world by developing, coordinating and implementing a wide range of arts projects in healthcare settings. Emphasis is placed on collaborative artistic practice involving health service staff and those they serve. Case Study – UK The Arts in Healthcare: Learning from Experience: This King’s Fund publication looks at some very different arts in healthcare projects, from design in hospitals to the use of the visual and performing arts. Book Summary Walsall Community Arts: Walsall Community Arts uses an innovative approach to linking the arts with health education without compromising quality production. The Men's Health 2000 project revealed the flexibility and versatility of the arts, and the manner in which trusting partnerships can gradually be formed with great results for the community and for health awareness. Case Study - UK Well-Being: The Arts and Community Involvement: (PDF: 127 KB)Jennifer Williams discusses how the arts help to achieve the goal of promoting human well-being. Speech \| Back to top \|
	Social Inclusion and Exclusion Acting Out Company: A description of Acting Out Company, founded in 1996 by Saul Hewish, who has extensive experience of working in prisons, young offenders institutions, residential units, special hospitals and a variety of local authority settings throughout the UK and the US. Case Study - UK Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice: Formerly The Unit for the Arts and Offenders, this is the national umbrella organisation that supports the development of the arts within criminal justice settings. Case Study - UK Artibarri Project, Barcelona, Spain: A description of this Catalan network of projects, professionals and associations that advocate the importance of creativity, culture and education within processes of social inclusion and community development that concern at-risk youth. Case Study - EU Arts and Social Exclusion: This report, which was commissioned by Arts Council England to support its two-year social inclusion research programme, examines the impact of arts in addressing social exclusion. The study covers a range of practice, stretching from community-led projects where the initiative for arts activity comes from local communities, to established arts organisations who are relatively new to this area of work. Report Arts in Prisons: This publication has been compiled by the Unit for Arts and Offenders (now the Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice) to highlight examples of purposeful arts programmes in prisons, and to encourage those concerned with the provision and development of such programmes. Report Summary Cardboard Citizens: A description of Cardboard Citizens, the only homeless people professional theatre company in the UK. Case Study - UK Changing Lives: the social impact of the arts: This report is one of a series produced by the Scottish Arts Council looking at the role of the arts in Scotland today. Through ten case studies, it examines in detail the social impacts of the arts on individuals and on communities. Report Summary Cooperations: COOPERATIONS, based in Luxembourg, is a non-profit enterprise acting in culture, education and social inclusion. Its programmes promote the interaction between art, social participation and rural development. Case Study - EU Creative Solutions and Social Inclusion: Culture and the Community: This publication from Arts Access Aotearoa, New Zealand, looks at partnerships between the social service and arts sectors, which strive to encourage social inclusion through the arts. Book Summary Developing the Role of the Arts in UK Social Policy: (PDF: 335 KB)In this discussion paper, Gould aims to provide greater clarity and background information on current strategic directions in government linked to arts and social inclusion. It is primarily targeted at stimulating discussion in Arts Council England and within the community of artists and arts organisations working in social policy arenas. Please note that this report is not to be reproduced without permission of the publisher. Report From Ice to Fire – Arts in Health for Social Inclusion: The Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM) was invited to speak at a Downing Street seminar in May 2003 on arts and social inclusion. Mike White and Mary Robson present here some of the issues they raised at that seminar. Article Nourishing The Heart: A Guide to Intergenerational Arts Projects in the Schools: Nourishing The Heart is about encouraging interchange between the ages in a schools environment. It is a resource book for teachers, based around innovative intergenerational workshops. Book Summary Sharing Practice: A Guide to Self Evaluation: This report is the outcome of a two-year Social Inclusion Programme launched in 2000 by Arts Council England, and is a guide for artists, arts organisations and funders working in the context of social exclusion to develop their own practice. Report Social Exclusion – Can human rights make a difference?: Candy Whittome, British Institute of Human Rights, argues that human rights are an essential and basic aspect of combatting social exclusion and promoting active citizenship. Speech Theatre of the Oppressed: Augusto Boal developed a series of imaginative theatre exercises which promote awareness of one’s social situation and its limitations. Combining analysis and practice, this book is indispensable to those interested in dramatic theory and performance technique. Book Summary Use or Ornament: The Social Impact of Participation in the Arts: This influential publication analyses the social benefits of arts-based projects, from amateur to professional to community work, clearly revealing the important role that the arts can play by drawing on case studies in the UK, Ireland, Finland and New York. Book Summary \| Back to top \|