Active Ownership
The fourth stage of the Four A’s
As I have explained before, when the Community Arts Forum set about trying to articulate what community arts actually meant in the late 1990s, it quickly became clear that it would struggle to find a single definition that would work. There were manifestos, philosophies, ideologies, motivations, practices and processes which together could be understood as community arts. Some emphasised empowerment and participation, others cultural democracy, others the social value of creative expression. But not one overarching, readily accessible term could accommodate all.
The Community Arts Forum itself had only recently been established, in 1995, reflecting a growing recognition that practitioners across Northern Ireland needed a way to share experience, support one another and advocate together for the work taking place in communities…
Read the rest of this, and the other 3 parts of the ‘Four A’s, at the CAPtain’s Blog below.
CAPtain’s Blog – Creating a Change – Part Three: Authorship – Finding Voice
