Online discussion and meet up
How do you make work by, with, and for people who don’t think culture is for them?
For this 5th Culture Reset Stroud session we are focusing on how to make the work we do as artists, social activists and organisations more relevant, radical and meaningful to the communities that we live and work in. We have chosen two examples of pioneering individuals to inspire us on to help find some new ways of working.
The first part of the session focuses on Dickie from Duckie and the Posh Club. The Posh Club invites members of the LGBTQ and older generation communities to come together to bring a touch of glamour, fun and a special kind of ‘poshness’ into their lives.
We will show a video provocation (4.27 mins) by Dickie about how to make work by, with and for people who don’t think culture is for them. This video was made for the Culture Reset programme in summer 2020 . This will be followed by a short clip (3.13 mins) where we will hear from some of the swanky senior citizens and elegant elders at the Posh Club in Hackney.
(Total time: 7.30 mins)
The second part of the session focuses on Nina Simon, who wrote the best-selling book ‘The Art of Relevance’ which is a guide to mattering more to more people and how to find relevance in an often indifferent world. She was the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, where she led an institutional turnaround based on grassroots community participation. We will be showing her Ted Talk where Nina shares some of the radical ways she opened up the Santa Cruz Museum to new audiences by making it relevant to their lives.
(Total time: 12 mins)
“ Hope lives eternally in our hearts, we cannot do anything about it, thankfully. As long as there is something inside of us which is the core of our humanity, we are going to maintain hope against all evidence. Because all the evidence is really bleak. But we have no right to be empirical about it. Unlike the weather, which is independent of what we think about it, history is made by people who don’t a damn about predictions”
Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist, academic, philosopher and politician
More Info:
The sessions are free to attend. Once you are booked you will be sent a Zoom Invite. Please book here by Monday 14th December noon.
#CultureResetStroud Mondays - Pod Sessions
#CultureResetStroud is organised by SVA and Atelier Stroud. Small groups are invited to meet online to listen to inspirational provocations by international ‘Culture Reset’ arts activists, leaders and thinkers.
Each session will be made of a short film or podcast followed by a discussion in small breakout groups. The session will end by bringing all the participants back together to continue the discussion from a more local perspective.
Each session will last approx. 1.5 hours.
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Katharina Child (Atelier Stroud) and Jo Leahy (SVA) met on a sunny Sunday morning to discuss what Culture Reset is all about and how it connects to the work they are doing, the community of Stroud and international connections such as the upcoming Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin.
This conversation is an introduction to a series of #CultureResetStroud discussion groups which will take place at Atelier Stroud, SVA and online.
What is Culture Reset?
Culture Reset is a UK wide practical rapid response programme to inspire more relevant and impactful cultural organisations and practices. Born out of the devastating impact of Covid-19 and inspired by the urgent need to accelerate change and respond to the experiences of a broader diversity of people, it provided expert support and dynamic stimulus for 192 arts and cultural producers, makers and directors across the UK over the summer of 2020
SVA
and #CultureResetStroud
Jo Leahy ( SVA), one of the participants of Culture Reset, engaged in critical discussions with artists, producers, theatre makers, operational managers, curators, artistic directors to build a body of research and network connections to help to find a way forward in finding some answers.
"Culture Reset and other initiatives like Culture Plan B (set up by David Jubb) have suddenly burst forward as result of the pandemic and the devastating consequences on the arts. The pandemic and Black Lives Matter have exposed the great inequalities in our society and as a result there is an urgent call to arms for a complete reset of the structural and economic systems that the current arts world so obviously relies on."
Atelier Stroud
and #CultureResetStroud
Following on from last years Berliner Zeitgeist and Creative Spaces and Communities spaces, Katharina Child and Uta Baldauf are keen to continue to work with SVA to share and extend these discussions in connection to Culture Reset and the community of Stroud.