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Discussion and Meet Up
For this 8th Culture Reset Stroud session we are bringing together 3 creative hubs based in Gloucestershire. They are all within 30 minutes of each other and so we wanted to use this event to join up the dots and bring people together that haven’t met before and hear about each other’s community engagement work.
Culture Matson in Gloucester and Cam & Dursley Creatives are new networks for people in the town and surrounding areas interested in making the area a more creative place to live, work and play.
SVA is an artist studio, events and gallery space in Stroud.
We will connect together in person in small bubbles (of 6-8 people) in each location and through Zoom to share and discuss our working practices, knowledge, projects and ideas from the communities we are working within.
The meetings will take place in the three locations in Matson, Cam & Dursley and at SVA in Stroud simultaneously.
We are encouraging everyone to attend meetings in person in a location where you don’t normally go to (if you can), so we can have some new and live interactions!
If you can’t attend in person we will send you a zoom link but please bear in mind we may be doing a bit of tech juggling as this a physical meeting as well. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!
The sessions are free to attend.
Please book here by Tuesday 13th July 6pm.
“ 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
Everyone will join together online for 1st part of the session to say hello and for us to introduce the session. We will then break off into our physical meetings for some discussion around the community engagement work we are all doing. We will meet together again online for the final part of the session to share with the whole group.
The sessions are free to attend. Please let us know what you which location you can meet in or if you can only join online.
Once you are booked you will be sent a confirmation of the location and a Zoom Invite for those joining online.
Please book here by Tuesday 13th July 6pm.
#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.
Listen here
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.